Daily Archives: October 12, 2013

Fast Secure Contact Form, crazy..

This is just crazy. This even looks like ‘fake update’ just for getting more ‘download count’, I hope not. Here I’m talking about a small CAPTCHA ‘contact form’ plug-in for WORDPRESS which I’m using for some time. While I really appreciate for the authors’ effort giving us fair quality ‘free’ plug-in, it’s very annoying having to update every other day for months. This not only points to their sloppy and crazy software design practice, but also makes me suspect their intention, higher and higher download count. Why not just wait a month doing more careful design instead of 2-3 day debugging cycle? Maybe, it’s time to look around other alternatives out there.

 

Just take a look at their latest ‘release’ cycle to see my point.

Changelog

4.0.15

  • (12 Oct 2013) – allow HTML in “Your message has been sent, thank you.” custom label.
  • Bug fix: the attrubutes setting was not working on name, email, subject, fields.
  • Bug fix: schedule a meeting button could show when not activated.

4.0.14

  • (11 Oct 2013) – Bug fix: view /print button did not work with some plugins.
  • Bug fix: schedule a meeting button user preference default problem.
  • updated German (de_DE) translation.

4.0.13

  • (08 Oct 2013) – Bux fix: some forms would fail to import when label had some Non-US-ASCII or Chinese characters.
  • Bug fix: Form save error when tag had some Non-US-ASCII or Chinese characters.
  • Bug fix: button on the Tools tab “Import forms from 3.xx version” did not always work correctly.

4.0.11 & 4.0.12

  • (06 Oct 2013) – Improved placeholder text to work on older browsers.
  • Added new style setting for “Placeholder text” so you can change placeholder text color if you want.
  • Note: if you are using the External CSS setting you should import the new placeholder css, click “View custom CSS” on the Styles tab to see it.
  • added new setting to Advanced tab “Enable to have the email labels on same line as values”.
  • updated German (de_DE) translation.
  • Bug fix: copy styles was not copying all of the style settings.
  • Bug fix: button on the Tools tab “Import forms from 3.xx version” did not work correctly.

4.0.10

  • (03 Oct 2013) – Bug fix: Activation generates “unexpected output” notice to admin.
  • Bug fix: Could not select “Block spam messages” for Akismet.
  • Bug fix: Field Regex was always validating as if required.
  • Bug fix: Atachment file types, and file size labels were not working properly.
  • Bug fix: Field default text was not showing in form.

4.0.9

  • (02 Oct 2013) – Bug fix: PHP method of calling form display was not working.
  • Bug fix: time validation did not work on 24 hour format.

4.0.7 & 4.0.8

  • (01 Oct 2013) – Added a button on the Tools tab “Import forms from 3.xx version” for those who might be troubled by an import failure.

  • Bug Fix: fixed a couple problems with importing settings from 3.xx version.

  • Bug fix: none of the language translations were working.

  • Bug fix: there were some ui image 404 errors from includes/images

  • Bug fix: vCita setting error.

  • other minor bug fixes.