To put the forms into pages or posts you need to use what is called a ‘shortcode’ in wordpress lingo. When you are editing the form you will see a section for the shortcode. For example, it probably says something like ‘form-1’. To put that form in a post or page, you would type ‘[form form-1]’ (without the quotes) wherever you want the form to show up. You can change the shortcode to make them easier to remember, if you want.
As for your first question, I will see what I can do… I’m not sure what would cause that error. I’m assuming you are using wordpress version 3.1.2?
Michilla, I can’t seem to recreate the ‘table’ error. The fm_settings table is new in 1.3.2 of the plugin. If you are upgrading from an older version, try deactivating and reactivating the plugin – did you install the plugin through WordPress, or did you upload the files directly to your server?
Also if you can tell me who your host is, your MySQL version, and PHP version, I’ll be able to do some more detective work.
I ran into the same problem regarding your 1st issue (Table ‘gmbaccom_wrd3.wp_fm_settings’ doesn’t exist).
I was able to quickly resolve it by simply deactivating and then re-activating the plug-in. (1.3.2 was an Upgrade for me, not a fresh install)
Hope this helps.
Thanks – the issue is fixed for 1.3.3.
more assistance please. Again using wordpress 3.1.2 using Form Manager plugin v1.3.3.
Is it possible to make a form a link rather than have it as a form on a page? For example, click here to complete the form and the form opens when the user clicks on the link?
If so, how?
Unfortunately I don’t think there is a simple way to do that. The plugin relies on WordPress for some of its functionality, so there isn’t really a way to display a form without it being within a WordPress page.
The only thing I can think of would be to make a separate page for your form, and then make a link to that page that opens in a new window. I am working on a version 2 for this plugin, so I’ll try to incorporate your idea, unfortunately it would be a lot of work to add in at this point. Hope that helps.
Great! thanks for the feedback. I can wait. BTW, don’t want to be a pest, but …
i created a contact form (email, name, ph, addr, comments), i was testing the form when I submitted it, got the following error message… searched the forum, but can’t find anything
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to :0 (Failed to parse address “”) in /home5/gmbaccom/public_html/MissionBendHOA/wp-content/plugins/mailpress/mp-includes/Swiftmailer/classes/Swift/Transport/StreamBuffer.php on line 233
What does this mean? And, what do i need to do… i need to check the other forms
any help/suggestions?
Happy to help. I’m a grad student in computer science, this is what I do…
That looks like an error with the e-mail notifications. Are you using version 1.3.5? Try turning off the admin notification and any others you set up just to try and isolate the problem. Also, who is your host?
Ok, that solved the error by removing the email notifications. But, this opens a couple of questions:
1. is there a way to get notifications w/o the error?
2. I can’t seem to find where the form submissions are being stored? Where are they going?
I am using Forms 1.3.10 and my host is Bluehost. again tied to find in the forum but could not find anything
First, let me say that the e-mail error would be easy to fix if I could update the plugin right now, but unfortunately there is some kind of problem with the updates – its supposed to be up to version 1.3.13, but only 1.3.11 has posted, and that was 24 hours ago…
Until I can post updates, try activating SMTP in your bluehost control panel, like the second poster in this thread says:
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=246445
I’ll let you know once I can officially fix the problem. Hope that helps.
