Is there some way I can control how tall the message field is? I would prefer it to be only 3 rows tall rather than the default 10 rows tall.

We need an opt-in checkbox, but it can’t be required to be checked to send the form, as that would make it not optional. Is there a way to make checking this field non-mandatory, and for the form submissions to show whether it was checked or not?

how delete field email in the contact form

form submissions page does not appear in my panel. why?????

Hi Guido,

Thank you for this great plugin.

Would be great if you could allow us to send a better auto-response, as opposed to one sentence or paragraph.

In the current setup, the HTML element for adding the text is an <input>.
By only changing this to a <textarea>, the user can add line breaks between paragraphs, and construct a much nicer email, that doesn’t have that flat feeling of an auto-response.

Thank You !

The current setup:

The suggested solution:

• This topic was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by John Webber.

Hello Guido,

A test email was sent and the Thank you! appeared, but email was not received and the Thank You! message does not clear after refreshing page, or after deactivating the plugin and activating again.

Other sites no problem on this server.

Hi, I keep getting this PHP warning in my PHP error log related to this plugin, I’m not sure if this is something you fix or do I need to contact my web host? Thank you

PHP Warning: Undefined array key “SERVER_NAME” in /home/mydomain/public_html/wp-content/plugins/very-simple-contact-form/vscf.php on line 139

Hi Guido, de plugin wil geen berichten meer verzenden, ik heb geen idee waarom.

Hello,

Since this week spam mail is getting through the form. Also today, several. While the version is the latest version 14.9. So is there still a problem with the sum? Or can it have some other reason? It has been working perfectly for years, zero spam. Only since this week this has changed.

Is there a way to disallow email addresses in the message body ? I am getting spam emails from people trying to sell services etc and they include things like :
Feel free to email me at [email protected] with any current requirements.

I know you can disallow links which works well for reducing spam.

A similar concept for disallowing email addresses would be good.

There is already a separate field where the user has to enter their email address – so there is no real need to allow email addresses in the message body.

It might not fully stop spam – but it might help.

Hi Guido,

Sorry to start another thread, but this one had me confused until I read through the code to see what was actually happening.

In my setup I am the admin, but the contact forms have a different email_to address as the emails need to go to the appropriate person. So I checked the ‘disable email to admin’ box thinking it would stop emails being copied to me. After I do this, the form send appears to be working (I get a thank you, we will respond ASAP message) but no email ever arrives with the email_to recipient. If I check ‘Activate auto-reply’ then the sender gets a copy of the email but nobody else does.

So I think this is wrong for two reasons.

1. Disable email to admin should really say something different like ‘disable all emails’ as it relates not just to admins.
2. If emails are disabled, the ‘thank you’ message should be replaced with a ‘sorry, service not available’ message (or something like that) and auto-reply should also be disabled, otherwise it looks like the email was sent when it was not. In fact if email is disabled, maybe the whole form should be greyed out with a message show that the email form is not available at the moment so the user doesn’t waste time typing in a message that can’t be sent.

Simon

Hi Guido,

Another problem which I’ve seen intermittently. I fill in all the form fields, click submit, and get back the same form with all fields blank and an error message by each one saying e.g., please enter at lest 2 characters.

I looked at the POST data and all fields seem to be filled in, so my only guess is that in the form validation the $rand_suffix value doesn’t match for some reason. I’m using the Siteground caching plugin and if I exclude the page from caching then form submission seems to work OK.

I can see that the suffix is handled using a transient but I’m not exactly sure how it works and it seems quite complicated.

Looking at other contact forms I can see they don’t do this. There is an ID for the form, 1 for the first form, 2 for the second, etc. in case you have more than one on a page, but no random component. I’ve done something similar myself for a maps plugin, adding a suffix to differentiate between maps on the same page.

Do you actually need the random suffix as it seems to introduce other problems?

Simon

I really want this plugin to work. The error i get using debug is:

Error: transient

Hi Guido,

I have been receiving problem reports from users that the submit button doesn’t work. Normally I can’t reproduce these, but I have now got it to happen on Edge. It seems that if you use the browser autofill then it can populate the hidden honeypot fields too, which causes the form submission to fail silently. I turned debug on and got ‘Error: hidden field’ and then looked at what was in the POST data. Turning off the CSS hiding also shows this happening in the form itself. In my case, Edge populated the hidden vscf_last_name field with the same value as in the name field. I don’t know why this happens because the random element should break the matching algorithm, but maybe Edge uses some fuzzy logic to do the matching.

To test further I cleared Edge’s autocomplete cache and tried again. The first time I submitted the form it worked OK, the second time it used the value for the name field to autofill the last_name field and I got the error again.

Setting the autocomplete=off attribute on the <form> element should disable all autocomplete – not generally needed for a contact form. I don’t know whether Edge will respect it and I haven’t had time to try it.

Looking at Ninja Forms, they do have a honeypot, but its name is just nf-field-hp, so it won’t trigger the name autofill. The only other solution I can see is to add an option to disable the honeypot :-/

After this today’s update, tones of those:

PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent in /home/wp-content/plugins/very-simple-contact-form/vscf.php on line 133

thanks

Hello,

I really like your plugin.

My question is:

Can I use this plugin on the same website but for two different contact pages and for two different emails of mine (one for visitors and one for customers)?

Regards,

Ivo

Hello,

Is it possible to add one contact form on page A without the subject box. And one contact form on Page B inclusing the subject box?

Thank you.

First off, I love this contact form plugin. It works well while adding minimal overhead. Excellent work!
The one area where I think this could be improved is to restrict the css to only load on contact pages. As it is currently, the css file is enqueued and loaded on every post/page.

I’ve simply been commenting out the enqueuing of the css from the plugin.

// wp_enqueue_style('vscf_style', plugins_url('/css/vscf-style.min.css',FILE));

and then manually loading styles through a conditional

if (is_page('pagenumber')) {<style>#vscf vscf:after etc...</style>}

Even a simple option to manually enter or select from a list of pages to load the plugin resources from would be nice.

Pardon one question: Is is possible to add input fields?

Hello,

I’m new to using Word Press and have no idea how to install this Contact Form on my site, does anyone have step-by-step instructions for doing this? Thanks

hi, i want to create a custom form only to collect certain information, which is the name, email, phone number.

therefore, i need these fields removed:
1. subject 2. message

and this field added
1. contact number

i also need the send message button to say “Apply for Trade Up”

Please assist.

Hi Guido,

Can you please add an extra filter.

I can give you specific code, or if you have a github repository even a pull request.

I want to handle some extra spam checks for a keen user of yours.

Alan

• This topic was modified 1 year, 12 months ago by Alan Fuller.

Hi,

After latest update, you need to to submit the form twice to see the confirmation message.

can you please let me know what’s wrong?

Thanks

Hi Guido,
thanks for your plugin I love it.
I was wondering how to insert some html code in the privacy label (for example to put the link to the privacy policy page).

Regards,
Fabio

I just updated from 12.3 to 12.5 yesterday, and tested the form after doing so – the onscreen reply message displayed properly after the update. However, after updating from 12.5 to 12.6 this morning, it no longer does so – the form is just cleared upon submission, leaving me looking at an empty form and wondering whether my message went through. The first of my test messages does show up in the Submissions list in the dashboard – the second does not. Waiting to hear back from my client about whether both or only one of the messages were received, will update here when I do. Would be happy to provide link to page in email if needed, but prefer not to post it here.

Hi, me again.

Not a support topic, but a request.

You like doing these kinds of plugins.
We (the people) need more simple plugins.
And the communication with you is far better (fruitful) than with bloatware developers.
So, I thought I’d ask…

I’ve tried every newsletter subscription plugin.
None use honeypot for spam protection.
Not even a native non-JQuery solution.
So, if there is a subscription form in the footer or pop up, you need to load JQuery on every page, because your only option is Google reCaptcha.

For example, I like using Sendinblue for email automation.
They let you send out 300 emails per day for free.
They have a simple form plugin, which has the described issues.
Also, their success and error notifications are also powered by JQuery.
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/mailin/

If creating a replacement plugin is too much work, could you develop an extension for this plugin?

Best regards,
Jovan

Hello,

I’ve been using your plugin for years now, and I really appreciate that it’s lightweight, simple, and regularly updated.

There’s one feature that I’d like to use, but I’ve never found out how to do it: I’d like to get rid of the labels and use placeholders instead.

Is it possible to achieve it right now, with the current configuration of VSCF?

Kind regards

Hi,

Thank you for this great plugin.

Can you please enable us to add placeholder text?

Thank you

Best regards,
Jovan

Hi,
I have a very weird issue with a form : it doesn’t display the captcha on first page visit, but only when a form is send (the page just reload & the captcha appears at the right place) which means you have to fill the form twice for it to send, and its only on chrome (firefox works fine). I just disabled the captcha for now so it doesn’t block the form sending but I’d like to understand why it’s hapening ??

thank you in advance

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