Working with Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 is a plugin for the WordPress CMS. It allows you to easily add multiple and quite sophisticated webforms to your WordPress site. There are 2 companion plugins that you may find useful:
- Really Simple CAPTCHA - This a fairly painless plugin to add, as the name suggests, simple CAPTCHA to web forms. As an alternative, you can use the quiz function of Contact Form 7 to make your own CAPTCHA, but this makes life a little easier.
- Contact Form to DB Extension – This is a rather useful extension that adds submitted form data into the site’s database; useful as a reference later -when you can’t find the original email- or to add to spreadsheets for analysis.
I’ve been using this plugin for ages and have found it to be pretty reliable and stable. You have to add code in though, which can be a little daunting if you’re not used to it, so here’s a tutorial (PDF) to get you creating/amending your custom web forms.
