Comments on: Even Simpler WordPress Contact Form

By: Lingua

Lingua — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:30:37 +0000

This looks like a very useful post. I’ve got a free Wordpress account- I can’t afford a paid one right now- and I’ve been trying to add a contact form to my blog.

It seems plugins are only available for paid accounts and the free Contact forms I’ve tried out whose code can be copied and pasted either don’t work because the code isn’t html or some fields don’t show. For the time being I have one with http://www.123contactform.com which redirects my visitors to an external page.

I’d like for the form to be integrated to make the site look more professional.

This change you’re proposing would be ideal but I don’t know how to find the php code from my dashboard. What steps should I follow? Does this work for free accounts? I’m asking you this because if one isn’t paying Wordpress, the CSS code- for instance- can’t be altered.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:51:26 +0000

Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! Simplicity prevails once again!!
This is a great solution, the only little snag was the confirmation message, but that was solved with a bit of tinkering, thanks for a great solution

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:41:02 +0000

Moderated comments work just as well; plus it makes it easy to post them publicly. But you did give me an idea that I hadn’t though of. Its really so simple.

By: Fannar

Fannar — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:57:23 +0000

I found a solution to my problem..

An Ajax plugin that displays a message after a comment has been sent.

http://webdeveloperplus.com/wordpress/new-wordpress-plugin-wdp-ajax-comments/

By: Fannar

Fannar — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:11:47 +0000

I just had the same idea tonight about using the comment field as a contact form but started google-ing and found this page since I was trying to find a solution to a “problem” I have. The thing is that I would like to use the comment form as contact form but display a message when the message has been sent to give the user some kind of a confirmation that his message has been sent. Any ideas ?

By: Steven Vachon

Steven Vachon — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:59:26 +0000

Ya know, I was just pondering this idea over lunch. Just came back and queried Google to find that, yup, someone else has thought of it too. Although, you beat me by a year

By: Buzzlair Voufincci

Buzzlair Voufincci — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:34:05 +0000

ive been looking for something like this for a long time. finally. thank you soo much.

but it seems not working in latest WP. i mean, 2.7.1. Or i did something wrong?

By: Brenda

Brenda — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:28:25 +0000

Ah. Should have read more closely before commenting. It’s the comments.php in your theme that needs changing. Got it. Thanks!

By: Brenda

Brenda — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:21:20 +0000

What a simple, elegant solution to the problem of over-designed comment forms. Well done! This has the added bonus of decreasing the amount of blog related email as well, by confining incoming communication to the WP admin interface. That’s a huge plus for me.

I’m a little confused about implementation though. In Wordpress 2.7 there isn’t a comments.php file to replace. I’m seeing wp-comments-post.php. Are you saying I should rename your doc to this? Or is does wp-comments-post.php need to be amended in some way with code from your comments.php?

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