Email address confirmation / validation

  • jimpms

    (@jimpms)


    5 years, 7 months ago

    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

    (@kraemit)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    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/).
    ‘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/

    ALl the best!

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