I’ve recently pushed an update to the Web Directory plugin for WordPress that enables people to use the Contact Forms 7 plugin to support link submissions. Several people have been asking me to write a tutorial on how I did it on my Connected Phone web site. This should help some of you to create a submission form and use it with the Web Directory plugin I have created. It’s not a comprehensive tutorial on Contact Form 7. If you need some basic information about the Contact Form 7 plugin, I’ve written a post you can read (WordPress Contact Form 7 plugin: Great for Forms).

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Once I got started to using the plugin, it didn’t take long to find it very useful especially if you need to create more than a single form for more than one WordPress blog. But I was not being too keen on the idea of having to key in those forms too many times I decided to create a WordPress plugin for backing up and restoring the Contact Form 7 form data. It will allow me to transfer the forms data from one site to another without having to retype them.

I thought I’d share it to whoever might need it so here I am writing this post about the Contact Form 7 Backup and Restore plugin that I have created. It’s actually on it’s initial usable version so don’t expect any bells and whistles for this ‘coz I just needed to transfer what I did for one blog to another and start making changes for that blog from the restored data.

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