Yours is an elegant, neat enhancement and I reckon Ryan should adopt your mod and give you co-credit for taking the plugin further in such a useful way.

So yeah. Thank you! The contact form looks just how I want it to now. x

When I read the book Crypto, one of the key pieces of it was how you could pass a piece of information between 2 people that solved a problem… without someone in the middle able to figure it out.

The problem with most ’spamware’ is that a computer calculates the challenge question. That’s an inherent flaw, because it will be a computer that tries to break it.

By making the challenge question a visible aspect of my page in English, I’m avoiding the computer question and solution. And… just to make sure, I allow the person to change the question and answer any time they want.

I think it’s a great model and I hope to put it on my comments next. I get a ton of spam on my comments but have not received a single piece of SPAM on my contact form.

Appreciate your kind comments!
Doug

This form may end up being the single driving force behind my FINALLY getting around to updating my personal blog at joniverse.com from WP 1.5.x to WP 2!

Thanks.

thanks

I have tried using Ryan Duff’s original WP Contact Form, but always experienced errors with my blog (granted, probably a theme conflict). And the Phrixus WP Plugin never worked either.

What did you do? Why does it work? Why?

Anyways, thanks man! A donation is on it’s way.

The file is there now. You happened upon the site as I was moving around some domains. I also sent you a note via email that the file is there now.

Doug

At one time I couldn’t get it to work, but it seems to work now! That’s great! At first, Bad Behavior blocked me from my site. I can’t believe it! It seems quite aggressive so I’ve added my own ip address to the whitelist since I couldn’t get a hold of the developer at all (all emails are bounced back).

Hopefully I can lessen the amount of spam emails I get from the contact form. I will periodically change the challenge question to thwart those human spammers that read.

Time will tell whether this is a good deterrant. I am keeping my fingers crossed. Thanks for the great plugin!

http://www.ans-online.nl/anstiplijn

I’ve modified the plugin and added a table layout version. I ran into the same issues that you did and I gave up on trying to make it using CSS/HTML. Sometimes tables are the best approach.

Doug

The styles are applied at the beginning of this same wp-contactform page, where you’ll see a few lines that contain lengths for the textareas. This is where you can add the style to the submit button. (I hope all this makes sense). I haven’t tested the following style changes across all browsers and all resolutions, but it seems fine in both Firefox and in IE. If you test it and find a quirk, please let me know:

/* Begin Contact Form CSS */
.contactform {
position: static;
overflow: hidden;
}
.contactleft {
width: 25%;
text-align: right;
clear: both;
float: left;
display: inline;
padding: .4em;
margin: .5em 0;
}
.contactright {
width: 70%;
text-align: left;
float: left;
display: inline;
padding: .4em;
margin: .5em 0;
}
.contacterror {
border: .1em solid #ff0000;
}
.contactsubmit {
text-align:center;
}
/* End Contact Form CSS */

When I use the contact form, I get overlapping text, the name, etc is higher than the box, and the user can’t enter any data in the text box.

Is there any way anyone could help? Here is what it looks like:

http://www.michelledear.com/?page_id=48

I did make sure to clean up anything that was listed per the “if you are using a previous version” information.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Michelle Dear

Thank you

Dr PennyStock

Cheers
Dr PennyStock

Thanx for making it

I’ve tried tons of contact forms but none of them worked on Godaddy except this one!!! It totally rocks. Also, the challenge question entry on the form can handle images! Check out my website where I basically put in a captcha image in an attempt to look more professional. Truly great, thanks very much!

Regarding the lining up of fields for IE, I can see that someone has provided the code for the plugin but I’m not sure exactly where I should insert them in. Could anyone help? Or, what about the tables one? How different does it look like? Will the tables format eliminate the viewability problem entirely? Thanks for any input!

The contact form quick tag is not being displayed in the edit screen on any of the blogs. (And the box is ticked on all of them).

Any ideas anyone?

Or maybe it is part twenty..? Anyway, this is yet another mod of Ryan Duff’s WP Contact Form and it’s actually based on Doug Karr’s mod of the plugin, which includes a challenge (antispam) question. So the real credit for this plugin …

Small mistake in your post. Users want to put <!–contact form–>, not <!–contactform–> to generate the form.

–Matt

http://www.tudorvlad.ro

Robbert from the Netherlands.

Other than that minor quibble, great plugin Appreciate it!

Showing a slightly randomized question will go even further to hinder spammers, I expect.

And for bitbybit, just change the line in wp-contactform.php that reads if($input == $answer) {

to if(strtolower($input) == strtolower($answer)) {

I really apreciate it and I´m using on my website.

best regards