First, on a side note, upgrade to WordPress 1.5.2.
Second, did you read the readme / instructions on the site? It explains it all right there. 😉
Well, yes, actually, I did, and it says “If you don’t see the Contact Form quicktag, you can alternatively copy and paste <!–contact form–> where you want it to appear.” Which I did, and it didn’t work. So I was hoping if I asked politely someone would help me out a little here.
I will upgrade, but according to the site this plugin should work in 1.5 and up.
You can try inTouch, a modification from Ryan Duff version. It work for me, since I also have similar problem with you.
1. Install Contact Form 1.3 by putting wp-contactform.php and options-contactform.php in the wp-contents/plugin directory.
2. Activate the Contact Form plugin.
3. Then in Options, Contact Form put in your email address info. Also check the box that says Show’Contact Form’ Quicktag.
4. Do a Write Page and put <!--contact form--> in the Page Content. At that point you may need to update your Permalink Structure.
5. That should be it.
Many thanks for the replies. Since what you suggest is exactly what I did MichaelH, there must be some strange bug. I’ll check out inTouch.
Thanks for the help!
Sorry, just a bit more help needed. I deleted ContactForm and installed inTouch – with the same result. Perhaps I’m doing something wrong when it comes to placing the code in my page?
I have a page template I created called ‘contact.php’. I know this is working because when I check the source on the site page the contact page is updated with any changes I make to the contact.php page.
However, placing, in the case of inTouch, <!–intouch–> where I want the form to be doesn’t work. Is this all the code I have to place in the actual template page? Am I missing something here? Help much appreciated!
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And that link is if you dont know how to.
Thanks, but I’d really prefer to use a plugin, as I’m really a designer not a programmer, and I’m finding it hard enough as it is working out the whole WordPress paradigm without writing my own scripts as well!
You don’t need contact.php. Just read closely my step 4 above to Write > Page. The Write Page is done from your admin panel.
See: Write_Page_SubPanel
OK, I’m totally stuffed now. I obviously don’t know what I’m doing despite days trying to work this out.
I did make a page from the Write panel. Does the html for the page go in the ‘page content’ box?
One of the reasons this is so confusing is that the Codex entry on ‘Write Page’ doesn’t seem to match the options on the actual ‘Write Page’ page!
4. Do a Write Page and put <!–contact form–> in the Page Content. At that point you may need to update your Permalink Structure.
Assuming here you’re using Wp-ContactForm.
I guess the thing is here is that I have my own page layout, so what I did was create a new Template called ‘contact.php’, with my page layout in it and
<?php
/*
Template Name: Contact Page
*/
?>
at the top. Then I did a ‘Write Page’ to make my contact page, using Contact Page as my template.
I put <!–contact form–> in my ‘contact.php’ – ie my template – page where I wanted the form to be.
Can you tell me what I did wrong with this process? If I put <!–contact form–> in the Page Content box of the Write page form, how would it know where to put the form in my layout?
Thanks for your patience with me, I appreciate it.
I really don’t know how to use WP-ContactForm in the method you’re suggesting.
