mattsson

Hi All, I'm not sure why this forum question came to me, because I don't use this plugin.  However I do use the Gravity Forms plugin, via its paid annual subscription.  My website's form submittals go to my client's Constant Contact account via the Gravity Forms Constant Contact add on.  It has worked fine for us for several years.

If you visit the Katz plugin's home page here, https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/gravity-forms-constant-contact/, you'll see the notice that this Gravity Forms Constant Contact <strong>plugin</strong> has been abandoned.  Follow the link to the Gravity Forms Constant Contact <strong>add-on</strong> and give it a try.

I had the bright idea to try, as a workaround, https://mvlibraryfriends.org/abcd-login/about.php, to see if that would reveal the WordPress version info page. No, still 404.

(And note, I’ve not given my real WPS Hide Login, for security.)

–Carol

P.S. I use this plugin for the usual redirect manager tasks: redirecting from old page to new, redirecting to a short name for a long URL, and making links to Zoom webinars that follow a pattern so I can automate the webinar signups somewhat in Gravity Forms.

Hi All,

Well, the “too many redirects” problem NOW looks like it was caused by me having a folder on the server named /sputtering-systems.

Because the problem came back after I created such a folder, and disappeared after I renamed it.

–Carol

Hi all, I have an update.

This morning I noticed I still have a regular WordPress category with slug “sputtering-systems” and one post that’s in that category. I’m still able to display my /sputtering-systems PAGE and my /sputtering-systems/test-post.

That is, I believe my /sputtering-systems page’s server “too many redirects” problem was caused by the plugin and not by the regular WordPress category.

–Carol

Hi Kaspar,

Thanks a bunch for explaining. Yes, after looking around I DID find that option. I set my home page image widget to appear ONLY on the front-page and set my random image widget to appear everywhere BUT the home page. That is good enough for now.

Food for thought, I tried using Widget Context, by URL settings, to target Woocommerce pages, URLs such as “product-category/classes/*” and the widget would just not appear. Not for “classes/*” either. The site us using StoreFront theme, at WordPress version 5.8.2. These sorts of URL targets work great at the other website where I use Widget Context extensively.

I may repost this problem on its own thread in the future when I’m ready to debug it further, but for now I’m happy to know you do answer questions at this forum. Thank you for providing the Widget Context plugin Kaspar!

Sincerely,
Carol Mattsson
Web developer

Hi Frank,

Indeed, your latest update did make the error disappear at my website. Thank you.

My only complaint is, I believe WordPress does describe what’s to come in upcoming releases. Doesn’t the WordPress core development team offer pre-releases for plugin developers to test their plugins BEFORE WordPress releases an update?

I realize a PHP warning is not as severe as an error, but I’d feel more confident in using plugins that don’t generate PHP warnings.

Cheers,
Carol

Thank you very much for your questions and replies everyone. I got the same new warning message when I updated my website to WordPress 5.5. Disabling the Popup Maker plugin made the message go away.

In my case, it so happens that I’ve been moving my forms to be on page, so I have no need for Popup Maker any more. So removing the Popup Maker plugin will be a permanent solution for my website.

Thanks again!

Thanks Billy, for that one data point where before there was none.

–Carol

Hi Constant Contact,

Another thought, on how to allow this plugin to display an external URL, is to put the LINK to the external URL within the form’s confirmation message. I mean the popup message that appears on the page after successful form submission. You could make it an option or work automatically: if the link is local, keep the redirect, but if the link is external, put it in the confirmation message.

Back to working with the plugin as is, I found that if I make a custom, local page that contains the external URL, then the visitor has to close the popup success message (a click) then click AGAIN to view the external URL.

The prospect of 16 forms, 16 pages, combined with bad user experience, that was just too much so I’m unable to use your plugin to achieve our goal to save client contact info this way. I can’t think of any other way that’s within my skill level, so my client will need to outsource this feature or do without.

Thanks a bunch for your help though.
–Carol

P.S.

Or what if I could put the link within the success message? Right now I can’t, because HTML gets erased from the success message when I save the form.

–Carol

Hello,

The redirect URL is to another website my client owns, with a URL like this: https://avi.rereport.com/market_reports?formSubmit=1&searchtype=search&emailtype=search&period=1&report_description=Santa+Clara+County%2C+Campbell%2C+All+Neighborhoods&area=15&cities=2447&locations=&proptype=1&yearmonth=

Will the redirect work, if I make a page such as urban.realtor/redirect-to-campbell.htm, that contains a redirect to the page on avi.rereport.com?

What if I could customize the form’s success message, to contain the redirect URL? Or create another page on my website that contains my external URL, and set the form’s redirect URL to THAT page? Both of these ideas require an extra click from the visitor.

Can you change the plugin, so that the contact information is saved at Constant Contact, and the email is sent out, BEFORE you redirect to the external URL?

In any case, you can see there are many reasons for email not arriving or, I presume, a contact not getting saved, so you can save your plugin users a lot of time by documenting that the redirect URL must be to another page on the same website, and not a PDF.

Even my web host is looking into the problem, why the email is not arriving.

Cheers,
Carol

Hello again Constant Contact support,

I was able to log in to Constant Contact and confirm that none of my recent form submissions, got saved. So it could be that something is failing early on within the plugin form processing.

I temporarily REMOVED my Redirect URL, tested the form from the front end again, then I got my mailback message! AND a new contact appeared in the Constant Contact list set to “add subscribers to.”

So it seems that in my case, filling in a redirect URL, breaks both the mailback and the contact saving.

I hope this new information will help you to learn what might be wrong. Let me know if you’d like admin access to this website. I’ve just updated the CC Forms plugin to version 1.6.1.

Cheers,
Carol

I had my web host try out the form and check the email logs. They aren’t seeing any evidence of the email being sent out.

Even if I use the version of the form NOT wrapped in a popup, that is, submit from the form displayed on a page, still the email does not arrive.

–Carol

What I was asking was, are you sure, if the form’s submission behavior is set to redirect to a specific URL, the notification email should still be sent out as well.

For sure I’ve unchecked both boxes that would disable the email notification for a form, both in the individual form settings and in the global form settings.

Thank you,
Carol