Contact Form 7 not loading properly
Heads up! If you’re using WordPress Contact Form 7 plugin and Jetpack – the recent updates to JetPack may have messed up your contact forms.
I noticed this when I started seeing contact form submissions addressed to only me – and not me and the client.
Apparently the latest upgrade to the Jetpack plugin adds a new contact form feature to its already growing list of features. But in doing so, Jetpack is using the same shortcode contact-form as the Contact Form 7 shortcode.
So, needless to say, you may be run into some problems if you’ve haven’t already.
The fix is super easy (but a bit of an annoyance).
The fix
Be sure you have the latest version of Contact Form 7 and then simply go to your Contact Form 7 admin pages and copy the new shortcodes for each of your contact forms and paste them into your pages like before.
The new shortcodes should start with “contact-form-7”
Of course if you’re not that picky – you can just disable the Contact Form 7 plugin and stick with the new Jetpack version… but know that you’ll lose any of your customizations you may have previously made.
One of the nice things about the Jetpack plugin is the ability to create forms directly within your posts and page edit screens. There’s no need to edit the form and then copy and paste the shortcode into the chosen post. Also, the forms will be checked with Akismet’s spam filter so you’ll have an automatic spam filter built in.
Now that you know – will you continue using Contact Form 7 or make the switch to Jetpack’s contact form?
Google+ Profile Hack (with Photoshop Template)
Last year I shared a Facebook profile hack here on my blog.
Today I’ve updated the hack to work with Google+ (especially now that Facebook has shifted to their new timeline format so the Facebook hack doesn’t work anymore) and shared the updated instructions over at BigBible.org.uk.
You can download the zipped Photoshop Template here and get the instructions over at BigBible.org.uk.
Update: Google+ announced a totally new redesign this morning.
Surprisingly this hack still works – but it’s not a necessity as you can now use one long photo instead of multiple thumbnails.
So now that the redesign is live – what do you think about it? Like it? Love it? Hate change?
KONY 2012 and the Insurgency of Love
Congolese Refugees Western Uganda | Photo by TKnoxB http://www.flickr.com/photos/tkb/17063791/
So I’m a bit torn…
The a 30-minute video from Invisible Children started rapidly making it’s way around the web on Wednesday morning.
As of mid-Wednesday morning it had 6.8 million views on Vimeo and 4.2 million on YouTube. The latest stat I heard on Thursday is the video’s been viewed close to 40 million times now.
I think it’s safe to say “It’s gone viral.”
Immediately after I saw it, I shared it on each of my networks – and was prepared to share it here on my blog Monday morning (as an added reminded for folks to watch it if they haven’t already).
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We belong together…
Laurie and Jonathan Blundell | Photo by @easttexasphoto
For My Life –
My heart is yours. I love you!
(You can download this track and others from JJ Heller from Amazon.com)
Tender
Today is Five-Minute Friday, in which The Gypsy Mama gives a writing prompt and bloggers write for the love of writing for five minutes. Then hit publish. Just write. Today’s prompt is “tender.”
“STOP!” I yelled across the room.
IDiddy just looked at me and smiled.
He knew exactly what he was doing.
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