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Hello All, Yesterday I have installed the flamingo plugin from wordpress.org website. please don't use this plugin for any site this one is fully hacked version and this hack directly attack your serve so, please don't install

It's a decent plugin, provided for free by the same author of CF7. Nonetheless, it has very limited functionalities and needs to be improved very much: data exporting is way too basic, admin panel columns are not customizable in a straightforward way, documentation is minimal.

A good plugin by the same author as CF7 for storing the submissions sent via CF7. Useful for maintaining an independent record of messages sent and checking that the spam filter is working correctly. HOWEVER, our major problem is that if a message is incorrectly marked as spam (and thereby not sent by CF7), although Flamingo allows you to see this message and mark it as 'not spam', there is no way to re-send this message to the intended recipients - which is kind of the point of checking the spam filter!

Flamingo is a decent plugin for message storage with CF7 - it does exactly what it advertises. But we all know how pervasive spam can be - and where Flamingo unfortunately falls short of the mark is in handling bulk spam messages. If that were improved this would be a 5-star review. You can look through old reviews here and see that the first request for a "delete all spam" button was almost five years ago, but this essential feature is still not built in. A little more support from the developer would turn this from a semi-good plugin to a great one. It's evidently common for users to have long-running sites that have accumulated tens of thousands of spam messages, and the only options to remove them are either manually shifting 20 messages at a time to trash (which does have a delete all button - so the feature is almost implemented already) or directly accessing the site database to bulk delete from there. The latter isn't something you want to rely upon in a production environment.

This plugin does what it claims. The only issue is that there's no easy way to delete all the data stored by this plugin. Of course in the flamingo inbound admin page you can delete entries but if you have 10 000 entries it'll take forever to delete them and you'll have to do the work twice because firs you send the entries to trash then you have to delete them forever... Removing the plugin doesn't delete its data. Looking at the database, flamingo use _postmeta table and I gave up trying to delete its data via phpmyadmin. Your database will gain weight and it'll be almost impossible to clean it. I'm looking forward to give 5 stars once this major issue will be solved.