Title: Configuration errors found after updating
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Configuration errors found after updating

 *  Resolved [SimonGiddings](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simongiddings/)
 * (@simongiddings)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/configuration-errors-found-after-updating/)
 * After having updated to the latest version, I ran the configuration test.
    It
   detected “errors” and continues to show them as such. However, what it detects
   as “errors” is simply elements that it does not understand.
 * I have created my own “shortcodes” to be able to format as I require certain 
   elements, notably address formatting.
    I hook into the filter ‘wpcf7_mail_components’
   to be able to process the email contents and replace my shortcode tags with the
   content I require.
 * This is what the configuration test doesn’t like.
    How can I clear these messages?
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 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/configuration-errors-found-after-updating/#post-7119405)
 * Add
 *     ```
       define( 'WPCF7_VALIDATE_CONFIGURATION', false );
       ```
   
 * to your wp-config.php, or add
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'wpcf7_validate_configuration', '__return_false' );
       ```
   
 * to your theme’s functions.php.
 *  Thread Starter [SimonGiddings](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simongiddings/)
 * (@simongiddings)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/configuration-errors-found-after-updating/#post-7119474)
 * Great, thank you !

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 * Last reply from: [SimonGiddings](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simongiddings/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/configuration-errors-found-after-updating/#post-7119474)
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