GDPR Checkbox and Privacy Policy Link in Contact Form 7
A GDPR checkbox is a way for your customers to consent to their form submission data being stored. Adding in any links, such as a link to a Privacy Policy or Terms of Use, clarifies why and how you are storing their data. Have a privacy-friendly acceptance checkbox by copying and pasting the code below.…
Use default values for Contact Form 7 Radio Buttons
Starting with version 4.9, Contact Form 7 (CF7) has made it mandatory to have an option checked for radio buttons. It also shows a validation error when no option in a radio buttons group is checked, effectively making all CF7 Radio Buttons required. This change is because the Contact Form 7 author, Takayuki Miyoshi, believes…
Time Saving Tips when Editing Forms
Whether you are editing forms or creating them for the first time, follow these tips to save time using bulk duplicate or delete, drag & drop to sort and re-arrange, and show or hide entire sections. First, you need to download the free plugin from CF7 Skins. It will provide you with a free visual…
CF7 Skins Visual – Contact Form 7 Drag & Drop Editor released
CF7 Skins has launched our new drag & drop visual editor for Contact Form 7 forms. How could we make it faster and easier to create Contact Form 7 forms? We decided to give you the option to use a visual and interactive editor right within Contact Form 7 and CF7 Skins. A visual and interactive…
on_sent_ok not working in Contact Form 7
Beginning January 2018, on_sent_ok has been deprecated in Contact Form 7 (version 5.0). If you have been using on_sent_ok in your Contact Form 7 forms, your forms may no longer work as expected. Contact Form 7’s author, Takayuki Miyoshi, now recommends you use Contact Form 7 DOM events to achieve the same result. This article…
Using Special Mail Tags to improve your Contact Form 7 emails
Thanks to the Special Mail Tags provided in Contact Form 7, it is possible to learn much more than just the information directly provided by the user when they submit a form. Increasingly you want to know more. Details like the date and time of the submission of the form, as well as the browser…