Title: Permalink problems!
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Permalink problems!

 *  Resolved [SDM36](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdm36/)
 * (@sdm36)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-22/)
 * Hello,
    I’ve been making a contact form on my little site today, and have been
   very frustrated by an annoying yet seemingly quite simple problem.
 * `<form class="contactform" action="" method="post" name="contact_form">`
 * is the action of the contact form, the page url is:
    [http://cssrecycling.co.uk/stage/contact-css-recycling/](http://cssrecycling.co.uk/stage/contact-css-recycling/)
   however when you press submit it takes you to the page: [http://cssrecycling.co.uk/stage/stage/contact-css-recycling/](http://cssrecycling.co.uk/stage/stage/contact-css-recycling/)
   and you get a 404.
 * I have treid:
    hardcoding the url: (it inserts the extra ‘/stage/’ still using
   a different page: still inserts an extra /stage/ in the url
 * and I’m totally confused as to ehat its doing, the rest of the site links work
   fine it’s only when I sue the <form action=””> that the url gets messed up!
 * Am using post name permalinks and the blog lives in the /stage/ folder.
    Any 
   advice is appreciated!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-22/#post-3842456)
 * Unless you want to start writing your own custom contact form plugin, I suggest
   you install an existing plugin such as [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/)
 *  Thread Starter [SDM36](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdm36/)
 * (@sdm36)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-22/#post-3842457)
 * yep quite happy writing the php, already got my fields sanitized and I wanted
   to insert the successful message into the db, hence I started writing it myself
   as I couldn’t find one which logged responses!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-22/#post-3842458)
 * Have you reviewed [Writing_a_Plugin](http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin)
   and the [Settings_API](http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_API)?
 *  Thread Starter [SDM36](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdm36/)
 * (@sdm36)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-22/#post-3842459)
 * er nope not yet, I was hoping to discover why the post action of my form gave
   me the wrong url everytime! Until I get some data out of it I can’t even begin
   to test anything.
 * Is it not a permalink problem?
    The form is currently sitting within a page..
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-22/#post-3842462)
 * It’s not a permalink issue as such. it’s the way you are approaching this. You
   cannot just add form markup to WordPress. It simply will not work. You have to
   do this by effectively writing a form plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [SDM36](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdm36/)
 * (@sdm36)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-22/#post-3842469)
 * hmmmm le sigh, I’ve managed it in the past, without any such issues!
 * Having had a quick look through the two docs you mentioned I couldn’t see any
   obvious information relating to forms?
 * I did however find these:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustration-using-forms?replies=4](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustration-using-forms?replies=4)
 * and this
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-forms-in-wordpress?replies=3](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-forms-in-wordpress?replies=3)
 * both of which are useful, so i’m changing to resolved..

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 * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/)

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 * Last reply from: [SDM36](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdm36/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-22/#post-3842469)
 * Status: resolved

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