Title: Flamingo Author: Rock Lobster Inc. Published: May 5, 2012 Last modified: December 1, 2025 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/flamingo/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=544829) ![](https://ps.w.org/flamingo/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=1540977) # Flamingo By [Rock Lobster Inc.](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rocklobsterinc/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/flamingo.2.6.1.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flamingo/) ## Description Flamingo is a message storage plugin originally created for [Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/), which doesn’t store submitted messages. After activation of the plugin, you’ll find **Flamingo** on the WordPress admin screen menu. All messages through contact forms are listed there and are searchable. With Flamingo, you no longer need to worry about losing important messages due to mail server issues or misconfiguration in mail setup. For more detailed information, please refer to the [Contact Form 7 documentation page](https://contactform7.com/save-submitted-messages-with-flamingo/). #### Privacy Notices This plugin stores submission data collected through contact forms, which may include the submitters’ personal information, in the database on the server that hosts the website. ## Installation 1. Upload the entire `flamingo` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory. 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/00655133aac26f5bf75c73c0e19b965aea6a8758fe43d0899a529bb25c9a6d08? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works Really Well](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-really-well-283/)󠁿 [nolanrichardson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nolanrichardson/) October 2, 2025 Its a great addition to contact form 7 and much needed if you don’t have your email server setup yet. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d5d85d79f79baba4f5b9a619c51000a67c90c4a228473a9b3d30773859ec200e? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Only works with PHP sendmail, not external SMTP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/only-works-with-php-sendmail-not-external-smtp/)󠁿 [skylabb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/skylabb/) January 5, 2025 5 replies This plugin only works with contact forms using PHP mail. It doesn’t seem to work with an external SMTP mail server. I tested it out and there were no messages collected in DB. Also there’s no option to add more email addresses under Contact Book tab which shows only the users already registered in your WP site. So this feature is useless. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a0b24aa6e6580160bf6190cdad98fc1049647f85d230e5585f88e19e5efe47f3? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great! (But has a minor bug)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-but-has-a-minor-bug/)󠁿 [allamehw](https://profiles.wordpress.org/allamehw/) November 8, 2024 This is a great tool, especially with its integration into the Contact Form 7 plugin. However, there’s a minor bug when exporting non-Latin characters, such as Persian. It seems the encoding is set to Western by default. Switching to UTF-8 encoding should resolve the issue. Thanks! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/abdb95258d9ed519a15a979174687e76f1ae54aa436f5e319c3730fe5ec420d1? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Just what i needed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-what-i-needed-1296/)󠁿 [germanfriend](https://profiles.wordpress.org/germanfriend/) December 6, 2023 Really good for storing messages ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/27793587fbb863e5997f9ca1775b1c110c416d5e178d15c32cca97a687df9639? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Performance](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-68/)󠁿 [sionline](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sionline/) June 2, 2023 Sending contact forms takes usually 3s.With Flamingo active and 30k records in db the time is much greater, repeatable 15s which is unacceptable. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d7d68297b2f4d3c5a89800d4c9bf2631f5d8f1a811469efad4c92de044a45262? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Ужасный плагин!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/%d1%83%d0%b6%d0%b0%d1%81%d0%bd%d1%8b%d0%b9-%d0%bf%d0%bb%d0%b0%d0%b3%d0%b8%d0%bd-8/)󠁿 [Mario62rus](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mario62rus/) February 3, 2023 Ни какого нормального функционала, все неудобно и примитивно! Никогда и никому не советую его использовать, есть нормальные варианты. Одна ценность – связь с Akismet. [ Read all 118 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flamingo/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Flamingo” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Rock Lobster Inc. ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rocklobsterinc/) * [ Takayuki Miyoshi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/takayukister/) * [ DigitalCube Inc. ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/megumithemes/) * [ Umar Draz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/itpixelz/) “Flamingo” has been translated into 44 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/flamingo/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Flamingo” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/flamingo) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/flamingo/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/flamingo/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/flamingo/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/flamingo/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 2.6.1 * Updates Node modules. * Confirmed WordPress 6.9 compatibility. #### 2.6 * Bumps up the minimum required WordPress version to 6.7. * Fixes errors reported by PCP. * Performs a tune-up for the cron job scheduling. #### 2.5 * Bumps up the minimum required WordPress version to 6.4. * Uses `wp_json_encode()` instead of `json_encode()`. * Uses `get_views_links()`. * Uses null coalescing operators. ## Meta * Version **2.6.1** * Last updated **4 months ago** * Active installations **800,000+** * WordPress version ** 6.7 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.9.4** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Languages * [Albanian](https://sq.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Arabic](https://ar.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Catalan](https://ca.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Chinese (China)](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Croatian](https://hr.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Czech](https://cs.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Danish](https://da.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Dutch (Belgium)](https://nl-be.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [English (Australia)](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [English (Canada)](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [English (New Zealand)](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Finnish](https://fi.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [French (Canada)](https://fr-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Galician](https://gl.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [German (Austria)](https://de-at.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [German (Switzerland)](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Hebrew](https://he.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Hungarian](https://hu.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Italian](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Japanese](https://ja.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Lithuanian](https://lt.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Norwegian (Bokmål)](https://nb.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Norwegian (Nynorsk)](https://nn.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Persian](https://fa.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Polish](https://pl.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Portuguese (Brazil)](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Portuguese (Portugal)](https://pt.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Romanian](https://ro.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Slovak](https://sk.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Spanish (Argentina)](https://es-ar.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Spanish (Colombia)](https://es-co.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Spanish (Ecuador)](https://es-ec.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Spanish (Venezuela)](https://ve.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), [Turkish](https://tr.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/), and [Ukrainian](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/flamingo) * Tags * [bird](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bird/)[contact](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/contact/) [crm](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/crm/)[mail](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/mail/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.2 out of 5 stars. * [ 73 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flamingo/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 20 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flamingo/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 9 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flamingo/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 9 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flamingo/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 7 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flamingo/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flamingo/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flamingo/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Rock Lobster Inc. ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rocklobsterinc/) * [ Takayuki Miyoshi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/takayukister/) * [ DigitalCube Inc. ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/megumithemes/) * [ Umar Draz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/itpixelz/) ## Support Issues resolved in last two months: 0 out of 1 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flamingo/) ## 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