Contact Form 7 1.10

Contact Form 7 1.10 is now available. New features in this version include additional mail headers, response message placeholder tags [response], the calling of user-specified JavaScript code when a message is sent successfully, controlling JavaScript loading with new constant, and much more. Therefore, I would highly recommend that you upgrade today!

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Contact Form 7 release announcements on Twitter

I started to tweet Contact Form 7 release announcements on my Twitter account. However, as I usually tweet in Japanese, you may feel it boring. So, if you want to read only the news of Contact Form 7 in English, I suggest you to check #contactform7 from @takayukister (feed), instead of following me.

I’ll tweet release announcements about a week before I release the new version. You can download the prerelease package from here (you can find “Development Version” at the bottom). If you think of translating the latest Contact Form 7 and you can send me the language files before the release date, I can include it in the package to be released.

Contact Form 7 Video Tutorial

Wow! Great work! Who made this nice tutorial?!

Bogo

The Bogo plugin allows each WordPress blog user to choose their locale for the admin panel. This is a particularly useful feature when you manage a blog with authors who use different languages.

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Bogo adds an extra drop-down menu for locales in each user Profile Settings page. You can choose from the options and switch your locale setting.

Note that you need language (.mo) files installed beforehand. See Codex if you are not familiar with it.

Bogo (母語) means “mother tongue” in Japanese. This Bogo plugin is an updated version of my old Tam-mothertongue plugin.

Contact Form 7 1.9.5.1

I have recently released Contact Form 7 1.9.5.1. This update includes several security fixes, so upgrading quickly is highly recommended.

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Default Restrictions for File Type and File Size

This change is related to the file uploading & attachment feature. If you don’t know the feature, please check this page first.

File uploading and attachment with Contact Form 7

This version applies default restrictions for file type and file size when you do not set the filetypes and limit (file size) options explicitly. Default acceptable file types (extensions) are: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, pdf, doc, docx, ppt, pptx, odt, avi, ogg, m4a, mov, mp3, mp4, mpg, wav, and wmv. Default acceptable file size is 1 MB (1048576 bytes).

If you need settings other than the default, set options for file tag explicitly like this:

[file your-file limit:524288 filetypes:psd|ai]

Change Log

• Default restrictions for file type and file size (See above.)
• Changing file extensions when you upload script files
• Bug fix: when you set ‘file*’ type for file uploading tag, the form doesn’t have the enctype=”multipart/form-data” attribute right
• Farsi (Persian) translation updated by Mohammad Musavi
• Korean translation updated by Jong-In Kim
• German translation updated by Ivan Graf

WordBench プロジェクト

先日の WordCamp Tokyo 2009 で WordPress ユーザーのための地域コミュニティ WordBench についての発表をおこないました(プレゼン資料)。

WordBench というのは、当初、僕が福岡に戻ることになったので福岡でも WordPress の話ができる場が欲しいというそれだけの理由で立ち上げたサイトだったのですが、どうせなら他の地域のひとも使えるようにしようと WordPress MU で構築して、昨年の WordCamp Tokyo 2008 の懇親会でぽろりと公開したものです。

最近になるまで、メンバー間でコミュニケーションをとる手段がほとんどなく(Google Group でかわりにやってました)、開店休業みたいな雰囲気だったのですが、BuddyPress を導入するなどリニューアルをおこなったことでだいぶコミュニティらしくなってきました。現在は 17 の地域グループがあり、ユーザー数は 100 名になろうかというところです。

今のところ日本語のみのサポートになっていますが(米国在住のひとのグループはあるんです)、いずれは多言語化してワールドワイドに展開してみたいものだと無謀なことを企んでいます。

Camp が遠い? Bench があるよ!
(キャッチフレーズのボツ案)

おひまでしたら、どうぞご参加ください。あと、福岡で勉強会を 4/26 (日) に予定していますので、こちらもどうぞ。

日時: 4/26 (日) 14:00-18:00
場所: 福岡市中央区大名 AIP カフェ
参加費は0円。テーマはプラグイン作成関連のそんなに難しくない話です。参加ご希望の方は福岡のグループに参加して申し込んでください。

Contact Form 7 1.9.4

Contact Form 7 1.9.4 is now available. This update is not for security reasons and is not urgent. However some bugs have been fixed, so I recommend updating the plugin.

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Note: You will need to install the Really Simple CAPTCHA plugin separately, if you use CAPTCHA. I wrote the reason for this change in this post.

Change Log

• Bug fixed: [wpcf7.remote_ip] cannot handle IPv6 address.
  (props Robin Elfrink)
• Bug fixed: [@attr] style selectors (removed in jQuery 1.3) were used.
• Bug fixed: In case you use both file-attachments and HTML mail, the mail had incorrect Content-Type header.
• Bug fixed: In case you use digits as an option value for a drop-down menu, a different option value was returned.
• Resolving process for temporary file upload path was changed. It now refers to the user’s file upload path setting.
• Files related to the admin page were moved in the admin directory.
• German translation was updated by Ivan Graf.
• Danish translation was updated by Georg S. Adamsen.
• Latvian translation was updated by Sandis Veinbergs.
• Italian translation was updated by Gianni Diurno.
• Croatian translation was added by tolingo Translation Services.
• Estonian translation added by Peeter Rahuvarm.

Really Simple CAPTCHA

Really Simple CAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called up from other plugin. It was originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin, and is now an independent, stand-alone plugin.

If you are a WordPress plugin developer and are considering putting a simple CAPTCHA into your plugin, this would be a good choice.

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About Support Forum

In case you weren’t aware, you can submit your specific questions about WordPress plugins to the WordPress official support forum. I highly encourage the users of my Contact Form 7 plugin to do so.

In the past, you’ve sent your questions to this blog as comments, but please use the support forum going forward for a faster turnaround. The support forum has many more people checking it regularly than this blog. Unfortunately, I am a bit swamped at the moment and not certain I will be able to answer all of your questions personally. If you send your questions to the support forum, you’ll be able to get answers from other experts in a very timely manner.

In addition, if you find a question about Contact Form 7 on the support forum and you have the facility to answer it, please do so. There are often general questions that are not so specific to Contact Form 7, like questions about thier CSS style sheet issues. Those are easy to answer even if you’re not a developer. Let’s join.

If Contact Form 7 has helped you at any point along the way, please help newbie users in turn. I would greatly appreciate donations for Contact Form 7; but even if you don’t wish to consider donations, your help to other users of Contact Form 7 is just as valuable.

Lastly, I do apologize that I was unable to give you the support necessary over the recent past. But we’re up and running smoothly now. Thank you so much for using Contact Form 7.

Contact Form 7 1.9.3

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I’ve just released Contact Form 7 1.9.3. You can copy a contact form and make a new one from it in the admin panel now. If you make lots of similar forms, you’ll find this useful.

Translation Updates

New addition:

• Korean (ko_KR) – Seong Eun Lee and Jong-In Kim

Updated:

• Spanish (es_ES) – Matias Baldanza
• German (de_DE) – Ivan Graf
• Chinese, Traditional (zh_TW) – James Wu

Thank you.

P.S. I’m very busy now for other projects, so I can’t spend enough time to respond to all of support requests for a while. If you have a question, please send it to the official WordPress support forum, not to this blog.