Post My CF7 Form

This plugin enables the mapping of each form field to a post field. Each forms submitted from your website will then be saved as a new post which you can manage in your dashboard and display on the front end.

You can submit and map to a post all of the following fields,

• Default post field, title, author, content, excerpt
• featured image, you can submit a file and save it as a post attachment
• meta fields, unlimited number of meta-fields can be created
• taxonomies, you can map select/checkbox/radio input fields to taxonomies and the plugin will auto-populate your field items.
• map your submitted forms to existing post types using the new UI
• addition of form key to identify cf7 forms instead of the form id to make development more portable
• this plugin allows your users to manage multiple draft submissions from a single page.
• for large forms with multiple fields, an auto-create functionality has been added for meta-field mapping. See the installation instruction for details.
• add links to newly saved posts into your confirmation mail.

v3.0 of this plugin introduces many changes to enable other plugin developers to leverage the functionality available in this plugin. If you are a developer, please look at the code where ample comments are provided.

Make your CF7 Form more portable

this plugin introduces form keys (which you can modify in the CF7 admin table). Keys are unique for each form, allowing you identify a form my its key rather than an ID. Why is this priceless? IDs changes from one server to the next because they are the custom post ID attributed by the WordPress installation, and therefore you develop your form in a local machine only to find out that the IDs are different when you move your form to your production server. To overcome this problem, we suggest you use a form key along with this plugin’s contact form shortcode, [cf7form key="contact-us"]. Don’t worry your old contact form 7 shortcodes will still work too, behind the scenes we simply map the key to the ID and call the regular contact form 7 shortcode.

Powerful form designs

This plugin is now fully compatible with Smart Grid-Layout Designs for Contact Form 7. The Smart Grid for CF7 allows responsive grid-layout designed forms, as well as powerful features such as repetitive field inputs (using table structures with multiple row inputs), repetitive form sections using multiple tabbed inputs, as well as optional input sections using toggled collapsible sections. Furthermore the plugin offers a modular approach to form design, where existing forms can be inserted as sub-sections.

Post my CF7 Form now saves these complex forms designs seamlessly into your dashboard posts.

Other compatible plugins

• Contact Form 7 Conditional Fields By Jules Colle.
• Contact Form 7 Multi-Step Addon By ThemeREX.
• Contact Form Submissions by Jason Green.
• Live Preview for Contact Form 7 by Addons for Contact Form 7.
• Void Contact Form 7 widget for elementor page builder by voidCoders.
• Country & Phone Field Contact Form 7 by Narinder Singh Bisht.
• Date Time Picker Field by Carlos Moreira.

Filters for fields

In addition to mapping your form fields to post fields you are also given a custom filter for that specific form field. The filter option allows you to custom fill the post created for the submitted form, for example if a form requests the date of birth, you may want to create an additional post field for the age, so you can filter the date field in your functions.php file and calculate the age and save it to a custom post meta field. The custom filters are created using the following nomenclature, cf7_2_post_filter-<post_type>-<post-field>. For example if you have created a custom post type quick-contact, which as a meta field age, you could filter it with,

add_filter('cf7_2_post_filter-quick-contact-age','filter_date_to_age',10,3);
function filter_date_to_age($value, $post_id, $form_data){
  //$value is the post field value to return, by default it is empty
  //$post_id is the ID of the post to which the form values are being mapped to
  // $form_data is the submitted form data as an array of field-name=>value pairs
  if(isset($form_data['date-of-birth']){
    //calculate the age
    $value = ....
  }
  return $value;
}

Special Fields

Author – unless the user sets the field, the default set in this order: current logged in user else, the recipient of the CF7 form email if such a user exists in the database, else it reverts to the user_id=1 which is the administrator. A filter is also available to set the author.

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