WP Contact Form 7 Default Settings

WP Contact Form 7 Default Settings post talks about the default form settings, when you fist install the plugin and more.

Last Updated: October 28, 2020

Latest News: Updated the documentation.

Contact Form 7 version 5.3 changelog

• Block Editor: Introduces the contact form selector block type.
• Renames the ‘images’ directory to ‘assets’.
• New filter hook: wpcf7_form_tag_date_option.
• Date: Makes all DateTime date formats available for min and max options.
• Date: Converts the default value to Y-m-d date format string.
• Disallowed list: Deprecates the wpcf7_submission_is_blacklisted filter hook in favor of wpcf7_submission_has_disallowed_words.
• Accessibility: Sets the aria-describedby attribute for invalid fields.
• Default form template: Removes the “(required)” labels from required fields. Adds “(optional)” to optional fields instead.
• Default mail template: Uses site-related special mail-tags.

WordPress has many different contact forms available for you to download. Contact Form 7 is one of the old veteran contact form plugins available in the repository. It has a long history and a well established reputation with millions of active installations worldwide. It is a simple straight forward contact form plugin for you to manage but you can also create some very complex forms for free. You could say that you have a bit of both worlds in a contact form plugin. The ability to create very simple forms and the ability to create very complex forms.

The default form created by the plugin when you first install and activate it, has the following default fields added.

Default Contact Form Fields:

• Your Name
• Your Email
• Subject
• Message

What you need:

• Contact Form 7 plugin

Contact Form Tutorial List:

• Default Settings
• Adding File Upload Tag

Recommended Plugins/Extensions

• Advanced CF7 DB

WP Contact Form 7 Default Settings

Step 1 ) Go to Contact -> Contact Forms to edit or start adding new forms. The plugin only has 3 admin menus to manage as illustrated in the image below. This makes contact form 7 easy to manage.

Admin Menu Features

• Contact Forms
• Add New
• Integration

Step 2 ) Go to Contact -> Contact Forms -> Form tab as illustrated in the image below, to view and edit the form fields. It is very straightforward to understand what each field does. The details below provides some information about the fields.

Form Fields

• <label> Your Name (required) = This is the label field that is displayed in the form.
• [text* your-name] </label> = This is the empty text field required that is displayed in the form. What this means is, anyone submitting the form from your site must fill in this field. Or else they will receive an error message.
• The form tag [submit “Send”] is a straight forward submit button that is not surrounded by label tags.

Step 2-a ) The following image shows you the shortcode used to display the contact form, [contact-form-7 id="36" title="Contact form 1"].

Note: Your shortcode  ID and Title will be different.

Step 2-b ) The following image shows you the default contact form displayed on the site. These fields are the fields edited in the previous Step 2 ) above. 

Mail Settings

Step 3 ) Go to Contact -> Contact Forms -> Mail tab as illustrated in the image below, to edit the mail tab. The following is a list of mail fields you can edit.

Mail Fields Settings

• To
• From
• Subject
• Additional Headers = The following entry Reply-To: [your-email] allows the recipient to reply to the email address that was entered in the form by the sender.

Step 3-a ) The following image allows you to edit the Message Body. This is the message the recipient sees when they receive the email.

Message Body Settings

• Message Body = you can add any message you want as long as you use the proper mail-tags.
• Exclude lines with blank mail-tags from output
• Use HTML content type

Step 3-b ) The following image allows you to edit the following options in the Mail tab.

Extra Mail Settings

• File Attachments = Note: The following documentation adding-file-upload-tag-wp-contact-form-7 can help you.
• Mail (2) = Note: The following documentation setting-up-mail/#mail-2 can help you.
• Click on Save button when you complete the settings.

Messages Settings

Step 4 ) Go to Contact -> Contact Forms -> Messages tab to edit the following messages. You can add any text you want to each message. However the default messages added by the plugin are clear, precise and make sense. So you really don’t have to make any changes here.

Messages Fields Settings

• Sender’s message failed to send
• Validation errors occurred
• Submission was referred to as spam
• There are terms that the sender must accept
• There is a field that the sender must fill in
• There is a field with input that is longer than the maximum allowed length
• There is a field with input that is shorter than the minimum allowed length
• Date format that the sender entered is invalid
• Date is earlier than minimum limit
• Date is later than maximum limit
• Uploading a file fails for any reason
• Uploaded file is not allowed for file type
• Uploaded file is too large
• Uploading a file fails for PHP error
• Number format that the sender entered is invalid
• Number is smaller than minimum limit
• Number is larger than maximum limit
• Sender doesn’t enter the correct answer to the quiz
• Email address that the sender entered is invalid
• URL that the sender entered is invalid
• Telephone number that the sender entered is invalid

Additional Settings

Step 5 ) The following image Additional Settings allows you to add extra settings to each form separately. Click additional-settings link to learn more. Make sure you click on Save button when you complete the settings.

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That’s how simple it is to set up a contact form in your site using Contact Form 7 plugin.

If you have any questions please let me know.

Enjoy.