Data Source for Contact Form 7
Data Source for Contact Form 7 plugin allows populating the “Contact Form 7” fields (text, email, URL, drop-down menu, …) with data stored in external data sources, like a database, CSV file, URL parameters, users information, post data, taxonomies, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) – Secured Custom Fields, and JSON objects. Data Source for Contact Form 7 includes two new controls in the controls bar of Contact Form 7, recordset and recordset field link. The “recordset” control reads the information from the external data source (a database, a CSV file, or any other data source supported), and the “recordset field link” control for linking the recordsets and form fields to populate them with the recordset data. A form can include several “recordset” fields, and it is possible to link multiple “recordset field link” controls to the same recordset. The new SQL-Generator module. It generates the database queries in a more conversational style. Just describe the information needed, and get the DB query without any prior database knowledge. How to create the simplest contact form from our practical examples. The plugin includes other complementary controls in the controls bar in addition to the “recordset” and “recordset field link”. The “Print Form” button for printing the form area, “Data Table” control for inserting an advanced table with the recordset records, “copy to clipboard” functionality for copying the values of the fields into the clipboard, and the “Search box in dropdown menu” functionality to make easy the selection in long dropdown menus. Features: Set the information of external data sources available for the Contact Form 7 fields. Easy to use, includes two new controls in the controls bar to define the recordsets and the link fields. Includes the “URL Parameters” data source to populate the form’s fields with the values of the URL parameters. Includes the “Users Information” data source to populate the form’s fields with the users’ information. Includes the “Posts Information” data source to populate the form’s fields with the posts’ data, pages, and custom post types (like the WooCommerce products). Includes the “Taxonomy” data source to populate the form’s fields with taxonomy terms, like categories, posts tags, or any other custom taxonomy. Includes the “Database” data source to populate the form’s fields with the information of a database. Allow defining even complex queries. SQL Generator module. It generates the database queries in a more conversational style. Includes the “Javascript Function” data source to populate the form’s fields with the information returned from a Javascript function. Allows using the fields’ values for filtering the recordset records. Complementary Controls add-on. Includes additional controls and functionalities, such as the “Print Form” button, the addition of the search box to the drop-down menu, copy to clipboard functionality, and Data Table to display the data source records. Features in Premium version: All features of the free version of the plugin. Includes the “Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) – Secured Custom Fields” data source to fill the form filds with data stored in the Advanced Custom Fields or Secured Custom Fields in post, users, comments, taxonomies, widgets, and options. Includes the “CSV” data source to populate the form’s fields with the data store into a CSV file. Includes the “JSON” data source to populate the form’s fields with the data store into a JSON file. There are hundreds of services whose outputs are JSON objects. PDF Generator add-on. It generates PDF files with the information collected by the form and attaches them to the notification emails (Supports the “Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7” plugin tags in the PDF file content if the “Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7” plugin is installed on the website). Post Generator add-on. It generates new posts (posts, pages, or any custom post) with the information collected by the form. User Registration add-on to convert contact forms into user registration forms. CSV Generator add-on to populate a CSV file with the information collected by the form. JSON Generator add-on to populate a JSON file with the information collected by the form. Server Side add-on to implement server side functions to call from the Recordset controls and get the list of records. Data Source Fields Data Source for Contact Form 7 includes two new controls in the controls bar of Contact Form 7, recordset and recordset field link. The recordset control reads the information from the external data source and makes it available on the form. A recordset field can read one or many records from the data source. To insert a recordset field in the form, press the “recordset” button in the controls bar. This action opens a dialog to define the recordset. The insertion dialog includes common attributes for all data sources and specific attributes for the data source selected. The “recordset field link” control links a recordset field to other fields in the form to populate them with the recordset data. To insert a link field in the form, press the “recordset field link” button in the controls bar. This action opens a dialog to define the relationship between a recordset and a form’s field. The link dialog includes the attributes to define the relationship between the recordset field and the form’s fields. Cases of Use Get the information of the registered user and populate the form fields for his name and email: Your name [text* your-name] Your email [email* your-email] Subject [text* your-subject] Your message (optional) [textarea your-message] [cf7-recordset id="cf7-recordset-434" type="user" attributes="first_name, user_email" logged="1"] [cf7-link-field recordset="cf7-recordset-434" field="your-name" value="first_name"] [cf7-link-field recordset="cf7-recordset-434" field="your-email" value="user_email"] [submit "Submit"] Filling a plain text in the form with the first name and last name of the logged user: Hello Enter your address [textarea address] [cf7-recordset id="cf7-recordset-434" type="user" attributes="first_name, last_name" logged="1"] [cf7-link-field recordset="cf7-recordset-434" field="first-name" value="first_name"] [cf7-link-field recordset="cf7-recordset-434" field="last-name" value="last_name"] [submit "Submit"] Populates the list of WooCommerce products and get the price of the selected one: Products List [select menu-719] Product Price [number number-534] [cf7-recordset id="cf7-recordset-619" type="database" engine="mysql" query="SELECT ID,post_title,meta_value as price FROM {wpdb.posts} posts, {wpdb.postmeta} meta WHERE posts.post_type='product' AND posts.ID=meta.post_id AND meta.meta_key='_regular_price'"] [cf7-link-field recordset="cf7-recordset-619" field="menu-719" value="ID" text="post_title"] [cf7-link-field recordset="cf7-recordset-619" field="number-534" value="price" condition="record['ID']=={field.menu-719}"] [submit "Submit"] Using templates to create complex data structures. Displaying the title and excerpt of every published post: {attribute.post_title} {attribute.post_excerpt} [cf7-recordset id="cf7-posts" type="post" attributes="post_title,post_excerpt" condition="post_status='publish' AND post_type='post'"] [cf7-link-field recordset="cf7-posts" field="posts-list" value="{template.summary}"] The form includes a template tag to design a complex data structure. To access the records attributes from the template, use {attribute.attribute-name} format. Ex. {attribute.post_title} You can use the templates for the fields’ values or texts. The format for referring to templates is {template.template-id}. You should replace “template-id” with the id of the template tag. Ex. {template.summary} [cf7-link-field recordset="cf7-posts" field="posts-list" value="{template.summary}"] Using Javascript to Access the Recordset Data The recordset fields trigger the “cf7-recordset” event after receiving the information from the data source, allowing you to access this information with Javascript. In this example, the recordset field reads motivational phrases from a third-party service and displays the first of them into a DIV tag on the form. Add ons (Extensions) Complementary Controls add-on PDF Generator add-on Post Generator add-on User Registration add-on CSV Generator add-on JSON Generator add-on Server Side add-on
Email Addon for Contact Form 7
Get Pro Version | Documentation | Support Forum | Rate the Plugin Every time someone submits your Contact Form 7 form, they receive an email from your website. Unfortunately, the default Contact Form 7 emails are functional but plain, making it difficult to create a memorable first impression. Email Addon for Contact Form 7 helps you replace those basic emails with professionally designed, responsive email templates that reflect your brand, improve readability, and provide a better experience for both your visitors and your team. Whether you’re sending contact confirmations, support responses, enquiry acknowledgements, quote requests, or administrator notifications, you can create emails that look polished on every device, all from your WordPress dashboard. Why You Need It Here’s the thing most people miss. Your website is part of your brand. Your emails should be too. Every confirmation email is an opportunity to reassure visitors that their enquiry has been received, build trust, and present your business professionally. A few situations where that bites: Your contact form fires off a plain, styleless confirmation to every new enquiry Your thank-you email should feel like your brand, but instead it reads like a system alert Admin notifications are a wall of run-together text that’s a pain to scan You want branded, mobile-friendly emails but have zero time to hand-code HTML You need different email designs for different forms and don’t want to touch code to do it Normally, fixing any of that means writing and testing HTML email yourself (which is genuinely miserable) or paying a developer to do it. This plugin lets you handle the whole thing from the dashboard you’re already in every day. How It Works Getting a professional email out of any Contact Form 7 form takes about a minute. Here’s the whole process. Install the Plugin: Install and activate Contact Form 7 and Email Addon for Contact Form 7. Choose a Template: Select a responsive email template for your user confirmation and admin notification emails. Customize Your Email: Personalize your email with your logo, content, images, buttons, links, colours, and form fields—no coding required. Save & Go Live: Save your settings and start sending professional, branded email notifications automatically with every form submission. That’s it. Your form now sends a fully responsive, branded email, and you never opened a code editor. What You Get Features marked [PRO] are part of the Pro version. 10+ responsive templates: Ready-made, mobile-friendly designs for both user and admin emails. Pick one and you’re most of the way there. One-step template selection: Choose the confirmation email design and the admin notification design in a single step, no digging through settings. Full customization, zero code: Change the words, swap the links, adjust the graphics and buttons. Control your form fields: Decide exactly which fields show up in the email and which don’t. Special mail tags on hand: The available mail tags sit right there in the plugin popup, so dropping in dynamic content is quick. Click-to-copy shortcode: Grab the shortcode you need in a single click. Renders well everywhere: Templates hold up cleanly across the major email clients, Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, with accessibility improved in this release. Ready for translation: Fully translatable and happy on multilingual sites. Built for current Contact Form 7: Works with version 5 and above. 18+ templates [PRO]: A larger library of professionally designed responsive designs. Live preview and test mode [PRO]: See the email exactly as it’ll land, and send yourself a test, before a real user ever gets it. Download as HTML [PRO]: Export any template to use in other tools or campaigns. Custom shortcode support [PRO]: Use custom shortcodes with auto-suggestion right inside your templates. Bring your own templates [PRO]: Upload and use your own designs through the plugin or theme method. Full template library [PRO]: Download as many additional ready-made templates as you want from our store. Priority support [PRO]: Email and phone help straight from the people who build the plugin. What’s New In This Release We’ve given the plugin a solid update: The email templates are more responsive and now hold their layout across devices and screen sizes. Compatibility and accessibility both improved, so your emails look right in more inboxes and work better for everyone who receives them. The interface got some usability polish, selecting and editing a template is faster and clearer now. Under the hood, we rebuilt the architecture so the free plugin now acts as the base for the Pro version. That means a more stable, better-maintained free plugin, and a clean path to Pro whenever you want it. Email Addon for Contact Form 7 Pro Upgrade to Email Addon for Contact Form 7 Pro and unlock powerful features designed for businesses, agencies, and professionals: A bigger library of 18+ responsive templates for both user and admin emails Live preview and a test-send so you’re never guessing how an email looks The ability to export any template as HTML for use outside WordPress Custom shortcode support, with auto-suggestion Import custom email template through our pro plugin Unlimited extra templates from our library Priority email and phone support from our team Get it here: Email Addon for Contact Form 7 Pro And whether you’re on free or Pro, you can grab more ready-made designs any time from our Email Template Library. Check such amazing email addon for Ninja form as well at Email Addon For Ninja Forms. 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