Contact Form 7
Simple yet flexible plugin for managing multiple contact forms, supporting Ajax submissions, CAPTCHA, and Akismet spam filtering.
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Customer support & learning resources
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Main benefits
Manages multiple contact forms
Customizable form and mail
Supports Ajax-powered submitting
Includes CAPTCHA and Akismet
Flexible with simple markup
About this plugin
Author: Takayuki Miyoshi
Categories: Forms and Surveys
Version: 5.9.7
Last updated: 17-07-2024
WordPress version: 6.3
Tested up to: 6.6
PHP version required: 7.4
Languages: English (Australia), English (Canada) [+68]
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Overview
Contact Form 7 is a highly versatile and widely-used WordPress plugin designed to create and manage multiple contact forms. It allows users to customize forms and mail content easily using simple markup.
Notable features include Ajax-powered form submission for a smoother user experience, CAPTCHA for enhanced security, and integration with Akismet for effective spam filtering. The plugin's user-friendly interface and straightforward setup make it accessible to both developers and non-developers.
In terms of support, Contact Form 7 offers a comprehensive Help Center and Knowledge Base, including extensive documentation and FAQs. Users can also seek help from the community via support forums, and for more complex issues, professional services are available.
Privacy and security are prioritized, with the plugin ensuring no personal data is written to the database or sent to external servers unless specific features are activated. Despite some user-reported issues with recent updates and security concerns, Contact Form 7 remains a popular choice with over 10 million active installations.
Flexible Customization
- Manage multiple contact forms.
- Customize forms and mail contents with simple markup.
Advanced Form Features
- Supports Ajax-powered submitting.
- Includes CAPTCHA for spam prevention.
- Integrates with Akismet for spam filtering.
Privacy and Security
- Does not track users by stealth.
- Does not write any user personal data to the database.
- Does not send data to external servers.
- Does not use cookies.
Extensive Documentation and Support
- Access to detailed docs and FAQ on contactform7.com.
- Support forum available on WordPress.org.
- Option to post new topics for unresolved issues.
Rating and reviews
mbdNnse
08 Aug, 2024
I do not use many plugins but this is one of 2-3 essentials
mbdNnse
08 Aug, 2024
I do not use many plugins but this is one of 2-3 essentials
mehralsheidi
03 Aug, 2024
Es hat zwar eine Weile gedauert, bis ich alle Funktionen – vor allem die, die ich benötigte – zu finden und einzurichten, seitdem funktioniert alles aber wunderbar. Ich bin sehr dankbar für dieses PlugIn. Zudem habe ich Advanced ReCaptcha eingefügt.
Harry C.
22 Jul, 2024
Easy to set up. We had the contact form working on our website within 15 minutes. Thanks!
JeremyBorum
19 Jul, 2024
While I don’t know for sure that security issues with Contact Form 7 are the cause of my server virus problems, I strongly suspect it. My site has been hacked three times with PHP viruses that typically enter through user input forms. In all three cases they ended up with root access to my server. Twice they were sending spam emails, and the third time I think some Chinese people were using my server for bitcoin mining. It’s hard to know for sure how they hacked my site but I have a static site, basically a fancy business card. The only obvious opportunity for user input and potential hacking is the Contact Form 7 email form. I looked through the plugin’s validation code, and while it does a good job at validating the various types of user input it doesn’t seem to do anything at all to anticipate or prevent malicious PHP injection hacks. My themes and plugins were not hacked, those were untouched, so it appears they went through the Contact Form 7 fields and gained access to the server that way.
