Ive done this before using both contact form 7 and Grunion Contact Form plugins, when using contact form 7 i created a new tag to send the email to the post author: //contact form 7 author email wpcf7_add_shortcode(‘author_email’, ‘wpcf7_expert_email_shortcode_handler’, true); function wpcf7_expert_email_shortcode_handler($tag) { if (!is_array($tag)) return ”; $name = $tag[‘name’]; if (empty($name)) return ”; global … Read more
Have you installed any other plugins? Also check in header.php that there is wp_head(); function in <head>wp_head(); </head> tag and wp_footer(); before </body> tags ends
Take a look at Contact Form 7 Dynamic Text Extension
The CF7 plugin uses WordPress built-in wp_mail() function which itself uses the PHPMailer class (github repo). The PHPMail github documentation states, The PHP mail() function usually sends via a local mail server, typically fronted by a sendmail binary on Linux, BSD and OS X platforms, however, Windows usually doesn’t include a local mail server; PHPMailer’s … Read more
You are actually closer in your first attempt. My recommendation would be to create a folder called “scripts” in the WP root and put your PHP script files in here as well as your attachment(s). You will then need to declare the full path in your action attribute as the script does not now share … Read more
I also (ab?)use comments for “private” replies to posts, like product inquiries, suggestions, answers to contests, … The advantage is that they are stored in the database and displayed in the interface without extra code from me (sometimes I add a filter to improve the formatting). Spam filtering and e-mail notifications are easy extras. I … Read more
A Must Use plugin could do the work. This is just an outline and has to be fully tested: add_shortcode( ‘global_form’, ‘shortcode_wpse_87634’ ); function shortcode_wpse_87634() { // Main site, ID=1, that has the form switch_to_blog( 1 ); // Do your stuff $my_stuff = something(); // maybe do_shortcode // Back to original site restore_current_blog(); // Return … Read more
The plugin WP-Mail-SMTP has always worked for me. This is with the Contact Form 7 and many others as it replaces the WP Mail functions directly. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/
No need to write any code, Contact form 7 has features of Additional Headers in the Mail section. In that you just need to write the email’s header inside the Additional headers textbox in Mail(Second Tab) section. Put this inside the Additional Headers textbox. Cc: [friend1-email], [friend2-email], [friend3-email], [friend4-email], [friend5-email] OR You can alter the … Read more
See this example on how to create and parse the shortcode in the contact form 7 to use it add [current_url] add_action( ‘wpcf7_init’, ‘wpcf7_add_form_tag_current_url’ ); function wpcf7_add_form_tag_current_url() { // Add shortcode for the form [current_url] wpcf7_add_form_tag( ‘current_url’, ‘wpcf7_current_url_form_tag_handler’, array( ‘name-attr’ => true ) ); } // Parse the shortcode in the frontend function wpcf7_current_url_form_tag_handler( $tag … Read more