Every WordPress developer knows this dance: you need to test a client’s contact form, but the notifications go to the client. So you either warn them to ignore the next few emails, or you edit the form’s recipient, test, and hope you remember to change it back. Forget once and the client’s leads route to your inbox for a month.
Hijack forms ends the dance.
How it works
Turn on Hijack forms from the top admin bar (it shows on the front-end pages too, so you can enable it right where you’re testing). Enter one or more email addresses; it defaults to your own. From that moment, every form notification you trigger while testing goes to those inboxes instead of the client’s.
Then it cleans up after itself: the mode turns off automatically after the window you pick. No sticky note required, no recipient left pointing at you.
Two guarantees make it safe to use on production sites:
- Real visitor submissions are never affected. Only your test submissions are redirected. A genuine lead that arrives while hijack mode is on goes to the client as normal.
- No per-form editing. You don’t touch the form’s notification settings at all, so there’s nothing to forget to revert.
Why it exists
Because “did the client actually receive that email” is a question you sometimes need to answer with your own eyes, on Gmail, on Outlook, wherever. Formitor’s scheduled checks verify delivery automatically around the clock; hijack mode is for the hands-on moments: after a migration, mid-debugging, or while wiring up a new form.
Ships in plugin v0.2.23. Push it to your fleet from the dashboard in one click.