Programming tutorials – in this article i will share about how to combine the Contact Form 7, WP MAIL SMTP and Google Recaptcha at WordPress. Many websites that discuss about smtp email with contact form 7, But i will discuss the full tutorial that all three plugins can be run properly.
What is contact form ? The contact form usually use by visitors to directly communicate with us, so that the interaction between you and the visitors always maintained. If the visitor comfortable in our site, will certainly be viral link to increase our website traffic.
I use the contact form 7 plugin because of its easy to use and has a great view. In addition, this plugin is easy to combined with another plugins.
For email sender, in this article use wp smtp mail. WP SMTP Mail is very simple and easy to use. But if you have an another SMTP plugin you can try it. And the third plugin is Google Recaptcha to avoid mail from spam via bot.
Lets begin the tutorial
How to Combine Contact Form 7, WP MAIL SMTP and Google Recaptcha at WordPress
Prepare the following plugins to support the tutorial
1. Contact form 7
2. Wp Mail Smtp
3. Google No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA
1. Installation WP SMTP MAIL
Once you are activating the wp smtp mail plugin, please visit the email menu in the menu Settings > email
In this example I use Yahoo mail as experimental material
| From Email | your-email@yahoo.com |
| From Name | Sigit |
| Mailer | Send all WordPress emails via SMTP |
| Return Path | Check |
| SMTP Options | |
| SMTP host | smtp.mail.yahoo.com |
| Smtp port | 465 |
| Encryption | Use SSL encryption |
| Authentication | Yes: Use SMTP authentication. |
| Username | your-email@yahoo.com |
| Password | your-email-password |
Look at the following picture below
Save these settings and do a test email and if successful the result will be a bool (true) as shown below
If you prefer using gmail account, please use this setting below
| From Email | your-email@gmail.com |
| From Name | Sigit |
| Mailer | Send all WordPress emails via SMTP |
| Return Path | Check |
| SMTP Options | |
| SMTP host | smtp.gmail.com |
| Smtp port | 465 |
| Encryption | Use SSL encryption |
| Authentication | Yes: Use SMTP authentication. |
| Username | your-email@gmail.com |
| Password | your-email-password |
2. Installing Google No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA
Once installed Google No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA and activate the plugin, please add the option in the settings > Google No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA. Then fill the Site Key, Secret Key, etc. As shown below
3. Installation Contact Form 7
If two plugins above have been processed, the final step is the installation the Contact Form 7. Please visit your contact form 7 menu. On the form menu, please add the tag Google No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA
Save the settings and grab the shortcode to your page or post. You will get the result like below 🙂
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