I’m pretty sure most people have used Contact Form 7 if they’ve been building WordPress websites. But have you ever wanted to add a list of countries within a dropdown? There is no built-in functionality to do this unfortunately be today we are going to share a simple copy and paste shortcode for you do add to your form.
In the below shortcode we have set United Kingdom
and United States
to be the first two selections in the dropdown, feel free to change these to countries you would like to add priority to. We also added "---"
to separate the priority countries to the rest of the countries which are in alphabetical order.
[select country "United Kingdom" "United States" "---" "Afghanistan" "Albania" "Algeria" "American Samoa" "Andorra" "Angola" "Anguilla" "Antigua and Barbuda" "Argentina" "Armenia" "Armenia" "Aruba" "Australia" "Austria" "Azerbaijan" "Azerbaijan" "Bahamas" "Bahrain" "Bangladesh" "Barbados" "Belarus" "Belgium" "Belize" "Benin" "Bermuda" "Bhutan" "Bolivia" "Bonaire" "Bosnia and Herzegovina" "Botswana" "Bouvet Island (Bouvetoya)" "Brazil" "British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago)" "British Virgin Islands" "Brunei Darussalam" "Bulgaria" "Burkina Faso" "Burundi" "Cambodia" "Cameroon" "Canada" "Cape Verde" "Cayman Islands" "Central African Republic" "Chad" "Chile" "China" "Christmas Island" "Cocos (Keeling) Islands" "Colombia" "Comoros" "Congo" "Congo" "Cook Islands" "Costa Rica" "Cote d'Ivoire" "Croatia" "Cuba" "Curaçao" "Cyprus" "Cyprus" "Czech Republic" "Denmark" "Djibouti" "Dominica" "Dominican Republic" "Ecuador" "Egypt" "El Salvador" "Equatorial Guinea" "Eritrea" "Estonia" "Ethiopia" "Falkland Islands (Malvinas)" "Faroe Islands" "Fiji" "Finland" "France" "French Guiana" "French Polynesia" "French Southern Territories" "Gabon" "Gambia" "Georgia" "Germany" "Ghana" "Gibraltar" "Greece" "Greenland" "Grenada" "Guadeloupe" "Guam" "Guatemala" "Guernsey" "Guinea" "Guinea-Bissau" "Guyana" "Haiti" "Heard Island and McDonald Islands" "Holy See (Vatican City State)" "Honduras" "Hong Kong" "Hungary" "Iceland" "India" "Indonesia" "Iran" "Iraq" "Ireland" "Isle of Man" "Israel" "Italy" "Jamaica" "Japan" "Jersey" "Jordan" "Kazakhstan" "Kazakhstan" "Kenya" "Kiribati" "Korea" "Korea" "Kuwait" "Kyrgyz Republic" "Lao People's Democratic Republic" "Latvia" "Lebanon" "Lesotho" "Liberia" "Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" "Liechtenstein" "Lithuania" "Luxembourg" "Macao" "Macedonia" "Madagascar" "Malawi" "Malaysia" "Maldives" "Mali" "Malta" "Marshall Islands" "Martinique" "Mauritania" "Mauritius" "Mayotte" "Micronesia" "Moldova" "Monaco" "Mongolia" "Montenegro" "Montserrat" "Morocco" "Mozambique" "Myanmar" "Namibia" "Nauru" "Nepal" "Netherlands" "Netherlands Antilles" "New Caledonia" "New Zealand" "Nicaragua" "Niger" "Nigeria" "Niue" "Norfolk Island" "Northern Mariana Islands" "Mexico" "Norway" "Oman" "Pakistan" "Palau" "Palestinian Territory" "Panama" "Papua New Guinea" "Paraguay" "Peru" "Philippines" "Pitcairn Islands" "Poland" "Portugal" "Puerto Rico" "Qatar" "Reunion" "Romania" "Russian Federation" "Rwanda" "Saint Barthelemy" "Saint Helena" "Saint Kitts and Nevis" "Saint Lucia" "Saint Martin" "Saint Pierre and Miquelon" "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines" "Samoa" "San Marino" "Sao Tome and Principe" "Saudi Arabia" "Senegal" "Serbia" "Seychelles" "Sierra Leone" "Singapore" "Sint Maarten (Netherlands)" "Slovakia (Slovak Republic)" "Slovenia" "Solomon Islands" "Somalia" "South Africa" "South Georgia & S. Sandwich Islands" "Spain" "Sri Lanka" "Sudan" "Suriname" "Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands" "Swaziland" "Sweden" "Switzerland" "Syrian Arab Republic" "Taiwan" "Tajikistan" "Tanzania" "Thailand" "Timor-Leste" "Togo" "Tokelau" "Tonga" "Trinidad and Tobago" "Tunisia" "Turkey" "Turkey" "Turkmenistan" "Turks and Caicos Islands" "Tuvalu" "U.S. Virgin Islands" "U.S. Minor Outlying Islands" "Uganda" "Ukraine" "United Arab Emirates" "Uruguay" "Uzbekistan" "Vanuatu" "Venezuela" "Vietnam" "Wallis and Futuna" "Western Sahara" "Yemen" "Zambia" "Zimbabwe"]
It’s definitely a time-saver, imagine getting a list of countries than having to format it to the above manually? Well, we sure do this helps save a lot of time.
Drop a comment below if you’ve used this in your WordPress website 😉
Plugin Alternative
If you prefer to use a plugin to achieve a very similar thing then you can use Listo.
Listo is a simple plugin that provides several kinds of common lists for other plugins like Contact Form 7. Listo currently provides lists of world countries, U.S. subdivisions, and world currencies.
With this plugin, you can change your dropdown shortcode to:
[select your-country data:countries]
By adding data:countries
, this gives the menu about 200 country options. Simple, right?
The plugin has some other additional features that might appeal to you. For example, would you like to display a list of currencies? No problem, just use the below shortcode:
[select your-currency data:currencies]
Pretty sweet, don’t you think?