[Plugin: Email Before Download] [contact-form-7 404 "Not Found"] Error

I had the same problem couple of times. The solution I always found was to look into my post or page where I paste the form shortcode by viewing the post/page in the html mode: if the shortcode is wrapped in a paragraph tags or any, I just removed those tags and the issue solved. Some WordPress editors or CKeditors wrap the shortcode in a paragraph by default. So , check it out.

Hopefully this will help.

Hello,
I’ve found a solution and you can try if it works for you too.

You need to change email-before-download.php which is located in /wp-content/plugins/email-before-download directory.

Look for:
$contact_form = do_shortcode("[contact-form-7 id=\"$contact_form_id\" \"$title\"]");

and change it to:
$contact_form = do_shortcode("[contact-form $contact_form_id \"$title\"]");

Hope that helps you.

Hi dsvidalired, mwema and kriissgg,

It looks like all of you found solutions for your issues.

kriissgg’s,

It seems that you changed to an older version of the Contact Form 7 shortcode: [contact-form $contact_form_id \"$title\"].

I am wondering why this was needed. Can you please let us know the versions of your plugins as well as WordPress as it might help us support others?

[contact-form 404 "Not Found"]

WP Version 3.4.1
Contact Form 7 – version 2.4.6
WP Download Monitor – version 3.3.5.9
EbD – version 3.2.1

It was a typo in the shortcode – “hyphen instead of underscore” just like M&S says above.

Wrong: [email-download download_id=”X” contact_form-id=”Y”]

Correct: [email-download download_id=”X” contact_form_id=”Y”]

Fixed