Contact Form 7 – Post Fields vs Multilingual Contact Form 7 with Polylang

Contact Form 7 is a fantastic plugin for form. The post-fields extension enables you to create image drop-down-menues, checkboxes and radio-buttons based on posts or other kinds of content (custom post types). Features of post fields beautiful drop-down-menues, checkboxes and radio buttons with post image, excerpt and meta data selection of the post type (posts, pages, attachments, custom post types) selection and limitation of categories (taxonomies) customized/individual formatting of the label configuring the value attribute pretty post hyperlinks in the message body customized sorting of the post type Display a search box on drop-down-menues limitation of the post type based on its particular status (published, draft etc.) The default value of the field can easily be selected by using $_GET or $_POST variables (see FAQ). Required Plugin Contact Form 7 by Takayuki Miyoshi – Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup.

This plugin makes it possible to use Contact Form 7 forms on multilingual pages by using Polylang and its string translations. Other than existing solutions you don´t have to create a form for each language, but you can use one single CF7 form for all languages. How does it work? With this plugin active, you can setup translatable placeholders in your forms, emails and form messages. The placeholders are using curly braces, like this: {Text to translate}. When these are setup, you can then translate the strings in Languages > String translations, filter for “Contact Form 7” Translate form messages This plugin gives you two ways of translating the form messages. The simple way: You only have to make sure the form messages are all set to the english default values. Then they are automatically translated via the normal plugin language pack. You may have to update your WordPress language packs after setting up your languages in Polylang. The custom way: Set the strings (or part of strings) you want to have translated in curly braces and they will appear in the Polylang string translations where you can translate them.