Ryan Wilson Lead Inbox for Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 stores nothing. If your mail server hiccups, a mailbox fills up, or a DNS change breaks sending, the enquiry is gone forever — silently. Site owners have lost weeks of enquiries this way without ever knowing.

Ryan Wilson Lead Inbox is the safety net. It keeps a copy of every submission and a visible record of every email your site sends, right inside WordPress:

• Every CF7 submission stored — Each Contact Form 7 submission is saved to a unified inbox in your admin the moment it is submitted, including submissions whose notification email then fails, and submissions the form flags as spam. Nothing depends on the email arriving.
• A send log for your site’s email — Every email WordPress sends is recorded with its recipient, subject, and outcome. When sending breaks, you see FAILED entries the day it starts — not a month later when the phone stops ringing.
• Search and review any time — A clean inbox with search, filters (New / Read / Spam-flagged), a full detail view of every field the visitor sent, and an unread count on the admin menu.
• Dashboard widget — The latest leads and this week’s mail failures, on your WordPress dashboard.
• Zero footprint on your site — No forms, buttons, or shortcodes are added to your pages. The plugin watches quietly and stores copies; your theme sees nothing new.
• Private by design — Stored data lives only in your site’s own database. The plugin sends nothing anywhere: no external requests, no tracking, no phone-home. The mail log stores recipients and subjects, never message bodies.

Ryan Wilson Lead Inbox is free and complete as-is. An optional one-time lifetime license (no subscription, ever) will add support for more form plugins, instant failure alerts, resend/replay, export, and webhook/CRM push.

Also from Ryan Wilson Projects: PulpitKit — a free all-in-one toolkit for small-church websites: sermon library with podcast feed, recurring events, and a livestream panel. One plugin family, one maker.

Privacy

This plugin stores personal data (form submissions, which may include names, email addresses, messages, IP addresses, and browser user agents) in the site’s own database so the site owner can recover enquiries. It also logs outgoing email recipients and subjects. No data is sent to the plugin’s authors or any third party. Site owners are responsible for their own privacy notices and retention; the plugin contributes a suggested passage to the WordPress privacy policy generator and lets owners delete entries and control uninstall cleanup.