Comments on: Contact form 7 Wordpress Install Tutorial

By: Bill Hibbler

Bill Hibbler — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:33:26 +0000

Craig,

I’ve installed WP on a lot of sites and dozens of plug-ins. Most are super easy due to good tutorials on the plug-in writer’s sites. Unfortunately, the support pages for using Really Simple Captcha with Contact Form 7 assume readers are pretty advanced. I saw no reference of the fairly simple install you showed us in your video. Had it not been for your video, I would have had to find a different plugin.

Thank you!!

Bill Hibbler

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:39:32 +0000

Thanks Craig,

I’m new to WP, I am currently using it as my infosite platform and getting used to some of it’s settings from other applications I have been using.

Thanks for posting this vid, really helped alot !

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:46:05 +0000

Hey Richard, thanks for your kind words.

If you’re using a server side email, i.e., contact@yourwebsite.com this may be the issue. Many blogs I’ve tested contact form 7 on will only send to gmail accounts. Very strange. So I recommend, using a gmail email address for your contact form. It’s never failed me but server side custom email address’s is hit or miss.

Craig

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:15:10 +0000

Hi, great video and very easy to follow. Thanks.
However, I installed the latest version of Contact Form 7 a couple of days ago. the form appears correct on my sidebar as a widget and when i fill in the form and click send, i get the message that the mail has been sent successfully. However, i do not receive the e-mail. I have double checked my e-mail in the settings and it is definetly correct. I´ve been some research and believe it could be a problem with my SMTP or PHP mail settings, but can´t figure it out. Should I for simplicity sake install the version you have posted a couple of months on your blog, or should i stick my new version ?

Thanks

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:58:44 +0000

Thank you for your tutorial. It was just what I needed after a longggggg day.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:35:22 +0000

Hi Craig
My wordpress install is telling me that both CF7 and Really Simple captcha need to be upgraded.
Obviously you have just installed them both on your new site and had no problems.
I guess I’ll upgrade.

By: April

April — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:47:44 +0000

Hi Craig,

That’s what it feels like!

I’ve reinstalled it and still the same. This is the error message I get :

Call to undefined function imagettftext() in /home/xxxxxxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/really-simple-captcha/really-simple-captcha.php on line 103

Did you get the warning when you did your new install?

Thank you,

April

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:30:45 +0000

Not sure what’s going on.

Today I installed a brand new Wordpress install and followed the steps in the video and all worked.

Come on, everything you try goes wrong?

By: April

April — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:22:31 +0000

Hi Craig,

Thank you so much for this video. It was really going well until I hit publish when I got a fatal error message instead of a contact form!

It was on line 103 of the simple captcha plugin.

I did get a warning before I installed it as I have upgraded to the latest WP and simple captcha hasn’t been tested with it yet.

Would that be the reason it has gone wrong – or is it because everything I try and do goes wrong!!!!

Would be really grateful for any help.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:31:44 +0000

Your video was great, however I cannot send out from the contact form. I worked with GoDaddy and they had to create a From Mail setting. But I continue to get the same error:
Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact administrator by other way.

What else might be the problem?