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Contact form 7 support

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  1. shaguna
    Member

    Currently, I'm using Contact form 7 on my website which has many forms. I plan to buy Gravity forms, but have following questions:
    1) Is there any way to import my older forms, created using Contact Form 7 to Gravity Forms? If yes, can the old data (using the Contact Form to DB extension Plugin) be imported as well.
    2) Can the two plugins Contact Forms 7 and Gravity Forms co-exist? Since I have many forms, it will take me a while to replace all of them with Gravity forms and was just wondering if the two plugins would interfere with each other?
    3) I'm using Download Monitor for storing files, that are sent over email to users that fill forms. This plugin helps store and track the files. Can this be used/imported when I switch to Gravity Forms?

    Looking forward to a positive reply as I really like some of your features!

    Thanks,
    Shaguna

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday October 29, 2012 | Permalink

  2. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    1. No, the old Contact Form 7 forms cannot be used in Gravity Forms. You will need to create new forms in Gravity Forms.

    You can import data into a WordPress installation using this new 3rd party add-on (something we did not create) http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-mass-import/

    2. The two plugins can normally exist. I have not seen any conflict with the function names. However, if Contact Form 7 uses an old or hard-coded version of jQuery, that will conflict with Gravity Forms. As many times as I have seen people using both plugins (Contact Form 7 and Gravity Forms) I have not seen a conflict between the two.

    3. I'm not sure about download monitor and how it protects files. Gravity Forms will capture the upload for you and put it in a specific folder (which you can change if you like) but after that it is up to the Download Monitor plugin. I guess you would need to protect the wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms folders from direct access (it looks like Download Monitor uses .htaccess for that?) and then you need to restrict access on the page where the download is access from. This looks like it's done with shortcodes in Download Monitor, which you can include in your post if you use Gravity Forms to create posts where uploaded files are listed.

    If you can explain more about how you will use Gravity Forms to upload files maybe we can give more specific advice.

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday October 29, 2012 | Permalink

  3. shaguna
    Member

    Thanks for the quick response.
    About file upload. Admin uploads the files in question (onto download monitor) which are then sent out via emails. Users do not upload any files (as yet) and don't have write access to these folders, they can just read.
    About the exact process that we use, I've replied on this thread http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/email-attachment-and-tracking?replies=3#post-84687

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday October 29, 2012 | Permalink

  4. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    We'll close this topic and concentrate the support on the other topic. Thank you.

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday October 31, 2012 | Permalink

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