This plugin provides a dynamic post selection, radio and checkbox field to your CF7 forms.
Contact Form 7 is a fantastic plugin for form. The post-fields extension enables you to create image drop-down-menues, checkboxes and radio-buttons based on posts or other kinds of content (custom post types).
Features of post fields
- beautiful drop-down-menues, checkboxes and radio buttons with post image, excerpt and meta data
- selection of the post type (posts, pages, attachments, custom post types)
- selection and limitation of categories (taxonomies)
- customized/individual formatting of the label
- configuring the value attribute
- pretty post hyperlinks in the message body
- customized sorting of the post type
- Display a search box on drop-down-menues
- limitation of the post type based on its particular status (published, draft etc.)
- The default value of the field can easily be selected by using $_GET or $_POST variables (see FAQ).
Required Plugin
- Contact Form 7 by Takayuki Miyoshi – Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup.
Screenshots
The post image radio buttons with meta data
The posts image drop-down-menu
The posts drop-down-menu
Post select field generator
FAQ
Where can I find the new post fields and how can I use them?
- Make sure that you have installed and activated the required plugin Contact Form 7.
- In the menu, navigate to the item “Contact”, create a new or edit an existing form.
- You can find 4 new fields in the tab “Form” now: “posts image drop-down-menu”, “posts drop-down-menu”, “post checkboxes” and “post radio buttons”.
Why can’t I find my own type of content (custom post type) in the list?
The only types of content displayed are those declared as public.
See register post type.
How can I make my form in the front end use a standard value automatically?
This can easily be done by using $_GET or $_POST variables.
- In the post field shortcode, add the option “default:get” or “default:post” (instructions), e.g. [post_select post_select-1 publish default:get post-type:post value-field:title orderby:title order:DESC “%title%”]
- On your website, move to the form with the following $_GET parameters: http://www.yourdomain.at/contact/?field_name=post_id
If you have integrated your form into a single post template, you can use “default:current_post” to set the default value equal to the current post.
What kind of post meta keys can be used for the label?
- Single text meta keys
- Sequential arrays will be changed in a string list (comma seperated)
- Associative arrays are no supported
ChangeLog
2.5.8
- Dev – Changed Image Select Placeholder
2.5.7
- Dev – Add new filter for html attributes.
- Dev – Add meta_key and meta_type args to post query preset.
- Fix – Pypass correct number of decimals on numeric meta values.
2.5.6
- Dev – Add new WP Query args meta_key and meta_type
- Dev – Add filter “wpcf7_’.tag_name.’_’.basetype.’_item_label” to all modules
2.5.5
- Dev – Add new filter for label, excerpt and item attributes
2.5.4
- Dev – Add new constant WPCF7_POST_FIELDS_PLUGIN
2.5.3
- Dev – Add filter “wpcf7_’.tag_name.’_’.basetype.’_item_label” to all modules
2.5.2
- Dev – Tested up with WordPress 5.4
- Dev – Add filter “wpcf7_mytag_defaults”
- Dev – Code optimizations
2.5.1
- Dev – Tested up with WordPress 5.2.1
- Dev – Star rating included
2.5.0
- Dev – Tested up with WordPress 5.2
- Dev – Code optimizations
- Dev – Improvement for better main instance call
- Fix – Missing Field “post_radio” and “post_image_radio“
2.4.1
- Dev – Removed the in the checkbox rendering
2.4.0
- Feature – Search box option for posts drop-down menus
- Dev – Load select2 libary on posts drop-down menues with the multiple attribute
- Dev – Add placeholder filter for select fields and field post data
- Dev – Add field post data filter
- Dev – Improvement for better scripts and style loading
- Fix – No include blank on on posts drop-down menu with the multiple attribute
2.3.2
- Image select attachment otimiziation
2.3.1
- Fix by the ACF Meta Integration
2.3.0
- Improvement for search, replacing and formatting post meta fields
- Fixed showing correct image on image select field (post type attachment)
- Code optimizations
2.2.1
- Improvement for search and replacing meta fields in the label
2.2
- Add support for meta data in value field
- Add support for excluded terms
- Fix by getting the image URL from Post or Attachment
- Renamed Parameter “category-relation” to “tax-relation”
2.1
- Add support for attachments
- Add new post status “inherit”
- Add new value field “thumbnail”
2.0
- Add WPML compatibility for getting posts
- Add the post number option to the fields
- Changed the “field_name_get_posts” filter to “wpcf7_field_name_get_posts”
- Code optimization for getting posts
1.9
- Select2 Libary Update to 4.0.5
- Code and performance optimizations
- Translation fixes
1.8
- Add new default value option “current_post”
1.7.1
- Bugfix in posts image fields css file (clearfix)
1.7
- CSS optimizations in all posts image fields
1.6
- Code and performance optimizations
- Changed the name of the image size to “wpcf7-post-image”
- Changed the order of the form tags
- Introduction of a new “posts image checkboxes” and “posts image radio buttons” field
- New “Meta Data” feature for all image post fields
- New value field “Permalink”, wich prints pretty post hyperlinks on the mail body
- Add new translations
1.5
- Bugfix in “posts image drop-down-menu” when select multiple and include_blank
- Bugfix in “posts image drop-down-menu” (dashicons) when no thumbnail is available
- Add “permalink” and “author” tags to the label format
1.4
- Introduction of a new “posts image drop-down-menu” field
- Changed the deprecated class WPCF7_Shortcode to WPCF7_FormTag
- Bugfix when the “posts drop-down-menu” has the option “include_blank”
1.3
- Post meta keys available in the label formatting
1.2
- Changed the deprecated function wpcf7_add_shortcode to wpcf7_add_form_tag
- Translation fixes
1.1
1.0
- Initial Release
- Check compatibility with latest Contact Form 7 and WordPress Version