Title: set input type
Last modified: November 3, 2016

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# set input type

 *  [markusk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markusk/)
 * (@markusk)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-input-type/)
 * salut,
 * is there a way/hack to make input types of “email” instead of “text” as they 
   are right now?
 * i tried editing the function input in /helpers/forms.php to
    $defaults = array(‘
   type’ => ’email’, ‘name’ => (( ! is_array($data)) ? $data : ”), ‘value’ => $value);
   but this doesn’t seem to do the trick 🙁
 * any other ideas?
 * tia,
    markus.

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 *  [Wysija](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wysija/)
 * (@wysija)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-input-type/#post-8506533)
 * Markus, MailPoet version 3 solves this:
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailpoet/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailpoet/)
 * We won’t change MailPoet version 2 for it though.
 *  Thread Starter [markusk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markusk/)
 * (@markusk)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-input-type/#post-8506555)
 * a pity you’re replying to this after your reduced upgrade offer ended.. ;(

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-input-type/#post-8506555)
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