Contact Forms 7

Everyone knows about cforms II.
It’s heavily used and is feature packed.
It is also very clunky.

I’ve used cforms II and it has served me well. Heck, I’m using it with this blog right now - though I’m using version 8.4. Version 9.0 has come out and it is supposedly 200% faster than the old version - especially with larger forms.
But is 200% faster of slow fast enough? Or just decent?

I am currently working on a pet project that I had planned on launching today - or rather, today four and a half hours ago. Unfortunately, it (obviously) hasn’t come together as quickly and completely as I hoped and I’ll have to launch it next week. In that pet project, I need a submission form. Naturally, I used cforms II. I’ve used it before. Lotsa people use it. Why not?

As I was working on the project, I noticed the site was running very slowly and would often get hung up. After about an hours worth of searching, de-bugging things that worked, I found the problem - cforms II. cforms II has become just like the K2 Theme - feature packed and very clunky. Easy for the plug-and-go, but lags.

All of this is an extremely long segway into a Wordpress contact form plug-in that I will be using - until I find a better one or this one becomes too clunky.

Let me introduce you to Contact Form 7.

(original names huh?)

Contact Form 7 allows for multiple forms, and easy (much easier than cforms II) and full CSS and XHTML customization - you just gotta know how. Which works for me - allowing for smaller file sizes, faster load times, and easier customization.

Ok, so this was no quick Blog Perfume link drop - but I promised updates every Monday - and it’s already early Tuesday morning for me. My pet project that I hoped to launch today isn’t ready and I have classes today…

Next week I’ll be launching something - so please stick around after this pathetic excuse for a post.