Changelog

• The required WordPress version has been changed and now requires WordPress 2.9 or higher. If you use WordPress 2.8, you will need to upgrade WordPress.
• When you insert multi-line text input into the message body of HTML-formatted mail, Contact Form 7 automatically applies an ‘autop’ (auto paragraph) filter to the text. This makes it so that the original user input styles remain — and does not break paragraph styles in the HTML view.
• Translations for German (by Ivan Graf), Finnish (by Mediajalostamo), Thai (by kazama) and Danish (by Georg S. Adamsen) have been updated.

Changelog

• Filters for special mail tags have been moved to modules/special-mail-tags.php
• A bug that caused erroneous formatting around <fieldset> tags has been fixed
• A bug of pipes, which happened when you used a label with apostrophe and the pipe wouldn’t work, has been fixed
• esc_html() is applied to posted texts when the texts are inserted into the message body of HTML-formatted mail
• Action hooks, wpcf7_enqueue_scripts and wpcf7_enqueue_styles, have been added
• Translations for Italian (Gianni Diurno), German (Ivan Graf), French (Oncle Tom), Traditional Chinese (James Wu) and Hungarian (Farkas Győző) have been updated

As you know, Contact Form 7 redirects to the same URL as the form’s URL after form submissions in the default settings. However, in very rare cases, you might need to change this to make it redirect to another URL after submissions. I’ll write in this post how you can set up Contact Form 7 to do just that.

By the way, I’m often asked by users that how they can redirect to so-called “Thank You Page”. In most cases, they want to know it because they assume that redirecting to “Thank You Page” is necessary for tracking form submissions with Google Analytics. That’s not necessary at all. In fact, it’s an outdated and nonsense custom. Today you can track submissions with Google Analytics without any redirection.

So you have other reason for redirecting to another URL? Okay. I’ll show you the procedure.

The simplest way is using on_sent_ok JavaScript action hook. By using this hook, you can specify a JavaScript code that you wish to run after the form is successfully submitted. You will find the Additional Settings field at the bottom of the contact form management page. Simply insert the following line into it:

on_sent_ok: "location = 'http://example.com/';"

Obviously, you need to replace the http://example.com/ to the URL you want to redirect to.

That’s it. So simple, isn’t it? Try it and check if it works.

If it doesn’t work, check if Ajax is correctly working on your site. It is a JavaScript hook, so it needs JavaScript to work. You’ll need another hack if you need to redirect on non-JavaScript environments.

Change Log

• Now you can embed contact forms into template files.
• The tab index option is newly supported for most of form tags.
• New special mail tags have been added. These include the following: [_url], [_date], [_time], [_post_author] and [_post_author_email].
• wpcf7_mail_tag_replaced filter has been introduced in includes/classes.php.
• Translation for Galician has been created by Arume Desenvolvementos Informáticos.
• Translations for Italian (Gianni Diurno), German (Ivan Graf), Danish (Georg S. Adamsen) and Hungarian (Farkas Győző) have been updated.

[submit]

You can add a value like this:

[submit "Send Mail"]

Did you notice that the submit tag’s syntax is bit different than other form tags? The submit tag does not have name part, which other form tags have.

In addition to this, you can add several options to submit tag.

Example:

[submit class:button id:form-submit "Send Mail"]

The typical place to define constants is in the wp-config.php file. You will find that many lines defining constants such as, define('XXX', 'xxx'); exist in the file. You can append new lines after them. Note that your lines must be placed before the last line.

Example (wp-config.php):

define ('WPLANG', '');

define ('WPCF7_LOAD_JS', false); // Added to disable JS loading
define ('WPCF7_LOAD_CSS', false); // Added to disable CSS loading

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
	define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');

/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

The rest of this post describes a variety of constants.

See also:

• Loading JavaScript and Stylesheet Only When it is Necessary
• Restricting Access to the Administration Panel
• Selectable Recipient with Pipes
• CAPTCHA
• File Uploading and Attachment

Change Log

• Incorrect JSON syntax causing conflict with jQuery 1.4 has been fixed
• Some incompatibility issues with IE in admin panel have been fixed
• The logic verifying if a plugin’s JavaScript is loaded has been improved
• Translations for German (Ivan Graf) and Slovak (Patrik Bóna) have been updated
• Translation for Malayalam has been created by RAHUL S.A.

Changelog

• Some other plugins that attempt to include files in inadvisable way were conflicting with Contact Form 7 2.1. A workaround for avoiding these types of issues has been introduced.
• Translations for Chinese (traditional; James Wu), Danish (Georg S. Adamsen), German (Ivan Graf) and Italian (Gianni Diurno) have been updated. Translation for Afrikaans has been newly created by Schalk Burger.
• In addition, this release has a few bug-fixes and improvements.

Changelog

• The required WordPress version has been changed and now requires WordPress 2.8 or higher. If you use WordPress 2.7, you will need to upgrade WordPress.
• New “special mail tags” ([wpcf7.post_id], [wpcf7.post_name], [wpcf7.post_title], and [wpcf7.post_url]) have been introduced.
• The multilingualization functionality has been improved. You are now able to create contact forms in any languages with just a few clicks.
• The Tag Generator’s JavaScript coding has been wholly reconstructed and you can extend it from the additional modules.
• Interoperability with cache plugins (WP Super Cache, etc.) has been improved.
• When known issues are found on your web host, a warning message is shown on the administration panel.
• Uninstall.php file has been added. This will clean up its table from your database when you remove Contact Form 7 from your site.
• Translations for Estonian (by Egon Elbre), German (by Ivan Graf), Hindi (by Ashish) and Italian (by Gianni Diurno) have been updated.

Note that the [_post_*] tag has value only when you put the contact form into content of a post or a page. They are not available if the contact form is put inside a sidebar widget.

The form of those special mail tags has been changed in Contact Form 7 2.2. Old form ([wpcf7.*]) are still supported and able to work.