WordPress HGK Feedback Form Plugin   September 10th, 2009

Also please visit the plugin’s page on wordpress.org

Contributors: ihagaki
Donate link: http://www.ihagaki.com/
Tags: comment, feedback, form, gmail, mail
Requires at least: 2.8
Tested up to: 2.8.6
Stable tag: 1.2

Description

HGK Feedback Form plugin adds feedback (or comment) form to any page or post. It does that by replacing <!-- hgk feedback form --> magic comment with the form’s HTML.

HGK Feedback Form features clean look and feel similar to WordPress’ standard Submit Comment form, yet customizable via included style.css.

The following options can be set from plugin’s admin panel:

  • Recipient email address for user feedback submissions.
  • Subject for notification email.
  • Message to show user in case of successful feedback submission.
  • Message to show user in case of submission errors.

Installation

  1. Download hgk-feedback-form.zip.
  2. Uncompress.
  3. Upload hgk-feedback-form to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  5. Configure options via plugin’s admin panel. Once plugin is installed and activated a new HGK Feedback From item appears in General menu of WordPress admin Dashboard.
  6. Edit a page or post and insert <!-- hgk feedback form --> to its content.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where can I see a demo of the plugin in action?

We use it on our site, please see Contact Us page.

Screenshots

  1. Screenshot of HGK Feedback Form Options admin panel.

    Plugin Admin Panel

Changelog

v1.2 2009-12-18

  • fixing javascript for IE7;

v1.1 2009-12-05

  • localization to Russian and Spanish;
  • fixing incorrect encoding bug for non-English user input;
  • fixing bug when Comment textarea was displaying html break tag in place of newline symbol;

v1.0 2009-09-10

  • initial release;

Support

Please feel free to contact us by visiting support page and leaving your feedback:
http://www.ihagaki.com/wordpress/hgk-feedback-form-plugin/

WordPress HGK SMTP Plugin   September 9th, 2009

Also please visit the plugin’s page on wordpress.org

Contributors: ihagaki
Tags: gmail, mail, phpmailer, smtp, wp_mail
Requires at least: 2.8
Tested up to: 2.8.4
Stable tag: 1.1

Summary

This plugin reconfigures WordPress email to use secure SMTP such as Gmail. Plugin options are accessible through the admin panel.

Description

HGK SMTP plugin reconfigures wp_mail() function to use SMTP instead of mail(). Particularly, it allows sending outgoing mail via Gmail or Google Apps accounts.

The following options can be set from plugin’s admin panel:

  • SMTP server address.
  • SMTP server port.
  • SMTP username and password.
  • Whether or not SSL should be used.
  • From: email address and Sender’s name for outgoing mail.

Installation

  1. Download hgk-smtp.zip.
  2. Uncompress.
  3. Upload hgk-smtp to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use HGK SMTP plugin with Gmail or Google Apps?

Yes. In fact it was originally developed to work with Gmail.
The following options should get you going:

  • SMTP server address: smtp.gmail.com
  • Use SSL connection: yes (checked)
  • SMTP server port: 465
  • SMTP username: your Gmail / GoogleApps email address
  • SMTP password: your Gmail / GoogleApps password

This plugin does not seem to affect my WordPress blog mailing behavior?

Make sure that no mailing, SMTP or other plugins with similar functionality are active.

Still this plugin does not seem to affect my WordPress blog mailing behavior?

HGK SMTP plugin works by modifying behavior of wm_mail() function. Unfortinately, some plugins are known to call PHP’s mail() directly. If the case, you should be able to correct that by searching for instances of mail() and replacing them with wp_mail(). Since the parameters to the both functions are the same, this simple textual replacement works.

Screenshots

  1. Screenshot of HGK SMTP Options admin panel:

    Plugin Admin Panel

Changelog

v1.1 2009-09-14

  • enabling localization

v1.0 2009-09-09

  • initial release

Support

Please feel free to contact us by visiting support page and leaving your feedback:
http://www.ihagaki.com/wordpress/hgk-smtp-plugin/