stevejburge/gator-forms

Gator Forms is the best contact form for WordPress. It’s easy for beginners, and customizable for pros!

gator-forms's Issues

Password field?

It's really not clear what the Password field does. Any ideas?

Any details on spam prevention

The previous owners talked about a secret spam prevention system:
https://gatorforms.com/docs/spam-protection

Do we have any idea what this is?

Clone function breaks shortcodes

• Create a form
• Click "Clone"

• Try to use the shortcode for the new form. It just won't work.

Glyphicons are broken

Open a form
Go to the Themes tab
Open the Theme Customizer

IP Addres typo in Messages area

Open up new Gator Forms Free or Gator Forms Pro repo

We shouldn't keep the two repos together

Color buttons are very confusing

In the theme area, most the color buttons seem to be set to white. In fact, they're blank.

So to actually get a real white color, you need to actively click and choose white

Allow to configure whether or not to store IP, browser info

This should be optional for each form, thanks to GDPR

Allow users to export messages

Need some CSV export options for messages and fields

Browser detection doesn't work

Not sure if I just run a lot of Adblockers, or what ... but the Browser settings were never saved

Allow multiple copies of a field

One user wanted to allow a user to enter multiple values for a single field. This was a Date field.

I suspect the approach would be to allow people to click a + icon and enter more than one version of that field.

Settings page is one big mess

This definitely needs a big UI clean-up:
/wp-admin/admin.php?page=pwebcontact&task=settings

Add more Gator Forms branding

We should have the logo at the top of the admin screens

Settings etc don't show until you have created a form

First installation:

After creating a form:

Background image option needs to use media manager

Number of times a field can be used

This would be a very useful feature ...

As a setting in the field, we could allow people to decide how many times a field can be entered. For example, 3 different times for a phone or email field:

Make Bootstrap 3 the default

Improve the theme design

Some of these are terrible and need removing: https://gatorforms.com/docs/themes/

All of them need at least some clean-up, including the text descriptions.

Themes such as Easter and Antique Letter can be ditched.
Themes such as Transparency & Motion need updating. What's up the melon??

Lightbox option is very confusing

When creating a form, choose "Toggler Button".

You'll see 7 choices for "Form after opening". This includes 4 different Lightbox options. They're all the same. They all do exactly the same thing!

Need a new override system

The original developer recommends to edit the CSS from the plugin. Not a good idea for obvious reasons.

Make all the fields free

The free version of Gator Forms is too restrictive. Let's make all these available in the Free version:

Save/Close/Documentation

On the Setting screen, these buttons are all messed up:

We could move to a more standard WordPress sidebar, like in the forms

Google API Access code says "Perfect Contact Form for WordPress "

Go to "Settings"

Click this link:

You'll see this screen with 3 mentions of Perfect Contact:

Start the calendar on a different date

I can't find a way to have the Calendar field start on Sunday instead of Monday. Yes, my Wordpress settings are set to start on Sunday. But that field shows Monday which is confusing visitors.

Theme and layout changes not always respected

When writing this documentation, I realized that not all form changes were being accepted:
https://gatorforms.com/docs/open-contact-form-menu-item/

Change the theme and nothing happens.
Change from lightbox to slidebox etc and nothing happens

Allow users to target forms more accurately

At the moment, we've got a fairly limited set of choices for when to show a form:

Why not allow forms to be targeted to certain URLs, tags, categories, or post types? Why not certain user roles?

Need a menu link to the Setting screen

This should be below "Forms" and "Message"

This should be an area to store MailChimp connections and other general details, outside of single forms

GDPR improvements

Some ideas:

• Add a delete button for "Messages" entries
• Add the option to disable the storage of IP addresses, browser info etc.

Update "Contact with map" predefined map

The map is set to Perfect Web in Poland.

We can change this to the Empire State Building, or similar

Redesign the first page

This is screen is super-confusing. I think we need 4 clearly defined steps:

I think it should go this way ...

Step 1. Choose from these four choices

Step 2. Choose the advanced options for this choice

Step 3. Choose from a variety of display options
The funny thing is, all the options are available, but only some will work (depending on what you choose in Step 1

Step 4. Choose form position

Need to update to the latest version of Google Analytics

We're using an old version of GA currently

Shortcode doesn't respect positioning

Your shortcode does not respect it positioning in a text editor.

I've looked at your site.php file and see it is wrapped in ob_start() and ob_get_clean() when returning $output, but still not actually positioning based on the it placement in the text editor. This is a sign that the shortcode is not respecting the ob_ function.

Positioning in the text editor can be achieved by centering or right justifying the shortcode (just as examples).

With your shortcode, its position remains in the top left of the text area when doing these actions.

Remove "Ticket" field

I don't think Gator Forms has a "Ticket" option, but it's shown in the Messages area:

Allow dropdown choices in the label

I'm need of a form that allows for "add another" for phone and email

This is how it can work:

Remove "Email message" predefined form

"Contact form" and "Email message" are exactly the same form:
https://gatorforms.com/docs/predefined-forms/

Date picker isn't a real date field

I used the "Appointment" template

On the frontend, the date won't work as expected:

However, you can type in any old nonsense:

Save messages just stack up

These never go away. They just stack up and up ...

Improve Email Sending UI

Like many of the older Gator Forms screens, this is a settings nightmare under the "Email" tab.

So much important stuff hidden under the "Advanced" tab

"Saved on" Time overlaps edge of box on forms page

Can't access uploaded files via "Messages"

If you upload a file through a form, it's not accessible in the "Messages" area. All you get is the name of the file:

Strange place for version number

Doesn't need to show here at all, right? It's on the Plugins page

Theme Customizer is confusing

I feel like we need sub-headings and improved layout for these fields. It's very hard to navigate and see what's what

MailChimp integration is broken

It's not currently possible to get a checkbox showing for the MailChimp sign-up

No matter what options you choose, it's not possible to allow users to opt-in. The text shows, but no checkbox:

The code seems to be there, but hidden:

<div class="pweb-field-container pweb-field-checkboxes pweb-field-newsletter">

  <div class="pweb-label">
 <label id="pwebcontact1_newsletter-lbl">
Sign up for our newsletter                                                                        <span class="pweb-asterisk">*</span>                                </label>
</div>
<div class="pweb-field">
<fieldset id="pwebcontact1_newsletter" class="pweb-fields-group pweb-tooltip" title="Sign up for our newsletter">
  </fieldset>
   </div>
 </div>

Need a re-branding notice for Gator Forms

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