Contact Form 7 and Widgets

  • I have CF7 installed and have placed the shortcode in a text widget. If memory serves me right, when I set up the script and tested it, I believe it worked. I didn’t get any emails, so I figured it was the lack of traffic.

    I recently updated the plugin and tested it. Seems the data from the form was not being put in the email, only the form tags were appearing.

    I deactivated, and deleted. I reinstalled. Same problem.

    I deactivated, and deleted. I deleted the text widget. I reinstalled, and attempted to add the text widget back, but it would not reappear.

    I reset my text widgets, and went through the process again. Same problem.

    What can I look for or do in order to solve this problem?

    Thanks in advance.
    Kirk Ward

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  • You can’t place a shortcode in a text widget. It has to be placed in a post or page content area to be parsed correctly.

    Thread Starter kirkward

    (@kirkward)

    Even if this is added to functions.php … ?

    add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);

    And, even if I can’t add a shortcode to a widget, why can’t I edit or delete the widget?

    You can place contact form codes in a text widget as Contact Form 7 process it with original way different than standard shortcode mechanism.

    Thread Starter kirkward

    (@kirkward)

    Okay, I’ve tried it with and without the do_shortcode filter, and the data is still not being inserted into the email … only the tags.

    And, I still can’t delete the widget.

    Any database edits I can do to remove the widget?

    Thread Starter kirkward

    (@kirkward)

    Any more thoughts on this?

    I just installed the newest version and the text in the form is not showing up at all. Anyone else have this problem? I type into the white background with apparently white text and can’t see a thing.
    Help!

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