Change Log

• Offer nonce verification for contact forms.
• Add several options to retrieve logged-in user info as default value of field.
• Introduce wpcf7_validate filter for validation independent from specific form tag type.
• Search contact form by title when failed to find by ID.
• Include all $_POST variables into $cf->posted_data and make them referable from mail.
• Add watermark option to captchar (CAPTCHA-response) field.
• Introduce wpcf7_ajax_loader() function and wpcf7_ajax_loader filter.
• Introduce wpcf7_akismet_comment_check filter.
• Introduce menu icons created by Takao Honda.
• Translation for Azeri has been created by Zaur Bayramov.
• Translations for
  Italian (Gianni Diurno),
  Russian (Denis Voituk),
  Arabic (Yaser Maadan),
  Danish (Georg S. Adamsen),
  Persian (Mohsen Firoozmandan),
  Romanian (Marius Olar), and
  Portuguese (Pedro Nave) have been updated.

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Change Log

• Show alert messages when you use it on old version of WordPress.
• Introduce wpcf7_is_rtl() to avoid “not exist” error of is_rtl().
• Take back data conversion from Contact Form 7 1.x.
• Normalize newline characters to \n (line feed) on save (fix export/import problem).
• Rewrite wpcf7_admin_url() and use menu_page_url() inside it.
• Use wp_enqueue_scripts and admin_enqueue_scripts action hooks instead of wp_print_styles and admin_print_styles.
• Use wp_safe_redirect() instead of wp_redirect().
• Updated jquery.form.js to 2.94.
• Translation for Esperanto has been created by Arkadiusz Zychewicz.
• Translations for German (Ivan Graf), Japanese (Takayuki Miyoshi), Malay (Zairul Azmil), Thai (ToshiK), Slovak (Patrik Bóna), and Hungarian (Farkas Győző) have been updated.

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Change Log

• Removed unused icl.php file from modules folder.
• Replaced deprecated get_bloginfo('text_direction') with is_rtl().
• Made “Acceptable file types” field in the File upload tag generator being able to accept comma (,) and pipe (|) as separating character in addition to space.
• Added sanitization for $_POST['_wpcf7_unit_tag'] value for avoiding possible abuse.
• Updated jquery.form.js to 2.87.
• Translations for Tagalog (Rupert Agnew Lanuza),
  Belarusian (Igor Dubilei), and
  Maltese (Ajoft Technologies) have been created.
• Translations for Italian (Gianni Diurno),
  German (Ivan Graf),
  Japanese (Takayuki Miyoshi),
  Russian (kg69design),
  Latvian (Sandis Veinbergs), and
  Afrikaans (Schalk Burger) have been updated.

As Contact Form 7 3.0 also has many other great enhancements and fixes, I highly recommend you to upgrade soon.

Download Contact Form 7 3.0

Note: Contact Form 7 3.0 requires WordPress 3.2 or higher. If you use WordPress 3.1, 3.0 or 2.9, you should use Contact Form 7 2.4.6.

Change Log

• Contact Form 7 3.0 utilizes Custom Post Types feature to save contact forms. It does not create its own table (contact_form_7) anymore.
• New shortcode format has been introduced. New format is like this: [contact-form-7 id="1234" title="Contact form 1"]. Note that new one starts with contact-form-7 instead of contact-form.
• Contact Form 7 3.0 works with WordPress version 3.2 or higher. This also means that you need PHP version 5.2.4 or higher and MySQL version 5.0 or higher (these are minimum requirements for WordPress 3.2).
• Translations for Japanese, German, Georgian, Italian and Spanish have been updated.
• Admin panel has been enhanced. Now it uses meta boxes.
• Bundled jquery.form.js has been updated to 2.84.

Now I’ll show you a few great changes introduced in Contact Form 7 3.0.

Contact Form as Custom Post Type

Contact Form 7 3.0 utilizes WordPress’s Custom Post Types (CPT) feature. This means that Contact Form 7 doesn’t create its own table on the database anymore, it saves contact forms into the wp_posts table that WordPress has by default.

You’ll enjoy the benefits of treating contact forms as CPTs. One of these benefits is that you’ll be able to export and import contact forms via the WordPress admin menu. Also, the extension module developer will be able to customize Contact Form 7 more than ever.

New shortcode format

This change is partly related to using Custom Post Types. The contact form shortcode that you are familiar with has changed.

Old format:
[contact-form 1 "Contact form 1"]

New format:
[contact-form-7 id="1234" title="Contact form 1"]

Note that old one starts with ‘contact-form’ and new one starts with ‘contact-form-7′.

The old shortcodes stop working after upgrading to Contact Form 7 3.0 and you’ll have to replace all shortcodes you have inserted? No, don’t worry. Contact Form 7 3.0 and later versions recognize the old format as well, so you can continue to use them after upgrading.

Requires WordPress 3.2

Contact Form 7 3.0 works with WordPress version 3.2 or higher. This also means that you need PHP version 5.2.4 or higher and MySQL version 5.0 or higher (these are minimum requirements for WordPress 3.2).

In addition to these great changes, Contact Form 7 3.0 includes a lot of improvements and bug fixes. It also introduces new filter and action hooks. If you are an extension developer, you can utilize them to customize more flexibly.

Needless to say, this is a beta version and not stable yet. Please be careful testing it and don’t use it on your live site.

If you find some problems with Contact Form 7 3.0 Beta, please report it on WordPress.org forum. I appreciate your contributions.

Change Log

• Fixed the bug that didn’t accept ’0′ as valid value of drop-down menu.
• Fixed the incorrect shortcode regexp blocking use of multiline content of textarea.
• Updated jquery.form.js to 2.83.
• Translations for Vietnamese (Khang Minh), Brazilian Portuguese (Caciano Gabriel Batista), Traditional Chinese (James Wu), Bahasa Indonesia (Belajar Seo Indonesia), German (Ivan Graf) and Hungarian (Farkas Győző) have been updated.

Change Log

• Fixed the bug that makes it not accept “0″ value as watermark.
• Fixed too much normalization to form-tag shortcode with content.
• Fixed wrong regexp pattern for form-tag shortcode with content.
• Check $_POST of checkboxes and select menus to avoid warnings.
• Use proper action hook for enqueueing scripts: wp_enqueue_scripts and admin_enqueue_scripts.
• Bundled jquery.form has been updated to 2.72.
• Translations for Czech (Tomas Vesely) has been updated.

Change Log

• Translation for Sinhala has been created by Nitin Aggarwal.
• Translations for German (Ivan Graf), Russian (Denis Voituk), Simplified Chinese (Keefe Dunn), Polish (RafalDesign), have been updated.
• Fixed a bug causes wrong [_url] special mail tag output.

Change Log

• Translation for Armenian has been created by Emmanuelle Traduction.
• Translation for Tamil has been created by Nitin Aggarwal.
• Translations for German (Ivan Graf), Dutch (Rene), Arabic (Yaser Mohammed) and Romanian (Anunturi Jibo) have been updated.
• Bundled jquery.form has been updated to 2.52.

Change Log

• Translation for Macedonian has been created by Darko.
• Translation for Malay has been created by Zairul Azmil.
• Translations for Danish (Georg S. Adamsen), French (Maître Mô), German (Ivan Graf), Latvian (Sandis Veinbergs) and Persian (Mohammad Musavi) have been updated.