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Hi Takayuki, just following up as I’m still not able to resolve this. Thanks so much.

Kindly.

Hello! I think the form tags I have shared look correct(?); I have the type, field name, and value. E.g.:

[email your-email default:get]

Perhaps you can share where my mistake is?

Still quite confused! Haha, thanks again. ??</img>

PS – I didn’t share my mail tags in this ticket, as they work without hidden… but here is my Mail tab content for thoroughness:

From: [your-name]

Email: [your-email]

Country: [countrytext-235]

Answer 1: [checkbox-1]

Answer 2: [checkbox-2]


-- 
This e-mail was sent from a contact form on [_site_title] ([_site_url])

Hi again! I’m very sorry, but I don’t understand your response or how the FAQ relates. It literally works when I remove “hidden” from my form code.

So, to be explicit, this works (values come through in email):

[email your-email default:get]

[text your-name default:get]

[countrytext countrytext-235]

[checkbox checkbox-1 use_label_element "..."]

[checkbox checkbox-2 use_label_element "..."]

[submit "Submit"]

And this doesn’t (email content says “[your-email]”, “[your-name], [countrytext-235]”):

[hidden email your-email default:get]

[hidden text your-name default:get]

[countrytext countrytext-235]

[checkbox checkbox-1 use_label_element "..."]

[checkbox checkbox-2 use_label_element "..."]

[submit "Submit"]

Also, I perhaps should have mentioned (though implied by the code), I am using URL parameters for the default:get values, e.g.:

[email protected]&your-name=Testing%20Testing

Which again, works perfectly when using the top form code.

So maybe I need some help understanding the “why” behind this—or maybe now that I’ve shared further information we can identify if this is a bug, or if I am misusing the syntax. Why would *only* removing “hidden” cause it to not work, specifically (this is definitely the case)?

Thanks again! I’m sure we’ll get to the bottom of it. All the best. ??

PS – Here are some screen shots of the emails that came in (1 = no hidden argument; 2 = hidden argument):

Thanks for sharing your findings, George!

For thoroughness, do you know if it matters where in the .htaccess file this needs to go (i.e., before or after the WordPress-specific directives)?

Hi Takayuki, thanks for the reply.

Any idea why adding “hidden” is causing it not to work? Again, the values come through unless I add hidden. Possible bug, or … ?

Thanks!

BTW – these .htaccess code examples didn’t seem to affect anything. Where would I put this code in the file? I didn’t want to put it inside the WordPress section as the file explicitly says that anything between those comments will be deleted on updates.

Thanks!

Hi thanks for the replies.

Did this change some time in the last few years? Because I am almost certain this used to just work out of the box. Maybe this code was part of WP and got removed…

*bump*, thanks for addressing this team!

Hi, is it possible to request this as a feature?

Thanks Steven!

Thanks for sharing these resources! After reviewing I ended up hiring some help for this part and I’m glad I did.

I can maintain it (eg add new fields) and now working on some conditional logic for using different fields.

It’s coming along!

Thanks Jack!

Phew, this really makes my plugin code quite a bit more advanced (over my head)… the move to allowing inputs/settings is a big leap I guess.

I don’t suppose you (@jdabber) or someone else would be up to providing an example of adding those input types mentioned above (text fields and checkboxes)?

Hi @stormrockwell – actually this is a bit limited for what I need…

I realize that I would like to put the code at the bottom of the source code of the page – not the top. However if I put the JSON after the include it spits out at the very bottom, ie below the </html> tag, haha!

Do you have any idea(s) regarding this? Thanks.

Boom thank you! Would you like to add this as an answer on the stack exchange question? If not I will answer the question and reference your answer here. ??

Thank you @stormrockwell ! I should have mentioned that I am using a child theme and wish to reference the page.php in the parent theme. Could you possibly be so kind as to help me write the path to page.php accordingly?