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1. radubilei
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Your FAQ says this functionality isn't supported but it actually does work by running
   <?php echo do_shortcode('[contact-form 1 "Formular de feedback"]'); ?>

   does it not work well or is it just undocumented?

2. ldexterldesign
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks for this mate. I cried when I saw the back-end UI for the cforms plugin (not recommended in comparison to Contact Form 7 IMO).

   I can confirm this does work and should documented. The current documentation is incorrect on the face of it: http://contactform7.com/faq/#Can_I_embed_a_contact_form_into_my_template_file

   Cheers,

3. Takayuki Miyoshi
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   No. The FAQ topic is still correct. The <?php echo do_shortcode('[contact-form 1 ...]'); ?> thing is barely able to work, but it disables many functions with that. I don't want to say you shouldn't use it, but you'll face with troubles if you use it.

4. chrisin2
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Is there a drop down calender type form plugin for wordpress.

5. geoken
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   @takayukister

   What specific downsides will we face when using this method? I'm building a theme and I want to keep a persistent contact form in the footer (input fields hidden by default and shown when user clicks the contact us link).

   My original idea was to create an actual contact page and load in the div that contact form 7 is sitting in via ajax, but I thought actually placing the contact form on the page and simply hiding it until needed would be a more dependable solution (until you said we might get some issues).

6. Takayuki Miyoshi
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   What I wrote in my last comment above is obsolete and it has been changed in Contact Form 7 2.2. Now you can embed a contact form into your templates.

7. martynwitt
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I had a theme done for me with 2 x form fields, i.e. fairly simple just first name and email. We used contact form 7 and the function was to have client details submitted (first name/email) have them confirm details with email (i.e. is this you) and then subsequently receive the PDF document as attachement (autoresponder) and/or point them somewhere to another page where they can just right click and save. But I've since found that the form fields are linked to newsletter plugin.

   Unfortunately I'm a newbie and as anxious as I am to learn this seems to be a plugin to far right now. I went into the support centre and can see a phone number which appears to be in the U.S. I got back to the original people who did the theme but who wanted quite a lot of $$$ to put something right that should have been done in the first place.

   I can find my way around the back end in plugins but have difficulty in actually finding where the theme page should be coded with [contact-form 1 "Contact Us"] to even begin. If anyone could give me a shove in the right direction I'd be eternally grateful as I'm anxious to get the site live.
   Cheers

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