Email Addon for Contact Form 7

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Every time someone submits your Contact Form 7 form, they receive an email from your website. Unfortunately, the default Contact Form 7 emails are functional but plain, making it difficult to create a memorable first impression.

Email Addon for Contact Form 7 helps you replace those basic emails with professionally designed, responsive email templates that reflect your brand, improve readability, and provide a better experience for both your visitors and your team.

Whether you’re sending contact confirmations, support responses, enquiry acknowledgements, quote requests, or administrator notifications, you can create emails that look polished on every device, all from your WordPress dashboard.

Why You Need It

Here’s the thing most people miss. Your website is part of your brand. Your emails should be too.

Every confirmation email is an opportunity to reassure visitors that their enquiry has been received, build trust, and present your business professionally.

A few situations where that bites:

• Your contact form fires off a plain, styleless confirmation to every new enquiry
• Your thank-you email should feel like your brand, but instead it reads like a system alert
• Admin notifications are a wall of run-together text that’s a pain to scan
• You want branded, mobile-friendly emails but have zero time to hand-code HTML
• You need different email designs for different forms and don’t want to touch code to do it

Normally, fixing any of that means writing and testing HTML email yourself (which is genuinely miserable) or paying a developer to do it. This plugin lets you handle the whole thing from the dashboard you’re already in every day.

How It Works

Getting a professional email out of any Contact Form 7 form takes about a minute. Here’s the whole process.

Install the Plugin: Install and activate Contact Form 7 and Email Addon for Contact Form 7.
Choose a Template: Select a responsive email template for your user confirmation and admin notification emails.
Customize Your Email: Personalize your email with your logo, content, images, buttons, links, colours, and form fields—no coding required.
Save & Go Live: Save your settings and start sending professional, branded email notifications automatically with every form submission.

That’s it. Your form now sends a fully responsive, branded email, and you never opened a code editor.

What You Get

Features marked [PRO] are part of the Pro version.

• 10+ responsive templates: Ready-made, mobile-friendly designs for both user and admin emails. Pick one and you’re most of the way there.
• One-step template selection: Choose the confirmation email design and the admin notification design in a single step, no digging through settings.
• Full customization, zero code: Change the words, swap the links, adjust the graphics and buttons.
• Control your form fields: Decide exactly which fields show up in the email and which don’t.
• Special mail tags on hand: The available mail tags sit right there in the plugin popup, so dropping in dynamic content is quick.
• Click-to-copy shortcode: Grab the shortcode you need in a single click.
• Renders well everywhere: Templates hold up cleanly across the major email clients, Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, with accessibility improved in this release.
• Ready for translation: Fully translatable and happy on multilingual sites.
• Built for current Contact Form 7: Works with version 5 and above.
• 18+ templates [PRO]: A larger library of professionally designed responsive designs.
• Live preview and test mode [PRO]: See the email exactly as it’ll land, and send yourself a test, before a real user ever gets it.
• Download as HTML [PRO]: Export any template to use in other tools or campaigns.
• Custom shortcode support [PRO]: Use custom shortcodes with auto-suggestion right inside your templates.
• Bring your own templates [PRO]: Upload and use your own designs through the plugin or theme method.
• Full template library [PRO]: Download as many additional ready-made templates as you want from our store.
• Priority support [PRO]: Email and phone help straight from the people who build the plugin.

What’s New In This Release

We’ve given the plugin a solid update:

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