=== Email Addon for Contact Form 7 ===
Plugin Name: Email Addon for Contact Form 7
Plugin URI: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-email-add-on
Author: krishaweb
Author URI: https://krishaweb.com
Contributors: hardik2221, krishaweb, parthrana, nikunjchauhan, pratikgandhi
Tags: cf7, email template, contactform7, shortcode, html email
Requires at least: 6.6
Tested up to: 7.0
Requires PHP: 8.1
Stable tag: 2.2
Copyright: (c) 2012-2026 KrishaWeb Technologies PVT LTD
License: GPLv3 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Turn plain Contact Form 7 emails into professional, branded email notifications without writing a single line of code.

== Description ==

[Get Pro Version](https://www.krishastore.io/product/email-addon-for-cf7-pro/) | [Documentation](https://www.krishastore.io/docs/contact-form-7-email-add-on/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=wporg&utm_campaign=EACF7) | [Support Forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cf7-email-add-on/) | [Rate the Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cf7-email-add-on/reviews/)

Every time someone submits your Contact Form 7 form, they receive an email from your website. Unfortunately, the default Contact Form 7 emails are functional but plain, making it difficult to create a memorable first impression.

Email Addon for Contact Form 7 helps you replace those basic emails with professionally designed, responsive email templates that reflect your brand, improve readability, and provide a better experience for both your visitors and your team.

Whether you're sending contact confirmations, support responses, enquiry acknowledgements, quote requests, or administrator notifications, you can create emails that look polished on every device, all from your WordPress dashboard.

== Why You Need It ==

Here's the thing most people miss. Your website is part of your brand. Your emails should be too.

Every confirmation email is an opportunity to reassure visitors that their enquiry has been received, build trust, and present your business professionally.

A few situations where that bites:

* Your contact form fires off a plain, styleless confirmation to every new enquiry
* Your thank-you email should feel like your brand, but instead it reads like a system alert
* Admin notifications are a wall of run-together text that's a pain to scan
* You want branded, mobile-friendly emails but have zero time to hand-code HTML
* You need different email designs for different forms and don't want to touch code to do it

Normally, fixing any of that means writing and testing HTML email yourself (which is genuinely miserable) or paying a developer to do it. This plugin lets you handle the whole thing from the dashboard you're already in every day.

> ### How It Works
>
> Getting a professional email out of any Contact Form 7 form takes about a minute. Here's the whole process.
>
> **Install the Plugin:** Install and activate Contact Form 7 and Email Addon for Contact Form 7.
> **Choose a Template:** Select a responsive email template for your user confirmation and admin notification emails.
> **Customize Your Email:** Personalize your email with your logo, content, images, buttons, links, colours, and form fields—no coding required.
> **Save & Go Live:** Save your settings and start sending professional, branded email notifications automatically with every form submission.
>
> That's it. Your form now sends a fully responsive, branded email, and you never opened a code editor.

== What You Get ==

Features marked **[PRO]** are part of the Pro version.

* **10+ responsive templates:** Ready-made, mobile-friendly designs for both user and admin emails. Pick one and you're most of the way there.
* **One-step template selection:** Choose the confirmation email design and the admin notification design in a single step, no digging through settings.
* **Full customization, zero code:** Change the words, swap the links, adjust the graphics and buttons.
* **Control your form fields:** Decide exactly which fields show up in the email and which don't.
* **Special mail tags on hand:** The available mail tags sit right there in the plugin popup, so dropping in dynamic content is quick.
* **Click-to-copy shortcode:** Grab the shortcode you need in a single click.
* **Renders well everywhere:** Templates hold up cleanly across the major email clients, Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, with accessibility improved in this release.
* **Ready for translation:** Fully translatable and happy on multilingual sites.
* **Built for current Contact Form 7:** Works with version 5 and above.
* **18+ templates [PRO]:** A larger library of professionally designed responsive designs.
* **Live preview and test mode [PRO]:** See the email exactly as it'll land, and send yourself a test, before a real user ever gets it.
* **Download as HTML [PRO]:** Export any template to use in other tools or campaigns.
* **Custom shortcode support [PRO]:** Use custom shortcodes with auto-suggestion right inside your templates.
* **Bring your own templates [PRO]:** Upload and use your own designs through the plugin or theme method.
* **Full template library [PRO]:** Download as many additional ready-made templates as you want from our store.
* **Priority support [PRO]:** Email and phone help straight from the people who build the plugin.

== What's New In This Release ==

We've given the plugin a solid update:

* The email templates are more responsive and now hold their layout across devices and screen sizes.
* Compatibility and accessibility both improved, so your emails look right in more inboxes and work better for everyone who receives them.
* The interface got some usability polish, selecting and editing a template is faster and clearer now.
* Under the hood, we rebuilt the architecture so the free plugin now acts as the base for the Pro version. That means a more stable, better-maintained free plugin, and a clean path to Pro whenever you want it.

== Email Addon for Contact Form 7 Pro ==

Upgrade to Email Addon for Contact Form 7 Pro and unlock powerful features designed for businesses, agencies, and professionals:

* A bigger library of 18+ responsive templates for both user and admin emails
* Live preview and a test-send so you're never guessing how an email looks
* The ability to export any template as HTML for use outside WordPress
* Custom shortcode support, with auto-suggestion
* Import custom email template through our pro plugin
* Unlimited extra templates from our library
* Priority email and phone support from our team

**Get it here:** <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.krishastore.io/product/email-addon-for-cf7-pro/">**Email Addon for Contact Form 7 Pro**</a>

And whether you're on free or Pro, you can grab more ready-made designs any time from our <a rel="nofollow" href="https://krishastore.io/email-templates/">Email Template Library</a>.

Check such amazing email addon for **Ninja form** as well at <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.krishastore.io/product/email-addon-for-ninja-forms/">**Email Addon For Ninja Forms**</a>. It comes with all these features for Ninja form along with some additional features.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Do I need to know how to code? =

Not at all. You choose a template and customize everything, content, links, buttons, from the plugin interface. No HTML, no code.

= Does it work with the latest Contact Form 7? =

Yes. It's fully compatible with Contact Form 7 version 5 and up.

= Can I actually change how the templates look? =

Yes. Edit the wording, swap the links and graphics, adjust the buttons, and add or remove form fields, all without touching code.

= Will the emails look right on phones and in different inboxes? =

They will. The templates are fully responsive, and this release specifically improved how they render across Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, and other major clients, along with better accessibility.

= Is it translation ready? =

Yes, it's fully translatable and works on multilingual sites.

= What's the difference between free and Pro? =

Free gives you 10+ responsive templates, one-step selection, full customization, control over form fields, special mail tags, and click-to-copy shortcode. Pro adds 18+ templates, live preview and test mode, HTML export, custom shortcode support, your own template uploads, the full template library, and priority email and phone support.

= Do I need the free plugin to run Pro? =

Yes. As of this release, the free plugin is the base the Pro version builds on. Keep it installed and add Pro on top for the advanced features.

= Where do I get more templates? =

Any time, from our <a rel="nofollow" href="https://krishastore.io/email-templates/">Email Template Library</a>. Pro users can also upload their own.

= Does the plugin work with SMTP plugins? =

Yes. The plugin works alongside most popular WordPress SMTP plugins.

= How do I get help? =

Post in the WordPress.org support forum, or email us directly at <a href="mailto:support@krishaweb.com">support@krishaweb.com</a>. Pro users get priority email and phone support.

== Changelog ==
= 2.2 =
* Improved: Template responsiveness and compatibility
* Improved: Accessibility and editor usability
* Changed: Free plugin is now the base for Pro

= 2.1 =
* Security Fixed

= 2.0 =
* Bug & Security Fixed

= 1.9 =
* Bug Fixed

= 1.8 =
* Added: valid textdomain

= 1.7 =
* Added: new email template

= 1.6 =
* Bug Fixed

= 1.5 =
* Added: template preview option

= 1.4 =
* Added: guideline pupup for special mail tags

= 1.3 =
* Added new templates

= 1.2 =
* Security Update

= 1.1 =
* Bug Fixed

= 1.0 =
* Release
