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The Contact Form 7 plugin, or as some translate it “Contact Form 7”, is one of the popular free WordPress plugins for creating contact forms. The plugin enables you to create a contact form, control email, and some advanced options for professionals as well. You can simply create the form and then add it to any page, article, or custom widget.

In this article, we will learn how to use and customize the add-on correctly. Pros and cons of the Contact Form 7 plugin Pros: Easy to install and use Ready-to-use contact forms Compatible with all WordPress templates A feature to add re-captcha to prevent unwanted actions It can be controlled through website building tools (Visual builders) Automatic updates Cons The Contact Form 7 interface is not easy for beginners and requires a little learning to control the fields and settings. Limited support.

Changes cannot be previewed directly and immediately. There is no feature to add forms directly through the WordPress editor, like some other plugins that offer this feature (Ninja Forms and WPForms). Where we need to copy the short code and then paste it where we want. A security vulnerability in Contact Form 7. A security vulnerability has been discovered in Contact Form 7 that allows an attacker to upload malicious scripts.

This vulnerability occurs when you upload files, as hackers can add and download a malicious program with the files you upload, so the attacker can access your site and database. The vulnerability allowed the downloading of malicious types of files, which led to malfunctions on some sites. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at Web Security Astra, and has been resolved in Update 7 5.3.2.

If these negatives or defects make the add-on unsuitable for you, it would be better to rely on an alternative that does not suffer from them, or at least most of them, and the Zaytoun program provided by Hassoub Company is one of the best alternatives that can be relied upon, and therefore we will highlight it in the next paragraph before we explain how to use the Contact Form 7 add-on. Using Zaytoun as an alternative to the Contact Form 7 add-on While the Contact Form 7 add-on is not friendly to beginners because its interface is not simple, it does not provide professional support for free, and it does not allow adding a contact form through the component editor in WordPress. Zeitoun's dedicated program allows all of this to be facilitated in providing various types of technical support on websites and e-stores, and it also has many other features that make it more convenient in some cases, including but not limited to: It provides a free lifetime plan that is sufficient to add one contact form to the website, and most small and medium sites do not need more than that. Easy to use, as anyone with simple technical experience can create and add a contact form using the Zaytoun program.

It does not take a long time to set up or use it, as within minutes everything needed to add a contact form to a WordPress site can be prepared. It provides a professional control panel that allows you to view the messages received through the communication form and manage them by implementing many useful actions on them. It supports the Arabic language excellently, as all the tools and elements in the program support the right-to-left direction and all phrases appear in Arabic.

It provides many additional features, as it is not only possible to create a contact form using Zaitoun, but also a knowledge base and live chat system can be built easily. It offers excellent technical support via email, live chat, and knowledge base, and its support team is highly technical and provides clear, helpful responses. In order to use the Zaytoun program to add a contact form instead of adding Contact Form 7, you do not have to 

Except to follow a set of simple steps that begin with creating a help center in Zaitoun, go through designing and adjusting the properties of the communication form elements, and end with adding the form to the site and managing it through the section designated for it in the control panel, as we explained in detail in the article (How to create a “Contact Us” form to provide better customer service). If you need more features than what Zaitoun provides, or if the disadvantages of the Contact Form 7 plugin do not affect you, then you can use it to add a contact form to your WordPress site, as we will explain in later paragraphs.

Article contents: How to install Contact Form 7?

Features of adding Contact Form 7 Contact Form Settings How to create a contact form in Contact Form 7? Integration with other services (Integration) How to add the form to pages or articles Pros and cons of the addition Problems and solutions of the addition How to install Contact Form 7? To install the plugin, you must go to the WordPress control panel and then to (Add-ons).