Controller Fields for Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 is an excellent WordPress plugin and one of the top choices of free WordPress plugins for contact forms. Controller Fields makes it even more awesome by adding dynamic content capabilities. This plugin provides new form tags for select fields, checkboxes, and radio buttons so you can use them to control the display of other fields and content. Some examples might include:

Hiding or revealing additional form fields based the current value in a dropdown

Hiding or revealing content when users click a checkbox

Hiding or revealing information based on which radio button is currently selected

Controllers and controlled fields can be nested

The possibilities are endless!

View Demo Preview this plugin in the WordPress Playground, a sandbox environment where you can explore the features of this plugin, both in the WordPress backend as an admin user and on the frontend.

WHAT DOES IT DO? This plugin creates three (3) new form tags for controlling the appearance of other form tags (aka “controller”) and a special form tag generator button to output the HTML needed to wrap the controllable form tags inside.

HOW TO USE IT After installing and activating the plugin, you will have four (4) new buttons at the top when creating or editing a Contact Form 7 form: select controller, checkbox controller, radio controller, and controlled form tag wrapper. Most of the options in their tag generators will be familiar to Contact Form 7 users but there have been some upgrades.

Id Attribute

The frontend script relies on unique IDs for the controller form tags, so be sure to always set one!