Contact Form 7 5.1.2 is now available. This is a maintenance release that includes some bug-fixes and improvements. If you use the Constant Contact integration, you will find the newly introduced contact list selector very useful.
Contact Form 7 5.1.1
Contact Form 7 5.1.1 has just been released. This release makes improvements to the server side validation process of reCAPTCHA.
If you use reCAPTCHA v3 with Contact Form 7 5.1 and feel that you get more spam through contact forms than before, upgrading to 5.1.1 might relieve the situation.
But, please read through this post before you run an upgrade. This is an important notice.
Contact Form 7 5.1
Contact Form 7 5.1 is now available. There are major upgrades in the Integration page. The Constant Contact integration module has been newly introduced, and the reCAPTCHA module now supports the v3 API.
Contact Form 7 5.0.5
Contact Form 7 5.0.5 is available. This is a maintenance release including a few minor bug-fixes.
Contact Form 7 5.0.4
Contact Form 7 5.0.4 is available. This is a security and maintenance release and we strongly encourage you to update to it immediately.
Contact Form 7 5.0.3
Contact Form 7 5.0.3 is available. This is a maintenance release including some bug-fixes and improvements. In addition, Contact Form 7 5.0.3 introduces a few features related to personal data protection.
Contact Form 7 5.0.2
Contact Form 7 5.0.2 is available. This is a maintenance release including some bug-fixes and improvements.
How to make privacy-friendly contact forms
You may have already heard of GDPR, the European data protection regulation that will be applicable as of May 25 this year. Although it is an EU law, you will be required to comply with GDPR as long as you are engaged in storing or processing personal data of EU citizens, even if you are not an EU citizen.
“Is Contact Form 7 compliant with GDPR?” We’ve been getting a lot of inquiries like this about GDPR, but unfortunately I don’t have a precise answer. Since I’m not a lawyer, I’m not in a position to say whether a WordPress plugin is compliant with specific legislation or not.
What I can tell you is that we always work to assist using Contact Form 7 in a privacy-friendly manner. We design Contact Form 7 carefully to allow you to make contact forms compliant with the current data protection standards, including GDPR.
The remainder of this post is my personal advice on making privacy-friendly contact forms. A lot of responsibility for making your contact forms GDPR-compliant still lies with you as the webmaster or contact form controller, but you should be able to accomplish it with this advice.
Contact Form 7 5.0.1
Contact Form 7 5.0.1 is available. This is a maintenance release including some bug-fixes and improvements.
Contact Form 7 5.0
Contact Form 7 5.0 is now available. With growing awareness of personal data protection, we are working on improvements that will allow you to make contact forms more privacy-friendly. Some of these changes are included in 5.0. Also, with newly introduced filter hooks and special mail tag types, customizability of mail has been significantly improved.