In this article, we will understand how to use Flamingo-CONTACT FORM 7 to store all messages and understand How to view, edit, delete, display and export the form to CSV at the front end.
If you don’t want to lose important form submission, you should store them on your website.
You cannot submit the form from the Contact Form 7 (CF7) plug -in. Instead, you must use Flamingo -Contact Form 7 plug -in. It is the official Contory Form 7 database/storage plug -in.
Liaison Form 7 and Flamingo Firebird seamlessly integrated without much configuration. Using Flamingo Contact Form 7 plug -in, you can check, delete and export to the CSV form submission. You can manually import the exported CSV file into other applications to add it as subscribers who add it as the email list, CRM potential customer management, etc. Let’s see how to install and activate the Flamingo-CF7 plug-in Save the contactal 7 submission.
How to install and use fire birds?
Log in to your WordPress website and transfer to the management instrument board (we assume that you have installed the CF7 plug -in and create a form. ]
Turn to
plug -in → Add new
- Search the keyword \”Firebird\”, 123] Install and activate the Flamingo CF7 plug -in
- You don’t need any other settings. Your form submission will be automatically stored in the wp_posts database
You can view the submitted content in the Flamingo tab on the \”Entry Message\” on the instrument board, and view it in Flamingo’s \”address book\” Contact - Custom FlamingO storage field
By default, Flamingo stores contact Table 7 fields, such as your theme, your name, and your email, and the fields you may add. If you modify the default field, you may encounter some problems when saving. But you can still try to save the custom form field. If it is still not preserved, you can view the following solution part.
It also stores some meta fields, such as serial numbers, IP, URLLL , Date, time, URL, user name and more detailed information. If you want these details to send them with the email notification you received in the email inbox, you must add a special email label to the form template in the Contact Form 7 template editor. Flamingo Save the Limited by Submitted Table 7 Although the functions provided by the Flamingo plugin are enough for some Contact Form 7 users, you can use Flamingo to use Flamingo There are some restrictions on the operation of the Contact Form 7.
We will list some restrictions of the Contared Form 7-Flamingo integration below, and we will also understand how to overcome these restrictions.
1. The problem of management data
GDPR compliance -Flamingo does not meet GDPR
If your users are from Europe and other places with strict privacy and data regulations, you may not want to use Flamingo.
Potential customer tracking
Except Flamingo as a participating work In addition to submitting tools, it will also track users who fill in the form, such as IP tracking. You must change some code to prevent it from tracking potential customers. Automatically delete the form for submission
GDPR also requires you to delete data in several months/years. Flamingo does not provide any regulations for automatic deletion entries, so it does not meet GDPR technically. You must manually check and delete entries.
Unable to edit the form submission
Flamingo does not allow you to edit the form for submission. Sometimes people make mistakes when entering the data input form. For example, the user submits a form of a spelling error with its content \”
[Email \u0026#160; Protected]
. You can easily discover the error \”gmail.com\” for spelling as \”gmial.com\”.
When you see a clearly visible error, you cannot do anything to correct it, because Flamingo does not allow you to edit entries. This may bring you a problem when you export the contact to email marketing tools.
] When changing the default table domain
Flamingo plug-in required you not to change the default field [you-name] \u0026 lt; [you-dail] \u0026 gt; and [you-subject] Label. If you change the labels of these default fields, your form submission may not be preserved. If you are not using these fields in the form, a big problem will occur.
cannot include/exclude forms
After installing Flamingo with the Contact Form 7 plugin, it will automatically save each contact form you own All forms are submitted.
Your entry message page may be blocked by thousands of forms.
If you just want to save and submit from the selected form, or you want to exclude some forms from saving, it is impossible to use Flamingo.
[123 ] Unable to guide the selected data If you want to export from the submission, Flamingo will export all the data. You cannot filter or choose a limited entry to export. Every time you want to export some submitted content, you must export all content and use other tools (such as Google Sheets, MS Excel, etc.) to edit it.
Unable to stop repeating/spam submission
Sometimes, the same user may be submitted multiple times in the same form, and may even be submitted by spam.
All these forms submission will be stored in the database. This is not desirable in many cases, and the Flamingo plugin does not provide any functions to prevent this. 3. View the problem of the data
No channel filter can not see the form submission
at Flamingo’s entry station On the message page, all submittedThe forms are listed on one page. In order to see the submission of only one contact form, you must add an additional filter. If there are multiple forms on your website, all forms submission will be displayed on the same page, which makes the page crowded and difficult to manage submission.
No fields except names and emails
Similarly on Flamingo’s entry message page, only name fields and email fields are displayed. To view other form fields, you must click and enter each form. When you are submitted by hundreds of forms, this makes it difficult to operate quickly.
In Flamingo The form submission is displayed according to the date and time submitted. Unable to sort the order or filter the data. Therefore, if you have thousands of entries, it is difficult to find data.
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联系表格7-Flamingo 出口
问题
[123 ] Unable to guide the selected data If you want to export from the submission, Flamingo will export all the data. You cannot filter or choose a limited entry to export. Every time you want to export some submitted content, you must export all content and use other tools (such as Google Sheets, MS Excel, etc.) to edit it.
Unable to export the field
You want to export the form and click Export to CSV. Flamingo only allows you to export the form field data, that is, the user is submitted when the form is filled in the form. All fields.
But the meta field tracked by Flamingo cannot be exported and can only be displayed.
Cannot use API export to external source
Use Flamingo plug -in Contable Form 7 Submitted and saved and can only be manually exported as a CSV file. There are no options to connect and provide 3rd applications such as MailChimp and Google tables. Every time you have a new submission, you must manually export. 5. Display data problems
Can’t display the items on the front end
users may want to post a form with Flamingo address book on the WordPress page Essence Flamingo cannot be displayed from the entry on the front -end page of WordPress.
To display the entry at the front end, you must manually guide and import them in another tool (such as the WordPress table plug -in) to display the forms at the front end.
Site migration/import problem
There is a guide option in Flamingo.
Assume And imported into the new Flamingo database.
6. Support problem
If you are a person you need to support (now or in the future), of course you should avoid using Flamingo Plug -in, because their support is poor. Check the support thread of Flamingo – https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flamingo/. You can observe most support queries that have not received a reply, even some basic help requests.
How to overcome the limitations of the contribution of the contactal form 7-flamingo integration?
Just because the Flamingo-CONTACT FORM integration has some key restrictions to save the form to the database, it does not mean that you have no power for it.
You can use Tablesome-Contact Form 7 database plug-in, it not only overcomes Flamingo-CONTACT FORM 7 The restrictions also provide you with more options, allowing you to make full use of forms and contacts.
In addition to saving forms, you can also automate to optimize your marketing.
When you see Tablesome supporting threads, you can observe people’s rapid response to support inquiries. Such asAs a result, you encounter obstacles when using Tablesome with a contactal 7, you can contact Tablesome supporters, and they will give you a quick reply. The tablesome plug -in is free and can be found in the WordPress plug -in repository.Try to use Tablesome – Contact Form 7 plug -in!