I’d like to use a contact form in a general template like single.php, but I’d like to be able to configure which form is included in the template as a site option. The shortcode should not appear in the post_content, it should be coded into the template.
But instead of a hardcoded form value like [contact-form-7 id="e07e78b" title="Inquire about this work"], I’d like to be able to configure which form appears.
Using ACF, I can store a specific contact_form as a site option. ( contact_form is a post_type, so i can pick which form I want to store in the option, and access it elsewhere via get_field .)
I’m trying to understand if there’s a way to use that form’s ID to get the generated shortcode for that form. I notice that the form shortcode id does not correspond to the form’s post_id in the database, and I can’t find where it’s stored in the post_meta of the form, either.
I do find that there’s a method of WPCF7_ContactForm called shortcode() that generates the shortcode. I’m wondering how I can pass the form $post object and get the generated shortcode for it, in a template.