herb miller

• oik v4.0.0 finally released

  

  It’s been nearly 9 years since I first released my oik plugin to wordpress.org

  Today, after many months of procrastination I finally released another update. oik v4.0.0 now embraces the block editor.

  Well, it delivers a number of blocks; 6 in total, though wordpress.org only detected 5.

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  Categories:

  Gutenberg, WordPress

  Tags:

  address, contact forms, countdown, follow me, googlemap, shortcode block

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  Published:

  January 31, 2020

  Last updated:

  January 31, 2020

• H2GD Part 41: How to create a simple contact form

  With the right plugin, creating a simple contact form should be almost as easy as typing

  display contact form here

  . Over on bobbingwidewebdesign.com I reviewed 6 Contact Form plugins. Today, since my Gravity Forms Licence had expired again, I tried Ninja Forms as well. It took me a while to get a working version. I eventually succeeded when I lowered my sights. In the end the results weren’t much better than the simple contact form that comes as standard with my oik plugin.

  How to create a simple contact form using oik

  1. Install and activate the oik base plugin
  2. Visit oik options > options and set a value for your email address: Email

     Email: herb@bobbingwide.com

     /Email: herb@bobbingwide.com..
  3. Create some content e.g. a new post or a page
  4. Somewhere within the content type
     
     [bw_contact_form]
  5. Save

Example

Features

• Enough fields to gather information from your site visitor.
• Name and Email are required fields.
• HTML5 validation.
• Spam checking using Akismet.
• Email sent to the content author.
• It’s also copied to the email given on the contact form.
• The email indicates the URL on which the form was completed.
• Default text for Submit button is “Contact me” if the Contact Herb Miller field is not completed.

Related reading

• 6 contact form plugins compared
• [bw_contact_form]
• Extend the contact form for multiple authors using oik-user
• ninja-forms

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