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Database Addon for Contact Form 7 – CFDB7
Save and manage Contact Form 7 messages. Never lose important data. It is a lightweight contact form 7 database plugin.
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- 600,000+
- Rating
- 5.0 (1.9K)
- Updated
- 22 days ago
Webheadcoder Multi-Step Forms for Contact Form 7
Adds multi-page, multi-step forms to Contact Form 7.
- Active installs
- 50,000+
- #717 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 931K
- 931,001
- Downloads, 30 days
- 31.8K
- 5.5K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5
- 49 reviews
- Last updated
- 22 days ago
- Oct 9, 2026
- Version
- 4.7.1
- 80 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 9, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 4.7 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.3 or newer |
| Needs plugins | contact-form-7 |
| First published | April 15, 2013 |
| Support, last two months | 1 of 1 threads resolved (100%) |
Reviews
4.2 / 5 from 49 reviews
| 5 stars | 35 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 4 |
| 3 stars | 2 |
| 2 stars | 1 |
| 1 star | 7 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
First released in 2013, Webheadcoder Multi-Step Forms for Contact Form 7 adds multi-step flows to forms by placing each step on a separate page, preserving submitted data between steps, and sending the completed email only from the designated step configured to send it.
See it in action at https://webheadcoder.com/contact-form-7-multi-step-forms/
Requires Contact Form 7 (5.2 or above) by Rock Lobster Inc. (Takayuki Miyoshi).
Usage
• Create one page or post for each step in your multi-step form process. If you have three steps, create three pages or posts. You will need their URLs when creating your forms.
• Create a Contact Form 7 form.
• Place your cursor at the end of the form.
• On the “Form” tab of the Contact Form 7 form, click on the button named “multistep”.
• In the window that opens, select “First Step” if this is the first step of your multi-step form. If this is the last step, select “Last Step.” All other checkboxes are optional.
• The Next Page URL is the URL that contains your next form. If this form is the last step, you can leave the URL field blank.
• Click “Insert Tag.”
• Save your completed form and place the form’s shortcode into the appropriate page or post you created in step 1.
• Repeat for each form in your multi-step form process.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
The Next button doesn’t show up
You still need a standard Contact Form 7 submit button on each step.
Add a submit tag like this:
[submit “Next”]
Also note: multistep is a hidden field. If content appears to disappear right after it, place the tag at the end of the form (or add a line break after it).
I keep getting the “Please fill out the form on the previous page” message. What’s wrong?
This message usually means step-tracking data is missing. Check these first:
- Caching is blocking cookies. Exclude cookies named cf7* from cache behavior.
- Form step URLs do not match protocol or domain. Every step must use the same domain and protocol. For example, if your first page uses https://webheadcoder.com, your second page cannot use http:// or a subdomain.
Why are no values being passed from one form to the next form?
If the page reloads on submit instead of using AJAX, Contact Form 7 JavaScript is not running correctly or the REST API is disabled.
Use Contact Form 7’s troubleshooting guide:
https://contactform7.com/why-isnt-my-ajax-contact-form-working-correctly/
How can I show a summary of what the user entered or show fields from previous steps?
[multiform “your-name”]
Use the multiform tag to display values captured on earlier steps. Replace your-name with your field name.
My form values aren’t being sent in the email. I get [multiform “your-name”] instead of the actual person’s name.
multiform is for the Form tab only.
For email content in the Mail tab, use standard CF7 mail-tags such as [your-name], not [multiform "your-name"].
Also confirm the last step includes the multistep tag.
Can I have an email sent on the first step of the multi-step forms?
Yes. Enable “Send Email” in the tag generator, or add send_email directly in the tag:
[multistep multistep-123 first_step send_email “/your-next-url/”]
Latest changelog entry
- security fix: patched a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in how form data is carried between steps.
- hardened the form data cookie.
- now requires PHP 7.3 or above.
- updated Freemius.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.