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Excellent! And thank you for your responsiveness ??

I second this proposal, and thank you @voltronik ! Simple to do i think? and would mean a lot.

I just ran into exactly the same issue yesterday.

Also the link to “article to learn how to increase your PHP memory limit” gets a 404. But anyway i have more than enough memory allotted to PHP.

There are other excellent form plugins that are GUI/drag-and-drop. What i like about Contact Form 7 (among other things, like great support) is that it is *not* that.

Have been using it for years. It’s not intended to give beautiful visual design — it gives me a standards-comforming bare-bones form, and enables me to easily modify with my own html and css, to match the rest of my theme. Just a different approach.

Thank you!

— wpwalker

wups just saw this now — thank you for quick reply!
I will worry no more. ??

thank you ??

I am also not understanding why functionality that was there is now hidden. And also why this change isn’t indicated in the changelog. I echo the concerns and questions of the previous commenters!

Thank you for an excellent plugin, used for many years.

I use Advanced Custom Fields extensively, and custom post types often, and would also love to have syntax highlighting in their fields.

Thank you!

happily, it looks like the author *is* keeping an eye on it! ??

and a small update came out, feels better that it is current.

thanks @stanxp

Permalinks usually “Just Work”. When they don’t, i’ve usually found the problem to be that the mod_rewrite library wasn’t enabled for apache.

Here’s a write-up i did over the years of troubleshooting, see if this helps:
https://www.tibetangeeks.com/technologies/web_development/cms/wordpress/02b-install_and_build-details/pretty_permalinks-url_rewriting/permalinks_not_working-howto.html

— j

@hube2 – oh right, of course! (hitting self on head) I forgot about clients, since i always work with people as the site admin. “As a developer i want to see errors” but yes don’t want to see any errors displayed to client. Or need the validation at all, like you say, you are handling it.

thanks for more good info about mail(), using SMTP, etc. Of course that makes a difference too when a developer is aware of and handling these things.

Am thinking that CF7’s validator is more useful for silly syntax errors in the fields, and for at least pointing less experienced site owners to info about the issues. If nothing else, maybe it limits the yelling at CF7 developers saying mail problems are the fault of the plugin ?? It’s really hard to write things that please both the newbies and the experienced, don’t we know it ??

ok puppies, i got what i wanted, maybe you will too:

add_action(‘init’, ‘remove_cf7_error_filters’);
function remove_cf7_error_filters() {
/* removes the annoying admin-wide CF7 misconfiguration notice: */
remove_action(‘admin_notices’, ‘wpcf7_notice_bulk_validate_config’);
/* removes the notices from validation: */
// remove_action(‘wpcf7_admin_notices’, ‘wpcf7_notice_config_errors’);
/* removes the validation functionality completely: */
// add_filter(‘wpcf7_validate_configuration’, ‘__return_false’, 20);
}

Thank you John Huebner for posting that code!

I am still happy with contact form 7, and with all the improvements the developer has made. I have been using it for many years on 20 sites and growing.

I like the validator. Email can be tricky, and the worst thing is when it just disappears into the void with no notice on sender or receiver side. You just have no way to know. The validator is helping me catch things for that. I’m fully in agreement with the author’s concerns at https://contactform7.com/configuration-validator-faq/

As a developer, i *want* to see errors. all the errors! even if trivial.

All i want, and i think what most of us want? is in the title of this thread: to be able to click and dismiss that warning that shows on every admin screen. I don’t mind if it is persistent on the contact form screens themselves, but it is annoying to see it on every admin page. Really i don’t think any plugin should put its messages on all screens. Very intrusive. Have it show only on the contact form screens.

I’m going to try the useful code given by John Huebner above, and hope that one of those actions just dismisses the persistent message, and not the validator itself. And hope that the CF7 developers will get time to add a fix.

Thank you contact form 7!

hi joeguilmette!

I believe i read about it on Twitter.

And i should have come back here after i’d tried it, with my results ?? The results are: i liiike it. I’m using it on 14 sites, it’s now one in the “package” that i install on every site i build.

I like that it sets up options in wp-config, and not with some gui interface. For some of us that is actually faster and easier when options are simple, and easier to integrate into my other settings there.

thank you!

— james

Yay WP White Security and thanks!

stuff happens ??