Contact Form 7 is a good WordPress community member in regards to its correct use of JavaScript and plugs into the WordPress architecture. However there are many plugins and themes that are not so well written and a host of problems can be due to a JavaScript conflict with either your current WordPress theme or…
Contact Form 7 (CF7) is one of the most popular plugins available for WordPress. It allows users to quickly create customised forms, anywhere on a WordPress website. While the forms are easy to create and implement, the fields within them are styled minimally – allowing them to blend in with most websites. The appearance of…
Plugin and theme conflicts are unfortunately a fact of life with WordPress. Contact Form 7 plugs correctly into the WordPress architecture so that it does not cause conflicts with other plugins and themes. However there are many plugins and themes that are not so well written. Like many other popular plugins, CF7 is frequently reported…
You can use Firebug or Chrome Dev Tools to try to find the cause of plugin and theme conflicts in WordPress. You will need to be skilled at using Firebug or Chrome Dev Tools to find what is causing your JavaScript conflict and how to resolve it. If that description does not fit you, you…
Each CF7 form has a unique id which can be targeted in your CSS changes. Use Firebug or Chrome Dev Tools to find this unique id in your CF7 form. Then target only this CF7 form using CSS heirachy as follows: You can also add id and class attributes to a CF7 form by adding…
The Contact Form 7 plugin uses very minimal CSS styling to allow CF7 forms to blend in with most websites. Default CF7 CSS styleStyle When you select a CF7 Skins Style the aesthetic design (CSS code) is automatically created and applied to your form.: div.wpcf7 { margin: 0; padding: 0; } div.wpcf7-response-output { margin:…
There is a general problem with Yahoo email addresses in Contact Form 7 forms (and lots of other applications) due to changes made by Yahoo to their DMARC security policy. In April 2014, Yahoo published a DMARC “p=reject” record, telling all receiving email servers to reject emails from yahoo.com addresses that don’t originate from a…
Contact Form 7 Form Structure We used Firebug to produce the following diagram which shows the overall structure of the default CF7 form we are using in this article. The diagram shows how each element of the form is created using standard HTML form elements and how those elements are arranged in relation to each…
