Wordpress Contact Form with Spam Protection Fixed
Update: THE WORDPRESS CONTACT FORM 2.06 PLUGIN IS OFFICIALLY WORKING.
Keep in mind that this plugin is for Wordpress version 2.06. The newest version of Wordpress is now 2.5.1 and I highly recommend it! The latest Contact Page Plugin for this newest version of Wordpress can be found here
I enlisted the help of several buddies at Open Designs. A bunch of great guys over there.
At any rate, we combed over the original authors PHP code and we were able to find some silly issues that were leading to a handful of annoying problems for some users. I also located some bad additional code that prevented the form from validating. Anyone who knows me knows how crazy that makes any web designer.
OK, so now that the wp-contact-plugin is working across several platforms, I feel safe in making it available to you once more.
Grab The Plugin Here! and extract it’s contents to your hard drive. The extracted folder will contain three files.
- options-contactform.php
- wp-contactform.php
- Read Me text file
Make sure you are running Wordpress 2.x
Follow these easy steps:
- Deactivate older versions of wp-contact-form and delete any older versions of wp-contact-form from your plugins directory.
- Upload the newly extracted wp-contact-form folder and its three files to your wp-content/plugins/ directory. Leave the folder in tact.
- Login to your site, navigate to your plugins page and activate the wp-contact-form plugin on the plugin screen
- Go to Options -> Contact Form and update the fields with your information
- Create a post or a page and press the Contact Form quicktag button to insert the quick tag, %%wpcontactform%%, where you want the form to be. If you do not see a Contact Form quicktag button, just copy and paste %%wpcontactform%% where you want the form to appear. When you view the entry or page, your contact form will be inserted in place of the quicktag.
Here is a screen shot that shows how to create a new page or entry that displays your cool contact form! Click the thumbnail to enlarge it. Click it again to shrink it back down to size.
That about does it.
Please let me know how this works for you. If you have any issues CONTACT me.
FAQ
- What is a QuickTag Button? a) Some browsers may display a button amongst the Post tool buttons just above your entry field for new pages and new entries. This depends on how you have your Wordpress set up and what browser you are using. Pressing the QuickTag button will automatically insert the following code into the main entry form field: %%wpcontactform%% If you do not see a QuickTag button, you will have to manually copy and paste %%wpcontactform%% wherever you want your contact form to appear. Note: See thumbnail above.
- What is a Multi-Select List? a) This is a feature of this plugin that allows you to give your visitors the option of several subject headings which are chosen from a drop down menu such as the one on the Contact Page of this web site. This option is configured by going into your Admin area. Look for the Options Tab. Assuming you have wp-contact-form installed properly, you will see Contact Form options tab. Click that to get to your wp-contact-form configuration page. Once there, look for the area called Subject Line. This is where you configure your Multi-List Subject Header. You can create as many Subject Headings as you like, separating each one with a vertical hask mark, like so:
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