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Contact Form 7

DESCRIPTION:

The Contact Form 7 plugin allows for creating contact forms on a Wordpress site

INSTRUCTIONS:

Create a New Form

  1. On the dashboard menu, click on Contact to expand the full menu options for the Contact Form 7 plugin
  2. Select Add New
  3. Enter title for new form
  4. Add new field areas as needed following the format of the existing items. You can click on field types in the area above the form fields. Just keep the structure with label tags and so forth as noted below:

    contact form 7 form

  5. Click the Mail tab and modify the fields as needed for to and from email addresses, subject and the message body. The highlighted items in the message body shown below are the tokens for field names (ex. your-subject) and determine what values from the fields above are inserted into the email message.

    ccontact form 7 message body

  6. Change to the messages tab and modify any messages you want to customize such as verbiage returned when the sender’s message was sent successfully.
  7. Save changes

Modify email addresses notified of a form submission

  1. On the dashboard menu, click on Contact to expand the full menu options for the Contact Form 7 plugin
  2. Click on Contact Forms
  3. Hover the name of the form you wish to edit and click Edit on the links that display on hover
  4. Change to the Mail tab
  5. Update the “To” email address(es) as needed. If adding an additional email address, separate multiple emails with commas.
  6. Save changes
  7. We recommend performing a test form submission to ensure the new email address receives the emails.