Arwym

All right, if you’re having the same problem as I am, I think I found a solution. I am not sure if it will work for everybody, and I am still testing it myself, but it doesn’t hurt to share:

It seems that, if your Akismet plugin is active, you have to configure your form properly to use Akismet’s spam filtering, by following these instructions/guidelines:
contactform7.com/spam-filtering-with-akismet/

This I noticed when I decided to deactivate my Akismet installation and try sending an e-mail via the contact form. The message got sent then. And as soon as I reactivated Akismet, it stopped sending messages again. So I decided to learn more about the Contact Form 7 and Akismet relationship, and found that information in the documentation.

I don’t know why this is so; it may or may not be intended by the plugin author, but either way, making those little changes to my form seems to be working.

I hope that helps.

I am having the same problem, but getting the message in the orange border instead of the red one. I do have Akismet activated, but it doesn’t make sense how every message (even from different adresses) is blocked by Akismet as spam, every single time. (I read the FAQ, and there it says that the message in the orange border is usually due to this.)

Deactivating and reactivating the plugin doesn’t help, either.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Okay, to everyone who encounters this same issue, please try including the file “wp-load.php” before globalizing $wpdb and making any reference to it.

Like this, for instance, which worked for me:

require_once('../wp-load.php');

That’s a relative path, so change it according to your own particular scenario.

Now, maybe I missed it, maybe it’s really not there, but it seems there are way too many people having this problem, so there has to be something failing with the documentation at the WordPress Codex.

Anyway, including that file should help.

I hope this solves it for you.

Reference: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/need-help-accessing-wpdb?replies=4

Having the same problem here. I get errors as if the object didn’t exist.

Joanillus, do you know where I can find the beta versions of the plugin? I have version 1.8.1 installed, and can’t find where to get the beta. Thanks for the information. ??

This is still not resolved, indeed. Running on the latest versions of both WordPress and NextGEN, and it’s still not working. Same problem as everybody else.

Add me to the list. I’m having this problem as well, and cannot find a solution. And since the person who adds the galleries to the pages isn’t a programmer, he prefers to add them this way, rather than using shortcodes. We really need a fix for this.