You cried out, we responded. Spam has become a major issue with WPCF over the past few weeks with people reporting multiple messages a day. While we are not sure if any bots were successful in sending spam to other recipients, we have improved the functionality of WP-Contact-Form to check for certain “signatures” in the submissions and not send the email in certain instances. This should mitigate the spam that is trying to be sent through your forms and also the spam that you’re receiving.
I urge anybody to immediately upgrade to 1.3 and stop allowing spammers to abuse your site. Please let me know if anybody has any issues with this release.
A download and change log are available on the project page.
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Thank you Ryan. Your timeliness in response to this issue is appreciated. Let’s hope this works!
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Thank you for your work on this issue! I updated as soon as I saw the release…
Still getting multiple spams several times a day… Wish there was a way to report these folks or something…
Tim Griffin
Thanks
… again.
One thousand thank you’s!
I submitted a bug : http://dev.wp-plugins.org/ticket/268
no response yet. anyone a suggestion?
/Marco
Marco:
This was fixed in changeset 3460. Look for 1.4 to be released this week.
Hey, can we change the website label to something else or will that interfere with the code
This is a great plugin – just checking if there is any support for allowing us to specify a BCC address in the emails it sends out?
Thanks
Jim
I upgraded to V1.3 but it made no difference to the amount of spam. Is there another release due soon?
hi and first thanks for this plugin … great job !!
-> 2 little notes :
it seems not to be compatible with Wysi-wordpress 3.1 (http://mudbomb.com/archives/2005/02/02/wysiwyg-plugin-for-wordpress/)
could i have a screenshot of the place where the buttons to edit(not the options) the form are ?
and i would signalize a little bug in the code in wp-contactform.php to it works with accents characters … you have to replace near line 149 :
this :
$headers .= “Content-Type: text/plain; $encodingn”; // sets the mime type
by this:
$headers .= “Content-Type: text/plain; charset=$encodingn”; // sets the mime type
@++
I was using 1.3 but only 2 days after activating it I started receiving tons of spam. Why not add a visual verification to the form? And a clear/cancel/reset button would be great. If I can help in any way let me know.
Hi,
I got good use out of your previous version, but this one is for some reason not working for me, not sending messages. I’ve detailed the problem on the WP support forums (hoping to get a quick response as so many people read there).
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/45835
I’d appreciate any ideas.
Thanks
John
John,
Repeating what I said earlier in this thread, this was fixed in 3460. I responded to the forum post and included rough instructions.
Neoen,
Thanks. I had implimented it on my site for testing, but never committed to svn.
Marco,
I addressed and closed your ticket.
Thanks Ryan. I had seen the 3469 change, but as a non-coder who’s more or less a beginner at this I hadn’t known what it meant. (Even the “Reverting mail() change. Doesn’t work in with safe_mode on,” appeared to me to refer to something not working when one’s computer was in safe mode, which didn’t sound like the probelem I was having. :-/ ) Your instructions in plain english on the forum did the trick for me. Now that I see the 3640 instructions after making the fix, I can see what the insructions are telling me to do — but I stil wouldn’t recognize the “safe mode” comment as having anything to do with my problem… …just letting you know how it all looks form a layperson’s perspective. Thanks again for your very prompt response on the forum. Much appreciated!
John
so i got this up and running in about 10 seconds flat. it’s great!
but… i suppose this is a feature request, but it would be great to be able to support multiple forms with different contact info.
i’ve got several places on my site where this plugin would be great, if only i could set it up so that the mail went to a different address.
without making multiple instances of the options page, perhaps simply allowing the user to override the default address?
for example –
[sends to email set in options]
[overrides email set in options and sends comment to joe.
the actual example above got wrecked in conversion to comment…
it would be your traditional method of -contact form-
but the second would say -contact form joe@test.com- (rest of punctuation deleted so that it is visible in the comment)
actually, now that i think about it, perhaps having a metafield supported to let you provide an alternate email addy. this would prevent having emails in the html code.
I have several instalations of WP on my site, one test site where I test CSS etc. I installed the contact form plugin [1.1] there and it works fine. It’s running WP 1.5.
On my official blog 1.5.2 I had installed the same plugin version [1.3] and I get the following error:
Warning: mail(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The fifth parameter is disabled in SAFE MODE. in /home/httpd/vhosts/georgelangenberg.com/httpdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-contactform.php on line 156
Thanks for your comments!
When I use version [1.1] I have no trouble with WP1.5.2
George, if you read this comment above you’d find the solution. Try this next time before posting the same question over again.
*%%$! sorry, I did not understand it was concerning the same problem, thanks for your answer anyway.
Hello
I got this problem: I’m browsing Opera 9.0 and I can’t see the contact form published in my page in it. I add this to page code and in preview of this page shown before publication contact form was visible but on publicated page browsed by http://www.elem.one.pl/wordpress/?page_id=7 it isn’t visible(It should be under “Kontakt ze mnÄ… przez pocztÄ™…” and before “Oprocz adresu e-m…”). But IE shows it. Your preview of this pugin publicated on your page is visible for me on my Opera 9 what I did wrong?
Thanx for help;(
Thanks, Ryan, for a great and much-needed plugin.
It’s also one of the easiest to install.
I love this plugin. I created an 80 X 15 button if you want it. I posted it on my site, but the link to download it is http://heatheranne.org/pinbuttons/contact-form.png
Thanks for the great work
Hi Ryan. I love your plugin and it works great. I modified it to add additional fields and everything seems to work fine, except it only sends the last four fields. I thought this may have something to do with the original contact form only having four fields. Is this possible? If so, what would I need to do to change it? Thanks.
Hi Ryan. It’s a great contact form but I still seem to be having problems with the CSS layout and IE. I am using version 1.3 and I have checked that the CSS fix is in place. Any ideas? Thanks
The form is fantastic but I have a little problem?
I’m using the “fblue” theme and the labels for the fields have vanished – they are there (click and drag and they appear!), but at the moment they seem to be white words on a white background?
Is this a prblem with the template or the css for the form? I’d love to see the words again?
And yeah, Id love to know how to add extra fields as well – so that I could use it to submit things like quotes to my business?
Any ideas anyone please?
Richard
I just installed this plugin a few days ago and replaced the CGI contact form I’d been using before that. Thanks very much for making this available.
I have your plugin on my blog (http://blog.strainu.ro/) and I want to make a more secure version, using a security image like the one in my guestbook ( http://www.strainu.ro/guestbook.php?guest=ecrire ). I wanted to know if you would be interested in including it in the official release.
Works like a charm!