susantau

p.s. i am using wordpress 3.8.1

Hi, I have a very similar need… I just installed Recent Posts with Excerpts and love how it pulls the most recent post excerpt into my home page sidebar, but also pulls all the Simple Share icons that display on the the post page into the excerpt too. I tried adding the line that you advised warringtonscott to add into the functions.php file, but that had no effect. can you please suggest a way to keep these share icons out of the excerpt? thanks! susan

Will do! ??

Thanks for your speedy response! I will probably pick up the Pro version. ??
Susan

GREAT news for me and my client: CF7 is working finally.

I think the probs we were having were a combo of not getting the CF7 settings quite exactly right (see below) and also DreamHost having issues with their mail server this week.

Here’s a pretty good tutorial explaining how to set up CF7 so that a DreamHost server will not interfere with mail delivery.
https://savorywatt.com/2012/10/10/fix-contact-form-7-not-working-with-dreamhost/

lisa, do you know the name of the dreamhost email server that your client is on? the dreamhost mail server that went down this week is homiemail-sub4. went down tuesday and supposedly is happy and healthy again as of last evening.

I’ve been trying to get Contact Form 7 to work for days (current version installed from www.remarpro.com 9/6/13 – my site uses WordPress 3.6).

I have learned some of the issues have had to do with requirements by my host, DreamHost – I needed to do what ferreste describes above, but not just with the From address but also the To in the CF7 settings. Each of these addresses have to be email accounts associated with domains that live on a Dreamhost server. This is, i believe, an anti-spoofing measure on the part of DreamHost.

After I made this change to CF7 6 days ago, the form worked for a couple of days. Then 4 days ago i changed the perceived url of this WordPress site to be the root AND around this same time Dreamhost’s mail server went down. DreamHost support tells me today 9/12/13 that the mail server is back up and fine, but messages do not appear in my client’s email.

Through this entire time beginning with the initial problems last week, CF7 always gives the green SENT message each time – the messages just don’t make it to my client’s mailbox. EXCEPT when I tried the Qmail fix described above by Jack96161: I copied that code into class-phpmailer.php and uploaded it, but when I tried to send a message, CF7 went into some kind of infinite loop, the circling arrows beside the Submit button kept on and on. I never saw that happen before. So i’ve re uploaded the original phpmailer file again.

I believe that the problem is not CF7, but how it is working with the Dreamhost server – and I am corresponding with DreamHost support, but so far, to no avail.

I am at my wit’s end about this problem and am on the verge of just inserting an email link on my client’s Contact page – who is desperate for her website contact page to start working.

Thanks to anyone out there for any good ideas…

i learned of a possible workaround.. Apparently WordPress’s visual/html editor does not work with custom templates (is this really true?), but if I add this loop to my template, i can then use the Dashboard’s visual/html editor to maintain content.

<div id="maincontent_nosidebar">
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_content(''); ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>

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I don’t feel very confident about this because it feels a little hacky. I am still very interested in hearing back from you folks about what the problem is and how to fix it. Thanks!

NEW IMPORTANT CLUES:
I decided to turn my attention to other pages on this site so I created an About page in Pages (Add New) and then uploaded a new template for a no-sidebar page, selected that template for the new About page and then typed some text into the Edit Page area. This text does not post live – so this is not just a problem with the HOME page. Then I tried adding text to the content area of the no-sidebar.php template in Dreamweaver and uploaded the edited page – and the newly added text appears just fine live but does NOT appear when I looked at it in Edit Page (this is different from the Home page, after I upload new text to the Home page from Dreamweaver I can see the new stuff when I look at it in Edit Page).

@melrsb – I’ve never encountered this prob with WP before. WP really IS an easy CMS to use for the general populace. I hope someone answers me sometime soon too! ??

p.s. none of the other pages of my site are built yet.