Upgraded my contact form plugin – Now it’s not working

  • Using Ryan Duff’s contact form plugin, I upgraded to version 1.3. Now it’s not sending me messages.

    I followed the instructions to the letter AFAIK. Noticed that he said to delete the old options-contactform.php in /wp-admin/, but it was in the plugins directory where it’s now supposed to be anyway. In any event I deleted it and wp-contactform.php, reinstalled the new ones, activated, and now cannot send messages. The form “looks” right, but no message comes through.

    FWIW, I was recently tinkering with changing my admin and contact form email address to a new one, as well as instituting a redirect from the “me{{{at_sign}}smalltownproject.org” I can access in Plesk to the new address. But in trying to solve this problem I’ve put everything back to where it was before. The previous contact form did work as I tested it and also got a message from someone. The current one has lost one message from a reader and many test messages (i.e., none has gone through). I have installed a couple of other well known plugins since the time that the previous form worked in tests. If there might be a conflict of some sort, I’m glad to list them. Any ideas? Thanks for any help!

    https://www.smalltownproject.org/

    [edit]Oh, one more thing, I’ve noticed that my htaccess file cannot be set on any permission other than 600. It refuses anything else. It’s also the only file that lists “group” as Apache. I’ve assumed this was either a feature of wp1.5.2 or something instituted by my webhost. But they are Laughing Squid and host lots of wp blogs, and everything else seems to be working fine, so I doubt that’s a problem.

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  • I changed this in 1.3 and changed it back in changeset 3460.

    In english…

    Open your wp-contactform.php file
    Delete line 141… $from = get_option('admin_email');
    Change line 156 from … mail($recipient, $subject, $fullmsg, $headers, "-f $from"); to mail($recipient, $subject, $fullmsg, $headers);

    That should fix your problem

    Thread Starter asecondforever

    (@asecondforever)

    Thank you VERY much Ryan! I’ll give that a try and report back. ??

    Thread Starter asecondforever

    (@asecondforever)

    That seems to have fixed it. Thanks again, Ryan, for your very prompt reply!

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