Plugin Author
zaus
(@zaus)
Yes unfortunately there’s no direct upgrade path. If you have database access you could theoretically copy the wordpress option it’s stored under and save it in the new option; I don’t think the format has changed all that much, so most if not all of the fields should work.
You could write a quick ‘plugin’ to do that. In fact, you lucked out — I just wrote one:
https://gist.github.com/zaus/10001727
Please let me know if that works; I didn’t test it fully, and I wrote it pretty late, but I think it should work as advertised 🙂
Plugin Author
zaus
(@zaus)
To upgrade deprecated WordPress Plugin [CF7-3rdparty Integration](http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-3rd-party-integration/) to the new version [Forms 3rdparty Integration](http://wordpress.org/plugins/forms-3rdparty-integration/).
From discussion at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-upgrade-from-old-version-to-this-one?replies=1
Your mileage may vary…
0. You should have both plugins enabled with at least one service configured and saved. This is so you have both complete sets of options available for comparison, because you may have to add some extra properties beyond just copy/paste.
0. Make sure to change the ‘secret expected key’ value
1. Upload this to your plugins folder, or
2. Upload somewhere, then include in functions.php with include('path/to/Forms-3rdparty-Migrate-Hack.php') — or just paste it directly into functions.php in the WP editor
3. Go to your site, but add ?forms-3rdparty-migrate=your-temporary-secret-plz-change-this to view the ‘editor’
* add &raw=true will print the whole array(s) out for extra debugging
4. Scroll to the bottom of the page
5. Copy the ‘old’ textarea into the ‘new’ textarea **if you haven’t configured** Forms-3rdparty yet (this will overwrite everything) If you have already configured some services, you’ll need to copy those parts and insert them into the old value.
* You don’t need to change the old keys (cf7) to the new (src) — this will do it automatically
6. Make sure to add any additional properties present in the ‘new’ field are added, otherwise you might get some PHP warnings when you go back to the Forms-3rdparty admin page. This part might not be necessary if you don’t have PHP warnings turned on.
7. Test it first with the “Test” button — see what the serialized values look like.
8. When you’re happy things look about right, use the “Update” button.
9. Check the admin page to make sure your settings are all there.
10. Try the form.
Seems to have worked for me on one site with one form, now trying another site with a dozen or so of ’em.
So far, so good! Thanks, saved me a lot of work.
One issue I ran into — when forms-3rdparty-migrate.php is installed, my plugins pages stop at the plugin before it (in most cases I would assume like mine, Forms: 3rd-Party Integration). Nothing listed below it, until I delete your plugin manually via FTP, then they all appear again. FYI.
Thanks again!
Plugin Author
zaus
(@zaus)
Plugin Author
zaus
(@zaus)
