Flamingo

Description

Flamingo is a message storage plugin originally created for Contact Form 7, which doesn’t store submitted messages.

After activation of the plugin, you’ll find Flamingo on the WordPress admin screen menu. All messages through contact forms are listed there and are searchable. With Flamingo, you are no longer need to worry about losing important messages due to mail server issues or misconfiguration in mail setup.

For more detailed information, please refer to the Contact Form 7 documentation page.

Privacy Notices

This plugin stores submission data collected through contact forms, which may include the submitters’ personal information, in the database on the server that hosts the website.

Installation

  1. Upload the entire flamingo folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Reviews

June 25, 2021
I have CF7 but I don't receive the messages. Flamingo resolves this problem for me. 🙂
June 4, 2021
If your site is regularly scanned with penetration testing tools like Arachni or Netsparker do not use this plugin. A single Netsparker scan can easily overwhelm a site with this plugin enabled. Performance degrades severely over the course of a pentest scan as "spam" messages build up. Submitting a new contact form slows down considerably because on the backend there seem to be an ever increasing number of database queries as the number of messages Flamingo stores goes up. Eventually it becomes like an amplification attack and it will overwhelm the backend WordPress database with too many queries. Submitting a single new contact form eventually produces thousands of queries on the backend to the database.
November 20, 2020
Big fan of Flamingo for CF7. Simple, elegant and no extra fluff to it. Love the inbox filter. Once and a while a qualified message slips through, but overall very happy. Will use on all my WP sites.
October 9, 2020
Simple. Does what it needs to without any extra fluff.
September 12, 2020
wonderful - i was kind of hesitant to install this plugin, because it was said to fill up the database quickly, depending of course of the amount of spam. now i learn that version 2.2 auto-deletes spam after 30 days - exactly what i was looking for. thanks a lot.
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Contributors & Developers

“Flamingo” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

2.2.2

  • Address Book: Hides the Filter button if there is no working filter.

2.2.1

  • Outputs a local date/time in a CSV export file.
  • Removes load_plugin_textdomain() calls.
  • Removes a reference to $_wp_last_object_menu.
  • Removes the set-screen-option filter.
  • Inherits post_status from the previous admin page.
  • Avoids using wp_date() for MySQL DATETIME values.
  • Has been tested with WordPress 5.6.

2.2

  • Sets the post_date of an inbound message based on the submission timestamp.
  • Allows users to search and filter messages within the Spam subgroup.
  • Changes the visibility of the $found_items property to private and introduces the count() method as an alternative.
  • Changes the visibility of the $id property to private and introduces the id() method as an alternative.
  • Introduces the submission result in the inbound message viewer screen.
  • Stores the posted_data_hash value for search.

2.1.1

  • Security enhancement, CSV: Prefixes a field when its value begins with =, +, -, or @. See https://contactform7.com/2020/01/15/heads-up-about-spreadsheet-vulnerabilities/ for details.
  • New filter hook: flamingo_csv_field_prefix

2.1

  • UI improvements in displaying JSON reCAPTCHA logs in the Inbound Message editor page.
  • Moves to trash automatically after every 30 days of the creation of spam messages.