Contact Form 7 – Post Fields vs Simply Contact

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.

A simple contact form powered by Google reCaptcha. The user needs to have a valid Google reCaptcha keys generated for their domain. The form can easily be pulled into any page using the short code [SC] Requirements Google reCaptcha keys Public and private keys generated for their site. A valid email id preferably carrying the same domain name as their website. if your site name is www.cthreelabs.com then the mail id should be [email protected]. The form is tested with out any additional plugin for SMTP configuration and works well and good. The form may require WP Mail SMTP pluign if the form fails to send mail (optional). Using WP Mail SMTP plugin along with Simply Contact will enable the user to send mail to Gmail account provided the user configures the WP MAIL SMTP as described. Requires wordpress 3.0.1 and above. The default theme of the contact form is clean , please refer the screen shot. The form size is set at minimum width of 450px , it is adviced to place the form in a container greater than 450px . The form is not responsive !. =Customize Contact form appearance = You can customize the contact form using the following CSS classes Form container div -> .sc-form-container , All input fields -> .sc-input , All the labels -> .sc-text , Fields container -> .simplyContact p , Important fields # -> .simply-imp , Submit Button -> .simply-submit , reCaptcha text area -> .recaptcha_input_area > input (use !important declaration to override google styles) , Succes Message -> .simply-success , Failure Message -> .simply-failure , Add this to your Custom style sheer to remove Google reCaptcha image and privacy policy in captcha input area –> #recaptcha_logo, #recaptcha_privacy{ display:none !important; }