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Contact Form 7 1.8 is now available at last! Please note that I’m also planning to release 1.8.1 next month, with even more functions.
The main changes of Contact Form 7 1.8 are below.
Control panel moved from Settings to Manage
This is an important change, particularly if you are a longtime user. In the past, the control panel of Contact Form 7 was in Settings > Contact Form 7. You will now find it in Manage > Contact Form 7.
In addition to this change, I extended the scope of authority to access the control panel. Administrators and editors can read and edit contact forms, while authors and contributors can read only the tag code for inserting into their posts. Whether this change is acceptable to all users is still up for debate, so your feedback would be much appreciated.
Should you find you don’t like the behavior, you can alter it by defining wpcf7_read_capability() and wpcf7_read_write_capability() in or outside the wp-contact-form-7.php. For example, with these codes you can put it back to the old way (only administrators can access the control panel):
function wpcf7_read_capability() { return 'manage_options'; }
function wpcf7_read_write_capability() { return 'manage_options'; }
WP_CONTENT_DIR, WP_CONTENT_URL and other constants
In WordPress 2.6, you can redefine the path of the directory of customizable contents, i.e. wp-content. If you haven’t heard that, read this post from planetOzh. Contact Form 7 1.8 supports this feature by referring the new constants WP_CONTENT_DIR and WP_CONTENT_URL for getting paths. Backward compatibility is also considered.
In addition, it uses these constants:
WP_PLUGIN_DIRWP_PLUGIN_URLWPCF7_PLUGIN_DIRWPCF7_PLUGIN_URLWPCF7_CAPTCHA_TMP_DIRWPCF7_CAPTCHA_TMP_URL
The WPCF7_* contents are Contact Form 7’s original constants.
You decide paths as you wish by editing source codes and defining these constants.
Compatible with HTTPS
WordPress 2.6 includes better support for visiting the admin over HTTPS. Contact Form 7 1.8 has been updated to be able to work correctly when you are using this feature.
Moving CAPTCHA temporary image directory
In previous releases of Contact Form 7, temporary CAPTCHA images were generated in the directory wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/captcha/tmp. However, putting the images inside the plugin’s directory could cause trouble when the plugin auto-upgrading function of WordPresss runs (which resets the writing permission of the directory).
To prevent such troubles occurring, the CAPTCHA temporary image directory has been moved to outside the plugin’s directory. Its new home is wp-contents/uploads/wpcf7_captcha.
In most cases that directory is writable, so you can use CAPTCHA without any concerns. If you don’t like the path and want to change it, you can do it by redefining the constants WPCF7_CAPTCHA_TMP_DIR and WPCF7_CAPTCHA_TMP_URL. Don’t forget to make the directory writable.
Adding id: and class: options to submit tag
This may sound like a trivial addition, but it is one many users have requested. There have always been id: and class: options for adding id and class attributes to the form control tags, but the submit tag has not had such options. These options have now, at last, been added to the submit tag in Contact Form 7 1.8.
New translation pack
A translation pack for Hungarian has been newly added. Our thanks must go to Andras Hirschler!
Plans for Contact Form 7 1.8.1
Version 1.8.1 of Contact Form 7 is in the pipeline to be released in September. The following features and improvements are likely to be a part of this version:
- Importing and exporting of configurations;
- Customizable messages;
- More tags for forms and mail contents;
- And more.
