Vincent

Thank you so much Jordy for the response. This helps greatly and I wish you the best.

Hi Kris,

Thank you for the response. I kinda figured it had to do with SMTP but my question is NOT how to make forminator work.

MY QUESTION:

Why does Forminator work out of the box BUT all the other form plugins I tried do not work out of the box? What is Forminator doing right and/or the others doing wrong?

Thank You

So then the question that remains is do you leave site vulnerable by using Jetpack and in turn xmlrpc or use an alternative to Jetpack? Not saying one is right or wrong but for me and my site which gets attacked on the daily, I already shut off xmlrpc through the Wordfence plugin.

Thank you Peter. I was going crazy trying to figure out how and where the heck these hackers were attempting their logins when I literally disabled the login page.

I looked into this xmlrpc and from what I gather this is an older method for plugins and apps. Apparently this is not so secure and targeted by hackers. Do you know if this correct in that new plugins and apps do not use this so aside from backwards compatibility, this is not needed? (https://kinsta.com/blog/xmlrpc-php/)

It looks like you work for wordfence so may I suggest making the alerts a touch more descriptive. Unless I missed something (which is possible) the warning email that gets sent makes it appear as though the hackers are using the wp-login page form (user with ip address *** has been locked out from signing in or using the password recovery form). I only figured out it was some other page or method by literally disabling the main form/page wp-login.

Just to clarify I was thinking to use JSON with AJAX to make what I want possible. Every time someone picks an item from the drop down, the data on the page changes without actually submitting and reloading the entire page.