eric_the_grey

OK, I’ve figured it out!

I was putting my administrators email address in the form when I set it up, and when you open the form, the address was showing up in the “email address” box. I was changing this of course, to put in the “from” address, and the system was apparently replacing that with the “to” address. My host won’t let me send tmail from forms to an address not associated with the site.

This is a bit of a problem because the workaround is to change the “email address” field to a text field. This won’t validate that the user is actually putting in an email address, which it should be doing (IMO).

At this time, my form is working again, just not perfectly.

Eric the Grey

I did fill out that part of the form. If you tried from my installation, nothing has come through.

I’m beginning to think it’s in whatever hook the plugins are using to send the email with. Both the Jetpack plugin, as well as Contact Form 7 are failing to send, even though mail from Contact Form 7 actually has a To: entry. I’m still not getting anything in my administrator mailbox.

Again, other emails are being sent, just not the comment forms.

Eric the Grey

Quick update on this. I installed an Email Log plugin to track emails sent, and I can see what is going out. The To: field is blank.

I’ve once again tested with resetting a user password, and the to: field shows both the end users email, as well as the admin account email. It seems to be that regardless of what I put in the to field for the contact form, they are not getting sent to a given address.

You can see a screenshot (for now) at: https://test.tanzegier.com/

Eric the Grey

I’m having the same problem on my own test site with both Jetpack and one called “Fast Secure Contact Form” so I don’t believe it’s just Jetpack that has the problem. I’d like to use Jetpack, only because I want to keep the number of plugins being used to a minimum.

I’ve upgraded to the most recent version of Jetpack yesterday, but the problem persists.

WordPress does send emails, registrations and password retrievals both work, so I know that the site can send email.

I figure there is something I’ve not done in configuring this, or messed up at some point, but I can’t figure it out.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Eric the Grey

Ok, thank you for your replies. Thinking on this, I can understand why PHP cannot be used in a post.

I’ll have to read up on both options and see if either will work for me.

Thanks again.

Thanks for your reply, and I thought of doing this but shouldn’t there be a more dynamic way of linking? If I set them up now, with the url of https://localhost/wordpress/category/maps/ it won’t work when I upload it to my domain. I’ll either have to change all the links once they’re live, or add them after they are live. Neither is optimal

It seems as though WordPress would be able to link back to itself without doing this. Heck, even standard HTML will do this without fully qualifying the link.

John