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Current version: 1.6 - Last updated May 12, 2008

Made for: WordPress 2.0.x + - Tested up to: WordPress 2.5.1

Download: WP Contact Form III

Description

WP Contact Form III is a simple contactform based on Ryan Duff’s WP Contact Form and Doug Karr’s challenge (antispam) mod for Ryan’s original form.

What I’ve added (here’s where the “III” comes in..) is giving your visitors the option to specify the subject of their email and easy customization.

The look of form can be customized by creating a my-style.css that will override the default.

If you’d like to translate this plugin you’ll find a .pot file in the language folder.

The form works with WPMU, but need to be installed the normal way.

Special credits: Fredrik Wärnsberg for security fix

For a demo on the form see my contact page

Installation

1. Unzip the zip file and upload the entire wp-contact-form-iii subdirectory to wp-content/plugins/
2. Log into your blog and activate the plugin
3. Go to Options -> Contact Form III to configure everything like email address and antispam question
4. Create a Page or a Post where you want the contact form to be and insert [contactform ] (without the space)

Upgrading

If you’re upgrading from an earlier version:

1. Delete your current wp-contact-form-iii directory in wp-content/plugins/
2. Upload the new

If you’re upgrading from 1.5 to 1.6 go to Options -> Contact Form III and reset your settings before upgrading.

Customizing

If you want to customize the look of the form, simply create a stylesheet called mystyle.css, add your preferred styling and upload it wp-content/plugins/wp-contact-form-iii

Notes / Issues

If you add a mystyle.css to the plugins directory it will be used instead of the default styling.

The form disables wpautop on the page or post it’s on, so you need to wrap paragraphs in <p> tags

The form don’t work on Yahoo! hosting, don’t ask me why, ask them..

If you have trouble inserting the contact form in a page or post try to use HTML view

If this wasn’t the contact form you were looking for there’s like ten thousand others around so at least one of them should fit your needs.

The anti-spam question don’t protect you against human spammers (unless you come up with a brilliant but easy question like the question that gives the answer to life, the universe and everything)

Languages

WP Contact Form III has support for Better Language Managament, so if your are using that plugin on your site you can install the language package(s) in Manage -> Languages.

If you don’t use Better Language Management, the .mo files should go in /wp-contact-form-iii/languages/

• Portuguese (Brazil) Language by Fernando Lopes: cfiii-pt_BR.zip
• Norwegian (Bokmål) cfiii-nb_NO.zip
• Spanish language by Jaime Gómez Obregón: cfiii-es_ES.zip.
• French language by David Brossard: cfiii-FR.zip.
• German language by Björn Fisher (offsite): German language for WP Contact Form III (off site)
• Farsi (Persian) language by Hamed