Title: Email address confirmation / validation
Last modified: October 31, 2020

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# Email address confirmation / validation

 *  [jimpms](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimpms/)
 * (@jimpms)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-address-confirmation-validation/)
 * Hi,
    Is there a way of getting the user to enter their email address twice and
   checking both entries match? I see someone wrote a plugin many years ago: ‘Contact
   Form 7 Confirm Email Field’, but it appears not to be maintained. Is there an
   alternative to this?
 * Unfortunately we occasionally lose important emails where people have mis-typed
   their email address. Sometimes we can guess what they meant, but usually not.
   
   Many thanks 🙂

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 *  [kraeMit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kraemit/)
 * (@kraemit)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-address-confirmation-validation/#post-13636681)
 * Hi,
 * it is still working in current versions, but I also just exchanged it.
 * You can do it with the plugin ‘Jquery Validation for Contact Form 7’. I’m not
   sure, but I think the pro version only does a field to field confirmation (you
   can see in the pro demo here ([http://dnesscarkey.com/jquery-validation/pro-version-demo/](http://dnesscarkey.com/jquery-validation/pro-version-demo/)).
   ‘
   Jquery Validation for CF7’ is a great tool to check various inputs!
 * The light version checks the format of the mail adress (spaces, regular domain
   names etc.), which nowadays is the modern way (you don’t want to press people
   to insert their mail adresses twice!! They will do c&p twice wrong!) and should
   be enough. I also send conformation emails and if this get bounced I will call
   my customers up.
 * I you don’t want to use another plugin just follow TAKAYUKI MIYOSHI’s developer
   cookbook :
    [https://contactform7.com/2015/03/28/custom-validation/](https://contactform7.com/2015/03/28/custom-validation/)
 * ALl the best!

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## Tags

 * [confirmation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/confirmation/)
 * [email](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/email/)
 * [validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation/)

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 * Last reply from: [kraeMit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kraemit/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-address-confirmation-validation/#post-13636681)
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