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<p>PrivateStater is a privacy-friendly SaaS that combines three things you usually need three separate services for:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Analytics</strong> — page views, sessions, and click tracking, without cookies.</li>
<li><strong>Captcha</strong> — protect WordPress comments, login/registration, and Contact Form 7 forms with a no-image puzzle + proof-of-work challenge.</li>
<li><strong>Feedback widget</strong> — a floating button that lets visitors send text feedback, ratings, or screenshots.</li>
</ul>
<p>Once activated, paste your website name and PrivateStater loads on every public-facing page. The Captcha integrations stay off until you turn them on.</p>
<h4>Why PrivateStater?</h4>
<ul>
<li>No cookies. No cross-site tracking. No data sold to third parties.</li>
<li>One small script for all three features.</li>
<li>I run PrivateStater myself — questions go directly to a real person, not a ticket queue.</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to PrivateStater’s servers to provide analytics, Captcha, and feedback functionality. It does the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Loads the PrivateStater script (<code>https://privatestater.com/privatestater.js</code>) on every public-facing page after a site administrator enters a website name. The script provides visitor analytics, the feedback widget, and (when enabled) the Captcha widget.</li>
<li>Sends analytics and feedback events to PrivateStater’s servers. Depending on which dashboard features are enabled, this can include page URLs, referrers, browser and device details, click events, feedback text, ratings, and visitor-provided screenshots.</li>
<li>Sends Captcha verification requests to <code>https://privatestater.com/api/captcha/validate</code> when a protected form is submitted. The request includes the configured website name and the Captcha token returned by the visitor’s browser.</li>
</ul>
<p>For details on what data is collected and how it is processed, see:</p>
<ul>
<li>Terms of service: <a href="https://privatestater.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">https://privatestater.com/terms</a></li>
<li>Privacy policy: <a href="https://privatestater.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">https://privatestater.com/privacy</a></li>
</ul>


PrivateStater

Privacy-friendly analytics, Captcha, and feedback widget for WordPress. Enter a website name and PrivateStater works on public-facing pages.

Takayuki Miyoshi

Rock Lobster Inc.

<p>Contact Form 7 is a plugin designed to be a practical tool for all WordPress users who embrace the philosophy of free and open source software. It employs sophisticatedly modularized architecture and its original <a href="https://contactform7.com/schema-woven-validation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Schema-Woven Validation</a> technology.</p>
<h4>Docs and support</h4>
<p>You can find <a href="https://contactform7.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">docs</a>, <a href="https://contactform7.com/faq/" rel="nofollow ugc">FAQ</a> and more detailed information about Contact Form 7 on <a href="https://contactform7.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">contactform7.com</a>. When you cannot find the answer to your question on the FAQ or in any of the documentation, check the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7/" rel="ugc">support forum</a> on WordPress.org. If you cannot locate any topics that pertain to your particular issue, post a new topic for it.</p>
<h4>Contact Form 7 needs your support</h4>
<p>It is hard to continue to maintain this plugin without support from users like you. There are several ways for you to <a href="https://contactform7.com/contributing/" rel="nofollow ugc">contribute to the project</a>: testing, coding, translating it into your local languages, helping other users, financial donations, etc, etc. We equally welcome you regardless of the way you contribute.</p>
<h4>Privacy notices</h4>
<p>With the default configuration, this plugin, in itself, does not:</p>
<ul>
<li>track users by stealth;</li>
<li>write any user personal data to the database;</li>
<li>send any data to external servers;</li>
<li>use cookies.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you activate certain features in this plugin, the contact form submitter’s personal data, including their IP address, may be sent to the service provider. Thus, confirming the provider’s privacy policy is recommended. These features include:</p>
<ul>
<li>reCAPTCHA (<a href="https://policies.google.com/?hl=en" rel="nofollow ugc">Google</a>)</li>
<li>Akismet (<a href="https://automattic.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Automattic</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/privacy-center" rel="nofollow ugc">Constant Contact</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Brevo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://stripe.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe</a></li>
<li>Turnstile (<a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/turnstile-privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare</a>)</li>
</ul>


Contact Form 7

I recommend this plugin. It's easy to use, both technical and non-technical and, most importantly, works as expected.

Recommended.


Unlike version 5.6.4 [ prnt.sc/6jnDIye9Dva4 ], update 5.7.1 continues to wrap "p" markup inside "div" and "td" [ prnt.sc/N7I5StxLCtVy ]. 



It breaks the appearance of the forms.


Update 5.7.1 continues to wrap markup inside and

This has never failed


We've been using this plugin for years with many clients. What we like about it is that if things go awry, it's almost always not the plugin that's caused the issue but instead the mail sending setup on the Wordpress installation. We also like that the plugin sporadically asks the admin to check / validate the forms for any issues.


Our go-to form plugin


It's a must have tool. We use it all the time in our agency!


Must have


Unbelivable stupid ReCaptch integration, why you require to use only Invisible Recaptcha ??? I want to use the checkbox because with the invisible all messages are SPAM no matter what I write!!!!


ReCaptcha


For someone who develops web pages from scratch like me, this is definitely the best and most configurable solution. Everything works flawlessly and it's free!



Thanks to the developer for a great plugin!


The most flexible contact form!


I absolutely love Contact Form 7. As a professional developer with clients at every price point, I still prefer it over the premium plugins because of how simple and versatile it is. It embodies the concept of plugins in that it only provides the functionality you need and if you want more, there's a plugin for that! Absolutely versatile and I personally love making add-ons for CF7!


Best contact form plugin for WordPress


I do not use many plugins but this is one of 2-3 essentials


The best plugin for contact form


What a useless developer. Can not reply to support requests!!!support/topic/add-a-code-to-validation-class-please


Useless Support


This free plugin is very useful and has done what it was supposed to do for many years. However, there are a few issues that are very annoying and a total deal breaker, if not a show stopper:




Plugin creator did not comply with WordPress Codex regarding how translations are handled. Thus this plugin will eventually cause problems in a multilingual site.



Forum support by plugin creator is very poor. He replies, yes, but his replies are a joke. He simply doesn't care. He doesn't read properly nor does he do any testing, even after providing everything he asked for. He is a time stealer.




My personal resume: I will switch contact forms on all of my clients' sites. There are better alternatives out there. I am of course willing to pay for support. And this is my suggestion for @takayukister : provide paid support, if you think your time is too valuable, to give a useful reply or provide assistance with your free plugin. Or take that plugin offline or officially state that you won't provide support at all and refrain from stealing people's time by requesting non sense things and then ignoring them in return.


Translation issue and nightmare support.

All time best

Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.

PrivateStater vs Contact Form 7