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Log into WordPress and open Settings > Contact Form 7.
Update: It’s in Manage > Contact Form 7 since Contact Form 7 1.8.
Update: WordPress 2.7 moved the page to Tools > Contact Form 7.
Open the settings page for Contact Form 7, and then open the contact form you want to add.
Each contact form has its own tag, such as [contact-form 1 "My contact form"]. To insert the contact form into your post, copy the tag and paste it into the post content.
To add a field, add a tag to the Form textarea.
Each tag has a strict syntax, supporting several options (see Contact Form 7 Tag Syntax).
Learning the syntax might be difficult, but you can easily make a custom tag by using the tag generator instead. Click Generate Tag and simply select the options you’re interested in.
You need to add a new tag to the Mail fields. This tag should correspond to the tag in the Form you wish to include in the email. Thus, when you add a new form tag such as [text your-new-field], the corresponding email tag would be [your-new-field]. Only the second part of the tag (“your-new-field”, in this case) is needed for the email.
A tag in the Mail field will be replaced with the user’s input contained in a form field with the same name.
[foobar]. What’s this? I want to see the user’s input.See above. In this case, no form tag corresponds to the [foobar] email tag. A tag in the Mail field which has no corresponding tag in the Form will be left without replacement.
Simply edit the Subject field in the Mail section (not in the Form section).
Yes. You may place a contact form in a text widget as well.
No, this functionality is not yet supported.
There could be two causes for this. The first is actual mail server trouble, where email cannot be sent. In this case, the error message would be surrounded with a RED border line. Contact your server admin.
The second possible cause is that the form content is classified as spam by Akismet. In this case, the error message would be surrounded with a YELLOW border line.
There are really various reasons for server side problems, so I can’t explain exactly what yours is. But experiences of other users who solved their problem might be helpful for you.
Mario Vargas says he solved a mail-related problem with WP-Mail-SMTP plugin.
Showing the green border message means that the PHP function for sending the mail has certainly completed successfully. So if you can’t receive the mail, it’s highly possible that the mail has been kidnapped or killed after that.
If you can check the log of your mail server, it could give you some clues. Spam filter often causes this kind of problem.
This is most probably due to a conflict between plugins. Try deactivating all other plugins.
This may be caused due to invalid HTML, CSS, or Javascript. Please check your form page with a validator or debugging tool.
Useful tools:
Firebug — Firefox extension. Good for Javascript debugging.
XHTML-CSS Validator — A validator with a good UI.
Contact Form 7 has been translated into many languages. See if the languages folder contains a language file for your language.
The locale setting of Contact Form 7 follows the locale setting of WordPress. Once you change the WordPress locale to, Contact Form 7 is also changed. See how to change the WordPress locale here.
To use CAPTCHA, you need GD and FreeType library installed on your server. Also, the contact-form-7/captcha/tmp folder must be writable.
Contact Form 7 1.8 and later require wp-contents/uploads/wpcf7_captcha folder writable, instead of contact-form-7/captcha/tmp.
Update (2009/03/23): Contact Form 1.9.4 and later refers your upload folder setting in Settings > Miscellaneous menu for resolving the base directory for CAPTCHA’s temporary folder. So it may not use wp-contents/uploads/wpcf7_captcha. For example, when your upload folder is set “wp-content/myfiles”, CAPTCHA temp files will be created in wp-content/myfiles/wpcf7_captcha, so you need to make that folder writable.
This is a well-known issue caused by misusing the <label> element. Make sure you are using it correctly.
This is good:
[captchac your-captcha]
<label>Enter the code: [captchar your-captcha]</label>
This will not work correctly:
<label>[captchac your-captcha]
Enter the code: [captchar your-captcha]</label>
See this post.
File uploading and attachment with Contact Form 7
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