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Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
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Update: If you are using WordPress 2.7 or greater, you can find the admin page under [Tools] – [Contact Form 7].
[contact-form ...] code and paste it into the content of any posts you need the contact form.You can use “tags” in several fields. Contact Form 7’s “tag” is formed string enclosed in square brackets [].
A tag used in form content is replaced by HTML form control element like <input> or <textarea>.
A tag used in mail template is replaced by user input of element with the same name.
In this picture, a tag [textarea your-message ...] inserted in form content is replaced by <textarea> tag with name="your-message" attribute.
When a visitor input into this <textarea> field and submit, Contact Form 7 generates a mail based on mail template. Since message body field has [your-message] tag, this tag replaced by the user input message.
You can use the following types of tags in form content.
| Type | Replaced by | Validated as |
|---|---|---|
| text | <input type="text" /> |
Any text |
| text* | <input type="text" /> |
Any text / Required |
<input type="text" /> |
Email address | |
| email* | <input type="text" /> |
Email address / Required |
| textarea | <textarea> </textarea> |
Any text |
| textarea* | <textarea> </textarea> |
Any text / Required |
| select | <select> </select> |
— |
<select> </select> |
— | |
| checkbox | <input type="checkbox" /> ... |
— |
<input type="checkbox" /> ... |
— | |
| radio | <input type="radio" /> ... |
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| captchac | <img /> |
CAPTCHA See How to use CAPTCHA |
| captchar | <input type="text" /> |
|
| submit | <input type="submit" /> |
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The syntax of tag is not so easy. You can use Generate Tag menu under Form textarea to make a tag you need.
I show you some examples of tags.
[text your-name 40/100 "John Smith"]
This tag is replaced with:
<input type="text" name="your-name" size="40" maxlength="100" value="John Smith" />
[email* your-email 60/ id:email]
<input type="text" name="your-email" id="email" size="60" />
[textarea your-message 80x15 "Write message here."]
<textarea name="your-message" cols="80" rows="15">Write message here.</textarea>
[select your-country "China" "India" "other"]
<select name="your-country">
<option value="China">China</option>
<option value="India">India</option>
<option value="other">other</option>
</select>I wrote about tag syntax.
1. You need Akismet plugin. If you have not activated it yet, activate it first.
2. Open Contact Form 7’s admin page and edit Form text area as:
akismet:author option to the tag of field which requires sender’s name.[text* your-name akismet:author]akismet:author_email option to the tag of field which requires sender’s email address.[email* your-email akismet:author_email]akismet:author_url option to the tag of field which requires sender’s URL.[text your-url akismet:author_url]Once you have activated the Akismet plugin and at least one of the akismet: options is set, Contact Form 7 will send all of a sender’s input as well as any other information related to input activity to the Akismet server. Akismet will then judge whether this input is likely to be spam.
When Akismet judges a message as spam, Contact Form 7 sends no mail and shows a response message with an orange border line (the third example in the picture below).
To make sure the spam filtering is working, send a message with “viagra-test-123” as the sender’s name. If the test is a success, the message will be judged as spam.
[select]
[select+], [checkbox], [checkbox+] and [radio]
default: and label-first options added.select+ and checkbox+ tag types removed. multiple and exclusive options added.include_blank option.acceptance tag added.