Plugin: Contact Form 7

CF7

The Complete Tutorial on How to use Contact Form 7

Plan: CF7 Core Improve

• Contact Form 7 CSS Boilerplate | IMWZ – Bespoke DevOps Work Contact Form 7 Styles for basic CSS styling of the form. Form is responsive and has nice rounded corners. For labels and placeholders you need to edit the form in CF7 https://imwz.io/contact-form-7-css-boilerplate/

• Contact Form 7 CSS Example: How to Make Contact Form 7 Look Good - Peter Bateman

• Inline validation in forms — designing the experience | by Mihael Konjević | WDstack | Medium

Improving CF7 Design

Floating Labels in Form Fields

Floating Placeholders, Peeky Placeholders

• How to do Contact Form 7 Floating Labels | Jason Somai
• Float Labels with CSS | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks
• Styling a Focused Input’s Label | Auroratide
• Contact Form 7 (CF7) Floating Labels.

Misc Design Inspirations

Revolutionary Discovery: Effortlessly Insert Forms Without ID!

The solution to seamless form usage resilient to content migration, has been uncovered!

But how can we embed the form to be flexible to migration into new site where form ID is different? It turns out that if you have a form shortcode without “id” attribute it will search for the requested form by “title” attribute. And that’s it - so simple.

The source of discovery is this article: Embed contact form 7 in your custom theme

I must use shortcode and not block:

<!-- wp:shortcode -->
[contact-form-7 title="Get In Touch"]
<!-- /wp:shortcode -->

I believe it will function seamlessly with Polylang, although possible challenges may exist.

Code: Nicer design

• Customizing validation error messages | Contact Form 7

• Contact Form 7 CSS Example: How to Make Contact Form 7 Look Good - Peter Bateman

• How to stop Contact Form 7 from loading on all pages - Peter Bateman

• Styling Contact Form 7 validation with CSS and border

• CF7 Boilerplate Tag: contact form 7 | WordPress Villain

Attaching files to email

Discover the simple process of attaching a file to an email, as outlined in this official guide: File uploading and attachment

Code: Proper Country Phone input in CF7

Wrapped two libraries and added a settings page in Contact > CPF Settings. Settings are for all forms, and that by itself is not proper coding.

Using two separate libraries:

• Pure JavaScript plugin for entering and validating international telephone numbers jackocnr/intl-tel-input
• Country picker mrmarkfrench/country-select-js also based on intl-tel-input, using jQuery

Here are a couple of problematic decisions:

• Outdated libraries - for example, intl-tel-input is in version 12.4.0 from 2018, while the latest is v17.0.19 from 2022
• Using jQuery - even WordPress will move on and will probably very soon make jQuery obsolete

Resources for those libraries are taken from:

• Updated list of world countries, in JSON, CSV, XML and YAML mledoze/countries

• Updated collection of flags country in SVG / PNG fonttools/region-flags

• stefangabos/world_countries Extensive constantly updated lists of world countries, country codes in multiple languages and with national flags

Demos:

• Demo: Pure JavaScript intl-tel-input
• Flag and Telephone Input with Vanilla JS - YouTube

Code: HTML5 Validation

Treba uključiti client proveru polja

• cf7 “required” attribute - Google Search ako hoćeš da stilizuješ

• How to use HTML 5 Form Validation on Contact Form 7 Plugin ?

• contact form 7 remove span, wpcf7_autop_or_not, how to add required attribute in contact form 7, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4113965/css-selector-for-text-input-fields

• aria-required vs required - Google Search

• Styling Form Inputs in CSS With :required, :optional, :valid and invalid - Part 2 https://codepen.io/search/pens?q=form+error+message&order=relevance&cursor=ZD0xJm89MCZwPTI=

• When to show error messages. A cheat sheet on types of form… | by Ivan Tuchkov | Muzli - Design Inspiration

• How to Make Your Form Error Messages More Reassuring

• How to Report Errors in Forms: 10 Design Guidelines

• Designing Better Error Messages UX — Smashing Magazine

Code: Upload Progress Bar

Upload Progress Bar in Contact Form 7

File Upload with Progress Bar using Vanilla JavaScript in Laravel 9

• https://www.webslesson.info/2022/07/file-upload-with-progress-bar-using-vanilla-javascript-in-laravel-9.html

• https://www.educative.io/answers/how-to-add-a-progress-bar-to-your-file-upload-code-using-ajax

• https://codeshack.io/file-upload-progress-bar-js-php/

• https://blog.logrocket.com/how-to-build-file-upload-service-vanilla-javascript/

Code: Offline Geolocation

Custom coded geolocation is not that complicated - How to display location of an user in a mail send

Contact Form & Salesforce Integration

Should work: Contact Form 7 Salesforce plugin or custom code