Deprecated and no Export

After installing on our main site and two subdomains, all the forms are deprecated.

form deprecation happens when you upgrade the plugin to a version which requires the form to be updated in the admin form editor.
as the plugin evolves and includes more funcitonality to front-end forms, it requires to update the form bookekeeping, and this simply requires the form to be opened in the form editor and reloaded.

we don’t see any red highlight.

that’s just css that could be overridden by some other plugin loading its stylesheet on every single admin pages…

Every shortcode has changed

what do you mean by that? The cf7Key has changed?

The other issue is that we can not export our forms, it goes directly into our admin post page.

this would happen if the plugin is encountering a server error.

Now we need to go into over 70 contact forms and correct each of their shortcodes.

how did you transfer your forms from the test to the live server?

Hi Aurovrata,

Thank you for replying to my queries.? ?

After some digging, we found that an old plugin was still active (Contact Form 7 Skins) that caused most of our issues.We deactivated and deleted and now your plugin works.

After a bit of time, we were able to fix the cf7Key’s by re-entering the form’s titles in lowercase and hyphens?between each word.

The only small issue we are?still?having is the export function.??
Currently, we are using the WordPress Admin/tools/export forms function to extracts all the forms,?including other plugin?forms, as?one large xml file.

The ability to export an individual CF7 form is no longer available.? This was a very nice feature and would be very useful.

I don’t know if all the recent CF7 Plugin updates may have removed this function.

In the past, we were able to export each of the forms through CF7 (in xlm?format) for backup and to import them into our live server.?

Importing was done by using the?Admin/tools/Import WordPress function.
Once we imported the individual xml file, CF7 recognized the individual CF7 form and was populated into the plugin’s admin page.

We currently found this on CF7 site: (Again, this exports all the CF7 forms, and not individual forms) Link

How can I export/import contact form data?
Because Contact Form 7 stores its contact form data as a custom post (post type:?wpcf7_contact_form), you can export and import form data via?Tools > Export?and?Tools > Import?in the WordPress admin screen.? In the?Export?menu, choose?Contact Forms?if you want to export contact form data only. You can also choose?All content?(this includes contact form data).
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One last question, In testing your plugin, the main function that we truly like is the toggle and the ability in adding of additional fields functionality,

For us, it’s namely additional?Colleague-Names and their?Email Addresses.
Below is the HTML for this form:

`<div class=”container with-toggle” id=”YVPO9d” data-group=”” data-open=”false”>
<div class=”row”>
<div class=”columns one-half cf7sgfocus”>
<div class=”container cf7-sg-table” id=”cf7-sg-table-1629459822589″ data-button=”Add Another Friend”>
<div class=”row cf7-sg-table”>
<div class=”columns one-half”>
<div class=”field”><label><b>Colleague Full Name & Email:</b> <small>(required)</small>*</label>[text* Colleague-Name-1 akismet:author placeholder “Full Name”]
<p class=”info-tip”></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class=”columns one-half”>
<div class=”field”><label><b>Email Address:</b> <small>(required)</small>*</label>[email* email-1 akismet:author placeholder “Email Address”]
<p class=”info-tip”></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

What we are trying to do is to have within the mail tab??Mail (2) Additional?headers?Bcc:[email-1] (to include the other emails provided)

Is there a way to send the second email to the list of colleagues and email addresses provided at the time of completing our form??

Do we use a Hook within?the Additional header as Bcc: ???

Sorry for the long-winded reply.? Again, thank you, and keep up the great work.? Love your tutorial videos.

Kind regards,
Fabio

We deactivated and deleted and now your plugin works.

Great!

After a bit of time, we were able to fix the cf7Key’s by re-entering the form’s titles in lowercase and hyphens between each word.

note, the cf7Key is simply the post slug. So you could easily do a DB update on all your form posts to reset their slugs.

The ability to export an individual CF7 form is no longer available. This was a very nice feature and would be very useful.

this was never a feature of the Smart Grid plugin, but it is a functionality I have been meaning to introduce, but so far I have found no project/client needing/wanting to sponsor this feature.

If your project have some spare budget and would be willing to sponsor this feature, that would be nice.

we are using the WordPress Admin/tools/export forms function to extracts all the forms, including other plugin forms, as one large xml file.

does this works? The Smart-grid is designed using WP core functionality and therefore should be fully compatible with the WP export functionality.

Is there a way to send the second email to the list of colleagues and email addresses provided at the time of completing our form?

yes, use the general mail tag provided by the plugin (see this tutorial). In the video I use the tag to generate an html table, but instead you add it to the bcc field, then add the php helper code to your functions.php and return all the emails as CSV format for the email to work).

Again, thank you, and keep up the great work. Love your tutorial videos.

do leave a review when you have a moment to spare.