Contact Form X vs Store file uploads for Contact Form 7

Displays a user-friendly contact form that your visitors will love. CFX: Contact form reinvented. Fast and friendly. Fresh and clean. Awesome for everyone 🙂 Overview Install, activate, and then display the form anywhere, using the widget, shortcode, or template tag. Here is an overview of Contact Form X: Easy to use Simple and secure ADA and WCAG compliant Lightweight and super fast Provides multiple form styles Customize just about everything Display the contact form anywhere Add Checkbox, Radio, and Select fields Customize the order of all form fields Send email to multiple recipients Complete documentation via Help tab Excellent free plugin support 😎 “The famous spam filter SpamAssassin” scores CFX = zero spam! For more details, check out the “Screenshots” section, below. Form Fields Easily choose which fields to display in the form. Each field may be set as required, optional, or disabled. Choose from these fields: Name Website Email Subject Custom Field 1 (can be dropdown, checkbox, radio, text, or phone number) Custom Field 2 (can be dropdown, checkbox, radio, text, or phone number) Custom Field 3 (can be dropdown, checkbox, radio, text, or phone number) Challenge Question Message Google reCaptcha (v2 or v3 Invisible) Cloudflare Turnstile (Invisible Captcha) Carbon Copy Agree to Terms You can change the order of these fields and customize their labels and placeholders, everything is super flexible. For a live demo of Contact Form X, visit my support page at Plugin Planet, and also my contact page at Perishable Press. Feel free to send a test email to see how it works, I won’t mind 😉 Also check out CFX in the “Screenshots” section (below) for a better idea of how the default form is styled out of the box. Geeky Stuff Lots of goodness for the geeks among us: Built with WordPress APIs Ajax-powered form submission Remembers all form data on error Cloudflare Turnstile (Invisible Captcha) Google reCaptcha (v2 or v3 Invisible) Drag/drop ordering of all form fields View your email messages on the WP Dashboard Option to enable/disable storing of email data in database Display form via widget, shortcode, or template tag Five CSS themes: Default, Classic, Micro, Synthetic, Dark Optionally disable all plugin styles and use your own CSS Optionally collect user data like IP, host, and referrer Works perfectly with or without Gutenberg Block Editor Focused on performance, security, and usability Include extra form and user info with each message Customize the form’s success and error messages Provides plenty of useful hooks for developers Targeted loading of CSS and JavaScript assets One-click remove email data from database One-click restore default options Translation ready Contact Form X is a fresh new, lighter alternative to the heavier contact forms out there. CFX is lightweight yet fully featured. As they say, “everything you want, nothing you don’t”. Privacy To help protect user privacy, Contact Form X provides the following features: Agree to terms checkbox, customizable Choose which fields to include with the form Option to disable collection of user IP address and other data Note: this plugin uses cookies to enhance form functionality Basically, this plugin enables visitors to send a message via contact form. Any information the user enters into the form will be sent directly to the recipient(s) according to plugin settings. When enabled in the plugin settings, details about each sent message will be stored in the WordPress database. Visit the “Advanced” plugin settings to control and/or disable this and other data-collection features. Note: CFX provides an option to enable Google reCaptcha, which is provided by Google as a third-party service. For details on privacy and more, please refer to official documentation for Google reCaptcha. Contact Form X is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author. Support development I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books: The Tao of WordPress Digging into WordPress .htaccess made easy WordPress Themes In Depth Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins: BBQ Pro – Blazing fast WordPress firewall Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots Banhammer Pro – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys GA Google Analytics Pro – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics Head Meta Pro – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress REST Pro Tools – Awesome tools for managing the WP REST API Simple Ajax Chat Pro – Unlimited chat rooms USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thanks! 🙂

By default, Contact Form 7 dose not keep data it sends trough it’s contact forms. While plugins like Flamingo save that data, uploaded files are not added to Media Library. This plugin will save uploaded files to Media Library before email is sent by CF7. This plugin will raise an event with the the full file path & name. Subscribe to nmr_create_attachment_file_name filter to get and/or update data before attachment is added to media library. // The filter callback function. function example_callback( $file_name ) { // (maybe) modify $file_name. return $file_name; } add_filter( 'nmr_create_attachment_file_name', 'example_callback', 10, 1 ); Subscribe to nmr_before_insert_attachment filter to be able to change attachment attributes: caption and description are ‘post_excerpt’ and ‘post_content’. For other attributes, check documentation for wp_insert_attachment. // The filter callback function. function before_insert_attachment_callback( $attachment ) { // (maybe) modify $attachment array. return $attachment; } add_filter( 'nmr_before_insert_attachment', 'before_insert_attachment_callback', 10, 1 ); Optionally, subscribe to nmr_should_skip_save_attachment_to_media_library filter to be able to skip saving the attachment to media library: return true to skip, false is the default behaviour that saves the attachment to media library. Filter nmr_before_insert_attachment will not be called if skip was true. // The filter callback function. function skip_media_library_callback( $skip_save_to_media_library ) { // return true to skip saving to Media Library, false to save. return true; } add_filter( 'nmr_should_skip_save_attachment_to_media_library', 'skip_media_library_callback', 10, 1 ); This plugin will send the final attachment id if you are interested in getting other details, like attachment url. Listen to nmr_create_attachment_id_generated action. // The action callback function. function example_callback_id_generated( $attachment_id ) { // (maybe) do something with the args. $url = wp_get_attachment_url( $attachment_id ); } add_action( 'nmr_create_attachment_id_generated', 'example_callback_id_generated', 10, 1 ); Docs & Support Check the support forum on WordPress.org. If you can’t locate any topics that pertain to your particular issue, post a new topic for it. Store file uploads for Contact Form 7 Needs Your Support It is hard to continue development and support for this free plugin without contributions from users like you. If you enjoy using -Store file uploads for Contact Form 7- and find it useful, please consider making a donation. Your donation will help encourage and support the plugin’s continued development and better user support. Privacy Notices With the default configuration, this plugin, in itself, does not: track users by stealth; write any user personal data to the database; send any data to external servers; use cookies. It will, however store uploaded files trough Contact Form 7 in WordPress Media Library. Make sure your website users are aware of this fact!!! Pro Version Need more? The Pro version adds 13 features: Per-form control — choose which forms save files, set custom folder and rename pattern per form Auto-rename — rename files using patterns like {name}-{date}.{ext} from other CF7 fields Unique filenames — automatically avoid overwriting files with the same name Custom upload folder — save files to a specific subfolder per form File URL in email — replace [file] mail tag with a clickable link instead of an attachment Skip-mail compatibility — save files even when CF7’s skip_mail: on is set Upload log — admin screen listing every uploaded file with form, date, size, and download link Private files — store files outside the Media Library with access protection Admin notification — receive an email with file link on every upload Flamingo integration — link uploaded files to Flamingo inbound message entries Auto-delete — remove uploads older than a configurable number of days Image resize / compress — resize and compress images on upload Duplicate detection — skip saving if the same file was already uploaded (MD5 check) Get Pro →