Why Not Advertising, LLC

by the way, I also filled out the form to get support privately as well, but haven’t heard back. It’s been 3 days.

my client has a very important seminar on Dec 3rd and wants to write a post inviting them, without the notifications working, it’s useless. Can you please have a look ASAP? Pretty please? ??

Ok, understood. Thank you again. I will just mark as resolved then and try to calm my nerves about the error message lol

Ok that’s good news. I will just then disregard the error and I suppose wait until a new update comes out fixing whatever is going on? Thanks for the quick response btw!

Hi Paulina, Thanks for the reply and the help, the URL is leadershipmrm.com/blog
I have everything installed properly. I subscribed to my clients blog and he recently posted a new blog post and I didn’t receive an email notification. I went through all the settings of JetPack and just cannot figure this out.

Thank you!

I have the JetPack account connected to the admin user. The author actually writes his posts from a different editor access level account. Does that matter? Does the author writing the blog posts have to be an admin of JetPack for the notifications to send out to subscribers??? I’ve got all the settings enabled to send notifications of new blog posts to subscribers so why won’t the notifications send?

Thank you. I just removed the mu-plugin E-164 formatting code for now. I’m not sure what to do with Google’s Enhanced conversion tracking setup though because in order for Google’s enhanced conversions to use the phone number field it needs to be E164 format. I might be able to work with their tech support to use a different piece of data instead of the phone number. Their support articles and team say that Email and Phone are the two more reliable fields to use for Google’s Enhanced Conversion Tracking to provide the best results but perhaps they can recommend a different approach, I don’t know.

It would be awesome if Forminator offered the ability to specify in the settings for the phone number field how we want the data to be formatted after submission to accommodate the E164 format and 3rd-party ad tracking software (Like Google’s Enhanced Conversion Tracking when running Google ads), rather than having to add custom code.

I’d actually prefer the E164 code you guys wrote to be formatted as a function that I can add to my snippets plugin for ease of management. I don’t like it as an mu-plugin because I don’t have quick access to it without having to login to the hosting provider or using FTP.

Thanks!

So how do you expect me to continue using forminator alongside Google Ads Conversion Tracking? The AMERICAN USA phone numbers must have no spaces and the little plus symbol and look like this +5554443333 in order for Google ads to be able to track them. Without the forminator custom code I can’t track phone numbers in Google ads. The mu-plugin that was created by your team is clearly what is causing the loophole and spam so you help me write the code and provide the solution and now that it basically is causing problems, you throw me under the bus and no longer “support” or can help me with this? Wow. Thanks.

Hi Thanks for sharing the error. The website is not hacked. My clients site is clean on the server side. I just had them run a full server side scan! It’s actually an issue with the code your team wrote for me to handle the reformatting of the phone number field so it correctly is output without spaces in order to be compatible with Google ads conversion tracking!!!! Your team set up the code as an mu-plugin.

The error “typeError: l(…).intlTelInput is not a function” typically occurs when the intlTelInput (International Telephone Input) JavaScript library is either not loaded correctly, or there is a conflict with how it is being called. This library is commonly used for formatting international telephone numbers in forms, and it’s possible your Forminator form is using it for a phone number field.

I don’t think your team properly enqueued and initialized the scripting so it’s creating a loophole.

I’ve integrated clearout and still keep getting spam. I have Phone number set as required and each spam submission they skipped adding a phone number!!! How is that possible? Also clearout doesn’t seem to be helping unless it’s extremely bogus. I continue to block IP address after IP address but that’s not helping. It’s like catching 1 fish in a school of 1000s. Do you recommend a service that can scour a website for loopholes in code? Again, my clients site shows as clean for malware but there has to be something causing it. This form is also connected to Zapier webhook connecting to LassoCRM. Perhaps that connection is opening a door for spammers? I’m at my wits end.

Well, I guess I’ll take the fact that you didn’t respond to my reply and it’s been 2 months and 2 weeks as a big NO. I suppose I’ll just deactivate the plugin then. Thanks for creating it 3 years ago.

Got it, thanks Mateusz.

ok so if I decide to stick with using defender albeit free version or paid, and never having a WAF integrated, is that opening up a door for malware or scammers/spammers to exploit and enter the site? Or will I need to use another plugin to handle the WAF part? CleanTalk offers a web application firewall but I’ve still been getting spam form submissions to my forminator forms. I have Akismet paid version and your defender plugin installed and still getting spam submissions. I’ve even integrated Google ReCaptcha v3. I keep everything 100% up-to date and the clients site is on an InMotion Hosted VPS -Their highest paid VPS package. I was thinking to add some hidden field traps to stop them from submitting. Any other ideas???? My client is getting fed up with the spam submissions.

Thank you! This makes perfect sense. From now on just integrate the keys in settings and then for each form use the Captcha Form element and select the version I’d like to use from there.

• This reply was modified 9 months ago by Why Not Advertising, LLC. Reason: Typo

Hi Laura and Adam,
Thank you for the updated code, I’ve made the update and it works great, I changed the setting to National validation and used your updated code, now when visitors type a normal USA phone number like 333-555-4444 it will format it to E.164 format like this: +13334445555, which is what Google Ads needs for their Enhanced Conversions setup to track results properly. Thank you!