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Contact Form 7 Syntax Highlighting

Adds syntax higlighting to the Contact Form 7 admin screens. Requires the Contact Form 7 plugin.

By Joris van Montfort·Html-editor·Free
5(6 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 5 years ago
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As of April 2026, Contact Form 7 Syntax Highlighting is a WordPress html-editor plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 11% this week. Top alternative: HTML Editor for Contact Form 7.

5/56 reviews
1.0K+active installs
7.2K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016

Overview

Are you using HTML code in your Contact Form 7 forms and email bodies? Ace syntax highlighting enhanches the Contact Form 7 backend and makes it easy to code HTML for complex forms.

Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

56 reviews
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Recent Reviews

nice
by Amr Ali·2 years ago

Thank you

Exactly what I needed!
by bmcconach·5 years ago

With all of the amazing syntax highlighting features that are in a great deal of plugins, it always underwhelmed me when I got to my CF7 editor and was greeted with a plain text editor. I figured there was no hope for it until I decided to Google-foo my way to a solution; that solution is the plugin you’re looking at. Stop searching, this is all you’ll need! Many, many kudos to the developer!

Excellent
by Patrice·5 years ago

It is a good plugin, it does what it says and help us to read our code.

Perfect!
by xsonic·8 years ago

Simply works. Thanks a lot!

  • This topic was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by xsonic.
Works like a charm
by jensnilsson·9 years ago

Works as expected.

Download Trends

Today: 2Yesterday: 5This week: 31Period total: 937

Compatibility

WordPress4.0.1+ requiredTested up to 5.4.19
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v0.2
100.0%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

0.2.4

Changed font size to 13px to match the default body font size of the WordPress admin.
Print margin line is removed from the editor.

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Joris van MontfortJoris van Montfort
Plugin Info
Version
0.2.4
Last Updated
May 19, 2020
WP Requires
4.0.1+
Tested Up To
5.4.19
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
1.0K+
Downloads
7.2K+
Added
Mar 24, 2016
Business
Free

Tags

html-editorform textareacontact form 7contact form 7 form editorcontact form 7 html editor

Developer

J
Joris van Montfort
5 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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