Wordpress and good_template bad_template

[russellr]

Hi,

Were you able to edit the problems with the bad template "oops"

I was waiting to hear back from you regarding access. When I tried to login yesterday, the password didn't work.

For some reason, nothing is working now. I send form and it always goes to error even though filled out correctly.

What's been changed? Do you have other people able to make changes that might have broken something?

[azmogul2010]

Sorry, I just did find the culprit for things not working. Apparently Wordpress manglees HTML to suit itself and it somehow line returned some of the code in the contact form causing it not to work. I had to replace it and everyting is now working fine. The only question I have remaining is that the bad form (oops) you said the return and the error messages incorrect. I wasn't sure how to fix that. I will change the password back on the Wordpress for you to take a look.

[russellr]

Hi,

OK, I've fixed the return link.

However, the error messages are not appearing because the template tags FMBadHandler uses are not recognized by WordPress and it silently strips them out!

To fix this, we'll need an alternative way of putting in the template tags.

I'll get back to you regarding this.

[azmogul2010]

Wow, I have some real second thoughts about Wordpress. I have a very large static site currently and I thought the CMS idea sounded great. But, it has been one challenge after another with the "code mangling" in WP. I feel like I am on the frontier of space or something. Thanks so much for all your help.

[azmogul2010]

There are plugins available which prevent Wordpress from stripping and allow the direct interpretation of code within wordpress like for .css or java script. Could something like this help?

[russellr]

Hi,

The easiest way is to have an alternative tag format supported by FMBadhandler.

We've now implemented this.

So, where you would enter:

<fmerror />

you can now enter:

[fmerror /]

and WP won't strip it.

I'll need to install this new version via your control panel.

Please let me know when I can access it again.

[azmogul2010]

resent login ifo to secure area

[russellr]

Hi,

OK, all done and tested.

The ".html" names stopped working - did you remove the plugin?

Anyway, I've reset it back to the non-".html" names.

Here are the changes:

1. You now have FMBadHandler version 1.22, which allows for a different tag format.
2. Your form now specifies a nice message for the missing fields (you can see this in the "required" hidden field).
3. Your "oops" page uses the new tag format.
4. I've formatted the error sections in the "oops" page to handle user-level error and system-level errors. You can test the user-level errors easily - just leave out some required fields. You can test the system-level errors by changing the "recipients" to an invalid address (e.g. add XX to your domain name in there and that will generate a system level error).

Please check it all out and let me know how it goes.

[azmogul2010]

you rock!!! It is beautiful! Just one glitch which happens.

If you enter data incorrectly on the contact form and hit enter, it goes to the form bad screen "oops" as it should and displays the correct error. If you then hit the return you created, it goes back to the contact form and correctly preserves the data the user entered. When the data is then corrected and you hit enter, it then goes correctly to the good form as it should. But, when you then use the browser to arrow back to the previous page you get the error:

insession specified, but no data found in session and a blank screen. The URL appearing is http://www.azrealestatenow.com/fmbad...rni2gvre7k3of2

Any ideas?