Title: Contact Form 7 Gravity Forms Importer
Author: Zack Katz
Published: <strong>September 14, 2011</strong>
Last modified: February 9, 2015

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# Contact Form 7 Gravity Forms Importer

 By [Zack Katz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/katzwebdesign/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/contact-form-7-gravity-forms.zip)

 * [Details](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-gravity-forms/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-gravity-forms/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-gravity-forms/#installation)
 * [Development](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-gravity-forms/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7-gravity-forms/)

## Description

### Re-written! Ignore the bad reviews 🙂

We’ve finally re-written the plugin, so check it out and see for yourself before
you let the bad reviews stop you!

> This plugin requires both the [Contact Form 7 plugin](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/)
> and the amazing contact form plugin [Gravity Forms](http://www.formplugin.com/?r=gfcf7)

### Import your existing Contact Form 7 forms into Gravity Forms

If you are migrating from Contact Form 7 to Gravity Forms, this is the tool for 
you. Easily import your CF7 forms into Gravity Forms rather than re-creating them
manually.

 * Recreate notification emails inside Gravity Forms
    - Do you have customized email notifications set up so that you and the submitter
      receive finely created emails? This plugin will import the email templates
      into Gravity Forms and will even re-map the CF7 tags for you.
 * Create inputs for each of your CF7 form fields
    - Automatically adds labels and **auto-configures input types like name, email,
      phone, address, and more**.
    - Imports the class names, required fields, maximum input length
    - Also import validation error messages
    - Adds the CF7 input name as Gravity Forms parameter names

### Supports Contact Form 7 3.0

For those of you using the [latest version of Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/download/),
you’ll be pleased to know that the importer works with Contact Form 7 2.x as well
as Contact Form 7 3.

#### Other Gravity Forms Add-ons:

 * [GravityView](http://gravityview.co) – Display your Gravity Forms entries on 
   your website.
 * [Gravity Forms Mad Mimi Add-on](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-mad-mimi/)–
   Integrate Gravity Forms with Mad Mimi, a beautiful email marketing service.
 * [Gravity Forms Highrise Add-on](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-highrise/)–
   Integrate Gravity Forms with Highrise, a CRM
 * [Gravity Forms + Constant Contact](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-constant-contact/)–
   If you use Constant Contact and Gravity Forms, this plugin is for you.

## Screenshots

[⌊The import page⌉⌊The import page⌉[

The import page

## Installation

 1. Upload plugin files to your plugins folder, or install using WordPress’ built-in
    Add New Plugin installer
 2. Activate the plugin
 3. Click on the menu item under Gravity Forms’ menu called `Forms`. The link is named`
    CF7 Import`. This will take you to the importer page;
 4. Choose a Contact Form 7 form from the dropdown menu
 5. Click “Import from Contact Form 7”
 6. The form should import!

## FAQ

  How do I use the plugin?

 1. Install the plugin;
 2. Click on the menu item under Gravity Forms’ menu called `Forms`. The link is named`
    CF7 Import`. This will take you to the importer page;
 3. Choose a Contact Form 7 form from the dropdown menu
 4. Click “Import from Contact Form 7”
 5. The form should import!

  Does the plugin support Contact Form 7 2.x?

Nope, sorry. Upgrade CF7 before using this plugin.

  What is the plugin license?

This plugin is released under a GPL license.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6659bc2e7ab22c688ea03ec206d592d903eacde0547c8d5db4ca461f5debf69a?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Imported some of my data](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/imported-some-of-my-data/)󠁿

 [tomhart](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tomhart/) April 1, 2021

Hard to say it worked, but i had a long form i was migrating and it might have saved
me time.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/424b6df9504bc85d78245397e3ed475168316f2acbc6f1905097e415cd273ce4?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[“re-written” and still broke](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/re-written-and-still-broke/)󠁿

 [okgamers](https://profiles.wordpress.org/okgamers/) April 6, 2018 1 reply

I trusted their statement. I tried. It failed. Don’t install, it doesn’t import 
all the field data, and worse – the field info that is imported are bugged, and 
cannot be edited. So, worse than just erroring.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3f1e2d108395227e788e12aa56bbc747d3b94131f7071218da64822cb5aff689?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[works 99% as advertised, even after all this time](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-99-as-advertised-even-after-all-this-time/)󠁿

 [Jasper](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jmstudio/) October 3, 2016

Had 1 little mixup with the ‘from’ e-mailaddress and ‘from’ name, the rest worked
flawlessly. Easy, great timesaver!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/95377293a87943ab05d9fa8628bab10b93b13dca63fe3bf1a02ccbe335db4dc3?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Saves some effort, but not quite there](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/saves-some-effort-but-not-quite-there/)󠁿

 [radgh](https://profiles.wordpress.org/radgh/) September 3, 2016

It doesn’t do everything for you. But it saves a lot of time as it is. For example,
this contact form: https://i.imgur.com/ZTLF92C.jpg Turns into this gravity form:
https://i.imgur.com/G07eocF.jpg It’s not bad, a bit of cleanup required. A bigger
issue is the email notifications don’t all get converted. The one mentioned above
has the field [your-message] in CF7’s “mail2” body. That should have been converted
to {Message:3} for Gravity Forms. But it wasn’t.

 [ Read all 15 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7-gravity-forms/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Contact Form 7 Gravity Forms Importer” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Zack Katz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/katzwebdesign/)
 *   [ Zack Katz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/katzwebservices/)

[Translate “Contact Form 7 Gravity Forms Importer” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/contact-form-7-gravity-forms)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-7-gravity-forms/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/contact-form-7-gravity-forms/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/contact-form-7-gravity-forms/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/contact-form-7-gravity-forms/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.0 on February 8, 2015

 * Major update – fixes issues with Contact Form 7 3.x and Graviy Forms 1.8+
 * No longer supports Contact Form 7 2.x
 * Added translation files

#### 1.0.1

 * Added option to combine address & name fields

#### 1.0

 * Launched plugin

## Meta

 *  Version **2.0**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **200+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.1.42**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-gravity-forms/)
 * Tags
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   [forms](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/forms/)[gravity](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gravity/)
   [gravity forms](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gravity-forms/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-gravity-forms/advanced/)

## Ratings

 2.7 out of 5 stars.

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 *  [  8 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7-gravity-forms/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Zack Katz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/katzwebdesign/)
 *   [ Zack Katz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/katzwebservices/)

## Support

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