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wpGForm now has email notification
3I’ve received a couple of requests to have an email notification sent out when a form is submitted. Today I released v0.26 which supports a new attribute (email=’on|off’) on the gform shortcode. By default email notification is off but when set to on, an email to the blog administrator will receive an e-mail indicating a form was submitted. The email also contains the URL for the form, and date and time the form was submitted.
While I was working on this version, I also decided to see if I could make the custom confirmation work like my original implementation which did not use a Javascript redirect. I had switched to the redirect when I added support for multi-page forms because the mechanism I was using previously no longer worked.
Email can be sent in either HTML or Plain Text formats, there is a new option on the settings page. By default email notifications are sent in HTML format.
The v0.26 version switches from a Javascript redirect to an Ajax page load using jQuery. In my testing it seems to work pretty well and is much less intrusive than the redirect was. Let me know if you run into any problems with it.
The v0.26 release is now available from the WordPress plugin repository and an update will appear on your WordPress Dashboard.
WordPress Google Form v0.25 now available
058 days
Today I was alerted to an issue where my WordPress Google Form plugin wasn’t behaving correctly. This turned out to be due to the prefix attribute in the gform shortcode not handling it correctly. I have fixed the problem with the prefix attribute and a couple of other things and pushed out a release on the WordPress plugin respository.
Version 0.25
- Fixed problem with checkbox processing when using the prefix attribute.
- Fixed problem with hiding legal links when using the prefix attribute.
- Fixed problem with legal=’off’ attribute not being processed correctly.
Sandbox-SwimTeam theme updated to v3.1.372
065 days
This morning I posed an update to my Sandbox-SwimTeam theme. This update addresses a number of CSS bugs which primarily affected the login page.
WordPress Google Form v0.24 fixes UTF-8 bug
785 days
Recently a couple people have reported problems with international (or UTF-8) characters. The UTF-8 characters were not being passed correctly from the form on the WordPress site on to Google. I had planned to look into the problem this coming weekend but a wpGForm user (cablop.net) beat me to it and has provided the fix (thank you very much!).
I have incorporated the fix and tested it and was able to submit a couple Spanish words that have UTF-8 characters. The update should appear on your Dashboard shortly.
WordPress Google Form update – v0.22
0Yesterday I received a report from someone using WordPress Google Form that their checkboxes weren’t working. This was very confusing to me because last weekend I spent a bunch of time fixing and testing the checkbox problem.
It turns out the jQuery script which fixes the checkboxes to work with PHP was never running. Why wasn’t it running? Because jQuery wasn’t ever loaded. Why wasn’t jQuery loaded? Because wpGForm never loaded it! It turned out the website which reported the problem was using a theme that doesn’t use jQuery and therefore never loaded it.
Well the WordPress Google Form plugin, which needs jQuery, didn’t load it either. I (and I can only assume other people) was never seeing a problem because either the theme or another plugin was loading jQuery.
The v0.22 update corrects this problem which was somewhat of a corner case, but a problem none the less.
WordPress Google Form minor update – v0.21
3107 days
This morning I have updated WordPress Google Form and fixed a number of documentation problems and added one minor new feature. While I am not a big fan of Javascript Alerts, I had a request to allow a message to be displayed upon successful form submission. I have added a new parameter (alert=’message’) to the gform short code to enable this new functionality.
[gform form='https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dEYwbGNYVG9TRUhXellMaDBuZ1RQTHc6MQ#gid=0' confirm='http://localhost/?page_id=435' alert='You da man!']
The new release should appear in the WordPress repository immediately and as Dashboard update fairly soon.
WordPress Google Form plugin v0.16 released
0This morning I uploaded a new version of my WordPress Google Form plugin. This update addresses the three items I noted in this post. I also expanded the Test Bed Form I have been using to develop and test the plugin. If you’re curious, I have added the form to a page on this site. If you run into a combination that isn’t working and I haven’t accounted for it in the test bed, please let me know and I’ll update my form.
I think I finally have Check Boxes working correctly. They were a challenge because how PHP (which WordPress uses) pass arrays of information and Python (which Google Forms use for processing) are very different. Thanks to a tip on the WordPress Hackers Mailing List to a utility called http://httpbin.org I was able to get my plugin to pass the parameters as Google expects them and everything seems to be working correctly. The update should appear in your WordPress Dashboard fairly soon.
WordPress Google Form v0.15 released
0This morning I fixed the problem with the default settings which caused any of the settings which are on by default, to be on no matter what. Even when the user would turn them off, the plugin would ignore the user setting which was being saved correctly, just ignored being ignored by the during the default check.
I also finished removing the jQuery-Validate plugin as it is no longer used as well as a bunch of debug code and functions which are no longer used. Updates should appear on your Dashboard soon and it is already available for download in the WordPress plugin repository.
Quick bump to v0.14 for WordPress Google Form
0126 days
While looking at a CSS styling problem for someone I encountered a minor bug on the Options page. The plugin wasn’t picking up the default options correctly and in some cases a PHP array index warning would appear on the Options page. This bug has been fixed and I’ve released v0.14. You can download it from the WordPress plugin repository or update it from the Dashboard.
WordPress Google Form v0.13 fixes “back” bug
0I have just committed v0.13 to the WordPress plugin repository. An update should appear in your WordPress Dashboard fairly soon. This update fixes a problem when using multi-page Google Forms which have radio buttons and check boxes on them. When the “Back” button was selected to view the previous page of the form, the previously selected values were not retained. This bug has been fixed and the “Back” and “Continue” buttons now work as expected.
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