Add custom text to Contact Form 7 via shortcode WordPress

Question

I'm using Contact Fom 7 and need to add a custom text somewhere to the form.

I'm getting the custom text with PHP from a subfield of Advanced Custom Fields. I know, that there is an extra Plugin called "Contact Form 7 Dynamic Text Extension" for that (https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-dynamic-text-extension/). But because the text is in a subfield, I cant use it.

So, what I need is a text in an hidden input field or in the generated e-mail of the form.

What I thought was a custom parameter in the CF7 shortcode itself. Like this:

[contact-form-7 id="1" title="Title" customtext="Text"]

Is that possible?

Or is it possible to use the title and add it to an input field or in the e-mail of the form?

Answer 1

you have a field named “customtext” for the destination email address:

[text* customtext]

To get the default value from shortcode attributes, add the default:shortcode_attr option to the form-tag:

[text* customtext default:shortcode_attr]

Then, add an attribute with the same name as the field (“customtext” in this case) into the shortcode for the contact form:

[contact-form-7 id="123" title="Contact Form" customtext="xxxxxx@example.com"]

you need to register the attribute beforehand.

Add the following code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file:

add_filter( 'shortcode_atts_wpcf7', 'custom_shortcode_atts_wpcf7_filter', 10, 3 );

function custom_shortcode_atts_wpcf7_filter( $out, $pairs, $atts ) {
    $my_attr = 'customtext;

if ( isset( $atts[$my_attr] ) ) {
    $out[$my_attr] = $atts[$my_attr];
}

return $out;
}

Referance link : https://contactform7.com/getting-default-values-from-shortcode-attributes/