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Setting Up Mail
Contact Form 7 allows you to edit mail templates very flexibly. You are able to edit not only the message body, but also message header fields. And you can manage HTML mail as well. In this article, I’ll show you the settings for each field and explain how to set up your mail with these [...]
Spam Filtering with Akismet
Today, spammers target everything. Your contact form is no exception. Contact Form 7 provides several ways to prevent spam, and cooperation with the Akismet spam filtering plugin is an important part of the prevention strategy. In this article, I’ll show you how to implement Akismet on your contact form.
Acceptance Checkbox
You may wish to allow users to submit your contact form only if they accept certain terms. In such cases, a form tag acceptance will be useful.
The process is simple. Just insert an acceptance tag into your form like this:
[acceptance accept-this] Check here if you accept these terms.
Due to JavaScript magic, users won’t be able [...]
Quiz
In order to distinguish a form submission by a computer program versus one from a human, and also to block them, you’ve been able to use CAPTCHAs with Contact Form 7. However, CAPTCHAs are hard to use in some cases. Some people have difficulty in answering CAPCHA, or simply dislike answering them. Managing CAPTCHA needs [...]
CAPTCHA
Contact Form 7 allows you to insert a CAPTCHA into your contact form to prevent bots from submitting forms. Contact Form 7 utilizes Really Simple CAPTCHA as its officially-sanctioned CAPTCHA module, so you will need to install the Really Simple CAPTCHA plugin before you use CAPTCHA in your form.
The rest of this article will explain [...]
File Uploading and Attachment
In this post, I will explain the file uploading and attachment feature of Contact Form 7. With this feature, you can allow your users to upload their files via your form, and then an email with attachments of the files is sent to you.
To set up, two steps are needed: 1) Add file uploading fields [...]
Checkboxes, Radio Buttons and Menus
Contact Form 7 provides several types of form tags for representing checkboxes, radio buttons and drop-down menus. In this article, I will show you detailed information about the usage and semantics of these form tags.
Text Fields
Text input fields are the most common factors of a contact form. As you may know, HTML has two types of elements for text input fields: <input type=”text”> for a single-line input; and <textarea> for multi-line input.
Contact Form 7 provides six types of form tags for representing these two types of HTML elements: text; text*; [...]
Tag Syntax
Contact Form 7 allows you to edit the templates of your contact forms and your mail (mail headers and message body) with various “tags.” In the terminology for Contact Form 7, tag means a tiny formed string of type enclosed in square brackets ([ ]).
Tags for forms and tags for mail look different from each [...]
Getting Started with Contact Form 7
This guide is an introduction to the Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress. Basic knowledge of WordPress administration is required. With various examples, this tutorial explains how to display a form on your page, and how to customize your forms and mail.