If you enjoyed this video don't forget to the like it and subscribe! Then check out this playlist about doing nearly everything with Contact Form 7: th-cam.com/video/wy70WGCjMY4/w-d-xo.html
I did exactly you did in the video but still not getting emails with file attached. I'm getting normal emails from the contact form but doesn't get email when any file is attached after submitting the form it shows form successfully sent but I never got email don't know where the email go. I'm using news portal theme please help.
This video actually helped me , you don't know how much I was frustrated when "File Upload" was not working. Liked, Subscribed and didn't pressed bell icon. Thanks for your awesome video. I watched almost 20 videos and read 25 articles but was unable to figure out the problem that you solved in 7 minutes. Kudos ! Do you know most of the article authors in the wild are just click-bait, even they don't know how to implement but they write and make video. You're just awesome, genuine. I don't write comment generally, but this time it was my compulsion to appreciate the author.
Your tutorials are very helpful! Thanks Can you please let me know if file upload works with the multi page form plugin for CF7? I tried adding the File Upload short code in my attachment section for both forms and its not sending me any attachments. It work absolutely fine without multipage CF7 plugin.
Hi, very clear and well explained. In the video you show the finished form with the "upload file upload box". How did you create that box? Do I look at the "CSS Made Easy" video? Thanks!
Hi Rodrigo, I didn't change any CSS to make the upload box look like that. It was either the theme I using for that tutorial or the browser (Google Chrome) doing the styling. I'll take a look and get back to you!
The big thing to make sure of is to put the file shortcode in the File attachments box. seems simple but would be overlooked. Question and help. I thought it was supposed to save on your site's wpcf7_uploads folder, but it isn't for me. any tips on how to fix this??
Couldn't figure out why I wasn't seeing the attachment. Ran across your video and it's fixed. Nice to have clear, easy instructions on how to get things done. Thanks!
Works PERFECT! WELL DONE AND THANK YOU SO MUCH I have a silly problem, I got in place of "choose file","choisir un fichier" How can I fix it ? (i have 3 contact form each is in different language and all of then has this text in french)
Good question Rania, I haven't run into this problem before. I think what you would need to is manually change the lang attribute of the pages with the contact form. You would have to change the template code to make that work. Or you could try installing a free translation plugin like Polylang and set each of the contact form page to the language you want it to be. I hope that helps and thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any further questions :)
Hi Rusty, would the image be saved to that page from then on, or would the image only be added to the page for that one user and only until the leave the page?
Hi Thanks for this. I am struggling with 1 issue. I need multiple file upload fields which I've added. But when the form is sent only the last uploaded file is emailed as an attachment. The other files don't come through? Any ideas what may be the problem?
So, my issue, and I've tried everything I can think of is that when I click submit on my contact 7 form with upload file, it gives me a 503 error, and I have no idea how to fix it.
I Have a wordpress ecommerce website, but prices do not appear on main page or product page. It also has different prices set for Australian prices in countries other than the US. The prices show up for IP addresses outside the US, but does not show up within the US.
Dear Bjorn Allpas, I have a site for scientific congress. File attachments don't work. It gives always an error. What can I do? I watched your videos in detail. Please help me.
Is there a way to style this ugly button while retaining the file upload information visible so users know they uploaded a file? The only documentation I can find to change the style of this ugly button is to hide it (including the file upload information) and replace it with an overlay button. Thank you.
Hi Birdie, That's the only way I've found to change the button. I've received a lot of requests to change button. I'll look into it further and let you know if I come up with something. Thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any other questions.
For me it says, there was an error sending a file [file* cv limit:5100000 filetypes:pdf|doc|docx] So its' around 5mb limit, and files types PDF DOC and DOCX but it always give me an error sending for example an file DOC that is just around 100kb size, the same happens with PDF files... and I don't know what's the issue is
This is the only tip that's helped me. I was using Safari to do this - spent hours this morn trying to figure out why my attachments weren't arriving in my inbox - and then I saw your comment and tried redoing the coding in Chrome. Now it works. Sigh. Thank you!
Hey, I have some doubt in WordPress. Can you help me? I am working on WordPress Website. I want the user will first register and after registration, The user will fill the form after submitting the form the user can edit the form fields in the user account. I have used some plugins like user profile and ultimate member but I am not able to do that.
Hi Rahul, Have you tried BuddyPress? Every user has their own user profile that they can edit however they like. Here's a full walk-through that will help you decide if that's what you're looking for: th-cam.com/video/JhjSFWnn1dU/w-d-xo.html Let me know if that's what you're looking for.
I watched that video. Thank you for the video, That is awesome video. But I want the user to register and then login and then fill some form with some fields and can edit in fields in the user account. In buddyPress It is like some social profile so I think it is not useful in this case.
Thank you for the video. Your tutorials are very thorough and detailed. I was wondering if you could help me. I'm encountering an issue with saving contact form 7 data using a plugin called Save CF7. I don't see the download icon to download the attachments. I am using multi-file upload tag in Contact Form 7 form and it's uploading the file in a .zip format however, I don't see the download button anywhere in the Save CF7 UI within wordpress, so that I can download the file.can you please help me in this or suggest any other plugin that can go with Contact Form 7 with multiple file uploads? Thank you for your time in advance.
Hi Pradeep, Are you sure that Save CF7 has the functionality to download attachments? I've never used that plugin. The one I most commonly use is called Flamingo. Tutorial here: th-cam.com/video/ubifAGzRE4Y/w-d-xo.html But I've never tried to save attachments to it. So I'm not sure if that will help :(
I want to know how to upload multiple files in one send of a contact form. So far you've only shown how to upload one file. Please can you do a video on that ? Many thanks for sharing your gift of explaining technically difficult how-to's for beginners like me :)
Hi Renato, Sorry for the delay. It's more than likely because you're on localhost, but we won't know for sure until you've moved the site to a live host.
Hello, I am getting the attachments in the body of the email rather than an actual "attachment" . Is there a way to fix this? I am getting an error with the message of "!(configuration error) Attachment file does not exist at File attachments." Am I doing something wrong?
hello friend thank you for your contribution as know how to add the cc input file to the button within the form contact-fom 7 I would greatly appreciate your help
This is amazing! Thank you so much! 😊🙏 I have only one question - is therefore data (= what people upload to the form on the website) collected only on email? Or is it collected on the website server too? I have problem that my server accepts only 10GB and I really do not want data to be collected on the website server. I want to collect data only on email. Hope my question can be understood. 😬 Thank you once more! 🙏
And how can I upload the video directly as a post? I already have the whole web ready and with a send button, but I thought the video was going to be uploaded to the web ... I don't want to send email I want the video to be uploaded to the web as a video post, I already have the player and everything set up but I don't achieve what I want. And I do not want it sent by email because it puts a load limit of approximately 25MB ... I want it to be loaded directly as a video post without sending mail.
Hi - looking for help including an attachment in Mail (2) so that my auto-reply sends a file to the customer. How do we use the "File Attachments" box in Mail (2)? Thank you!
If you're sending a file that's on your server you should be able to use the instructions on this help page: contactform7.com/file-uploading-and-attachment/ Look for the section called "Local file attachment" I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Thanks! What I found is that I could upload the file (.ics in our case) to our Media page on WordPress, then use the file path in the Mail (2) "File Attachments" box like this: uploads/2018/04/filename.ics I ran 1 successful test yesterday and have a bigger, live test today. I'll report back if it does not work.
I have an updated video on this publishing soon. If your form is accepting the image and not throwing an error when you click "Submit", then the problem may be with the permissions of two important folders. Via the file manager or FTP, check the permissions on these two folders: 1. wp-content/uploads 2. wp-content/uploads/wpcf7_uploads And make sure they are set to allow write access to the owner (which is your website) How it works is CF7 temporarily uploads the image file to this folder wp-content/uploads/wpcf7_uploads and once the image is uploaded, it attaches it to the email to send. If that folder isn't allowing the form to upload images, then they images won't be sent. I hope that helps, thanks for watching!
I can add this to my Form, but when I do the SUBMIT button no longer works! If I don't add a file, the email comes through. With an attachment added, SUBMIT does nothing! Why r these free things SOOOOO frustrating to use?
I checked the Perrmission to the temp dir where CF7 creted files, and its ok. Pull my hair!!!! I added no size limit or file types for simplicity!! Adding a file STILL breaks my SUBMIT button! How doe sone diagnose and see errors on this stuff?
That sounds very frustrating. To troubleshoot, can you create a file size limit and file type requirement and then try to upload a file that meets those requirements?
If you enjoyed this video don't forget to the like it and subscribe! Then check out this playlist about doing nearly everything with Contact Form 7: th-cam.com/video/wy70WGCjMY4/w-d-xo.html
I did exactly you did in the video but still not getting emails with file attached. I'm getting normal emails from the contact form but doesn't get email when any file is attached after submitting the form it shows form successfully sent but I never got email don't know where the email go. I'm using news portal theme please help.
old video.. its not working for me. text ok no file attachment received
Thanks buddy, that was perfect, you saved me some time. Grazie!
This video actually helped me , you don't know how much I was frustrated when "File Upload" was not working. Liked, Subscribed and didn't pressed bell icon. Thanks for your awesome video. I watched almost 20 videos and read 25 articles but was unable to figure out the problem that you solved in 7 minutes. Kudos ! Do you know most of the article authors in the wild are just click-bait, even they don't know how to implement but they write and make video. You're just awesome, genuine. I don't write comment generally, but this time it was my compulsion to appreciate the author.
Your tutorials are very helpful! Thanks
Can you please let me know if file upload works with the multi page form plugin for CF7? I tried adding the File Upload short code in my attachment section for both forms and its not sending me any attachments. It work absolutely fine without multipage CF7 plugin.
Thank you man, you are more informative and helpful than silly contact form forum and docs
Helpful is what I try to be :) Thanks for watching!
Hi, very clear and well explained. In the video you show the finished form with the "upload file upload box". How did you create that box? Do I look at the "CSS Made Easy" video? Thanks!
Hi Rodrigo, I didn't change any CSS to make the upload box look like that. It was either the theme I using for that tutorial or the browser (Google Chrome) doing the styling.
I'll take a look and get back to you!
I worked like charm!!
But i have another query how can you make file upload input required?
Thank you! Thanks to this video I was finally able to fix my contact form problem that had me banging my head against the wall forever!
I'm happy I could help!
Phenomenal my man! Just subscribed!
Cool, thanks for subbing! Much appreciated!
4:25 you just saved my life at work. God bless you and your familly man
The big thing to make sure of is to put the file shortcode in the File attachments box. seems simple but would be overlooked. Question and help. I thought it was supposed to save on your site's wpcf7_uploads folder, but it isn't for me. any tips on how to fix this??
Couldn't figure out why I wasn't seeing the attachment. Ran across your video and it's fixed. Nice to have clear, easy instructions on how to get things done. Thanks!
Cool! You're welcome Randy, thanks for watching!
Works PERFECT! WELL DONE AND THANK YOU SO MUCH
I have a silly problem, I got in place of "choose file","choisir un fichier" How can I fix it ? (i have 3 contact form each is in different language and all of then has this text in french)
Good question Rania,
I haven't run into this problem before. I think what you would need to is manually change the lang attribute of the pages with the contact form. You would have to change the template code to make that work.
Or you could try installing a free translation plugin like Polylang and set each of the contact form page to the language you want it to be.
I hope that helps and thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any further questions :)
@@wplearninglab thank you for responding me,
I already did it like you suggest and it didn't work, still have the same problem :(
Thanks for the explaining that so swiftly! Worked like a charm
Thank you for your effort!!
Thanks Giovanni and thanks for watching!
Very Help Full. Thank you...
You’re welcome, thanks for watching!
even in 2021 it's useful. can't thank you enough, thank you, thank you, thank you.
I'm glad to hear everything worked out well. Let me know if you have any questions :)
This totally fixed my problem. File attachment not being received in msg - I needed to add file shortcode to the new file attachments area. THX!
Hi Jem,
It's always nice when the fixes are simple :)
thank you. have been working on my site myself and your videos have helped me.
OMG i wouldn't have find this without you thx a lot
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
Hi good sir! Thanks for the info! Is there any way to direct this upload to a image/blank area on the page which they are currently on?
Hi Rusty, would the image be saved to that page from then on, or would the image only be added to the page for that one user and only until the leave the page?
Good video mate! Even seasoned pro's forget how to do the basics on times!!!!
Lol, sometimes I look up the most basic things. It's faster to look it up than try to remember.
Thank you so much you saved my time and energy this is amazing and very helpful video
Awesome, I'm glad to hear it. Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much. I almost gave up.
great! Can we have an option that, we ll receive contact form 7 as pdf format in email. Like few fields in PD in email.
Thanks for this video... My error finished now...
Thanks for making a video about the attachment. You definitely save me some time. Keep the good work!
I'm happy I could help. Let me know if you an questions and thanks for watching!
Great tutorial. Thx.
You’re welcome Dritan and thanks for watching!
Hi Thanks for this. I am struggling with 1 issue. I need multiple file upload fields which I've added. But when the form is sent only the last uploaded file is emailed as an attachment. The other files don't come through? Any ideas what may be the problem?
DUDE! Thank you! (I watched your first video and thankfully your update was near it in search.)
You're welcome Ken, thanks for watching! It's always nice when the correct answers are near the incorrect ones in search, lol.
Works PERFECT! Thank you for your help.
Hi Mario,
Sorry for my delay in responding! I'm happy you got it work perfectly :)
Thanks for being a subscriber too! I really appreciate it.
Very good! Thanksss!!!!
You're welcome Anna, thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any questions :)
Thank you you helped me solve a problem
You’re welcome Rebecca, thanks for watching!
So, my issue, and I've tried everything I can think of is that when I click submit on my contact 7 form with upload file, it gives me a 503 error, and I have no idea how to fix it.
Very clear and very well explained. Thanks a lot.
It helped me so much thanks!!
Very clear, accurate, helpful. . .You will have to hit pause and go back and forth, but that's because it is a lot of information. WELL DONE!
Thanks Bruce! I'm glad I could help and thanks for watching :)
I Have a wordpress ecommerce website, but prices do not appear on main page or product page. It also has different prices set for Australian prices in countries other than the US. The prices show up for IP addresses outside the US, but does not show up within the US.
Thanks so much, the first one don't wanna work, but in this one are more steps, and for sure it gonna work.
I'm glad you got it working!
Yes, it work very well, i already suscribe. Hugs.
I'm glad it worked and thanks for the sub! I appreciate it!
Thanks a lot, my issue got resolved with your video guide.
You're welcome, I'm happy I could help. Thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any questions :)
Dear Bjorn Allpas,
I have a site for scientific congress. File attachments don't work. It gives always an error. What can I do? I watched your videos in detail. Please help me.
Hi Koray,
What is the error you receive? Can you copy/paste it here?
@@wplearninglab Thank you so much. The error is "The message has not been sent."
It works! THANK YOU, KIND SIR! :) :) :)
You’re welcome Nebojsa, thanks for watching!
Is there a way to style this ugly button while retaining the file upload information visible so users know they uploaded a file? The only documentation I can find to change the style of this ugly button is to hide it (including the file upload information) and replace it with an overlay button. Thank you.
Hi Birdie,
That's the only way I've found to change the button. I've received a lot of requests to change button. I'll look into it further and let you know if I come up with something.
Thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanks a lot, It has worked. God bless you
For me it says, there was an error sending a file
[file* cv limit:5100000 filetypes:pdf|doc|docx]
So its' around 5mb limit, and files types PDF DOC and DOCX but it always give me an error sending for example an file DOC that is just around 100kb size, the same happens with PDF files... and I don't know what's the issue is
Done... worked perfectly on Chrome but no some other browsers... is there a specific reason for it?
Found the problem on my side... thanks - great tutorial!!!
Hi Pieter, I'm happy you figured it out! Do you mind sharing the solution so others who may have the same problem can benefit from your expertise? :)
This is the only tip that's helped me. I was using Safari to do this - spent hours this morn trying to figure out why my attachments weren't arriving in my inbox - and then I saw your comment and tried redoing the coding in Chrome. Now it works. Sigh. Thank you!
Hey, I have some doubt in WordPress. Can you help me? I am working on WordPress Website. I want the user will first register and after registration, The user will fill the form after submitting the form the user can edit the form fields in the user account.
I have used some plugins like user profile and ultimate member but I am not able to do that.
Hi Rahul,
Have you tried BuddyPress? Every user has their own user profile that they can edit however they like. Here's a full walk-through that will help you decide if that's what you're looking for: th-cam.com/video/JhjSFWnn1dU/w-d-xo.html
Let me know if that's what you're looking for.
I watched that video. Thank you for the video, That is awesome video. But I want the user to register and then login and then fill some form with some fields and can edit in fields in the user account. In buddyPress It is like some social profile so I think it is not useful in this case.
Thank you - still very hepful!
Great tutorial thanks so much!
Thanks, man, I wish I had found your little video a little earlier, that would have saved me lots of time and nerves too.
You're welcome, hopefully you'll find my other videos with better timing :)
Thank you for the video. Your tutorials are very thorough and detailed. I was wondering if you could help me. I'm encountering an issue with saving contact form 7 data using a plugin called Save CF7. I don't see the download icon to download the attachments. I am using multi-file upload tag in Contact Form 7 form and it's uploading the file in a .zip format however, I don't see the download button anywhere in the Save CF7 UI within wordpress, so that I can download the file.can you please help me in this or suggest any other plugin that can go with Contact Form 7 with multiple file uploads? Thank you for your time in advance.
Hi Pradeep,
Are you sure that Save CF7 has the functionality to download attachments? I've never used that plugin. The one I most commonly use is called Flamingo. Tutorial here: th-cam.com/video/ubifAGzRE4Y/w-d-xo.html
But I've never tried to save attachments to it. So I'm not sure if that will help :(
I want to know how to upload multiple files in one send of a contact form. So far you've only shown how to upload one file. Please can you do a video on that ? Many thanks for sharing your gift of explaining technically difficult how-to's for beginners like me :)
Never mind, I see you created another video already for handling multiple files ! Well done, I've subscribed, you're awesome !
when i try yo upload the file its says " there was an error...." in red letters .... is that because i dont have a host yet ? Like bluehost..
Hi Renato, if you don't have a host yet, where is your site installed? Are you trying to upload an 'allowed' file type?
im using wordpress.org localhost , yes i set up to upload the jpg files
Hi Renato,
Sorry for the delay. It's more than likely because you're on localhost, but we won't know for sure until you've moved the site to a live host.
Thank yoooou!! You solved all my life, you are amazing! I was not putting the tag in the attachments but in the body of the e-mail 😅
Thank's bro!
What happen if file upload size more than 25mb? Because gmail accepts file attachment emails Max 25Mb.
Any option to show the instant preview of uploaded img to clint
Hello, I am getting the attachments in the body of the email rather than an actual "attachment" . Is there a way to fix this? I am getting an error with the message of "!(configuration error) Attachment file does not exist at File attachments."
Am I doing something wrong?
Never mind - the message has disappeared. Thank you for the tutorial!
Hi Ankita,
I'm happy you figured it out. Let me know if you have any other questions and thanks for being a subscriber!
hello friend thank you for your contribution as know how to add the cc input file to the button within the form contact-fom 7
I would greatly appreciate your help
Hi Daniel,
I'm not sure what you mean when you say "add the cc input file to the button with the form"?
This is amazing! Thank you so much! 😊🙏 I have only one question - is therefore data (= what people upload to the form on the website) collected only on email? Or is it collected on the website server too? I have problem that my server accepts only 10GB and I really do not want data to be collected on the website server. I want to collect data only on email. Hope my question can be understood. 😬 Thank you once more! 🙏
Fantastic video! Saved me a lot of time. Thanks!
That's what I like to hear :) Thanks for watching!
Is there a way to view the uploads in the site dashboard it self so i dont have to log into my email to check the file uploaded?
Hi Mac,
Not that I know of. I've checked into it in the past with no luck. I'll check again.
thank you for your great vids :)
Thanks bro, its extremely helpful
You're welcome Rasel, thanks for watching!
Thanks a lot mate.
Thank you so much. Similarly, I have the problem while uploading files. now, I fixed.
Good work Sai, I'm glad I could help. Thanks for watching!
i having problems sending on mobile devices. any ideas?
And how can I upload the video directly as a post?
I already have the whole web ready and with a send button, but I thought the video was going to be uploaded to the web ... I don't want to send email I want the video to be uploaded to the web as a video post, I already have the player and everything set up but I don't achieve what I want.
And I do not want it sent by email because it puts a load limit of approximately 25MB ... I want it to be loaded directly as a video post without sending mail.
thank you! You saved my day!
Awesome, I'm glad I could help!
Thanks, this helped us a lot. :)
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
Hi - looking for help including an attachment in Mail (2) so that my auto-reply sends a file to the customer. How do we use the "File Attachments" box in Mail (2)? Thank you!
If you're sending a file that's on your server you should be able to use the instructions on this help page: contactform7.com/file-uploading-and-attachment/
Look for the section called "Local file attachment"
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Thanks! What I found is that I could upload the file (.ics in our case) to our Media page on WordPress, then use the file path in the Mail (2) "File Attachments" box like this: uploads/2018/04/filename.ics
I ran 1 successful test yesterday and have a bigger, live test today. I'll report back if it does not work.
Fixed at last thanks
Awesome, I'm happy to help. Thanks for watching Anderson
Thank you!
You're welcome Gene, thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any questions :)
thank you for making this video.
You're welcome Dolar, thanks for watching!
thanks for help sir...
You’re welcome Amit, thanks for watching!
Thanks man
You’re welcome, thanks for watching!
Not uploading the file just loading. any idea what's going wrong ??
upload file working in desktop but not in mobile. what can we do sir??
If the add-on is not made to work in mobile there isn't much you can do besides try another add-on.
perfect! thank you!
Thank you so much
You're welcome Im, thanks for watching!
The files I upload are not displayed in ftp
how to change Name of ( choose file to Upload file )
Everyrhing is working except im not receiving the images
I have an updated video on this publishing soon. If your form is accepting the image and not throwing an error when you click "Submit", then the problem may be with the permissions of two important folders.
Via the file manager or FTP, check the permissions on these two folders:
1. wp-content/uploads
2. wp-content/uploads/wpcf7_uploads
And make sure they are set to allow write access to the owner (which is your website)
How it works is CF7 temporarily uploads the image file to this folder wp-content/uploads/wpcf7_uploads and once the image is uploaded, it attaches it to the email to send. If that folder isn't allowing the form to upload images, then they images won't be sent.
I hope that helps, thanks for watching!
i have follow all this step ..but not receive any attachment
Thanks!
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
Thankyou so much sir .... :)
You're welcome Ravi, thanks for watching!
This worked :)
Awesome, thanks for watching!
Thanks
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
thank you
You're welcome Ervan, thanks for watching!
Thanks.
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
For file size you can just write 5mb, no need to convert.
Thanks bro you saved my ass!! jeje regards
thanks
You're welcome Endang, thanks for watching!
I can add this to my Form, but when I do the SUBMIT button no longer works! If I don't add a file, the email comes through. With an attachment added, SUBMIT does nothing! Why r these free things SOOOOO frustrating to use?
I checked the Perrmission to the temp dir where CF7 creted files, and its ok. Pull my hair!!!! I added no size limit or file types for simplicity!! Adding a file STILL breaks my SUBMIT button! How doe sone diagnose and see errors on this stuff?
That sounds very frustrating. To troubleshoot, can you create a file size limit and file type requirement and then try to upload a file that meets those requirements?
Bro thnx alot lmao, they didnt mention the things that up rovide here thnku! SUB!
I think a tutorial is useless if everything isn't explained :) I'm happy it worked for you and thanks for the Sub! Much appreciated/
Great tutorial. Thx.
You’re welcome Dritan and thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any questions.
Thank You. It's helpful for me.
Thank you!
Thanks
You're welcome, thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any questions :)
Thanks!
You're welcome Lucas, thanks for watching!
Great tutorial. Thx.