Re: Question

@j2dw – your question is closed to replies, hence this new topic. You said:

1. If I am using the CiviCRM WordPress plugin, do I still need an API key?

2. How do I find the API key?

3. What are the plans to update this plugin?

4. Can it only create or can it also update in the case of someone submitting a form twice, for example.

1. If this plugin and CiviCRM are on the same WordPress site then you don’t need an API key. Keys are required if you want to connect to CiviCRM on a different server (which does not have to be WordPress).

2. The Site Key is in your civicrm.settings.php file – see https://docs.civicrm.org/sysadmin/en/latest/setup/site-key/

For the User Key, first create a user to handle these form submissions, install the ‘API Key’ extension (https://civicrm.org/extensions/api-key) then copy the API key from that user.

3. It has been updated a few times but the purpose is quite specific: it takes a Contact Form 7 submission and sends it to a CiviCRM API call of your choosing. Providing it does that, there are unlikely to be many updates.

4. That depends on the API call you choose. For more complex processing, consider using the CiviCRM Form Processor extension