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WP Contact Form 8 hands me a critical error when I try to activate it, and besides, I wanted CF7 to work.

However, on the CF8 site, I found the article check-your-site-before-reporting-trouble-please in which Greg Carley writes about the “Configure SMTP plugin“.

That completely solved all sending issues for me, maybe something for you?

Same here; since the latest updates nothing arrives; not to me (the webmaster) nor to the sender – using the mail(2) fields. Not to gmail or yahoo, not to ‘normal’ domains. This worked before no problem, what happened? Ah, an nothing in my error logs?
WP2.9.1 & CF7 2.1

Thanks Matt,that works great and put me onto the track of adapting this to my own wishes. I needed to pass parameters to the form but could not use the URL; what I’ve done below is slightly adapt your code so I can pass parameters to text fields using WP’s ‘Custom Fields’.

What I do is add a custom field to a post, let’s say with the name “Itin” (for Itinerary) where the key will hold the Itinerary-code I want to pass to the form. Then, I add “CF_fieldname” to the text-field definition in the contact form. So for instance, to get the ‘Itin’ custom field into the ‘itin-code’ textfield, I can use:

Itinerary code: [text itin-code 30/30 "CF_Itin"]

That way, any custom field can be put in any text field. The adapted code (replacing, as above: $value = $values[0]; with:

$match = strpos($values[0], 'CF_');
		if ($match === false) {
			$value = $values[0];
		} else {
			global $post, $key;
			$values[0] = str_replace('CF_', '', $values[0]);
			$key = $values[0];
			$value = get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true);

		}
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Though in no way beautiful (not a PHP programmer) it works, and might be useful to others.
Niels.