Contact Form 7 Archives

Contact Form 7 Thank You Page

By Babbler | December 14, 2015

To redirect to a thank you page add this to the “Additional Settings” field: on_sent_ok: “location = ‘http://example.com/’;” This can be useful to track form submissions via Google Analytics and to invite the visitor to stay on the site

Track Contact Form 7 Submissions using Google Analytics

By Babbler | November 6, 2013 |

In additional settings field of Contact From 7 admin: on_sent_ok: “_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ‘Contact Form’, ‘Submit’]);” Google Analytics will track it as an event with Contact Form as the Category, and Submit as the Action. In Google Analytics go to Content > Events > Overview

Contact Form 7 Stop Email Being Sent

By Babbler | February 8, 2013 |

To prevent the form sending its email use this in themes functions.php within a function: (might no longer work with WP3.5) // stop email being sent $wpcf7->skip_mail = 1; or put this in the additional settings field of the form demo_mode: on

Contact Form 7 Change Action URL

By Babbler | February 8, 2013 |

To send form output to a different file put this in themes functions.php. This code also limits this change to page 434 and adds the $wpcf7->skip_mail function to stop the form sending an email. //change action url of contact form add_filter(‘wpcf7_form_action_url’, ‘wpcf7_custom_form_action_url’); function wpcf7_custom_form_action_url($url) { global $post, $wpcf7; if ($post->ID === 434) { //its the…

Load Contact Form 7 JS Scripts Only When Needed

By Babbler | February 8, 2013 |

Contact Form 7 loads its scripts on all pages which uses memory and increases load time. Add this to functions.php to only load scripts when required: // only load js scripts for wpcf7 on contact and join pages // Add the Contact Form 7 scripts on selected pages add_action( ‘wp_print_scripts’, ‘my_deregister_javascript’, 100 ); function my_deregister_javascript()…

Contact Form 7 -Country Drop Down List

By Babbler | January 24, 2013 |

This short code gives a dropdown list of countries for Contact Form 7: [select country “—–” “Afghanistan” “Albania” “Algeria” “American Samoa” “Andorra” “Angola” “Anguilla” “Antigua and Barbuda” “Argentina” “Armenia” “Armenia” “Aruba” “Australia” “Austria” “Azerbaijan” “Azerbaijan” “Bahamas” “Bahrain” “Bangladesh” “Barbados” “Belarus” “Belgium” “Belize” “Benin” “Bermuda” “Bhutan” “Bolivia” “Bonaire” “Bosnia and Herzegovina” “Botswana” “Bouvet Island (Bouvetoya)” “Brazil”…

Contact Form 7 Field Shortcodes

By Babbler | July 26, 2012 |

Text Field: [text* business 64/100 id:business class:business watermark”business”] ‘text’ – field type ‘*’ – required ‘business’ – field name ’64/100′ – size/max characters ‘id’ – css id ‘class’ – css class ‘watermark’ – use default as watermark ‘ “business” ‘ – default Text Area: [text* business 100×5 id:business class:business watermark”business”] ‘100×5’ – columnsxrows. x5 =…

Hide Contactform 7 from editor role

By Babbler | April 26, 2012 |

In wp-config.php: /* limit access to contactform 7 */ define( ‘WPCF7_ADMIN_READ_CAPABILITY’, ‘manage_options’ ); define( ‘WPCF7_ADMIN_READ_WRITE_CAPABILITY’, ‘manage_options’ );