Starting with version 4.9, Contact Form 7 (CF7) has made it mandatory to have a default option checked for radio buttons. If a radio button is not selected, a validation error will appear. In other words, it is now required to have a default radio button pre-selected. The author of CF7, Takayuki Miyoshi, believes a…
You can configure a Contact Form 7 (CF7) form to send email notifications every time the users submit the form. Sometimes, you may need to add file attachments to the emails as well. In this article, we show you how to attach files in the emails sent on each form submission of your Contact Form…
Contact Form 7 v5.3 introduces the Contact Form 7 Block (CF7 Block) for the WordPress Gutenberg/Block editor. You can now easily add a form into a Page or Post directly, while writing, it instead of manually copying a shortcode from the Contact Forms page. This article will show you how to add a form using…
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…
CF7 Skins Ready now offers you a Label Position option for each form field. Using this option, you can choose where to display a label with respect to a form field. In this article, we show you how to use the Label Positions option from the CF7 Skins Visual Editor quickly and easily. What’s New?…
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…