EasyWP: How to set up WordPress Contact Form 7
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How to configure the Contact Form 7
How to configure SMTP in WordPress
How to configure the Contact Form 7
2. Go to the Plugins menu >> Add New:
3. Search for the Contact Form 7 plugin and click on the Install Now button when you find it:
- Your Name (Required)
- Your Email (Required)
- Subject
- Your Message
- “Submit” button
- To - all submitted forms will be sent to the email address you specified here.
- From - the server will be using this email address to send your contact form emails. The email address should belong to the website domain, e.g. contact@yourdomain.com.
While configuring the Contact Form with the third-party mailbox, you may receive an error message:
- Subject - in this field, you can specify the subject of the contact form email. If not filled out, the subject submitted by the visitor is used.
- Additional headers - here you can specify any additional email headers which will be added to the contact form email. For example, the Reply-To field added by default allows you to respond at the visitor's email address by pressing the Reply button.
- File attachments - you can enable attachments for your contact form so that the visitor can send you files in the submitted email.
How to configure SMTP in WordPress
- From Email Address - set your email address that will be used to send all emails from your website.
- From Name - the text that will be used in the From field of the email.
- SMTP Host - outgoing mail server (e.g. smtp.live.com for Yahoo Mail or mail.privateemail.com for Private Email service).
- Type of Encryption - choose either TLS or SSL.
- SMTP Port - 587 if you set TLS encryption and 465 if you set SSL.
- SMTP Authentication - Yes.
- SMTP username - your full email address, the same you put in From Email Address field.
- SMTP Password - the password from the email address in the SMTP username field.
That's it!