Contact Form 7 provides many features to make your forms as simple or complex as you need. One of these important features is the ability to use Default Values in your form fields. In this article, we will cover the four main ways that Default Values can be used in Contact Form 7 and how to…
Automatically show a field, like a checkbox, when you need more information based on a previous response. This is called Conditional Logic and your forms will be shorter, more personalized, and easier for your users to fill out. Contact Form 7 doesn’t have conditional logic included and to build it yourself requires an advanced WordPress…
The Contact Form 7 (CF7) plugin successfully sends millions of emails every day. Still, many do not send or arrive. This is often because the Contact Form 7 From: email address mail setting is incorrect. A simple and effective way to avoid most problems is to always use an email address that belongs to the…
A GDPR checkbox is a way for your customers to consent to their form submission data being stored. Adding in any links, such as a link to a Privacy Policy or Terms of Use, clarifies why and how you are storing their data. Have a privacy-friendly acceptance checkbox by copying and pasting the code below.…
Whether you are editing forms or creating them for the first time, follow these tips to save time using bulk duplicate or delete, drag & drop to sort and re-arrange, and show or hide entire sections. First, you need to download the free plugin from CF7 Skins. It will provide you with a free visual…
CF7 Skins has launched our new drag & drop visual editor for Contact Form 7 forms. How could we make it faster and easier to create Contact Form 7 forms? We decided to give you the option to use a visual and interactive editor right within Contact Form 7 and CF7 Skins. A visual and interactive…
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…
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…
Some users of Contact Form 7 prefer to use an image as their form button, instead of the default submit button. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to accomplish this using Contact Form 7 and our popular Contact Form 7 Skins plugin. But before we get started, there are a few things you…
It started with helping in the Contact Form 7 Forum I decided to start building Contact Form 7 Skins not long after I started answering questions in the Contact Form 7 Support Forum. I began doing this most days after hearing someone suggest that answering questions on a plugin you are familiar with was a…