Title: HTML Template for CF7
Author: Mário Valney
Published: August 18, 2016
Last modified: November 3, 2025
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# HTML Template for CF7
By [Mário Valney](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mariovalney/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/cf7-html-email-template-extension.2.2.2.zip)
* [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-html-email-template-extension/#description)
* [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-html-email-template-extension/#reviews)
* [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-html-email-template-extension/#installation)
* [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-html-email-template-extension/#developers)
[Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cf7-html-email-template-extension/)
## Description
[Contact Form 7 (CF7)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/) is a awesome
plugin used by 1+ million WordPress websites.
But even it allow users to use HTML instead of just Plain Text email it’s not trivial
to users who aren’t developers create something really pro.
However, time to leave all your worries behind! As a recently launched “Contact
Form 7 – HTML Mail Template Extension” will allow you, WordPress developers or not,
to use a simply but beautiful HTML Template in your CF7 so users will get better
emails than just amount of text.
#### Configurations
Easily and quickly! No configurations required to start, but you can change a lot
of stuff like colors, header image and width (by now… new versions will come).
#### Email Template
The plugin applies a HTML template to email sent from your CF7. The Template is
optimized to show your HTML emails perfectly in the most popular email browsers
including mobile ones.
## Screenshots
* [[
* HTML Template configurations.
* [[
* Example HTML Email with CF7 default Form.
* [[
* Preview button on dashboard.
## Installation
Install [Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/)
1. Upload `contact-form-7-html-mail-template-extension.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/`
directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Done!
## FAQ
### Does it works for emails sent out of CF7?
No. The intention here is to improve CF7 functionality.
We’ll create another version
to all WordPress emails or add an option to extend this plugin, but not in this
version.
### I don’t like the new editor. How to disable it?
You can add the following code to your `functions.php` file:
```
add_filter( 'cf7hete-disable-ace-editor', '__return_true' );
```
## Reviews
### [Fine](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-with-wp-5-8-2/)
[joxixi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joxixi/) November 29, 2021
add backslashes to every quote in html code when saving the form. edit : fixed.
### [HTML Template for CF7](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-template-for-cf7/)
[shaunpalmer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shaunpalmer/) January 21, 2021 2 replies
this is currently a little buggy in 2021 and needs to update OK for Coding on Your
home Server / localhost but not live site. currently Developer please update Last
updated 6 months ago
### [Just tried it, promising plugin !](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-tried-it-promising-plugin/)
[emldesign](https://profiles.wordpress.org/emldesign/) May 2, 2017 1 reply
Good luck for further improvements!
[ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cf7-html-email-template-extension/reviews/)
## Contributors & Developers
“HTML Template for CF7” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.
Contributors
* [ Mário Valney ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mariovalney/)
“HTML Template for CF7” has been translated into 6 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/cf7-html-email-template-extension/contributors)
for their contributions.
[Translate “HTML Template for CF7” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/cf7-html-email-template-extension)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cf7-html-email-template-extension/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/cf7-html-email-template-extension/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/cf7-html-email-template-extension/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/cf7-html-email-template-extension/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### 2.2.2
* Fix unresponsive tabs in form editor with CF7 6.1+
Props for “Francesco Zeno Selva” (zenotds). Thanks!
#### 2.2.1
* Avoiding deprecated log for empty mail_2 settings.
#### 2.2.0
* Added a module base class to avoid deprecated call on PHP 8.3.
Props for “Pascal DUBOIN”. Thanks.
#### 2.1.0
* Added a filter for developers: “cf7hete_default_template” allow you to override
the default template content.
* Replaced “cf7hete-disable-ace-editor” filter by “cf7hete_disable_ace_editor”.
We kept the Backward compatibility.
* Added a preview mail button on administration.
#### 2.0.3
* Fix saving header and foot with new editor.
#### 2.0.0
* Improved Code Editor.
* Refact all the plugin boilerplate (only for developers).
#### 1.0.2
* Plugin Renamed.
#### 1.0
* It’s alive!
* Basic use and configurations.
* Send HTML Emails like in screenshot 2.
* User can choose it Form will use HTML Template.
* HTML Template can be edited or customized.
## Meta
* Version **2.2.2**
* Last updated **6 months ago**
* Active installations **1,000+**
* WordPress version ** 4.5 or higher **
* Tested up to **6.8.5**
* PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
* Languages
* [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-html-email-template-extension/),
[English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-html-email-template-extension/),
[Portuguese (Brazil)](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-html-email-template-extension/),
[Spanish (Ecuador)](https://es-ec.wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-html-email-template-extension/),
[Spanish (Mexico)](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-html-email-template-extension/),
[Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-html-email-template-extension/),
and [Spanish (Venezuela)](https://ve.wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-html-email-template-extension/).
* [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/cf7-html-email-template-extension)
* Tags
* [cf7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cf7/)[contact form](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/contact-form/)
[contact form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/contact-form-7/)[email template](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/email-template/)
[emails](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/emails/)
* [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-html-email-template-extension/advanced/)
## Ratings
4.7 out of 5 stars.
* [ 2 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cf7-html-email-template-extension/reviews/?filter=5)
* [ 1 4-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cf7-html-email-template-extension/reviews/?filter=4)
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## Contributors
* [ Mário Valney ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mariovalney/)
## Support
Got something to say? Need help?
[View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cf7-html-email-template-extension/)
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