Shortcode in email body

Hello filmpuls,

that’s right, currently the plugin only supports shortcodes inside the form itself, not inside mails.

I’ve looked into it and there seems to be no trivial way to simply activate all shortcodes, as there is for the form itself. At least for shortcodes that are not self contained (meaning it has attributes or content between opening and closing tags), I need to do build a configuration interface in the backend to alias them to a simple self-contained shortcode. Which I’m definitively planning to build.

That being said, perhaps https://www.howtosnippets.net/wordpress/make-custom-shortcodes-work-in-contact-form-7-mail-form-templates/ (section “Enable shortcodes inside the Mail Template”) might help you in the meantime. If you need help with this, please just reply to this with the shortcode you want to include, and I reply with the code snippet you need.

Best, Tobias

Hi @filmpuls,

actually it’s the other way around:

function my_special_mail_tag( $output, $name, $html ) {
	if ( 'score' == $name )
		$output = do_shortcode( "[$name]" );
 
	return $output;
}
add_filter( 'wpcf7_special_mail_tags', 'my_special_mail_tag', 10, 3 );

Hope this solves your problem 😉

PS: I see you edited your post. Assuming [code] without any additional parameters prints the score, this should work.

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by Tobias Zimpel. Reason: Reacted to edit of parent post

Hi @filmpuls,

In your unedited post, you wrote how you have edited the example code. That’s what my “the other way around” was referring to.

So if you put the code provided by me into functions.php it should work. If not, please don’t hesitate to write again, and I’ll try to help.