Adding Contact Form 7 in WordPress Blog
The only major gateway to contact with author is contact
form. This is essential part of any Blog or website. Through contact form a
visitors can write in details about various issues towards site owner. Actual
purpose of contact form to interact with Blog or site owner that supports the
reader to get help from site owner.
WordPress is a fantastic Content management platform
where a webmaster can easily add anything by the bless of plugins. There are
huge plugin available for WordPress so for adding contact form we can use
contact form plugin which is very easy to integrate. The most popular contact
form plugin name is Contact form 7 and this plugin is using zillions of
website. Even most of the professional WordPress ecommerce site using this to
get in touch with customer.
Through Contact form 7 we can create simple but
professional contact page in our WordPress blog. You can use it in your
database by enabling Flamingo plugin
and it is able to manage multiple contact forms at once. In addition you can
customize the form by applying simple CSS code like adding additional fields,
appearance of the form.
The Key Features of Contact Form 7
- You can manage Multiple contact forms.
- It is powered by Ajax submission.
- For resisting Spam CAPTCHA (word Verification) can be used.
- Popular Plugin Akismet spam filtering also support.
- For using in database Flamingo Plugin can be use.
- It supports almost all major languages.
How to set up Contact Form 7 plugin?
Step 1 Sign in to your WordPress
site and Go to Dashboard
Step 2 From Dashboard Click on
Plugins ->Add new
Step 3 Now write Contact form
7 in search box and click on Search
Plugins link.
Step 4 The plugin will display at
the top of the search result. So now simply click on Install Now link.
Step 5
After
installation click on Active plugin link and see the Contact form 7 plugin
appeared in left side Contact ->
Contact Forms of your WordPress Dashboard. Now do change necessary settings
for the plugin.
How to customize Contact form 7?
For editing and customizing contact form just go to WordPress Dashboard and from there click on Contact -> Contact Forms and under Contact form 1 click on Edit link.
You can customize the Contact form 7 according
to your own requirement. For adding an additional field click on different
options under General Tag.
- You can also add multiple contact for by using different email address.
- To enable CAPTCHA you have to enable Really Simple CAPTCHA plugin.
- For redirecting the message sender into Thank You page you have to add an extra code. So just create an Additional Setting field and add an additional code line like below
on_sent_ok: “location = ‘http://www.yourdomainname.com/thank-you/’;”
- If you want to show Contact form in multiple pages or posts then you have to add codes like below
[contact-form-7 id="4" title="contact form 1"]
Remember id may be different after installation in your
WordPress Site. You can easily add the contact form code in static pages or
Blog Posts. But I prefer static page for Contact form. Just follow the below
steps to integrate contact form.
Step 1 Sing in to your WordPress
account and go to Dashboard
Step 2 From Dashboard go to Pages ->Add New
Step 3 Now paste your contact
form code.
Its better to add some direction above the contact form
that how a visitors can contact through your contact form. There are many
plugin available for creating contact form so let me know what features
containing your contact form?
