Easy Contact doesn’t work

It worked the first time for me. Any further attempts failed.

i installed it fine, and the message is sent and received fine, but the message does not include the name or email of the person sending the message. how do i enable that?

I read that post, and those people aren’t getting the emails at all. I get the emails fine so the plugin is working, but the emails I get don’t contain the user submitted name or email address anywhere. I was wondering how to fix that. Thanks.

I have had the exact same experience; on those rare occasions when the e-mail is actually sent, there is no indication who it is from. I sent an e-mail to the author’s webpage, but received no response.

Does anyone know of a contact form plugin that actually works?

kharles and beckerartography:

I landed here with the same issue.

I took a look at the code for the plugin and found the problem. The message only includes the form submitter’s information in one place — the “Reply-To:” field.

So if you reply to the email, you’ll see the submitter’s name and email address in the To: field.

I want the email to have the submitter’s information in the From: field (name and email address), and also have the info in the body of the email. Here’s what I did:

1. Open econtact.php, in the easy-contact folder (make a copy first in case something breaks)

2. Around line 233, look for:

$headers .= "From: $from_name <$from_email>\r\n";

and replace with:

$headers .= "From: $user\r\n";

That will change the email header information and display the submitter’s info in the From: field.

3. Around line 250, look for:

$message .= __( 'Website: ', 'easy_contact' ) . strip_tags(trim($_POST['ec_url'])) . "\n\n---\n";

and insert these 2 lines just before it:

$message      .=  __( 'Name: ', 'easy_contact' ) . strip_tags(trim($_POST['ec_name'])) . "\n\n";
$message      .=  __( 'Email: ', 'easy_contact' ) . strip_tags(trim($_POST['ec_email'])) . "\n\n";

4. Save and replace the original file on the server.

The email you receive will now look like:

Here is the message…

—
Name: person’s name

Email: person’s email

Website: person’s URL

—
All the other info (IP, referrer, etc)

I’ve tested it out, and this works properly…