{"id":8098,"date":"2013-01-11T22:25:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T22:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/?p=8098"},"modified":"2013-01-11T22:44:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T22:44:39","slug":"send-username-contact-form-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/send-username-contact-form-7\/affordablewebsitestips\/tutorials","title":{"rendered":"Send username Contact Form 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many WordPress websites include user registration and login functionality, and it's nice to include the username of the person submitting the form. In this tutorial I will show you how to have the username automatically send with a Contact Form 7 form submission.  If you don't know what Contact Form 7<\/a> is, it's a popular WordPress plugin that allows you to create custom email forms on your WordPress website.<\/p>\n

Contact Form 7 has what are called 'Special Mail Tags<\/a>' built in to the plugin. The user optionally enters these special mail tags into the 'Message body' section of the Contact Form 7 admin when creating and editing custom forms. In the tutorial below I will show you how to add a new custom 'Special Mail Tag' allowing you to include the logged in username in the form message.<\/p>\n

Creating a custom 'username' Special Mail Tag in Contact Form 7<\/h3>\n
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  1. Log into WordPress and make sure you have the Contact Form 7 plugin installed.<\/li>\n
  2. Click on 'Plugins'.<\/li>\n
  3. Click on 'Edit' under the 'Contact Form 7' plugin.<\/li>\n
  4. Click on the link 'contact-form-7\/modules\/special-mail-tags.php' on the right side of the page.<\/li>\n
  5. Somewhere in the source code enter this code snippet:
     PHP | <\/td><\/td> copy code |<\/td>?<\/td> <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
    01<\/td>
    <\/pre><\/td><\/tr>
    02<\/td>
    add_filter(<\/span> 'wpcf7_special_mail_tags'<\/span>,<\/span> 'wpcf7_special_mail_tag_userdata'<\/span>,<\/span> 10<\/span>,<\/span> 2<\/span> )<\/span>;<\/span><\/pre><\/td><\/tr>
    03<\/td>
     <\/pre><\/td><\/tr>
    04<\/td>
    function<\/span> wpcf7_special_mail_tag_userdata(<\/span> $output<\/span>,<\/span> $name<\/span> )<\/span> {<\/span><\/pre><\/td><\/tr>
    05<\/td>
     <\/pre><\/td><\/tr>
    06<\/td>
     \/\/ For backwards compat.<\/span><\/pre><\/td><\/tr>
    07<\/td>
     $name<\/span> =<\/span> preg_replace<\/span>(<\/span> '\/^wpcf7\\.\/'<\/span>,<\/span> '_'<\/span>,<\/span> $name<\/span> )<\/span>;<\/span><\/pre><\/td><\/tr>
    08<\/td>
     <\/pre><\/td><\/tr>
    09<\/td>
     global<\/span> $current_user<\/span>;<\/span><\/pre><\/td><\/tr>
    10<\/td>
     <\/pre><\/td><\/tr>
    11<\/td>
     if<\/span> (<\/span> 'user_login'<\/span> ==<\/span> $name<\/span> )<\/span><\/pre><\/td><\/tr>
    12<\/td>
     $output<\/span> =<\/span> $current_user<\/span>-><\/span>user_login<\/span>;<\/span><\/pre><\/td><\/tr>
    13<\/td>
     <\/pre><\/td><\/tr>
    14<\/td>
     return<\/span> $output<\/span>;<\/span><\/pre><\/td><\/tr>
    15<\/td>
    }<\/span><\/pre><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div><\/pre><\/li>\n
  6. Click the 'Update File' button.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Make a form include the username of the logged in user<\/h3>\n
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    1. Click on the 'Contact' tab.<\/li>\n
    2. From the list of 'Contact Form 7' forms, click the one you want to edit so that the username sends with the form data.<\/li>\n
    3. Enter the tag [user_login] somewhere in your 'Message body' field, and it will automatically be replaced with the username of the person sending the form, if they are logged in.\n
      Example:<\/strong> \"Username: [user_login] \" <\/li>\n
    4. Click the 'Save' button.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
      Many WordPress websites include user registration and login functionality, and it’s nice to include the username of the person submitting the form. In this tutorial I will show you how to have the username automatically send with a Contact Form 7 form submission.  If you don’t know what Contact Form 7 is, it’s a popular WordPress plugin that allows you to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285,143,4,492,6],"tags":[312,503,69],"class_list":["post-8098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-affordablewebsitestips","category-internet-tips","category-tutorials","category-websites-2","category-wordpress","tag-contact-form-7","tag-username","tag-wordpress-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8098"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8100,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8098\/revisions\/8100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}