A few small queries

  • Excellent and easy-to-implement plugin, but I’ve a few small queries (probably noobie issues!)

    1. If this uses WP Mail to send the contact form by default, does this mean you have to manually install the WP Mail SMTP plugin for it to work? To be honest I’m not tech-savvy, and don’t really understand the differences between PHP mail and WP Mail.

    2. I’m building a site on localhost MAMP (Mac) – the contact form installs great, and works great…appeared to successfully send the form. Of course, I’m not on a live server, so I’m wondering how the form has established that it has successfully sent an email?….particularly as I haven’t received it.

    3. I’ve mildly tweaked the custom CSS to make the field label text larger, but can’t see anywhere to make the actual field input text larger – it’s very small out of the box.

    4. Would be really nice to have an option to forward to a custom ‘success’ page. I’m not knocking the text version, but to have the option to forward would be good.

    5. As mentioned in another thread, the ability to add extra fields would be great!

    But all round, very nice work – simple, clear and it works…even if I don’t know how ??

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  • Plugin Author WPKube

    (@wpkube)

    1) No, you don’t need to install anything. Both WordPress wpmail function and regular PHP mail function are available. By default it’s using the WordPress wpmail function. If for some reason that does not work ( you don’t receive the messages ) switch to PHP mail. But since you mention in the 2nd point that you are working on localhost, it’s likely you won’t receive any emails, it needs to be on a live server in order for it to work (not specific to the plugin).

    2) It hasn’t received any specific errors from the server so it assumed that it was sent. On a live server if it got any errors it would show that there was an issue.

    3) You can target those with:

    #simple-contact-form fieldset input {
    /* your css here */
}

    4) Added to the to do list.

    5) The ability for that was added recently, but requires some code (you can see the instructions in the other thread). But we’ll be adding it as part of the options soon so it can be added without the need to use PHP code.

    WordPress 5.0 is being released soon so currently we’re working on testing and updating (if needed) a lot of themes and plugins that we have. After that’s sorted out we’ll take care of adding the new features to this plugin.

    Thread Starter hj

    (@hj)

    Many thanks for the quick reply – all those points are sound with me. I’ve managed to tweak the CSS, so got a more stylish form and corrected the field input text size, thanks.

    Appreciate the help – good luck with updating for WP 5.0!

    Plugin Author WPKube

    (@wpkube)

    You’re welcome and thank you.

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