Can I get rid of Black Bars on YouTube Video and Personalize Contact Form?

Hey dcarlsondesign,

1) Unfortunately you can’t remove the black bars by adjusting the theme settings or code. The black bars appear because the video uploaded by the users may include horizontal black bars at the bottom and top of the video player to fit an aspect ratio which is different from the screen aspect ratio or video player aspect ratio. For example if you upload videos with a 4:3 aspect ratio the YouTube video player adds vertical black bars because the player uses a 16:9 aspect ratio. You can try tools like: https://filmora.wondershare.com/youtube-video-editing/remove-youtube-videos-black-bars.html to convert your videos to the right ratio, but even then the aspect ratio can vary from screen to screen.

2) You can use the avf_form_custom_autoresponder filter to customize the autoresponder message with your child theme.
Please add this code to your child theme functions.php:

add_filter('avf_form_custom_autoresponder', 'avia_custom_autoresponder', 10, 4);
function avia_custom_autoresponder($autoresponder, $message, $class, $new_post)
{
	$name = urldecode($new_post['1_1']);
	$message = "<strong>" . __('Dear ','avia_framework') . $name . " </strong>";

	foreach($class->form_elements as $key => $element)
	{
		if(isset($element['id'])) $key = $element['id'];

		$key = avia_backend_safe_string($key, '_', true);

		if(empty($key) || !empty($class->form_params['numeric_names']) )
		{
			$iterations++;
			$key = $iterations;
		}

		// substract 5 characters from the string length because we removed the avia_ prefix with 5 characters at the beginning of the send() function 
		$key = avia_backend_truncate($key, $class->length - 5, "_", "", false, '', false);

		$key .= $class->id_sufix;

		if(!empty($new_post[$key]))
		{
			if($element['type'] != 'hidden' && $element['type'] != 'decoy')
			{
				if($element['type'] == 'textarea') $message .= "
";
				$field_value = apply_filters( "avf_form_mail_field_values", nl2br(urldecode($new_post[$key])), $new_post, $class->form_elements, $class->form_params, $element, $key );
				$message .= $element['label'].": ".$field_value."
";
				if($element['type'] == 'textarea') $message .= "
";
			}
		}
	}

	$message .= 'FINAL TEXT';

	$autoresponder = $message;

	return $autoresponder;
}

You can replace the text strings “FINAL TEXT” with some custom text (i.e. “Kind regards….”). In the first line of the function you might need to adjust 1_1 with the field value of your name field. I.e. if it’s the second field use 2_1, the third field 3_1, etc.

Best regards,
Peter