mlipenk

Have you checked the email processor on your host?
Do you utilize an SMTP plugin for email delivery, such a PostSMTP, FluentSMTP, or WP Mail SMTP?

I know if my form submissions are not being delivered, it is either because the “from” address in the form settings is an email I don’t have specified in WordPress or on the host, or my SMTP settings need tweaking. Some SMTP settings require a secure “secret” or token from the email provider that will expire. Most recently my forms stopped delivering because a secret had expired between my Outlook email account and FluentSMTP.

We have deactivated the setting for:

“Internet Bots” > “Blank HTTP Headers” > “Ban POST requests that have a blank user-agent and referrer”

…and ran a site scan with utility that posts as a blank user-agent and referrer. The site stays up now. The issue is the combination of the AIOS setting (which works as expected) and our load balancer which makes all traffic appear to come from ourself. Some research on our load balancer settings is in order.

To test… we will need to find and utilize a tool that can replicate that type of site scan (POST request from internet bot that has a blank user-agent and referer), and then get back to you. For now, the site is functional, and the “Blank HTTP headers” is deactivated.

I’ll deactivate the setting. Although it seems odd that this same issue suddenly popped up in multiple, recent support requests.

My apologies, Patrick. Let me retract my original statement: “I’ve tried different SMTP settings, both the host’s and Google’s“.

After further investigation, my Google SMTP settings were FAILING. Thus my SMTP plugin was using the fall-back SMTP settings of the host. The host’s SMTP emailer is still slow. However, when I re-configured the Google SMTP settings correctly the form submitted in 3-4 seconds!

So I’ve isolated the issue to the host’s SMTP emailer. (The default WP_mail has never worked on this host either). Yes… I’m looking into different hosting.

Again, I’ve tried many different form plugins and Forminator’s options and simplicity are the best. Thanks for a great plugin and thanks for your help!

@norwood451 What are your suggested replacements? I need to sunset this menu plugin too.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by mlipenk.

Something people using smtp.office365.com may want to consider is if MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) is activated on the Microsoft Azure Active Directory server. MFA will likely produce an ‘authentication unsuccessful’ error in a generic environment such as WordPress.

I came across this Microsoft information regarding a possible solution using:

APP Passwords or Trusted IPs

Granted, these solutions will require you to have higher-level server access or access to someone who does. This is not a fix at either the WordPress or Plugin level unless you get that App Password working. In that case, you ought to be able to simply enter the App Password into the plugin settings as you normally would enter your account password.

I am getting the 5.7.3 Authentication Unsuccessful error in my setup, and we recently implemented MFA. I have not tried either of these solutions yet, but I will be trying them. Others might want to try these solutions if MFA is a factor.

Hello. It is actually quite simple.

1) Create a custom style for the background color. (You can also add other styles.)

Examples:

.add-grey-background {background-color:#dddddd;}

.add-gold-background {background-color:gold;}

.add-border {
border-width:1px;
border-style:solid;
border-color:#87bfc7;
}

.add-padding {
padding-top:25px !important;
padding-right:25px !important;
padding-bottom:25px !important;
padding-left:25px !important;
}

.add-centered {text-align: center !important;}

.add-margin {
margin-bottom:14px !important;
}

.add-medium-text {font-size:18px !important;}

.add-large-text {font-size:24px !important;}

*I make these styles through Simple Custom CSS plugin. Or you can do it through your WordPress theme area: Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS

2) Add the style class to the start tag(s) of the column-shortcode.

Example of one class:
[one_fourth class=”add-grey-background”]My Special Content[/one_fourth]

Example of multiple classes:
[one_fourth class=”add-grey-background add-border add-centered add-padding”]My Special Content[/one_fourth]

*Keep in mind you don’t have to create multiple classes to pull this off. The styles could all be in one “featured-column” class. (I just happen to like to make things granular in my styles. I may want the border without a background, or a background without a border…etc.)

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by mlipenk.
• This reply was modified 5 years ago by mlipenk.

I run a site with thousands of pages and posts. I have seen absolutely NO perceptible hit in “performance” as a result of the Post SMTP plugin or where it stores its data. The plugin author has made an excellent plugin that 99.999% give a 5-star review. Now… can’t we all just get along, and enjoy WordPress???

Does email work on your WordPress site at all. IE: new users are sent and email for login and password change? Other plugins that use email notifications are sending?

Regardless of who I have for Email Recipients in the Caldera Forms, or if I specify a Reply to Email of the form filler’s email address such as %email_address%… The email for sending replies and auto-responses will only come from my registered domain, using the email address I have set up under WP General Settings.

There’s probably other ways to set it up though.

The only form entry viewer I can get to work (and with extreme limitations) is shortcode:

[caldera_forms_entry_viewer ID=”CF5d559c35009b8″]

*Where ID is the ID of YOUR form from which you want entries displayed. And only the default settings for the “Administrator” seem to work.

view_toolbar=”true” – Doesn’t work
type=”1″ – Doesn’t work
type=”2″ – Doesn’t work
type=”classic” – Completely breaks the display output.
roles=”Super Admin,Administrator,Editor,Author,Contributor,Subscriber” – Makes no difference. Only a logged in Admin can see the output.

[caldera_forms_entry_viewer ID=”CF5d559c35009b8″ view_toolbar=”true” type=”1″ roles=”Super Admin,Administrator,Editor,Author,Contributor,Subscriber”] WILL NOT WORK.

It behaves like the default settings, where an Admin has to be logged in to see the output. In which case (ie: Editor, Subscriber, etc.) will see “You are not allowed to view this.” EVEN WHEN LOGGED INTO WORDPRESS.

So in essence, what Caldera describes as an option… DOES NOT WORK. I say this as a developer who uses and likes the out-of-the-box options that Caldera Forms offers. But this feature doesn’t work in my experience.

(I’ll touch on the ‘add filter’ option in a bit after I collect my thoughts…)

Yes and No. Yes, in that if you have a specified number of fields you can use “Conditions” to show/hide all those fields when a single previous form field is filled in.

Such as fields 2 and 3 are hidden until field 1 is filled in. Or a number of fields become available based on a particular drop-down selection. This scenario works.

That being said… I have NOT been successful in daisy-chaining conditions. Such as when field 1 if filled… field 2 displays (while field 3 is still hidden by an empty field 2), then if field 2 is filled… field 3 displays. It seems that if a field is previously affected by a condition, Applied Fields become unavailable in subsequent conditions.

I’ve tried extensively to pull off what you are trying to accomplish, but with no success. I’d guess I’d ask why each course has to be its own field? Why not simply have a text area and the user use a carriage return?

I did try [fileaway_tutorials showto=”administrator”] as well. Who knows, maybe it’s my browser. I’ll keep searching. Thnx!

Try it. What harm could come? When the pixel plugin is active with an ID, and you go to your site in a browser and right-click and “view source” code… you will see the pixel code prefaced by <!– Facebook Pixel Code –> and ended by the same tag. When you delete the plugin, I would think the tags and any Facebook Pixel code in between, would disappear from the source code. Since the plugin inserts the code in every page in your site, you can use any page in your site to view the source code.

Unless something has recently changed, Instagram currently doesn’t allow you to share a photo or video from another website – you can only upload photos/videos directly from your mobile device. Whatever this plugin purportedly has to allow Instagram is very un-intuitive.