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Same problem here on all my sites. Sending error started after 4.6 update.

I found another link to version 6.1.5 if anyone needs a copy.

https://pluginu.com/simple-share-buttons-adder/

Thanks DH. You are a lifesaver!

Thanks for your super rapid response. It’s the first time I’ve ever had an issue with AIOSEOP in all the years I’ve been using it, so no complaints from me! All is ok for me now.

Thanks. Obvious. I should have read the error message more closely.

@davidian I’m (quite) sure it was the new plugin as the warning from my host came within hours of making the change. It may have been my fault in how I set the ‘Return-path address’ and ‘Mail From strictly tied to site’ settings.

The plugin was running fine however, but the warning from my host meant I had to make a decision.

I didn’t have time to start another plugin saga, so I changed back to CF7.

So far, all is cool. But I’ll wait a day or so to be sure my host is happy though.

@davidian As Sod’s Law would have it, I just received a notification from my host warning me of problems with a few of my sites email addresses. Yes, for the sites I just replaced CF7.

So, I’m taking a bit bite of humble pie, and reloading CF7.

I would rather keep to the devil I know. Warts and all.

And, sorry for all the clichés.

Sorry @davinian, but it’s all too much of a hassle. The new contact form I am using operates perfectly out of the box, without the need for all these work arounds with CF7.

I have used CF7 for years and was very happy with it up until the latest upgrade, and never thought about looking elsewhere. But now I have, the new plugin I am using is easier to use and has many more features.

As I said earlier in this thread, annoying users and wasting their time with poorly thought through, and poorly explained plugin upgrades is not good for business.

I have changed half of my sites to a different contact form, and they are now working perfectly again. All emails are arriving FROM the sender, and not my own WordPress email as is now the case with CF7.

So, after days of lost time, I can now say I am back to where I started, and back to having at least half of my sites and contact forms working normally again.

This is the fourth instance in the last couple of months where a plugin author has gone all fancy with coding, but has given very little thought to their users. It’s becoming difficult to trust some plugin authors, and I include here both both premium and free, as I have had problems with both. Free plugins are usually a hook for a premium version. But who would buy from plugin authors who treat their user base so poorly.

Quite honestly, a simple contact form is not that difficult. So why make it so damn frustrating to use?

One other problem with CF7 now is that it now doesn’t even work with WP Rollback, so there is no way of reverting to a previous version.

This update has cost me a hell of a lot of my valuable time to find ways to make it work, so I’m logically, far from happy with this whole sad saga.

I was very lucky then. I rolled back within 24 hours, and before I created any new posts or had made any modifications, and had no posts in draft. Sorry to hear of your problems. Looks like you’ll have to manually re-publish all those affected posts.

Since I used WP Rollback to revert to version 2.3.5 I am having no issues at all. Yoast SEO is operating perfectly on all of my sites. I have certainly looked at changing my SEO plugin, but if all is ok and working, why change?

Not to mention the amount of spam email from onpage.org. I have rolled back after updating only two sites, but I am still continually having to unsubscribe from regular Onepage spam mail.

Try deactivating Yoast SEO, then check that it’s gone. Reactivate and try WP Rollback again. If that fails, delete Yoast, and download and manually install 2.3.5.

Quite honestly, this whole upgrade fiasco looks like one big con to get people to pay for onpage.org. Which by the way, is absolute rubbish, unless you fork out for the pro version.

For those who hate this upgrade, use WP Rollback to go back to version 2.3.5, and forget that this sad story ever happened. Yoast is Toast!

I am very sorry to have to say that after years of satisfaction, but this really has been an unmitigated disaster, which has affected so many users. It’s really quite unforgivable.