Contact Form CFDB7 fills the storage gap that ships with Contact Form 7 by writing every submission to its own table, db7_forms. Each row carries the form ID, the submission timestamp, and the entire submitted payload serialised in a single column. The default CFDB7 admin shows one form at a time as a paginated list with submissions decoded back into columns, which works for low-volume single-form sites and starts to slow down once a site runs CFDB7 across many forms.

SleekView Charts reads db7_forms directly and parses the serialised payload into queryable columns. A KPI counts submissions in the last seven days. A horizontal bar groups submissions per form ID, with the form title resolved from wpcf7_contact_form posts. A donut splits submissions across a chosen field (subject, department, plan tier). An area chart tracks daily volume across the date range so a stalled form shows up as a flat line on the dashboard.

The plugin keeps capturing submissions and the CFDB7 admin keeps working for per-form drilldowns. SleekView Charts adds the cross-form dashboard layer that CFDB7 doesn't ship: which forms are actually active, when submissions arrive, and how field values distribute, all on one screen.

Contact Form CFDB7 solves the single biggest weakness of Contact Form 7: that submissions vanish into email and never persist on the site. It does that with a clean approach, one table holding every submission across every form on the site. The trade-off is that CFDB7's own admin is intentionally minimal.

It shows one form at a time with the payload decoded into a list, and that's where the built-in interface stops. Sites running CFDB7 across many forms (contact, demo request, support intake, partnership inquiry, careers) end up scrolling between per-form lists or writing SQL to ask basic questions about the whole installation. SleekView Charts reads db7_forms once and answers those questions on a single dashboard.

Cross-form volume becomes a bar, daily traffic becomes an area, field-value distribution becomes a donut, this-week's volume becomes a KPI. CFDB7 keeps doing what it does well, capturing submissions reliably with no third-party dependencies. SleekView Charts adds the analytics surface that turns a storage table into a workspace.