Plugin Testers Wanted

[fisicx]

Could you test a plugin for me:

https://take-the-lead.co.uk/

It's not sophisticated, it's just a simple lead generating form.

All I need you to do is check it functions as expected.

If you really want to help and have a wordpress site, can you download and install on your own site and make sure the settings are understandable and logical.

https://take-the-lead.co.uk/download-and-install/

Ta muchly

 

[estwig]

Worked fine for me, windows 10 and chrome and edge.

An observation for you: Sole proprietorship and limited liability company (LLC) are very formal sounding, could be sole trader and limited company (LTD). I had to think twice about what my company is, I consider it a LTD, not an LLC.

 

[fisicx]

I agree. I just used a list I found somewhere for the demo. You can change it to whatever you want in the settings.

The problem with any sort of list is it's never going to work for everybody. If I built a UK list the Yanks will complain and the Russians won't even know what they mean.

 

[Simon.P]

Done. Works perfectly on mobile

 

[John Hemming]

I just used a list I found somewhere for the demo.

Sounds like somewhere is in the USA.

 

[fisicx]

Sounds like somewhere is in the USA.

It probably was...

Looking at my other financial calculator plugins, the highest number of users is the USA followed by a whole bunch of Scandinavian countries then Australia.

Going back to @estwig 's comment, LLP is one of the types in the UK. I get:

• Sole trader
• Partnership
• Limited liability partnership
• Limited liability company

In Scandinavia:

• Sole trader
• Trading partnership or limited partnership
• Limited company
• Economic association/cooperative

In Australia:

• Sole trader
• Partnership
• Company
• Trust

Such is joy of building plugins!

What I might do for the demo is add some geolocation and adjust the list to suite the country.

 

[John Hemming]

LLC is a special USA sort of thing.

 

[John Hemming]

Incidentally if you want me to run this through any one particular device browser configuration I am happy to do so using my Browserstack account.

 

[UKSBD]

does it work on sites running on php 7.4?

I added it to a site using 7.4, but it wasn't sending an email.

Switched to 7.2 and it worked, reverted back to 7.4 and it stopped working again
(on a clean install using twentynineteen and no other plugins)

 

[UKSBD]

The input masks will confuse a lot of people, especially phone number (also, your default is wrong, missing a digit in where area code would be)

in the css the .takethelead_homepage h5 is missing a font size: (would also like the option of left aligning h1 and h5)

Why use the H1 tag there?

layout is messed up on some div sizes (default twentynineteen)

h2 section_success_title is white for some reason, and I can't change it.

Are you pulling the fonts from fontawesome? I would rather have everything in the plugin

Is there an option to create separate forms?

will look a bit closer tomorrow

 

[fisicx]

Still investigating the PHP 7.4 issue. It's most odd as I'm not seeing any errors reported.

The input masks probably need explaining. The telephone number thing is just a placeholder. In other countries the format is different again. See discussion on the business types above!

Will sort out the h1/h5 thing. There aren't a lot of styling options yet, these tend to get added as people request them. But I will add an alignment option

I only use forntawesome in the settings. Not sure it's used anywhere in the outputs. I will check this.

There will be an option to create separate forms - but not yet. Need to do a lot of coding to make this happen so I want to see if the plugin gets any traction first. It will be the same with CRM integration. I've got an infustionsoft version and I'm looking at doing hubspot but to integrate fully takes 10-15 hours of work.

 

[UKSBD]

I've noticed that with my host, when I update to 7.4 it also edits the php extensions (even switched off pdo which stopped my site working), it may have switched off an extension that is needed by forms, another form (wpforms lite) stopped working too.

I'm not updating anything else to 7.4 apart from test sites.

 

[UKSBD]

Just found this too - https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-send-emails-using-php-7-4/

 

[fisicx]

I've been looking at a number of bug reports and it's not just a WP issue. PHP7.4 breaks the mail() function. They are suggesting we all use PHPmailer instead. Which (as many have suggested) is bonkers.

That being said, the plugin uses wp_mail() which is a wrapper for phpmailer. So I'm a bit stumped on how to fix this.

I wonder if there is a similar problem with contact form 7?

 

[NickGrogan]

@fisicx does your other form https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-contact-form/ work in the same way?

I'm on php 7.4 and it seems to send email erratically and the SMTP test works, but using SMTP doesn't. Perhaps this is why it's only affecting a few people?

 

[fisicx]

@fisicx does your other form https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-contact-form/ work in the same way?

Yes.

It seems that PHP7.4 is affecting a number of functions, the main one being wp_mail and SMTP. PHPmailer seems to be a root of everything. I suspect it's my ancient code causing the problem.

That being said, there are no issues being reported on the WP support site.

 

[NickGrogan]

Shame, because I like the form, I just keep checking the website rather than relying on the emails coming.

I'll keep an eye out for updates.

 

[fisicx]

According to the PHP bug reports they are looking at an update to fix the problem. Which is why many hosts don't yet offer php7.4 as an upgrade option - it's only been released since the end of November so will contain all sorts of bugs and annoyances for a while yet.

 

[fisicx]

I've added some styling options (for those who have downloaded the plugin):

https://take-the-lead.co.uk/download-and-install/

For everyone else I've added 4 new fields to the demo what sort of thing you can do:

https://take-the-lead.co.uk/

Still need to write some help files on what some of the labels mean. And still got the PHP7.4 bug - but that's out of my hands.

 

[Dillon Lawrence Ltd]

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