WordPress doesn’t provide contact forms by default. So either you’ll have to use a form plugin or you’ll need custom CODE anyway. Since you didn’t provide any CODE or reference to any plugin you’re going to use, I cannot provide a sample CODE that’ll work for you. In principle, plugins do provide custom hooks that … Read more
I’ve had this problem before. There’s an easy way and a hard way to fix it. The easy solution: use a Linux server. The hard solution: write your own contact form. IIS 6 doesn’t play nice with anything WordPress uses or does. It works on XAMPP because that’s a LAMP stack running PHP, MySQL, Apache, … Read more
it was the “topic” name field. It seems you can’t use reserved terms in $_POST, and “topic” is a post type name, so its probably one of them…
I’m going to venture a guess here, and maybe someone more versed can back me up or set me straight But here: <?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’])?>’ Is the redirect value…. It is redirecting to the original url, wherever the user came from If you swap that out for your home url with something like: <?php echo … Read more
You can add it as an argument: <?php wp_dropdown_categories( ‘show_option_none=CHOOSE THE CATEGORY!’ ); ?> Reference: wp_dropdown_categories
how can i display custom coded php form in only one page in front end? The best way to go would be to create a custom page template then create a page inside WordPress admin and select your newly created template for that page. how can i make that page ristricted for registered user only? … Read more
The Contact Form 7 to Database Extension plugin will save the form data to the database. I haven’t used it myself, so don’t know whether it offers easy ways of then extracting it, or if you have to deal with extracting it yourself.
Make sure your form elements aren’t using any names that WordPress uses, like name or s, this will cause the behavior you describe because it changes the type of query. Give them all names you are certain are unique.
WordPress makes use of add_settings_error() and related function to setup notifications to display. Using them is not very straightforward, so easier way might be to make use of hooks like admin_notices or all_admin_notices to output your own message and style it in same way as WP does.
One way to accomplish this is to setup two pages, with two page templates, one with your form code and the other with your mail code. The form action would point to the permalink of the page whose template hosts the mail code. That said, I’d actually recommend using a plugin like Contact Form 7 … Read more