“draft” status for CF7 forms?

  • Does anyone know if there is a way of setting the status of particular CF7 forms to “draft”? Or do something that would have the same effect?

    We have a mature website in which many different CF7 forms have been created over the years. There are a few forms which are not currently being used. I want to save those for possible re-use in the future, but I don’t want them to be usable currently, as there perhaps might be an old page I’m not aware of in which the form might be embedded.

    Being able to change the published status of forms to “draft” would be a handy way of temporarily disabling them, just as you can with any other type of custom post type. (Are CF7 forms a custom post type?)

    It would be great if we could set the post status for various CF7 forms (like “draft” “private” etc.)

    I understand that I could disable various form by, for example, removing the submit element, or emptying the “to” field.

    Or I could use subscribers_only: true as described here:
    https://contactform7.com/additional-settings/

    But none of those methods would give a visual indicator of which forms are active or not, in the admin list of contact forms.

    Any suggestions?

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  • You could remove the send button. This way the form is still visible, but not usable?

    Or you can rename the Form in Backend:

    “My Form” to “My Form Draft”.

    This would change the shortcode and the previously embedded code would not be valid.

    Hello @bayerischesnordlicht,

    Although the first approach is valid, the second is not: the shortcode use the title just as reference, you can change it and the form will still load while the related ID exists.

    I have been using Contact Form 7 for about a decade and I never thought about a draft feature… until now: When I don’t want to show a form, just remove the shortcode.

    Even so, I think this is an interesting feature.

    Best regards,
    Yordan.

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