Suppressing White Space
One of the more common questions I receive is with respect to extra white space on a Google Form. Sometimes the rendering of the form within WordPress is significantly different than it appears within...
View ArticleHelp and Support
I’ve added a new mechanism to provide assistance to users of my WordPress Google Form plugin. Check out the Help and Support page where you can submit all of the information I ended up asking for....
View ArticleWhat to do when WordPress Google Form doesn’t work
So you’ve designed a Google Form and you’re happy with the layout of it. Now you’re ready to integrate it with your WordPress site and you’ve decided to use the WordPress Google Form plugin. Awesome....
View ArticleHuh? How’d I miss WordCamp Raleigh?
I was perusing some WordPress feeds I follow this morning and was reading an article about recent debate on where Custom Post Types should live (plugin or theme – for the record, I am on the side that...
View ArticleWork-Around for Google Forms problem
It is no longer necessary to use this work-around, the WordPress Google Forms plugin now supports the new version of Google Forms. This post remains here are part of the development history of the...
View ArticleConstantly Amazed by jQuery
I am constantly amazed by what one can do with jQuery. If it were not for jQuery, I don’t think I would have continued working on WordPress Google Forms. I’ve used jQuery to adapt check box...
View ArticleNew Google Forms now support the language parameter!
For several weeks I have been trying to figure out a solution how to handle language issues with new Google Forms. In the old version, a URL parameter could be specified (see this page). However,...
View ArticleAdvanced Validation with WordPress Google Form
One of the most common requests I receive is the desire to validate fields on a Google Form. Google provides some basic validation (required or not) but there really isn’t a way to ensure that if you...
View ArticleWordPress Google Form v0.56-beta-3 available
This evening I released beta-3 of WordPress Google Form. This release addresses a requested feature to have “pre-populated fields which disappear when clicked“. My solution to this request was to...
View ArticleEmail-Users Debugging – why don’t my users receive email?
Periodically users post questions in the Email-Users support forum wondering why their users don’t receive email messages when they expect them to. There are many reasons why users don’t receive...
View ArticleBuying a SIM Card in Germany was harder than it SHould Be
A while ago I gave up my AT&T unlimited international data plan (you did what?) to move my family to a Mobile Share plan. We have 8 phones on a 10GB Mobile Share plan and have only exceeded our...
View ArticleWhen do you Start over?
About a month ago I posted that I had started on a Ruby on Rails project. It was my first RoR project and I spent a couple weeks working on it, learning as I went. One of the things I had deferred...
View ArticleGoogle Forms Custom Confirmation
I tend to get a lot of question regarding how to implement a custom confirmation page with the Google Forms plugin. This morning I wrote up a step by step process which walks through all of the steps...
View ArticleEmail Users with WP Better Emails
I recently worked with a user who reported Email Users wasn’t working correctly in conjunction with the WP Better Emails plugin. The user posted a code sample he had used to correct the problem....
View ArticleGoogle Forms Date and Time Fields
At some point Google added support for Date and Time fields to Google Forms. When building the form, the Question Type now includes the “Date” and “Time” options. These are pretty handy options...
View ArticleUnderstanding Email Users Options
Periodically I get support questions (on the WordPress Support forum) or comments here on my web site asking why Email Users doesn’t send email to some or all users as the plugin user expects it to....
View ArticleOpting out of new Google Forms
As I noted in a post last week, Google has a new version of Forms on the horizon and it doesn’t currently work with the Google Forms plugin. For the time being, it looks like Google has provided the...
View ArticleGoogle moves Form Downgrade Option
Google has moved the “Running Man” icon which I had been recommending to downgrade a new Google Form to the prior version required by the Google Forms plugin. Initially it looked like Google had...
View ArticleGoogle Moves Downgrade Option – Again
Google has made another change to the new version of Google Forms and moved the option to downgrade a form to the older version. There is no longer a Running Man icon to click on to get the downgrade...
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