Custom Validation Message for Contact Form 7

Contact form 7 is widely used plugin now-a-days but it doesn’t allow to set specific validation message for each field. Not everyone is so technical that can code to set specific message.This plugin can help to set specific custom validation message for each field.

After activating plugin, a new tab will be displayed with the title “Custom Validation Messages” for each form where all the fields will be displayed. Admin can set here own validation message for each required field.

Demo Link

• Try a demo

Some of basic feature using this plugin:

• Plugin covers most of tags which are used in contact form 7.
• For email tag, also custom email confirmation validation message can be set.
• No required any technical knowledge for it.
• Plugin doens’t create any extra table so it will not load on database.
• Created using WordPress coding standard.

Plugin supports below fields:

• text (with min and max validation)
• email (with confirm email)
• URL
• tel
• date
• textarea (with min and max validation)
• drop-down menu
• checkboxes
• radio buttons

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Still you have any suggestion / feedback then let us know on [email protected].

To install “Custom Validation Message for CF7” using the built-in plugin installer:
1. Go to Plugins > Add New.
2. Type in “Custom Validation Message for CF7” in Search Plugins box or click a tag link below the screen.
3. Find the “Custom Validation Message for CF7” in the list.
4. Click Install Now to install the WordPress Plugin.
5. Click Activate to activate it.
6. Go to ‘Contact’ for list of Contact Forms..
7. Select any form from the list and new tab ‘Custom Validation’ will be displayed.
8. Set your custom validation message for each tag you have selected at form tab.

To install “Custom Validation Message for CF7” manually:
1. Download your WordPress Plugin to your desktop.
2. If downloaded as a zip archive, extract the Plugin folder to your desktop.
3. With your FTP program, upload the Plugin folder to the wp-content/plugins folder in your WordPress directory online.
4. Go to Plugins screen and find the “Custom Validation Message for CF7” in the list.
5. Click Activate to activate it.
6. Go to ‘Contact’ for list of Contact Forms..
7. Select any form from the list and new tab ‘Custom Validation’ will be displayed.
8. Set your custom validation message for each tag you have selected at form tab.

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   After activating plugin, new tab 'Custom Validation' will be displayed where admin can set custom validation message for each required field.

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   When user submit form, custom validation message will be displayed below is field.

2.0.0

• Fixed validation. Added Rest API compatiblity as it’s changed by Contact Form 7.
• Used object notation to access the ID from contact form 7 object at admin side.
• While activating plugin, showing 304 error for multisite. It’s fixed.
• Compatiblity check with WordPress 6.0.2.

1.3.1

• Added custom validation message support for file upload field.
• Compatiblity check with WordPress 5.8.

1.2.2

• Bug fix: Email validation checked by Inbuilt PHP function.

1.2.1

• Bug fixing for checkbox and radio buttions.
• Some logical improvements.

1.2

• Compatiblity check with WordPress 5.7 version.
• Added minimum and maximum length custom validation message support for text and textarea fields.

1.1

• Compatiblity check with WordPress 5.6.2 version.
• Added multisite support. Plugin will work with Network enable site.

1.0.1

• Showing default tags if contact form not saved.
• Added note at top of tab for user understanding. New tag will be displayed at Custom Validation form only after form is saved.

1.0.0

• All tag supports to set custom validation message.
• Allow to set custom validation message for wrong email address validation.