Contact Form 7 – Post Fields Plugin

Contact Form 7 is a fantastic plugin for form. The post-fields extension enables you to create image drop-down-menues, checkboxes and radio-buttons based on posts or other kinds of content (custom post types).

Features of post fields

• beautiful drop-down-menues, checkboxes and radio buttons with post image, excerpt and meta data
• selection of the post type (posts, pages, attachments, custom post types)
• selection and limitation of categories (taxonomies)
• customized/individual formatting of the label
• configuring the value attribute
• pretty post hyperlinks in the message body
• customized sorting of the post type
• Display a search box on drop-down-menues
• limitation of the post type based on its particular status (published, draft etc.)
• The default value of the field can easily be selected by using $_GET or $_POST variables (see FAQ).

Required Plugin

• Contact Form 7 by Takayuki Miyoshi – Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup.

1. Download and install the required Contact Form 7 Plugin available at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/
2. Upload ‘contact-form-7-post-fields’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
4. You will now have a “posts drop-down-menu”, “posts image drop-down-menu”, “post checkboxes” and “post radio buttons” tag option in the Contact Form 7 tag generator.

1. 

   The post image radio buttons with meta data

2. 

   The posts image drop-down-menu

3. 

   The posts drop-down-menu

4. 

   Post select field generator

2.5.8

• Dev – Changed Image Select Placeholder

2.5.7

• Dev – Add new filter for html attributes.
• Dev – Add meta_key and meta_type args to post query preset.
• Fix – Pypass correct number of decimals on numeric meta values.

2.5.6

• Dev – Add new WP Query args meta_key and meta_type
• Dev – Add filter “wpcf7_’.tag_name.’_’.basetype.’_item_label” to all modules

2.5.5

• Dev – Add new filter for label, excerpt and item attributes

2.5.4

• Dev – Add new constant WPCF7_POST_FIELDS_PLUGIN

2.5.3

• Dev – Add filter “wpcf7_’.tag_name.’_’.basetype.’_item_label” to all modules

2.5.2

• Dev – Tested up with WordPress 5.4
• Dev – Add filter “wpcf7_mytag_defaults”
• Dev – Code optimizations

2.5.1

• Dev – Tested up with WordPress 5.2.1
• Dev – Star rating included

2.5.0

• Dev – Tested up with WordPress 5.2
• Dev – Code optimizations
• Dev – Improvement for better main instance call
• Fix – Missing Field “post_radio” and “post_image_radio“

2.4.1

• Dev – Removed the   in the checkbox rendering

2.4.0

• Feature – Search box option for posts drop-down menus
• Dev – Load select2 libary on posts drop-down menues with the multiple attribute
• Dev – Add placeholder filter for select fields and field post data
• Dev – Add field post data filter
• Dev – Improvement for better scripts and style loading
• Fix – No include blank on on posts drop-down menu with the multiple attribute

2.3.2

• Image select attachment otimiziation

2.3.1

• Fix by the ACF Meta Integration

2.3.0

• Improvement for search, replacing and formatting post meta fields
• Fixed showing correct image on image select field (post type attachment)
• Code optimizations

2.2.1

• Improvement for search and replacing meta fields in the label

2.2

• Add support for meta data in value field
• Add support for excluded terms
• Fix by getting the image URL from Post or Attachment
• Renamed Parameter “category-relation” to “tax-relation”

2.1

• Add support for attachments
• Add new post status “inherit”
• Add new value field “thumbnail”

2.0

• Add WPML compatibility for getting posts
• Add the post number option to the fields
• Changed the “field_name_get_posts” filter to “wpcf7_field_name_get_posts”
• Code optimization for getting posts

1.9

• Select2 Libary Update to 4.0.5
• Code and performance optimizations
• Translation fixes

1.8

• Add new default value option “current_post”

1.7.1

• Bugfix in posts image fields css file (clearfix)

1.7

• CSS optimizations in all posts image fields

1.6

• Code and performance optimizations
• Changed the name of the image size to “wpcf7-post-image”
• Changed the order of the form tags
• Introduction of a new “posts image checkboxes” and “posts image radio buttons” field
• New “Meta Data” feature for all image post fields
• New value field “Permalink”, wich prints pretty post hyperlinks on the mail body
• Add new translations

1.5

• Bugfix in “posts image drop-down-menu” when select multiple and include_blank
• Bugfix in “posts image drop-down-menu” (dashicons) when no thumbnail is available
• Add “permalink” and “author” tags to the label format

1.4

• Introduction of a new “posts image drop-down-menu” field
• Changed the deprecated class WPCF7_Shortcode to WPCF7_FormTag
• Bugfix when the “posts drop-down-menu” has the option “include_blank”

1.3

• Post meta keys available in the label formatting

1.2

• Changed the deprecated function wpcf7_add_shortcode to wpcf7_add_form_tag
• Translation fixes

1.1

• Translation fixes

1.0

• Initial Release
• Check compatibility with latest Contact Form 7 and WordPress Version