Last Updated on June 16, 2013 by Neil Murray
Contact Form 7 Skins is only one of a large number of extensions that have been created for Contact Form 7 (CF7).
As one on the most popular plugins in the WordPress Plugin Repository it was perhaps inevitable that people would be willing to spend their time developing and releasing plugins that extend CF7’s natural capabilities.
Indeed the range is such that CF7 with it’s extensions can give users many of the functions available in some of the well known premium form plugins.
The advantage in sticking with CF7 is often familiarity with the CF7 form plugin. The learning curve for some of the premium form plugins can be substantial. If you only require one or two extra features, and not the huge range of extra functionality available in the premium form plugins, it can make a lot of sense to use a CF7 extension or two.
In this article, our aim is to make people aware of the various CF7 extensions, what they do and how they can be used to meet additional needs that uses may have with their website forms.
CF7 with it’s extensions can give users many of the functions available in some of the well known premium form plugins
Popular
Contact Form DB
Saves submitted form data to the database and provides short codes to display it.
Website – http://cfdbplugin.com/
Contact Form 7 Dynamic Text Extension
Provides a dynamic text field that accepts any shortcode to generate the content. While default values in CF7 are static, this extension lets you create pre-populated fields based on other values.
Contact Form 7 Modules
Add useful modules such as “hidden fields” and “send all fields” to Contact Form 7
Inserting dynamic values
You can also choose to have the value of the hidden field dynamically populated in your form when you are contacted.
Now, when someone contacts you using your Contact Form 7 contact form, you can have lots more information about their visit – and you’ll see it when you receive the email that tells you you’ve been contacted.
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Further reading:
Website – Contact Form 7 Modules
MailChimp for WordPress
Add sign-up checkboxes to your comment form, Contact Form 7 forms or any other form you like.
Contact Form 7 Honeypot
Adds honeypot anti-spam functionality to CF7 forms.
Jquery Validation For Contact Form 7
Adds extra validation rules like: url, date, credit card, phone number in the contact form 7 fields.
Datepicker
Contact Form 7 Datepicker
Enables adding a date field for Contact Form 7 WordPress Plugin using jQuery UI’s datepicker.
Contact Form 7 IE DatePicker and Number Spinner Fix
Form Spam – Captcha
Really Simple CAPTCHA
A CAPTCHA module intended to be called from other plugins. Written by Takayuki Miyoshi – the developer of Contact Form 7
Sweet Captcha
A really cool captcha for Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA Extension
Allows the usage of a reCAPTCHA field.
Keypic – NO CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
Keypic checks your forms against the comprehensive Keypic Web Service to see if they look like spam.
Other
Contact Form 7: Accessible Defaults
Replaces the default Contact Form 7 form with an accessible equivalent and provides a suite of selectable base forms.
Contact Form 7 – Success Page Redirects
An add-on for Contact Form 7 that provides a straightforward method to redirect visitors to success pages or thank you pages.
Chosen for WordPress
Makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly.
This plugin applies Chosen to any select box in your post and page content. The relevant Javascript & CSS files are only loaded if the post in question includes a select box or a
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shortcode.The Grunion Contact Form & Contact Form 7 plugins both use a the
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shortcode.If you need to force the Chosen script & styles to load on a page, simply include [chosen] within the page.
Contact Form 7 Integrations | ContactUs.com
This plugin Integrates Contact Form 7 with a cloud-based contact management database, CRM Tools, form conversion analytics and 3rd party software integrations. Supported and maintained by ContactUs.com
Contact Form 7 – Campaign Monitor Addon
Add the capability to create newsletter opt-in forms with Contact Form 7. Automatically submit subscribers to predetermined lists in Campaign Monitor.
Deregister Contact Form 7
Prevents the scripts and styling from the Contact Form 7 plugin from loading on your site. Useful for situations in which you do not require the AJAX functionality of the original plugin and have included all the necessary styling in your themes CSS.
ShootQ for Contact Form 7
Adds ShootQ integration to all Contact Form 7 forms on a blog
Cf Shopping Cart
Allows Contact Form 7 forms to be transformed into a shopping cart:
Contact-Form-7: 3rd-Party Integration
Send Contact Form 7 submissions to a 3rd-party Service, like a CRM. Multiple configurable services, custom field mapping, pre/post processing.
Contact Form 7 Phone Module
This plugin adds telephone field to Contact Form 7 along with masking options.
Contact Form 7 minlength extension
Gives you the ability to add a minimum length to Contact Form 7 textfields.
Premium Plugins
Contact Form 7 Storage
Stores all Contact Form 7 submissions (including attachments) in WordPress dashboard.
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Contact Form 7 Customfield in mail
Provides a new special mail tag for the mail section of the Contact Form 7 Plugin. It allows the use of custom field values in the mail section of Contact Form 7. (Note 1)
Contact Form 7 Widget
Use your Contact Form 7 forms and other shortcodes in your sidebars. (Note 1)
Note 1: This plugin hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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http://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=cf7
Further reading:
Website – Extension