ACS Contact Form

Most contact forms end at "mail sent". The enquiry then lives in an inbox, next to newsletters and invoices, and the one that mattered gets answered four days late — or not at all. ACS Contact Form keeps the light, dependency free form of version 1 and adds the part that comes after the send button. Every message is kept in WordPress Submissions are stored in your own database and listed in the admin: form name, sender, subject, category, status, when it arrived and how long it has been sitting there. Nothing depends on a mail server that may or may not deliver.

• Status is Untouched, In progress or Done, and starts at Untouched
• Change status and category straight from the list, or open one message for the full detail
• Filter by form, category and status, search the saved text, and export the current view to CSV
• The detail screen shows every field, the attachments, the reply draft and a history of your own notes

Messages sort themselves Each submission is scored against keyword rules and filed as Estimate, Consultation, Recruiting, Sales or Spam. Anything that matches nothing becomes Consultation, so nothing disappears.

• The rules are plain keyword lists you can edit — the defaults are written for Japanese enquiries
• Subject, body and the sender's mail domain are all considered
• On a tie, the category that does not suppress the notification wins, so an ambiguous message is never quietly filed away
• Spam signals: the honeypot field, a body full of links, and text with no Japanese in it at all

Sales and spam do not send you a notification mail by default. They still appear in the list, so you can look when you feel like it instead of every time a cold pitch arrives. Which categories notify you is a setting. A reminder when something is left If a message is still Untouched after three days, a single daily mail lists everything that has been forgotten, with a link to each one. The threshold is a setting, zero switches it off, and messages marked In progress are left alone. An optional reply draft If — and only if — you have connected an AI provider to WordPress itself under Settings > Connectors, the detail screen gains a Write a draft reply button. The draft appears in an editable box; you read it, fix it, and send it from your own mail client. The plugin asks the WordPress core AI Client for the text; it holds no API key of its own and never contacts a provider directly. With nothing connected, the button is not shown. See External services below. Still the same form The form builder, the shortcode, the block, the design settings and the auto-reply from version 1 all work exactly as before. Updating from 1.1.2 keeps every form and every setting.

• Drag-free ordering of standard fields, custom fields and the attachment field
• Text, textarea, select, radio and checkbox custom fields
• Colours, radii and required badges per form
• Ajax submission with no jQuery
• Honeypot spam trap, no third-party captcha, no external request

1. Upload the plugin ZIP under Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin, then activate it
2. Open ACS Forms > Add New, name the form, and switch on the fields you need
3. Set the destination address under Mail settings, and send yourself a test mail from the box on the right
4. Copy the shortcode from the form list, or place the ACS Form block on a page
5. Open ACS Forms > Enquiries to see what arrives, and ACS Forms > Settings to adjust the categories, the reminder and, if you want one, the reply draft

Updating from version 1: activate as usual. Forms, mail settings and design settings are read from the same place as before; storage, classification and the reminder start with the next submission.

2.0.3

• Changed: admin UI source strings are now English; Japanese provided as translation.

2.0.2

• Changed: every function, class, constant, option, post type, meta key, shortcode, hook, cron event and script handle now uses the acscf prefix, so no name is shorter than four characters. A one-time migration runs on the first admin page load and carries your settings, forms, submissions and embedded shortcodes over; the old options are left untouched so the update can be rolled back.
• Changed: the AI reply draft now uses the WordPress core AI Client (WordPress 7.0 and later). The provider, model and API key fields have been removed from the plugin: connect a provider under Settings > Connectors instead. The plugin makes no direct provider connections.
• Changed: requires WordPress 7.0 or later.

2.0.1

• Fix: frontend submissions failed with a nonce error because the AJAX request did not include the frontend nonce. The nonce is now sent with every submission.

2.0.0

• New: submissions are stored in WordPress and listed in the admin, with status, category, search, filters and CSV export
• New: a detail screen with the full message, attachments, a reply draft, reply history notes and a "mark as replied" action
• New: automatic classification into estimate, consultation, recruiting, sales and spam, with editable keyword rules
• New: sales and spam no longer send a notification mail by default; which categories notify you is a setting
• New: a daily reminder about submissions left untouched for a configurable number of days
• New: an optional AI reply draft, off by default, using an API key you provide yourself
• New: attachments are kept with the submission in a protected folder and served only to authorised users
• New: personal data exporter and eraser, and an uninstall routine that only removes data if you ask it to
• Improved: stricter attachment checks (extension allow list, real file type verification, size and count limits, random file names)
• Improved: every screen goes through nonce and capability checks, and every output is escaped
• Removed: the external update check of the previous distribution

1.1.2

• Improved: test mail from the form edit screen
• Fixed: field order handling for custom fields

1.1.1

• Improved: design settings

1.1.0

• New: attachment support and field ordering

1.0.0

• First release