# Fill a Contact Form 7 Drop-Down With Your Posts

> Fills a Contact Form 7 select field with the titles of published posts, pages or a custom post type, so a services or products list stays in sync with your content.

- Type: PHP
- Runs: Run everywhere
- Category: [Forms](https://wpide.com/library/category/forms/)
- Tags: contact-form-7, dynamic, select
- Author: WPIDE Team
- Installs: 0
- Updated: 2026-10-28
- Page: https://wpide.com/library/cf7-dropdown-from-posts/

## Code

```php
$wpide_cf7_select_field = 'menu-service'; // Name of the select tag to fill.
$wpide_cf7_select_type  = 'page';         // Post type to list.

add_filter( 'wpcf7_form_tag', function ( $tag ) use ( $wpide_cf7_select_field, $wpide_cf7_select_type ) {
    if ( empty( $tag->name ) || $tag->name !== $wpide_cf7_select_field || 'select' !== $tag->basetype ) {
        return $tag;
    }

    $titles = get_transient( 'wpide_cf7_select_' . $wpide_cf7_select_type );

    if ( false === $titles ) {
        $ids    = get_posts( array( 'post_type' => $wpide_cf7_select_type, 'post_status' => 'publish', 'numberposts' => 100, 'orderby' => 'title', 'order' => 'ASC', 'fields' => 'ids', 'no_found_rows' => true ) );
        $titles = array_values( array_filter( array_map( function ( $id ) {
            return wp_strip_all_tags( get_the_title( $id ) );
        }, $ids ) ) );
        set_transient( 'wpide_cf7_select_' . $wpide_cf7_select_type, $titles, HOUR_IN_SECONDS );
    }

    if ( $titles ) {
        $tag->values     = $titles;
        $tag->raw_values = $titles;
        $tag->labels     = $titles;
    }

    return $tag;
} );

add_action( 'save_post_' . $wpide_cf7_select_type, function () use ( $wpide_cf7_select_type ) {
    delete_transient( 'wpide_cf7_select_' . $wpide_cf7_select_type );
} );
```

## Notes

Add an empty select tag such as [select* menu-service] to your form and set the field name and post type at the top; the list is cached for an hour and refreshed when a post of that type is saved.

## How to use it

Install the free WPIDE plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpide/), find "Fill a Contact Form 7 Drop-Down With Your Posts" in its snippet library and add it in one click; or create a new PHP snippet in WPIDE (or any code snippets plugin) and paste the code above. More snippets: https://wpide.com/library/