How to Migrate Contact Form 7 to Everest Forms Without Losing Your Entries

Contact Form 7 has stopped adding new features. Its creator, Takayuki Miyoshi, announced the feature freeze at WordCamp Asia 2026, and version 6.2 is the last release to bring new functionality. Your existing forms keep working and security fixes continue, but the plugin won’t grow any further.

For many site owners, that’s the moment to look ahead. If you want to build forms by dragging fields into place, or keep every submission inside WordPress instead of only in your inbox, it makes sense to migrate Contact Form 7 to Everest Forms.

Moving the form is the easy part, because Everest Forms’ Form Migrator brings it across in a few clicks. The enquiries you’ve already collected don’t come with it. This guide shows you how to move both: the form with the Form Migrator, and your old entries with Form Vibes, in an order that keeps every submission within reach.

What Does the Contact Form 7 Feature Freeze Mean for Your Forms?

The Contact Form 7 feature freeze means your forms keep working, but new features aren’t planned. In his own blog post, Miyoshi explains that he doesn’t plan to build version 6.3 or later, which makes 6.2 the last release with new functionality.

What continues:

• Your existing forms keep collecting submissions
• Critical security fixes
• Critical bug fixes

What stops:

• New features and improvements
• Updates that expand what Contact Form 7 can do

Why Do Site Owners Migrate Contact Form 7 to Everest Forms?

Site owners usually migrate Contact Form 7 to Everest Forms when they want a form plugin that’s still growing, with a visual way to build forms and a place to see submissions inside WordPress. With Contact Form 7’s features now frozen, those needs won’t be met by future updates.

Here’s what site owners usually look for when they make the move:

• A plugin that keeps growing. Everest Forms is still adding features, so your forms can take on new jobs as your site grows.
• Drag-and-drop form building. Add, arrange, and set up fields visually, and see the form take shape as you build it.
• Submissions saved inside WordPress. Everest Forms keeps every submission in its own Entries screen, so past enquiries are always a click away in your dashboard.
• Multi-column layouts. Place related fields side by side, like first and last name, so longer forms stay compact and easy to scan.

Everest Forms offers plenty more, from form templates to add-ons, and its features page covers the full list.

Neither approach is wrong. Contact Form 7 keeps things simple by design, and plenty of sites never need more. If your forms have grown, though, a visual builder can make them easier to manage.

Whatever your reason to switch from Contact Form 7, the move has two paths: one for the form, and one for its entries.

Here’s what each path covers, and what needs your attention along the way:

Part of your form	Comes across with the Form Migrator?	How to handle it
The form and its fields	Yes	Form Migrator
Field types and required fields	Yes	Form Migrator
Email notifications, confirmation message, spam protection	Check after migrating	Review in the new form’s settings
Past entries	No	Export from Form Vibes, then import into Everest Forms

How Do You Migrate a Contact Form 7 Form to Everest Forms?

You move a Contact Form 7 form with the Form Migrator, a tool built into Everest Forms. The Form Migrator reads your existing Contact Form 7 forms and rebuilds them in the Everest Forms builder, which saves you from recreating every field by hand.

Rebuilding by hand is where small mistakes creep in. A required field stops being required, a dropdown loses an option, or a label changes slightly. The Form Migrator copies the structure for you, so the new form matches the one your visitors already know.

When the import finishes, open the new form in the Everest Forms builder and compare it with the original. Field labels, field types, and required fields carry across from Contact Form 7, so a quick check of the fields is usually all they need.

Which Form Settings Should You Check After Migrating?

Check the new form’s email notifications, confirmation message, and spam protection before it goes live. In both plugins, these settings live separately from the fields, so a form can look identical in the builder and still behave differently once someone submits it.

Start with the email notifications, because they decide whether enquiries actually reach you. In the Everest Forms builder, open Settings > Email and compare who receives the notification email, and what its subject line says, with your Contact Form 7 setup. If the recipient is wrong or missing, new enquiries could go unnoticed after the switch.

Next, open Settings > Confirmation and check the message visitors see after they submit. Make sure it still says what you want your visitors to read. Then check whether the form has the same spam protection your Contact Form 7 form had, so the new form doesn’t open the door to junk submissions.

If anything is missing, set it up in Everest Forms now, while Contact Form 7 is still handling your live form. Once the form looks and behaves the way it should, the next job is its entries list, which is still empty.

How Do You Export Your Old Contact Form 7 Entries?

You export your old Contact Form 7 entries from Form Vibes. Contact Form 7 doesn’t store submissions, so it has no entries screen and nothing for the Form Migrator to pick up. Form Vibes has been saving each submission, so you can export them all as a CSV file in one go.

That’s why your form arrived in Everest Forms with an empty entries list, and why moving the form alone isn’t enough.

Keep this CSV somewhere safe, even after the import. It holds every field from every saved submission, including any that don’t carry across in the next step, so it works as your complete backup. With the CSV saved, your entries are ready to go into the new form.

How Do You Import Contact Form 7 Entries into Everest Forms?

You import Contact Form 7 entries into Everest Forms with import entry settings. You upload the CSV you exported from Form Vibes, match each column to a field in the migrated form, and Everest Forms adds the entries to that form.

The mapping screen is where the import does its real work. On one side you’ll see the columns from your CSV, named after your Contact Form 7 fields. Next to each one, you pick the matching field from your new Everest Forms form. Once you’ve mapped all the fields, click the Import Entries button.

Your entries are now in Everest Forms.

What Does Your Form Data Look Like After the Switch?

After the switch, your old and new entries sit together in Everest Forms. The migrated form’s Entries screen holds the entries you imported along with every new submission. In Form Vibes, the form appears under the Everest Forms section with the same form name, and it collects every new submission from the moment the switch is done.

The Contact Form 7 section in Form Vibes disappears from view once you deactivate Contact Form 7. Your old entries stay within reach in two places: the Everest Forms Entries screen, where you imported them, and the CSV you exported from Form Vibes, which remains the complete record of every saved submission.

From here, Form Vibes keeps managing the form’s new submissions the way it always has, now under the form’s new home.

Conclusion

When you migrate Contact Form 7 to Everest Forms, it comes down to a few jobs done in the right order. The Form Migrator moves the form, and a quick settings check makes sure it behaves the same. Form Vibes exports the entries Contact Form 7 never kept, Everest Forms imports them, and Contact Form 7 is deactivated last.