Title: [Plugin: Ninja Forms Lite] Bugs: Uneditable form, CSS classes
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Ninja Forms Lite] Bugs: Uneditable form, CSS classes

 *  [lim2me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lim2me/)
 * (@lim2me)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ninja-forms-lite-bugs-uneditable-form-css-classes/)
 * Got a couple bugs to report:
 * **Uneditable Form**
    This is a strange one and quite severe. It’s exactly as 
   it sounds: the form can no longer be changed.
 * I’m in the Form Fields tab adding form elements to an existing form. I click “
   Save Fields” and the page refreshes but my form elements do not appear. When 
   I bring up the form I notice that my changes were not completely saved. It seems
   to save new form elements I added but does not save either their position nor
   how I’ve edited them.
 * I wonder if it’s because the form is particularly long. If you give me your email
   address I can send you my WP database and you can take a look at it.
 * **Custom CSS Classes**
    Class names are appended with an identifier based on 
   their form element (e.g. ‘-wrap’ for radio buttons, ‘-field’ for text fields).
   I hope this isn’t intentional because it makes it impossible to use specific 
   class names when importing CSS libraries like Normalize.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ninja-forms/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ninja-forms/)

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 *  Plugin Author [James Laws](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameslaws/)
 * (@jameslaws)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ninja-forms-lite-bugs-uneditable-form-css-classes/#post-2593403)
 * 1. You state that “the form can no longer be changed”. Does this mean that at
   one time they could be? If so, what changed between now and then?
 * 2. Concerning classes, that is currently intentional. I originally hadn’t considered
   needing an exact class name until a recent project of my own and we’re fixing
   this in a future release.
 *  Thread Starter [lim2me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lim2me/)
 * (@lim2me)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ninja-forms-lite-bugs-uneditable-form-css-classes/#post-2593548)
 * Yes, the form could initially be edited. And I have no idea what changed between
   then and now. I was just editing the form like normal until I suddenly realized
   the edits weren’t being saved.
 *  [KellanC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/regent12/)
 * (@regent12)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ninja-forms-lite-bugs-uneditable-form-css-classes/#post-2593768)
 * So, it appears this has not been fixed yet? (The added class names being appended)
 * This is quite difficult, if attempting to style a submit button to match existing
   theme styling. (i.e. I just want to add the class ‘button’ to the a Ninjaform
   Submit button field. But the custom class gets changed to “button-field”. And
   the only way to learn THAT is to publish it, then use something like Firebug 
   to figure it out. Not user friendly at all)
 * If it were CSS I was writing in a custom file, that would be workable… but the
   theme already has relatively complex button styling already created, and I just
   want to apply it to this form.
 * Any updates on changes to this?
 * EDIT: discovered a bigger problem… a space is being added before and after the
   custom class… effectively changing it to “. button-field ”
 * Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [Kevin Stover](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kstover/)
 * (@kstover)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ninja-forms-lite-bugs-uneditable-form-css-classes/#post-2593770)
 * Hey Regent,
 * We are currently working on Version 2.0 of Ninja Forms. This version is a complete
   re-write of the plugin from the ground up, and so problems like this are being
   taken care of in it. I don’t have a good eta for the lite release, but hopefully
   it will be sometime later this month.
 *  [KellanC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/regent12/)
 * (@regent12)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ninja-forms-lite-bugs-uneditable-form-css-classes/#post-2593771)
 * Hi Kevin, thanks for the quick followup.
 * I’m aware of upcoming v2.0, and I’m considering purchasing Pro version now… in
   fact, I’m really ‘evaluating’ the usability now, as I have several sites needing
   forms… and one needs a working form ASAP. I have other options, of course, but
   I like much of what you’ve done.
 * I’m also aware that your release schedule has been greatly slowed down from what
   was anticipated (like so many things nowadays!).
 * So, I guess the real question is:
    Are you planning any kind of update/maintenance/
   bug fix for the current Lite version… or is all of that being held back for the
   2.0 version?
 * Thanks!
    Kellan Regent12 Design
 *  Plugin Author [Kevin Stover](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kstover/)
 * (@kstover)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ninja-forms-lite-bugs-uneditable-form-css-classes/#post-2593772)
 * Hey Kellan,
 * We are currently not planning on updating the current version any more. The reasons
   for the delay lie in some realizations we came to while developing the next major
   version of Ninja Forms. We were quite a ways into the new version, when we kept
   coming up with cool features we would like to add. As with most software development,
   it was hard to keep these features from creeping in and slowing things down. 
   After we sat down and looked at our feature list, we saw that our dev track for
   version 2.0 wasn’t going to be robust enough, hence the decision to completely
   re-write the plugin code. It has taken us a lot longer to get the plugin out,
   but it means that we can add or remove features extremely quickly in the future.
   It also adds the ability for other people to extend Ninja Forms in ways that 
   we haven’t even thought of yet.
 * I know that’s not a great help for what you are working on at the moment, but
   that’s where we currently are.

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