Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
Active installs600,000+ rounded
Current authorWPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release12 days ago 27 Oct 2026
Support54 / 70 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record141
Rating4.8 /5 · 2,143
Added to directory04 Sep 2018
Requires WP6.4
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
Full observed history, including every field transition
Committing accounts
Read from the plugin’s public release log, so these predate this registry. A committing account is not an owner. Thirty accounts commit to WooCommerce and it has never changed hands.
| Account | Releases | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| jdailey | 10 | 10 Sep 2018 | 30 Dec 2019 |
| alerzhus | 22 | 25 Sep 2018 | 21 Jul 2021 |
| rickjc89 | 4 | 01 Sep 2020 | 04 Feb 2021 |
| vanyukov | 1 | 11 Mar 2021 | 11 Mar 2021 |
| Dency | 35 | 23 Aug 2021 | 02 Sep 2024 |
| ivansvyrskyi | 59 | 07 Mar 2024 | 30 Jul 2026 |
| panoslyrakis | 2 | 10 Jul 2024 | 20 Nov 2025 |
This registry did not observe a transfer; it read these names off a public log. Whether that reflects a change of ownership is not something the directory publishes.
Adoption
How widely the plugin is installed, and what the people running it think of it. WordPress.org rounds install figures to one significant digit, so they describe an order of magnitude rather than a headcount.
Very widely adopted: 600,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.
34,489 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 310% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.
11 Sep 2026peak 174,336/day31 Oct 2026
36 ratings left in the last 82 days, averaging 4.8 out of 5 against a lifetime average of 4.8 (1 of them one or two stars). Recent ratings are in line with the lifetime figure.
From recent reviews
What reviewers wrote on wordpress.org between 15 Jun 2026 and 09 Sep 2026: 40 reviews, counted by theme. Every count links to the reviews behind it.
Among the 40 reviews collected between June and September, 12 of 40 reviews praise how much capability ships in the free version, several comparing it directly to paid tools they abandoned. 10 of 40 reviews describe the form builder as easy to use or intuitive, pointing to quick setup of conditional logic and styling. 3 of 40 reviews name a specific competitor, WP Forms, Ninja Forms, or Contact Form 7, that they switched away from. 3 of 40 reviews credit the support team for resolving a specific issue, such as a Stripe payment problem or a PayPal integration bug.
- 12 of 40 mention the free version includes more capability than expected, several comparing it favorably to paid tools they'd used before. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
- 10 of 40 describe the form builder interface as easy to use or intuitive. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
- 3 of 40 name a specific competing plugin, such as WP Forms, Ninja Forms, or Contact Form 7, they moved away from. [1] [2] [3]
- 3 of 40 credit the support team with resolving a specific technical issue. [1] [2] [3]
Counted from the public review forum on 10 Sep 2026. The reviews are their authors’ own words and their own claims; the counts are ours.
Daily record
Every field we record, one column per observation. Fields that never moved are named once rather than repeated across every column. A row of identical numbers would be padding.
| Field | 18 Oct | 19 Oct | 20 Oct | 21 Oct | 22 Oct | 23 Oct | 24 Oct | 25 Oct | 26 Oct | 27 Oct | 28 Oct | 29 Oct | 30 Oct | 31 Oct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 5,801 | 8,449 | 9,333 | 8,202 | 10,365 | 8,655 | 5,227 | 3,896 | 6,162 | 6,314 | 167,876 | 41,900 | 10,047 |
| Ratings total | 2,138 | 2,138 | 2,138 | 2,138 | 2,139 | 2,139 | 2,139 | 2,140 | 2,140 | 2,141 | 2,142 | 2,142 | 2,143 | 2,143 |
| Version | 1.58.2 | 1.58.2 | 1.58.2 | 1.58.2 | 1.58.2 | 1.58.2 | 1.58.2 | 1.58.2 | 1.58.2 | 1.58.2 | 1.58.3 | 1.58.3 | 1.58.3 | 1.58.3 |
| Support threads | 71 | 71 | 69 | 70 | 72 | 73 | 75 | 73 | 69 | 69 | 66 | 67 | 67 | 70 |
| Threads resolved | 57 | 59 | 56 | 54 | 54 | 53 | 53 | 51 | 49 | 61 | 56 | 55 | 54 | 54 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (600,000+)
91 days of observation, most recent 14 shown.
Maintenance
When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.
Added to directory8 years ago 04 Sep 2018
Requires WP6.4
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 27 Oct 2026, 12 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- 54 of 70 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 8 other plugins, 8 of which were updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.
A plugin that does one thing correctly may need no changes for years; a long gap is not, by itself, evidence of neglect.
History
Everything dated that this registry holds about the plugin, most recent first. Releases carry the author’s own release date; everything else is dated to when it was observed.
Entries marked from the release log predate this registry, and daily observation began 02 Aug 2026. They were read from the plugin’s public SVN history after the fact, not watched as they happened. Everything else was observed directly.
- 27 Oct 202612 days agoVersion 1.58.3 released
- 14 Oct 202625 days agoVersion 1.58.2 released
- 12 Oct 202627 days agoVersion 1.58.1 released
- 07 Oct 20261 month agoVersion 1.58.0 released
- 17 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 1.57.3 released
- 27 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 1.57.2 released
- 24 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 1.57.1 released
- 12 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 1.57.0 released
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoFirst observed by PluginsPediaDaily snapshots of this plugin’s directory record begin here. Everything above this line is observed; anything before it comes from fields the API itself reports.
- 30 Jul 20263 months agoVersion 1.56.2 released
- 30 Jul 20263 months agoVersion 1.56.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ivansvyrskyi.
- 30 Jul 20263 months agoVersion 1.56.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ivansvyrskyi.
- 27 Jul 20263 months agoVersion 1.56.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ivansvyrskyi.
- 02 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 1.55.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ivansvyrskyi.
- 02 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 1.55.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ivansvyrskyi.
- 02 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 1.55.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ivansvyrskyi.
- 17 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 1.55.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ivansvyrskyi.
- 01 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 1.54.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ivansvyrskyi.
- 27 May 20265 months agoVersion 1.54 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ivansvyrskyi.
- 18 May 20266 months agoVersion 1.53.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ivansvyrskyi.
- 21 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 1.53.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ivansvyrskyi.
- 21 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 1.53.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ivansvyrskyi.
- 10 Sep 20188 years ago120 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 10 Sep 2018 and 20 Apr 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 04 Sep 20188 years agoAdded to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.
Media coverage
Writing about this plugin elsewhere, collected by this registry. The links go to the sources; what they claim is theirs.
- 17 Aug 2026 · Forminator WordPress Flaw Can Enable Unauthenticated RCE via Malicious PHP UploadsThe Hacker News
- 02 Jul 2025 · Forminator plugin flaw exposes WordPress sites to takeover attacksBleepingComputer
What we know, and what we don’t
Everything on this page in one place, including the gaps, so that nothing here is mistaken for a clean bill of health.
What we know
- It has been held by WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 12 days ago (27 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 600,000+ active installs.
- It carries 2,143 ratings, averaging 4.8 out of 5.
- 54 of 70 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
Every record on this site, this one included, works under the same limits. We read what WordPress.org publishes about a plugin, never the plugin’s own code, so nothing here says whether a plugin is well built or safe. Install counts reach us already rounded; a change smaller than a band step doesn’t show. We don’t track security advisories yet. For anything older than our first observation we rely on the plugin’s public release log, where one exists. What this registry can and cannot see
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