Contact Form 7 6.1.4

Does Contact Form 7 work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
4PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 258.55 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version6.9
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 10,000,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/
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Pages 5

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=contact-form-7%2Fwp-contact-form-7.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=860a763bff
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.474 s
Memory usage 4.16 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Contact

Page screenshot: Contact
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpcf7
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.284 s
Memory usage 4.27 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Contact → Add Contact Form

Page screenshot: Contact → Add Contact Form
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpcf7-new
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.346 s
Memory usage 4.3 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Contact → Integration

Page screenshot: Contact → Integration
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpcf7-integration
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.246 s
Memory usage 4.22 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.222 s
Memory usage 4.3 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.716 s0.912 s+0.196 s3.78 MiB4.01 MiB+ 240.1 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.413 s0.378 s-0.035 s3.78 MiB4.06 MiB+ 287.11 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.828 s1.033 s+0.205 s6.31 MiB6.66 MiB+ 366.6 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.480 s0.403 s-0.077 s3.74 MiB3.96 MiB+ 228.47 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.670 s0.293 s-0.377 s3.71 MiB3.94 MiB+ 232.47 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.589 s0.424 s-0.165 s3.7 MiB3.94 MiB+ 240.66 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.297 s0.286 s-0.011 s3.72 MiB3.96 MiB+ 245.86 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.819 s0.652 s-0.167 s6.3 MiB6.65 MiB+ 359.41 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.352 s0.673 s+0.321 s3.71 MiB3.94 MiB+ 228.98 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.305 s0.375 s+0.070 s3.73 MiB3.96 MiB+ 228.47 KiB
/0.280 s0.203 s-0.077 s4.12 MiB4.3 MiB+ 185.97 KiB
Average 0.523 s0.512 s-0.011 s4.24 MiB4.49 MiB+ 258.55 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PHP
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP93.4%16,8932,807109
CSS6.2%1,121656
JSON0.2%3801
JavaScript0.2%2907
SVG0.0%101
Total 18,082 2,872 124

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 16,497
Total complexity 2,808
Median class complexity 8.5
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class WPCF7_ContactForm
Most complex function WPCF7_HTMLFormatter::append_start_tag()
Classes 66
Methods 500
Functions 308

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Options wp_options 1

Custom Post Types 1

ID Name
wpcf7_contact_formContact Forms

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[02-Dec-2025 20:34:49 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 20:34:49 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 20:34:59 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 20:34:59 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Contact Form 7 Admin Menus