Machete vs SP Lead Insights for Contact Form 7

Machete is a simple suite of tools that solves common WordPress annoyances using as few resources as possible. Machete doesn’t cover every single use case, but there is a huge amount of sites that would require less plugins if they used Machete. All Machete tools have two things in common: they solve problems faced by many web developers and they do it using as few server resources as possible. So far, Machete includes the following tools: WordPress Optimization WordPress places a lot of code inside the tag just to keep backward compatibility or to enable optional features. You can disable most of it and save some time from each page request while making your installation safer. Cookies & GDPR Warning We know you hate cookie warning bars. Well, this is the least hateable cookie bar you’ll find. It is really light, doesn’t affect your PageSpeed score and plays well with static cache plugins. Analytics and custom code You don’t need a zillion plugins to perform easy tasks like inserting a verification meta tag (Google Search Console, Bing, Pinterest), a json-ld snippet or a custom stylesheet (Google Fonts, Print Styles, accessibility tweaks…). The Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager tracking codes are PageSpeed optimized, GPDR friendly. Maintenance mode The maintenance mode that ships with WordPress is just a basic lock-down that is activated whenever you do a major update. With machete Maintenance Mode you can hide your unfinished page from visitors and search engines, give your clients a secure temporary access and lock your site without affecting your SEO. Post & Page cloner Adds a “duplicate” link to post, page and most post types lists. Also adds “copy to new draft” function to the post editor. Social Sharing Buttons Social sharing done the Machete way. The icons are made as a custom webfont embedded in a minified CSS file that only weighs 5.8KB. The sharing actions use each platform’s native share URL. WooCommerce Utils WooCommerce was designed to work for every possible use case, but that often leads to unexpected behavior. These simple fixes can improve the WooCommerce user experience by making it behave as clients expect.

Contact Form 7 is great at sending emails. It tells you nothing else. Who saw your form but didn’t submit? Which form has a 3% conversion rate when it should be 20%? Are those “leads” real people or disposable-email bots? CF7 has no answers. SP Lead Insights fixes that — no Google Analytics, no API keys, no data leaving your server. Install it, activate it, and every CF7 form on your site is tracked from that moment. Real conversion data. See views, submissions, and conversion rate per form — right in your WordPress dashboard. Full submission log. Every form entry with date, form name, and delivery status. When a client says they never got a reply, you’ll know in seconds. Spam blocked at the door. Build an email domain blocklist. Submissions from blocked domains get a validation error — they never reach your inbox. Honeypot protection is on by default. Private by design. No email addresses, no field values, no names stored. Ever. IPs are stored as one-way hashes that can’t be reversed. Nothing leaves your server. Features View and submission tracking on every CF7 form — automatic, no setup Conversion rate per form, calculated for you Dashboard widget — top 5 forms by conversion rate at a glance Full submission log, sortable by date, form, and status Email Domain Blocklist — block whole domains with one entry Blocked Attempts log with timestamps and reasons Honeypot spam protection, zero configuration GDPR-safe HMAC-SHA256 IP hashing, keyed to your site’s AUTH_SALT Zero outbound HTTP — nothing phones home