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How to add a attachment file with contact form in WordPress

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Are you looking for an option to add file attachments with your WordPress contact form. If yes, you can follow the tutorial here. In this article I have explained how you can add multiple attachment with contact form 7.

STEP 1 : Login to admin area and install & activate Contact form 7 plugin. After activating the plugin, ‘Contact‘ tab will appear in your dashboard and when mouse hover you can see ‘Contact Form‘ click on it to make changes.

STEP 2: On this page you can see Contact form 1. I renamed it to career and added following fields in form tab.

<label>Cover Letter
[file cover-letter filetypes:pdf|doc|docx]
</label>

<label>Resume
[file resume filetypes:pdf|doc|docx]
</label>

STEP 3: Click on the Mail tab and add the following mail-tags in File Attachments

[cover-letter][resume]

STEP 4: Once this saved, you can see the shortcode like below in top of the page. Create new page and copy/paste the code there.

[contact-form-7 id="372" title="Career"]

Here is the final result

For more details you can refer the Contact Form 7 official doccuments here

About Sibi Antony

Bootstrap and Android LOVER. I've been creating things for the web for over 10 years, from the period of flash and table based layout web sites till mobile and tab friendly web sites.
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