How to Set Contact Form 7 on WordPress

WordPress Contact form

This post will show you how to setup contact form 7 on a WordPress site. With a contact form, a site user can send an email message directly through the contact form.

In your WordPress admin dashboard click on Plugin > Add new, search for contact form 7, install and activate the plugin as shown below

click on ‘Contact’ from the left hand side and select ‘Add New’

In the contact form, input the name of the form in the form title section, you can insert any other needed field in the body by just clicking on the field i.e URL, tel, number, date etc. You can make a firled option using (optional) or compulsory using *. Scrol down and click on save

Toggle to the Mail section, you may want to customize the Mail section, for instance under ‘From’ you can replace ‘[_site_title] admin@techsmansion.com’ with ‘admin@techsmansion.com (your admin email)’ so from will only show the admin email instead of site tile and site admin email. You can also remove ‘[_site_title]’ under subject and keep only “[your-subject]” so the subject will only display the subject provided by the user in the form instead of site title and sub. Scroll down and click on save.

Toggle to the messages area, you can customized the ‘Sender’s message was sent successfully’ section to your own customized message i.e ‘Thank you for contacting Techs Mansion, we will get in touch with you very soon’.

Save your changes. Copy the shortcode and past it in the page you want to form to appear.

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