If you’ve used the contact form on my site before, you’ll probably recognise it as the bells-and-whistles WordPress plugin cforms II. It was fairly simple to set up, if a little complex for what I needed.
Today was the last straw really and I got fed up of it. All I wanted was a plugin that allowed me to put a form on my contact page, and that was that. Instead, I got that, plus it seemed every time I logged into my admin UI, I needed to upgrade it.
I don’t mind the odd upgrade, but cforms II just got annoying. When I upgraded to WordPress 2.7, it because much easier to upgrade it, so I carried on. But now, due to some quarrel which frankly I don’t care about, there is a permanent message saying that you have to update manually – which I just can’t be bothered with really. So cforms II has lost out, and I’m now using a new plugin which I hope will need upgrading less frequently and generally be less bulky… Contact Form 7.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
The exact same thing happened to me. Don’t get me wrong, I liked the plugin, but like you stated it was just updated way too frequently, if it was bug fixes don’t update with each new bug, unless there was a security issue hold back a while then update all the bugs at once.
I was almost fine with it, till they stopped allowing automatic upgrades on it. I got Contact Form 7 as well.
May 6th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
I completely agree – not allowing automatic updates was a silly thing to do – I expect we’re not the only ones who stopped using it.
If you’re interested, I’ve never had a problem with Contact Form 7 – it’s served it’s purpose really well, and isn’t updated nigh on every day – I’d recommend it over cforms any day. Thanks for commenting Chris!