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  • July 15, 2015 at 6:05 pm #473904
    Magiweb

    Unfortunately Enfold’s contact form doesn’t allow me to change the form action, so I’m unable to create a form that submits my contact requests to my Aweber email list system.

    Therefore, I created a form and inserted it into a “code block”. Unfortunately this breaks the editor, I suspect because of this line:

    <textarea id=”awf_field-71613956″ class=”text_area” tabindex=”510″ cols=”40″ name=”custom Message” rows=”7″></textarea>

    The textarea in my form is probably breaking the WordPress WYSIWYG, and therefore the Enfold editor as well.

    Also, the form doesn’t work – it used to but now it’s not working at all. I tried to use the same styles used in the Enfold theme, so I suspect something about that is the issue.

    Please advise how to fix or, or if there’s an alternative way that I can create forms with the Enfold styles applied which can submit the forms to a 3rd party. I’ve added my website’s login details to the field provided.

    Thanks,
    Ruggero

    July 16, 2015 at 2:19 pm #474313
    Andy

    Hi Ruggero!

    we suggest to work with this to achieve what you want: https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/

    Cheers!
    Andy

    July 17, 2015 at 9:06 am #474737
    Magiweb

    Hi Andy,

    Thanks for the response and suggestion.

    Unfortunately, unless I missed a hidden functionality in contact form 7, that doesn’t work for me either since (unless I’ve missed a feature somewhere I’m not aware of) Contact form 7 doesn’t allow me to change the form action either!

    Or put another way, how do you suggest I submit the form to Aweber so I can capture the lead using contact form 7?

    Thanks,
    Ruggero

    July 17, 2015 at 3:28 pm #474999
    Josue

    Hey Ruggero!

    Use the HTML approach but wrap it with a shortcode, like (put this in theme / child theme functions.php):

    function aweber_form_func() {
ob_start();
?>
PUT HTML HERE
<?php
return ob_get_clean();

}
add_shortcode( 'aweber_form', 'aweber_form_func' );

    And then in the Code Block:

    [aweber_form]

    Regards,
    Josue

    July 17, 2015 at 3:34 pm #475001
    Magiweb

    Hi Josue,

    Clever! Don’t I need to then copy over your functions.php file into a child theme and then add my own function in there? I suppose every time you do a theme update from then on I’d have to copy/paste your new functions.php file and add my custom function back in, right?

    Or is there a way to include a custom function into the child theme without having to overwrite one of your theme files?

    Thanks,
    Ruggero

    July 17, 2015 at 3:42 pm #475013
    Josue

    Yeah, if you are using a child theme use the child theme functions.php instead.

    Cheers!
    Josue

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