An effective contact form is absolutely vital to any online business, and Contact Form 7 is a valuable and reliable tool for building forms. This is why CF7 is one of most downloaded WordPress plugins ever.
Using Contact form 7 you can easily create and manage your forms, adding all the most common fields like:
- Text field
- URL
- Telephone number
- Number (spinbox)
- Number (slider)
- Date
- Text area
- Drop-down menu
- Checkboxes
- Radio buttons
- Acceptance
- Quiz
- CAPTCHA
- File upload
- Submit button
CF7 is ideal both for quickly having a simple contact form on your site with no hassle, or for shaping a more complex form, with support for dates, acceptance and file upload, we have tons of possibilities.
Moreover, the plugin lets you fully customize the email that is sent when site users submit the form.
Mail options of Contact Form 7: Email message customization
- To: (the recipient of the contact form data, i.e. your email)
- From: The sender name and the sender email.
- Subject: The Subject of the mail.
- Additional headers
- File attachments
- Enable/disable the Use HTML content type option
- and finally the Message body
Contact Form 7, styling with ease your forms with CSS Hero
We know how stressful is having to design a functional and also beautiful, well styled form.
Start focusing on choosing the right fields for making the perfect form for your business; you will be able to visually style the form later with CSS Hero. A much more relaxing experience!
If you’ve ever used contact form 7 for WordPress you’ll know it’s not the best looking form plug-in. That’s functional, Yes but we it comes to style there is a lack of feature regarding the style.
Like we said, contact form 7 it’s a very good form creation tool but it’s not very easy to style it and you need to know CSS well.
CSS hero allows you to visually start in the same way you can style things with the Customizer in WordPress. If you never take a look at CSS hero in the past you’d like to get up to speed with it. We’re just gonna be taking a look at how to easily style contact form 7 so let’s just jump over to the CSS and take a look at how we can do all of that right.
If you use (or plan to use) this Plugin...CSS Hero can help you deeply and quickly customize the Contact Form 7 Plugin, solving some common issues like:
- How to customize fonts in the Contact Form 7 WordPress Plugin, to make font biggers or change typeface for titles and header texts
- How to change CSS background image on the Contact Form 7 WordPress Plugin and build background fades
- How to change colors and styles on Contact Form 7 WordPress Plugin