Thanks to the Special Mail Tags provided in Contact Form 7, it is possible to learn much more than just the information directly provided by the user when they submit a form. Increasingly you want to know more. Details like the date and time of the submission of the form, as well as the browser…
You may want to redirect users to a thank you page after they submit a Contact Form 7 (CF7) form on your website. Before the end of 2017, you could do this using the on_sent_ok hook. However, the hook has now been deprecated and you cannot use it anymore to redirect users to a thank…
Sometimes, you may need to duplicate a Contact Form 7 (CF7) form on your current website to another website. Manually copying the form can be time-consuming and prone to human errors. Contact Form 7 Skins now offers a better way to duplicate a Contact Form 7 form across multiple websites by exporting it from one…
Beginning January 2018, on_sent_ok has been deprecated in Contact Form 7 (version 5.0). If you have been using on_sent_ok in your Contact Form 7 forms, your forms may no longer work as expected. Contact Form 7’s author, Takayuki Miyoshi, now recommends you use Contact Form 7 DOM events to achieve the same result. This article…
If you use MailChimp to manage subscribers for your marketing services, you can easily integrate the Contact Form 7 (CF7) forms on your website with MailChimp. MailChimp lets you manage and talk to your subscribers by automating the process of sending emails for a group of people in your mailing lists. However, manually creating mailing…
The Contact Form 7 Datepicker was a handy plugin sometimes used to add a datepicker field in Contact Form 7 (CF7) forms. It has recently removed from the WordPress Plugin Directory due to a high severity security vulnerability. This article explains why the Contact Form 7 Datepicker plugin was removed from the WordPress Plugin Directory…
Once you start to add placeholders in your Contact Form 7 (CF7) forms, learning some different ways to use them, helps you to enhance your forms and ultimately your user’s experience. In this article, we teach you some different ways to use placeholders in your Contact Form 7 forms. Before you begin Before you start…
This article is about adding placeholders using the Contact Form 7 form editor. To learn about adding placeholders using the CF7 Skins Visual Editor, see Adding placeholders in your Contact Form 7 forms (with Visual Editor). . Adding placeholders to your Contact Form 7 (CF7) forms offers the following advantages: Make it easier for users to understand…
Almost every one of us has used placeholders – whether it was to signup for a Gmail account or completing a feedback form. Contact Form 7 (CF7) also lets you add placeholders on your contact forms to enhance your users’ experience. In this article, we show you how to add placeholders in your Contact Form…
You can use Firebug or Chrome Dev Tools to try to find the cause of plugin and theme conflicts in WordPress. You will need to be skilled at using Firebug or Chrome Dev Tools to find what is causing your JavaScript conflict and how to resolve it. If that description does not fit you, you…