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title: "How to Send Custom Email Confirmation to the User from WordPress Form?"
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description: "A confirmation email tells visitors their message arrived and gives them a copy of what they sent. The Form block in Nexter Blocks Pro can email each visitor after they..."
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# How to Send Custom Email Confirmation to the User from WordPress Form?

## Key Takeaways

- Nexter Blocks Form block sends an auto responder email after submit when the Action After Submit tab selects Auto Respond Email from the Options dropdown.
- [nxt_user_email] in the To field sends the email notification to the user, while leaving it blank sends the email to the website admin.
- Meta Data adds Date, Time, Page URL, User Agent, and Remote IP to the email, and CC and BCC tabs send cc and bcc emails.

A confirmation email tells visitors their message arrived and gives them a copy of what they sent.

The Form block in Nexter Blocks Pro can email each visitor after they submit, using the Auto Respond Email action.

*For every Form setting in one place, see the [Form block guide](https://nexterwp.com/docs/add-a-form-in-wordpress/).*

[LIVE BLOCK LINK](https://nexterwp.com/nexter-blocks/blocks/)

## Before You Start

- **Edition:** **Pro** — Auto Respond Email needs Nexter Blocks Pro.- **Block to enable:** Form, switched on under **Nexter > Blocks** in your WordPress dashboard.- **An Email Address field in the form**, so the reply has somewhere to go.- **Working email on your site:** an SMTP plugin is strongly recommended.

## Learn via Video Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNTzqQFrG48

## Steps

- Add the **Form** block to your page, click **Design from Scratch** and choose **Simple Contact Form** or **Newsletter Form**.

- Select the Form block (not a field inside it). In **Action After Submit**, open **Options** and choose **Auto Respond Email**. You can keep Email selected as well.

![The Action After Submit panel with Options](https://nexterwp.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/form-action-submit.webp)

- Open the **Auto Respond Email** panel that appears and enter `[nxt_user_email]` in **To**.

![The Auto Respond Email panel with To and Subject](https://nexterwp.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/form-auto-respond.webp)

- Add a **Subject** and an **Email Heading**, and pick any **Meta Data** to include.

- Save the page, then submit the form once on the front end to test the connection.

## How It Behaves

- With `[nxt_user_email]` in To, the email goes to the address the visitor typed.- If To is left empty, the email goes to your site's admin email instead.- The email shows your heading and a copy of every filled field.

## Limitations

- **Pro only.**- In Nexter Blocks 5.0.6 the From Email, From Name and Reply To set here are not applied. The email is sent from no-reply@example.com with no reply address. Set a default sender in your SMTP plugin so replies reach you.- There is no field for a custom message. The body is the heading plus the submitted fields.

## Troubleshooting

### Visitors do not receive the email

Check To is exactly `[nxt_user_email]`, the form has an Email Address field, and your SMTP plugin is sending mail.

### The email lands in spam

The default no-reply sender is often filtered. Make your SMTP plugin send from an address on your own domain.

## Related Docs

- [Form block: all settings](https://nexterwp.com/docs/add-a-form-in-wordpress/)- [Receive a custom email for each submission](https://nexterwp.com/docs/receive-custom-email-confirmation-from-wordpress-form/)- [Redirect users after form submission](https://nexterwp.com/docs/redirect-users-from-wordpress-form/)