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私の地元でもある福岡で初の WordCamp が開催されます! 2月27日土曜日、場所は西南学院大学です。今回、なんと Automattic から P2 や Monotone テーマでおなじみの Noel Jackson さんに来ていただけることになりました! すごい!!

Launching PhotoShop and drawing bad pictures with great effort, exporting the drawing to a PNG file, launching an FTP tool, uploading the file to my server, then checking its appearance with a browser, and quickly finding flaws on it — and then having to start the process all over again — that is awful and boring.

Recently, however, this issue has been fixed. I’ve started using a new web application called “Cacoo.” Cacoo is an online drawing tool that I think is greatly suited to creating illustrations for online documentations.

Actually, I have totally switched to Cacoo. I’m doing a great number of illustrations on Cacoo and putting them into my documentation for Contact Form 7. You can see these illustrations on ContactForm7.com.

The image files are served directly from Cacoo, so FTP is no longer required! And it also means that when you update the image on Cacoo, the update is reflected on your site at the same time. If you manage online documentations like I do, I think you will really like this tool.

I heard that the Cacoo team attended the recent WordCampNYC and demoed there, so some of you might have seen them.

Contact Form 7 2.0.7

Changelog

• Bug fix: Additional fields don’t show up.
• Bug fix: Backslashes disappear.
• Call $captcha->cleanup() if callable. Shorten cleanup period to 1h.

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Changelog

• The required WordPress version changed to 2.8 and higher.
• cleanup() method added. This method cleans up dead files older than 60 minutes (default) in the tmp folder.

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I’ve developed the Support Tickets plugin based on my Contact Form 7 plugin, so there are similarities. If you are familiar with Contact Form 7, you’ll be comfortable with Support Tickets very soon.

Usage

1. After you have installed and activated the plugin, you’ll see a new “Support” menu added on the left side of the menu bar of the WordPress administration panel. The “Support” menu contains “Forms” and “Tickets” sub menus.
2. First, you need to create a form through which users can open tickets. To create a form, open “Support” > “Forms” menu. You’ll see an editing interface much like Contact Form 7. Actually, you can edit a form in this plugin just as you do in Contact Form 7. You can use the “tag generator,” too. You can add as many different kinds of input fields as you like, but remember that the default fields (“email,” “first-name,” “last-name,” “subject” and “message”) are a must, so do not remove them.
3. You’ll find a “Form Page” drop-down menu on the form edit page. With this setting, you can select a page which includes the form inside its page content. You can only put a form into page content. Putting forms into other places, i.e., posts, widgets or templates, is not supported.
4. After this step, you should see the form on the page you’ve selected. Now users can open their tickets through this form. When a new ticket is created, notification mails will be sent to the user who opened the ticket and the administrator (you). The notification shows you the URL of the ticket. A ticket URL includes a unique random “access key,” and only those who know the access key are allowed to access the ticket page.
5. On the ticket page, you can write any messages. You can also close or delete a ticket on the “Support” > “Tickets” menu. You can search for other tickets as well.

Multilingual Support

You will have the ability to make a “multilingual support ticket system” with this plugin. It is true — this plugin allows you to write messages in your language and ask a professional translator to translate your message to another user’s language. Actually, I’m using this feature for the Japanese to English translations in my support service. This feature utilize the WPML plugin, so you need to install the plugin beforehand. I’ll write about this feature in detail on another post.

This is not available now.

Changelog

• Italian translation updated by Gianni Diurno
• German translation updated by Ivan Graf
• Traditional Chinese translation updated by James Wu
• Hebrew translation updated by Yaron Ofer
• Demo mode for demonstrating the plugin (simulating sending mails; you can use this by inserting ‘demo_mode: on‘ into the Additional Settings section)
• Added wpcf7_form_elements filter
• Added wpcf7_mail_components filter
• Changed effect for response box to slideDown form fadeIn
• Changed to allow name-less tag to be validated
• onSubmit JavaScript action (like onSentOk)
• Czech translation updated by Radovan Fiser

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Contact Form 7 2.0.6 をリリースしました。

変更点

• Gianni Diurno さんによるイタリア語翻訳
• Ivan Graf さんによるドイツ語翻訳
• James Wu さんによる中国語(繁体字)翻訳
• Yaron Ofer さんによるヘブライ語翻訳
• プラグインのデモを行うための「デモモード」(メール送信を偽装する。追加設定の項目で ‘demo_mode: on‘ を指定することで使用可能)
• wpcf7_form_elements フィルタを追加
• wpcf7_mail_components フィルタを追加
• レスポンス表示のエフェクトを fadeIn から slideDown に変更
• 名前を持たないタグもバリデーション可能に
• onSubmit JavaScript アクション (onSentOk に近い)
• Radovan Fiser さんによるチェコ語翻訳

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