Deployment Toolkit for Contact Form 7

Deployment Toolkit for Contact Form 7 lets you export, import, and migrate Contact Form 7 forms using structured JSON packages or ZIP archives. It preserves form templates, mail settings, messages, and additional settings while helping streamline deployments between development, staging, and production sites.

1 adds a Deployment Toolkit dashboard and a Form Entries experience so you can store, browse, search, print, and manage Contact Form 7 submissions from the WordPress admin.

2 adds Captcha Shield — Google reCAPTCHA v2/v3 and Math Captcha spam protection for Contact Form 7 (beyond CF7’s built-in v3-only integration).

This plugin is designed for developers, agencies, and site administrators who regularly move Contact Form 7 forms between local, staging, and live environments.

This plugin requires Contact Form 7 to be installed and activated.

📦 Import / Export

• Export individual Contact Form 7 forms as structured JSON files.

• Bulk export multiple forms into a ZIP archive.

• Import individual JSON exports.

• Import ZIP archives containing one or more Contact Form 7 form exports.

• Automatically detects existing forms and updates them when appropriate.

• Skips importing identical forms.

• Displays a detailed ZIP import summary showing:

• Imported forms

• Updated forms

• Skipped (identical) forms

• Failed imports

• Preserves:

• Form template

• Mail settings

• Mail (2) settings

• Messages

• Additional settings

• Uses deterministic JSON formatting for reliable deployments.

🏠 Dashboard

• Deployment Toolkit dashboard with sidebar navigation for Dashboard, Import/Export, Entries, and Captcha Shield.

• Dashboard overview with form and entry stats, quick actions, and helpful resources.

• Combined Deployment Toolkit metabox on the Contact Form 7 form editor for Export and Entries.

• Frontend admin bar Edit Contact Form 7 link when a page includes Contact Form 7; dropdown when multiple forms are present.

📑 Form Entries

• Store Contact Form 7 submissions in a custom database table.

• Browse form entries in a standard WordPress list table.

• Filter entries by All, Unread, Starred, Spam, and Trash.

• Search entries, mark as read/unread, star, trash, or permanently delete.

• View individual entry details with submitted field values and metadata.

• Keep files uploaded through a form and open them from the entry by file name.

• Print a clean entry PDF with form data only and a branded footer.

• Entries column and row action on the Contact Form 7 forms list.

🛡️ Captcha Shield

• Protect Contact Form 7 submissions with Google reCAPTCHA and/or Math Captcha.

• Choose reCAPTCHA v2 (“I’m not a robot” checkbox) or reCAPTCHA v3 (invisible score-based).

• Configure site key, secret key, v3 threshold, and v2 theme/size from the Captcha Shield dashboard.

• Use Remove Keys to clear them.

• Apply Google reCAPTCHA to all forms, or only forms that include the [captcha_shield] form-tag.

• Insert [captcha_shield] from the Contact Form 7 form editor tag generator.

• Math Captcha — a simple traditional math challenge with easy/medium/hard difficulty and no API keys.

• Apply Math Captcha to all forms, or only forms that include the [math_captcha] form-tag.

• In “All forms” mode, missing captcha tags are added automatically just before the submit button.

• Failed Google reCAPTCHA checks are marked as spam (compatible with Form Entries spam views).

• Google reCAPTCHA automatically pauses when Contact Form 7’s own reCAPTCHA integration is active to avoid double verification.

Deployment Toolkit for Contact Form 7 is an independent plugin and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the developers of Contact Form 7.