ashewebmaster

Okay.. still getting errors when I attempt to post a job and the process is getting stuck in the last step and will not publish job postings. The “Failed to save job” message appears many times during the process of creating a job listing.

Finally I have fully ruled out my caching plugin as I disabled it when I did my last round of testing.

• This reply was modified 3 days, 10 hours ago by ashewebmaster.

Still waiting for this new version.

regarding:

“You can also change the labels using a translation plugin if you want.”

please explain how I would do this?

Just sent the message using the contact form on your website.

Thanks for the information.. I’m aware that volunteers aren’t employees, but neither are interns.. Yet we still need to track information for them as we would employees. (Hence my question)

@macmanx that is indeed my concern. Feels like this plugin has been abandoned and is not compatible with the latest version of WordPress.

@blackandwhitesupport is there any plan to update this plugin since it hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress?

• This reply was modified 5 days, 6 hours ago by ashewebmaster.

No worries.. I was really just venting and frustrated.. I needed to get a campaign stood up in a hurry and was used to how quickly I could do that before the Builder came along.. I was hoping the new features would be easy to use and was pretty frustrated that I had a deadline I was in danger of not making. I will provide more specific examples of the refreshing the next time I have to create campaign.

That said the Builder will save me some steps in the future. I always had to build the page using my site theme and insert the campaign shortcode. It always seemed silly to have to build a seperate Campaign page just to make my campaigns look the way I wanted to. So it’s a great step forward, but as a power user I struggled HARD! So I cannot imagine how it was for non power users. I am looking forward to the improvements to this feature. In the meantime I finally have my campign up and looking (mostly) the way I want it to look.

Creating a custom template using Beaver Themer doesn’t work. The result is a campaign which only displays the campaign short description and NOTHING else. Instead of this, I’m better off building a page with Beaver Builder and inserting the WP Charitable shortcode where I want the campaign form to appear. This is what I have been doing prior to the addition of the WP Charitable Builder, but I would PREFER to be able to use the WP Charitable Builder to simplify campaign editing for me.

That said The BEST solution is to create the single-campaign.php file with the following code:

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div class="fl-content-full container">
	<div class="row">
		<div class="fl-content col-md-12">
			<?php
			if ( have_posts() ) :
				while ( have_posts() ) :
					the_post();
					get_template_part( 'content', 'page' );
				endwhile;
			endif;
			?>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

This gets me exactly what I was after. JUST the campaign and no sidebar. Thanks for the hint/help.

• This reply was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by ashewebmaster.

I think you misunderstood what I was asking. I expect the “reply-to” field to be the email address field on my Contact Us form. This would be the email address provided by the person who is filling out the form. When I reply to the email I receive from the form, I expect that I will be replying to person who filled out the form. (see attached screenshot).

That said, I switched back to Contact 7 with ReCaptcha and dropped Askimet. That seems to have solved all my issues and provided the functionality I really needed.

Right. So that’s ONE submission. There are plenty of others we submitted in our testing.

Our experience to date is that legit AND test responses are getting flagged as spam for this form and we really need to move forward as we need to collect volunteer applications to support our upcoming fundraising event. It’s a big event and it reflects BADLY with donors and volunteers on our very small non-profit to not have everything on the site working as it should. ??

I am more than happy to circle back to this in the future. I am the ONLY tech support for this organization. When I have time between my day job and the organizations events, I will circle back to this and take you up on your offer. However, right now, the organization cannot afford to have our forms behave inconsistently. The solution in pace is working. I promise that we’ll circle back to this in a few months. ??

Thanks a heap for your time. ??

• This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by ashewebmaster.
• This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by ashewebmaster.
• This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by ashewebmaster.

As a seasoned IT pro, I know how Askimet and ReCaptcha work, and I would never use gibberish test data as I KNOW this will potentially trigger a spam response. I used legit data from past form submissions to populate my test submissions. I used different legit email addresses from different domains to submit my test forms. NOTHING I did should have triggered a spam response. Yet every single one of my forms was placed in the Contact 7 spam quarantine folder.

The only reason I knew the forms were submitted at all is because the HubSpot CMS plugin notified me that a form on my site was submitted. At this point I do not know if it’s Askimet, or the Contact 7 plugin’s Askimet integration. I’m am unsure why it’s only THIS ONE FORM. I don’t seem to have the issue with the Contact Us form, but the Volunteer Application form consistently marks ALL submissions as spam.

I appreciate the willingness to look into it, but I have an event that I NEED this volunteer application form working for and I’m already lost a whole week chasing this issue down and missing out on legit volunteer application submissions. ReCaptcha works right now and once the event is over I may circle back and revisit the Askimet/Contact 7 integration issue.

By “defaulting to the admin email” I mean that instead of the value I configured for the “reply-to” email (which should be the email address field on my form), when I receive the email from the form, the admin email is what is set as the reply-to email. This means that instead of being able to reply to the email I receive when the form is submitted, I now have to COPY the email address provided in the form results, then REPLACE the to email address with the correct email address. It’s an extra (and unnecessary) step required to respond to an inquiry received through our Contact Us form. See screenshots to see what I am referring to.

https://ibb.co/GWNY29J

https://ibb.co/59DjGXs

• This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by ashewebmaster.
• This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by ashewebmaster.

Wanted to add this in case someone else stumbles on this thread and thinks the issue with Askimet is REALLY “fixed”.

To be clear, this actually wasn’t resolved because someone found the REAL answer as to why Askimet was blocking my volunteer application form. We still don’t know WHY Askimet is blocking our volunteer application form form but not our Contact Us form. So we sought to test another spam solution that would integrate with both our Contact 7 forms and the Charitable (our donation plugin) forms. Since we were already using Google Cloud to configure WP Mail SMTP with Google Workspace it was an easy peezy step to configure ReCaptcha.

However, once we confirmed that ReCaptcha would work for both our Contact 7 forms and our Charitable (donation plugin) forms, we activated ReCaptcha and moved on. So YES we now have a security and spam solution in place, but there is still some kind of issue with the integration between Askimet and Contact 7 that has NOT been resolved.

My recommendation to ANYONE using the Contact 7 plugin for forms beyond the standard “Contact Us” form is to forget Askimet. Configure ReCaptcha, and along with ReCaptcha, install and configure AT LEAST the basic WP Mail SMTP plugin (or one like it). Even if the ONLY form you have is your Contact Us form, you should do this anyway. ??

• This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by ashewebmaster. Reason: Marking resolved

Wanted to add this in case someone else stumbles on this thread and thinks the issue with Askimet is REALLY “fixed”.

To be clear, this actually wasn’t resolved because someone found the REAL answer as to why Askimet was blocking my volunteer application form. We still don’t know WHY Askimet is blocking our volunteer application form form but not our Contact Us form. So we sought to test another spam solution that would integrate with both our Contact 7 forms and the Charitable (our donation plugin) forms. Since we were already using Google Cloud to configure WP Mail SMTP with Google Workspace it was an easy peezy step to configure ReCaptcha.

However, once we confirmed that ReCaptcha would work for both our Contact 7 forms and our Charitable (donation plugin) forms, we activated ReCaptcha and moved on. So YES we now have a security and spam solution in place, but there is still some kind of issue with the integration between Askimet and Contact 7 that has NOT been resolved.

My recommendation to ANYONE using the Contact 7 plugin for forms beyond the standard “Contact Us” form is to forget Askimet. Configure ReCaptcha, and along with ReCaptcha, install and configure AT LEAST the basic WP Mail SMTP plugin (or one like it). Even if the ONLY form you have is your Contact Us form, you should do this anyway. ??

I resolved my issue by disabling Askimet and activating ReCaptcha.

Problem solved.. Wish I knew why, but for now that’s my solution.