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Contact form 7 just stops working sometimes.

And by that I don’t mean for short periods, I mean it just stops working and that is it.

I have changed over to Fast Secure Contact Form. Once you familiarise yourself with the options available it is easy and much better imo.

Contact form 7 seems easier to set up but I have had to change forms on my site as well as a friends because it just stops working one day even if you have done no other work on your site.

I’m with hostgator and my friend is with blu host.

I got it. I’ll post what I did for anyone else looking for to do the same thing.

I used the code here and added to theme functions. I backed up the original code first of course as theme functions is the one that can screw up your site if you get something wrong. https://www.fastsecurecontactform.com/incremental-number-in-subject

I don’t usually have a subject bar on the form but had to activate it for this purpose so to make it invisible I added `#fscf_field1_2{
display:none;
}`
to the custom css option in the theme.

I then changed the “email subject prefix” under basic settings for a title that would follow the ticket number assigned.

Now all I had to do was add [subject] into the html auto responder email and the ticket number and title showed up there

Perfect, thank you.

It’s a one page theme from themeforest. Newave.

I’ll shoot them an email and see if I can have them solve it.

Safari Chrome and Firefox. Does not work in any of them unfortunately.

Thank you for that. It was disabled but the reason the page reloads is I have the ” Enable an HTML anchor tag on the form POST URL.” option checked so it comes back to the same spot on the page.

I guess I would just like the contact form to still be there as well as the message sent notification.

I can redirect to the same spot on the page and the form is there but then there is no message sent notification.

I think it just looks nicer to have the form remain and the notification.

Not sure if this sheds any light on things but I went to this site https://www.blockedinchina.net/ and when I typed in chrisfawkes.com it said that my site could be seen on all servers yet when I typed in the individual page url’s it appears the site could not be seen.

I am using a one page scrollable theme. Is that what could be causing things to not work as they should?

What is happening is that the logging shows China as being blocked but the times that are shown match both my stats and the time that spam is coming in from my contact form.

I have setting to go to a blank page that redirects to the Beijing Police website.

The time without spam was due to contact form7 stopped working altogether but as soon as I changed to a new contact form plugin the spam started again within minutes.

Would be great if there was a solution or just something I am missing in settings.

Thanks for your time.

I blocked Hong Kong last night as well and today is the first day without spam so wondering if it is possible that people in China but in Hong Kong may have still had access.

It does say that ip’s from china are being blocked but then I still get spam from China that matches with hits from that country at the same time.

I was using a blocked message but as of last night changed to a blank page where the menu does not sshow and it quickly redirects to google and still 3 spam messages today from China

The stats show when they come and it also matches with the spam they are sending.

Changing the opacity from 0 to 1 in css did the trick.

Posting here in case it is ever relevant to anyone else.

.element_fade_in {
     opacity: 1;
     position: relative;
     padding-left: 0px;
     right: 0px;
}

Changing the opacity to 1 in css did the trick. Posting here in case it is ever relevant to someone else.

.element_fade_in {
     opacity: 1;
     position: relative;
     padding-left: 0px;
     right: 0px;
}

Look in the css for this code

.home #content-wrapper section.portfolio-fixed-width-grid, .home #content-wrapper section.portfolio-full-width-grid {
margin-bottom: 10px;
}

Does yours have the margin-bottom: 10px;? I imagine that is giving the space. Also ask if you can import the demo style. Sometimes when you buy a them a particular demo style can be imported so might be worth skiing them about that.

Thank you Richard. I will try that.

I just realised the issue is only present in Chrome. Safari and Firefox it does not occur. Have not tested in Explorer.

Still with Chrome being the most used browser and growing it would be nice to get it displaying properly there.

I’ll let you know if the plugin solves this.