How to use contact form 7 tooltip addon to create tooltip on contact form 7? We got a user’s ticket, in which he asked: “Cannot understand how to implement into Contact Form 7? Please assist I am struggling to understand how to implement into Contact Form 7”. I think may be more contact form 7 tooltip users have the same question, we’d like write a detailed document for help wordpress tooltip users add wordpress tooltip for contact form 7 easily, here is a quick description walk through on how you can add wordpress tooltip for contact form 7:
What is Contact Form 7 Plugin?
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
What is WordPress Tooltip Plugin?
WordPress tooltip pro is a tooltips plugin for wordpress, which be designed to help you create colorful, varied and graceful tooltip styles to present the content to your users, with lively and elegant animation effects, and save your valuable screen space.
When the users hover over an item, the colorful tooltip popup box will display with the animation effect. You can add video, audio, image, and even other content which generated by 3rd wordpress plugins like QR code, Amazon AD, Google Map in tooltip popup box via wordpress standard editor, it is very easy to use.
What is WordPress Tooltip Contact Form 7 Addon?
WordPress tooltip contact form 7 addon is an addon included in wordpress tooltip plugin, wordpress tooltip contact form 7 addon will help wordpress tooltip suers add tooltips to the contact form 7 fields easily, once you enabled wordpress tooltip contact form 7 addon, wordpress tooltip plugin will scan contact form 7 elements and add tooltip effects on contact form 7 automatically 🙂
How to Add WordPress Tooltip Effect on Contact Form 7?
It is very easy to add tooltips for contact form 7, you do not need to add css codes manually, you do not need any codes manually, what you need is just a few clicks in the wordpress tooltips plugin and you can create tooltips for contact form 7 in 2 minutes:
1: Login wordpress tooltip plugin site
2: Click “download” menu item to download wordpress tooltip plugin, it will be a wordpress plugin zip file.
3: Login your wordpress site admin area
4: In your wordpress backend, click “Plugins” menu please
5: If you installed wordpress tooltips free plugin or old wordpress pro plugin, please deactivate it and delete the old wordpress tooltip plugin
6: Then in the wordpress “Plugins” panel, please click “add new” link at the top of the plugins panel to install the wordpress gif tooltip plugin which downloaded from tooltips.org
7: Upload the wordpress tooltips plugin zip file which you downloaded from wordpress tooltip pro plus plugin site
8: Activate the new wordpress tooltip plugin version which you installed via plugins menu
9: Then ensure you have created a form via contact form 7 plugin,if you did not use contact form 7 to create a contact form yet, you can do it quickly:
How to create a contact form via contact form 7?
9.1 in your wordpress admin area, click plugins menu, search and install contact form 7 plugin
9.2 click contact menu item in admin area, and then click contact forms sub menu item
9.3 then change the contact form title, and add a few contact form 7 fields in “Edit Contact Form” panel, it looks like this:

build a contact form via contact form 7 plugin and add tooltips on contact form 7
9.4 click “save” blue button to publish the contact form
9.5 in front end, just copy the contact form 7 shortcode in any wordpress post
10: okay, now you have a contact form which build by the contact form 7 plugin, let’s show you how to add tooltip on contact form 7 on wordpress tooltip plugin side, actually, it is just need one click
11: please click tooltips menu item in wordpress admin area
12: please click “addons” sub menu item
13: you will find tooltip for contact form 7 addon in the wordpress tooltips addons panel, it looks like this:

wordpress tooltip for contact form
14: Please click “enable tooltip contact form 7” option, then click blue “update now” button
15: Please ensure you have created wordpress tooltip terms already, if you did not created wordpress tooltip terms yet, please:
15.1 click tooltips menu item
15.2 click add new sub menu item
15.3 you will open tooltips editor — it is a standard wordpress editor, you can insert text, video, audio, map… and any thing in this wordpress tooltip editor. Please just enter tooltip title and tooltip content, for example, enter the tooltip title “Name” — in general, this is a default field in contact form 7, this tooltip title will be the tooltip term, then enter any thing in tooltip content text area
15.4 click publish blue button to save the tooltip term
16: Please check your contact form 7 page, you will find when mouse hover the contact form field “Name”, a popup window will pop up with wordpress tooltip content 🙂
So basically, what you need to do in wordpress tooltip plugin side is just a few clicks, then you will add tooltips on contact form 7 fields automatically 🙂
You can check our demo at:
WordPress tooltip for contact form 7 demo
We make a screenshot for the contact form 7 tooltip page like this:

add wordpress tooltip for contact forms which created by contact form 7 plugin
You can find we have added tooltips effect for the field in “Your Name”… and more contact form 7 labels, actually, you can add tooltips effect for each input text fields, you can check our demo at:
Tooltips for each input text field in contact form
Please note, when you mouse hover the contact form 7 fields, you can find for each contact form 7 field, we made a different tooltips color, tooltips font family, tooltips underline style, tooltips popup animation…etc, you can custom unique pretty tooltips for each tooltips in wordpress tooltip style panel — it looks like this:

tooltip style panel in wordpress tooltip plugin 14.5.4
You can see, in wordpress tooltip style panel, what you need to do is just a few clicks to customize nearly all tooltips elements and click then save changes blue button to save it, then you will own a pretty tooltip effect for each contact form 7 fields. And when you edit a tooltip terms, you will find the same wordpress tooltip style metabox in tooltip editor, that means you can customize unique pretty style for each tooltip for your contact form 7 tooltips 🙂
More detailed document which can help you control each element for contact form 7, from contact form 7 label, to contact form 7 input box, contact form 7 options…etc:
Tooltips for anything
WordPress Tooltip Video Tutorials
WordPress Tooltips Video Tutorial 6: custom tooltip box color, font, underline, Shadow… and more
By this way, you can add unique pretty wordpress tooltip effects to each contact form 7 elements, hope this have a little help 🙂
(updated 2024-09-27)