Contact form 7 is not just a contact form. It can also be used as a full blown web-form with as many fields as you want.
UPDATE: If you can not get this working like I did in the video, it’s beacuse the newest contact form 7 plugin for Wordpress has issues. Please use this one for now until they work out the bugs. http://www.idiotproofblogging.com/reports/contact-form-7.zip
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I’m sure no one says that nearly enough. I would never have gotten this form set up without this video.
You’re welcome, you’re welcome!
It’s amazing how “FREE” under values the content at times but some are grateful. Happy the video helped.
Blog on,
Craig
Atul,
For adsense use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adsense-manager/
Your site has a real bad link in its footer that will not help you in Google.
Hey Craig -
I put in a contact form on my Profiles site that does what we talked about the other day 
thanks for the video – it made all the difference. Now on to DLG!!
Cheryl
Hi Craig,
Came across your site recently and think it is great.
I’m a huge WP fan and love blogging with it.
I am a technophobic so I do get stuck on things from time to time.
I’ve been wanting to set up contact page for all of my blogs for a long time so when I saw your tutorial I was ecstatic
However I have followed it to the point where I have both plug ins installed and opened up contact form 7 just as in the video. But, to my horror my page doesn’t have those brown strips that yours does and doesn’t have a generate tags button?? So I’m kinda stuck.
Have I missed something.
Any Ideas?
Thanks
Alan
Craig,
Thanks for the tutorial. However, I seem to be having some troubles, for instance, I don’t get a generate tags option. Should I try reinstalling Contact Form 7?
Hi Matt,
Thanks! OK, there is an issue with the new contact form 7.
Please use this one
http://www.idiotproofblogging.com/reports/contact-form-7.zip
The newest contact form 7 has bugs… Please use this one
http://www.idiotproofblogging.com/reports/contact-form-7.zip
Hi. I’m still having issues with ‘contact form 7′ and ‘really simple captcha’. I’ve read the above posts where Matt has the same issue as me, and Craig suggests downloading an older version of contact form 7, and I’ve done that, installed it etc etc. However, I still don’t see the generate tags drop down, and as such can’t use captcha in my form.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Hey Phil,
Set me up with an admin account within your blog and send me the details. I’ll have a look see 
Craig
Great resource
But I Read all the above and still it wont work…
I went back to old version of CF7 still no go
Does it need older version of Captcha
Matt, try this: within your contact form 7 settings try using a gmail email address. If you don’t have one go to gmail.com There was an issue with contact form 7 not excepting server side email addresses.
Also, I am using Wordpress 2.8 on some sites and the new contact form 7 works fine.
Hey Thanks For The Video – Took Me 3 hours to work this one out, as theres a lot more to it, then above…..
You actually don’t need the old version—If you cant get it working you need the to activate askimet and make the askimet tag changes as per the wordpress site on askimet
You need other plugins Contact Form 7, Really Simple Captcha and WP-Mail-SMTP
If your on Godaddy or similar and getting the red box server error Ive outlined the process at http://www.mcomarketing.com/?page_id=420
But hey could not have done it without the video above…. so big cheers for this vid
Interesting Matt that just because it worked for me and didn’t work for you that makes me wrong. Here’s the fact: There are too many variables for what I’m saying to work for everyone.
A reader contacted me with a contact form 7 issue. I logged into their site and come to find out they had a botched Wordpress install. They re-installed and everything was fine after with contact form 7. It had nothing to do with what you wrote so does this make you wrong? I don’t think so.
I heard that if you rub baby oil within the code of contact form 7 it should get it working for at least a few days 
Here is what’s great about what you posted as comments: It gives people more things to try during the trouble shooting process.
Thanks for your comments.
Craig
Hi,
I have installed the CF7 on the wordpress blog. But I am not getting the details that a user enters into the form fields like the name,email etc to my mailID that is provided on the field just below the Mail section..I have to provide mail ID somewhere else..? Please help me…….I have used the one that you have given also…Please help me ASAp..This is very urgent…..
Please note that I am getting a blank mail with the subject and the from Id…not the contact details..Is it necessary to use any other tags..?
Hi Craig,
I followed your tutorial to the letter, used the older version of Contact Form 7 and incorporated relevant suggestions from the comments above (like using a gmail email address).
For some reason, the captcha doesn’t show up on my contact page. Whenever I test the contact page, I keep getting the following error messages:
“Your entered code is incorrect.”
“Validation errors occurred. Please confirm the fields and submit it again.”
Could you have a look at my contact page on my website? I’m using WP 2.7.1.
Thanks.
Hi Brian,
I’d back up the data base and site for starters.
Next, I’d upgrade the Wordpress to 2.8.2
Next, I’d upgrade the contact form 7 plugin and simple capcha plugin.
I bet it would work. If anything goes wrong it’s easy to bring the blog back to where it is now using your back ups.
Hi Craig, thanks a lot for this video which guided me seamlessly through the process of setting up a contact form. I’ve set up one blog previously and due to my inherent lack of technical skills it took me hours. This time it just took me the length of your video; brilliant!
Hi Craig,
Thanks so much for the tutorial – I’m sure it saved me hours!
You may like to know that with WordPress 2.8.1, there is no need to go to Tools to generate tags. There is a Settings option in the Plugins page as part of Contact Form 7 plugin and clicking on that takes you into the same place. Even easier!
thanks again.
You are welcome.
Updating the report is on my list. It’s out-dated and I just wish Wordpress would so down just a little with their updates :p
i had the same problem too. i didn’t see the generate tags options.
i deactivated all my plugins and activated them one at a time. And the form worked great.
When i activated my :bind user to category plugin the generate tags dissapeared again. So that was the problem.
Now i must go looking for another sollution to bind users to category’s, ’cause contact form 7 is the best form there is i think.
( i am sorry for my poor english )
Greets from Holland
Craig,
Thanks so much for the outstanding tutorial. Everything works great!
Greg
Just what I needed.
I’m about ready to add a contact form and have been looking at cformsII and contact form 7.
Having looked at this video, it looks as though I’ll be going with contact form 7.
Hi Craig
Just set up contact form 7 on a local site, which I’m setting up on my PC using XAMPP.
Followed your tutorial and sent myself an email… worked first time.
The reason I’m so pleased is that I have tried to send an email using cformII and never had any success on my local setup. I’ve read everything on the web to try and get cformsII to work, but no joy.
Contact form 7 was so easy!!
Not installed the CAPTCHA yet… back to your video.
Many thanks
Craig, How do I add the contact form to my threaded comments?
Thanks
Mary
Hi
I have loaded your really simple CATCHA plugin and installed the previous version of contact Form 7 and teh unique numbers do not appear, just the word captcha.
Help please.
thanks john
Hi John,
It’s not my plugin
I just made a video on it. Have you seen the video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSGuLOl9b2U
Hi John
Watch Craig’s video for installing Contact form 7 and really simple captcha… I’m no tech geek but after watching the video I was able to install the contact form and add the captcha.
Great video Craig and I recommend it to anyone using CF7.
Your video was great, however I cannot send out from the contact form. I worked with GoDaddy and they had to create a From Mail setting. But I continue to get the same error:
Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact administrator by other way.
What else might be the problem?
Hi Craig,
Thank you so much for this video. It was really going well until I hit publish when I got a fatal error message instead of a contact form!
It was on line 103 of the simple captcha plugin.
I did get a warning before I installed it as I have upgraded to the latest WP and simple captcha hasn’t been tested with it yet.
Would that be the reason it has gone wrong – or is it because everything I try and do goes wrong!!!!
Would be really grateful for any help.
Not sure what’s going on.
Today I installed a brand new Wordpress install and followed the steps in the video and all worked.
Come on, everything you try goes wrong?
Hi Craig,
That’s what it feels like!
I’ve reinstalled it and still the same. This is the error message I get :
Call to undefined function imagettftext() in /home/xxxxxxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/really-simple-captcha/really-simple-captcha.php on line 103
Did you get the warning when you did your new install?
Thank you,
April
Hi Craig
My wordpress install is telling me that both CF7 and Really Simple captcha need to be upgraded.
Obviously you have just installed them both on your new site and had no problems.
I guess I’ll upgrade.
Thank you for your tutorial. It was just what I needed after a longggggg day.
Hi, great video and very easy to follow. Thanks.
However, I installed the latest version of Contact Form 7 a couple of days ago. the form appears correct on my sidebar as a widget and when i fill in the form and click send, i get the message that the mail has been sent successfully. However, i do not receive the e-mail. I have double checked my e-mail in the settings and it is definetly correct. I´ve been some research and believe it could be a problem with my SMTP or PHP mail settings, but can´t figure it out. Should I for simplicity sake install the version you have posted a couple of months on your blog, or should i stick my new version ?
Thanks
Hey Richard, thanks for your kind words.
If you’re using a server side email, i.e., contact@yourwebsite.com this may be the issue. Many blogs I’ve tested contact form 7 on will only send to gmail accounts. Very strange. So I recommend, using a gmail email address for your contact form. It’s never failed me but server side custom email address’s is hit or miss.
Craig
Thanks Craig,
I’m new to WP, I am currently using it as my infosite platform and getting used to some of it’s settings from other applications I have been using.
Thanks for posting this vid, really helped alot !
Craig,
I’ve installed WP on a lot of sites and dozens of plug-ins. Most are super easy due to good tutorials on the plug-in writer’s sites. Unfortunately, the support pages for using Really Simple Captcha with Contact Form 7 assume readers are pretty advanced. I saw no reference of the fairly simple install you showed us in your video. Had it not been for your video, I would have had to find a different plugin.
Thank you!!
Bill Hibbler
May 22nd, 2009
Hi Craig
Would be very grateful if you could guide me step by step as to how do i go about uploading images like bottles as shown in the above site having affiliate links and also how do i add adsense onto my WP Blogs.
Atul Tanna