Using contact-form-7 from admin

I found closed support questions related to this, so wanted to add the solution. If you want to display contact form 7 forms in an admin page (eg via do_shortcode), then you will need a plugin like the one that follows enabled. It must be a plugin because it needs to happen before the plugins_loaded action.

Cheers, and hope this helps someone,
Russ Tyndall

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Contact Form 7 On Admin Screens
Plugin URI: https://contactform7.com/
Description: A tiny plugin to make Contact Form 7 work on admin
Author: Russ Tyndall
Author URI: https://www.acceleration.net/
Text Domain: contact-form-7
Version: 1

*/

function sun_wpcf7_admin (){
  require_once WPCF7_PLUGIN_DIR . '/includes/controller.php';
};
add_action('plugins_loaded', 'sun_wpcf7_admin',1);

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