Martin's famous WP form changes

Upon submitting the contact form, all fields reset to their default value automatically. How to achieve that selected fields maintain their value after submission?

Look for file [wordpress]/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/js/scripts.js and replace

  if ( 'mail_sent' == data.status ) {
	  $form.each( function() {
		  this.reset();
	  } );
  }

with

  if ( 'mail_sent' == data.status ) {
	  $form.each( function() {
	    var $elements = this.elements;
	    for (var index = 0; index < $elements.length; ++index) {
	      if (!$elements[index].classList.contains('permanent-entry')) {
	        $elements[index].value = $elements[index].defaultValue;
	      }
	    }
	  } );
  }

To make a field value permanent after submission, simply add the class 'permanent-entry' to it. E.g.:

  [text* your-name class:permanent-entry]

This will work with all types of fields.

Upon submitting, an email is send to a) the company and b) the customer. The uploaded file is attached to both by default. The company would prefer that at least for their e-mail the attachment is replaced by a link to the file.

Wrote a small plugin (attachment-avoider-contact-form-7.php) that registers a filter into wpcf7_mail_components.

Uses:

• wpcf7_mail_components hook: http://hookr.io/filters/wpcf7_mail_components/
• add_filter from wordpress: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_filter/

Using contanct form 7 and save contact form 7, this plugin replaces all e-mail attachements with a hyperlink. This behaviour is triggered by adding an [attachments-to-links] tag to the e-mail body. Note: Because of a bug in save contact form 7, only one attachement can be converted to a valid link.

Message Body field

From: [your-name] <[your-email]>
Subject: [your-subject]

Message Body:
[your-message]

Attachments:
[attachments-to-links]

You are still required to add the name of your upload to the File Attachments field, e.g.,

[your-file]

The save-contact-form-7 plugin contains a bug that prohibits the upload of more than one file for a single form.

Wrote a patch for save-contact-form-7. The patched version 2.0.1 (base don version 2.0.0) can be found in this repository.

Simply replace the folder [wordpress]/wp-content/plugins/save-contact-form-7/ with the folder of the same name from this repository. After the switch, the information about the save-contact-form-7 in the admin/plugins panel should read Version 2.0.1.

location : http://localhost/wp-martin/

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
sudo apt-get install php phpmyadmin

In /etc/apache2/apache2.conf add

<Directory /home/<user>/Workspace/www/>
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride None
  Require all granted
</Directory>

location : /wp-content/plugins/

• Contact Form 7 (v4.8)
• Save Contact Form 7 (2.0)

sudo aptitude install sendmail
sudo sendmailconfig

and answer all with Y

sudo gedit /etc/hosts

add line 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain decrepito to top (decrepito determined via hostname command)

sudo service apache2 restart

(source: https://lukepeters.me/blog/getting-the-php-mail-function-to-work-on-ubuntu)

Now test it with

echo "test message" | sendmail -v [email protected]

which might cause an error, as your localhost is not registered at any DNS server. You can alternatively use

echo "test message" | sendmail -v [email protected]

which will send the mail to your local computer. You can then read it with the mail command. Hence, user [email protected] as target mail address if others fail.