10 Best Controls for Contact Form 7 Alternatives in 2026
Updated October 22, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Controls for Contact Form 7 has 10,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Controls for Contact Form 7
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Connect Matomo
Closest matchConnect Matomo – Analytics Dashboard for WordPress
4.5 (95) 60,000+ active installsAdds Matomo (former Piwik) statistics to your WordPress dashboard and is also able to add the Matomo Tracking Code to your blog.
Shares the analytics, matomo tags on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, last updated September 15, 2026.
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4.8 (20) 10,000+ active installsGoogle Analytics or Google Tag Manager for WordPress without tracking your own visits.
Shares the analytics, gtm tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated August 20, 2026.
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Tracking and Consent Manager – WP Full Picture
5.0 (21) 3,000+ active installsAll-in-one tracking and consent management. Use Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Pixel, and more - without breaking privacy laws.
Shares the analytics, gtm tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 9 days ago.
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GTM Kit – Google Tag Manager & GA4 integration
4.8 (20) 30,000+ active installsGoogle Tag Manager and GA4 integration. Including WooCommerce data for Google Analytics 4 and support for server side GTM.
Shares the analytics, gtm tags on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 9 days ago.
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Event Tracking for Gravity Forms
Paid version available5.0 (37) 10,000+ active installsEasily add event tracking using Gravity Forms and your Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager account. Supports Google Analytics v3 and Gravity Forms …
Shares the matomo tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since November 3, 2024.
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Pixel Manager for WooCommerce
Paid version availablePixel Manager for WooCommerce – Conversion Tracking, Google Ads, GA4, TikTok, Dynamic Remarketing
4.9 (399) 40,000+ active installsConversion tracking for WooCommerce. Google Ads, GA4, Meta, TikTok, OpenAI (ChatGPT) & more. Recover 30% more conversions with server-side tracking!
Shares the Facebook Pixel tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated 2 days ago.
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Conversios
Paid version availableConversios – GA4, Google Ads & Meta Conversion Tracking with Product Feed for WooCommerce
4.3 (205) 10,000+ active installsGA4, Google Ads & Meta Pixel conversion tracking plus product feed sync for WooCommerce. Server-side tracking (CAPI) and reports in one plugin.
Shares the Facebook Pixel tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 22 days ago.
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4.9 (1,234) 100,000+ active installsCount and display post views, track site-wide visits, and see what content works – inside WordPress. Fast, easy to use and privacy-first.
Shares the analytics tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 14 days ago.
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Matomo Analytics – Powerful, Privacy-First Insights for WordPress
4.6 (178) 100,000+ active installsPrivacy friendly, GDPR compliant and self-hosted. Matomo is the #1 Google Analytics alternative that gives you control of your data. Free and secure.
Shares the analytics tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated September 15, 2026.
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Independent Analytics – WordPress Analytics Plugin
4.8 (166) 100,000+ active installsA simple, yet powerful WordPress analytics plugin that gives you privacy-friendly stats to grow your website. A Google Analytics alternative.
Shares the analytics tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 6 days ago.
Switching from Controls for Contact Form 7: common questions
What is the best alternative to Controls for Contact Form 7?
Connect Matomo is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 60,000+ active installs with a 4.5 out of 5 rating.
Which Controls for Contact Form 7 alternative has the most users?
Post Views Counter, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Controls for Contact Form 7 alternative is rated highest?
Post Views Counter, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 1,234 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Controls for Contact Form 7 alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Controls for Contact Form 7 score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Controls for Contact Form 7 on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Connect Matomo is the closest match to Controls for Contact Form 7 by the data we track, and Post Views Counter has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. Pixel Manager for WooCommerce shipped the most recent release, on October 20, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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