Contact Form 7

[Ryan]

I'm looking for a good contact form plugin which only does the very basics, ie: providing a shortcode for adding to the page without adding javascript and CSS to the page (ie: not Contact Form 7).

Any suggestions?

[Ryan]

And just as i write this, I continue my chronic habit around here of answering my own question ...

http://www.techairlines.com/2010/01/...lugin-scripts/
http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/...n-functionsphp

So there are ways to remove the scripts and CSS of Contact Form 7, hence solving the problem of it loading a bunch of junk which is unneeded on all but a single a page.

[andrea_r]

Has someone released a cleaned-up version of the plugin itself?

[JLeuze]

There have been times that I wished for a dead simple contact form plugin. I'm sure there would be interest in a "Contact Form 1" fork of the plugin.

[film_girl]

I used to use the Contact Form ][ plugin by Chip Cuccio (he no longer develops or supports it -- though it continues to work just fine), which I have to say, was one of the easiest, best-performing contact form plugins I've found. Short code injection -- you can style it if you want, but you don't have to -- simply great.

I replaced it about 2 months ago with Gravity Forms, thinking that it would be a better solution -- to be honest, I'm really not sure it was. I get more spam now from the comment form (never got any beforehand) and the extra options aren't really in use right now.

It doesn't look like the plugin is available for download any more but I can upload the latest version I have for anyone who wants it to either use or use as a base.

[chipbennett]

I used to use the Contact Form ][ plugin by Chip Cuccio (he no longer develops or supports it -- though it continues to work just fine), which I have to say, was one of the easiest, best-performing contact form plugins I've found. Short code injection -- you can style it if you want, but you don't have to -- simply great.

I replaced it about 2 months ago with Gravity Forms, thinking that it would be a better solution -- to be honest, I'm really not sure it was. I get more spam now from the comment form (never got any beforehand) and the extra options aren't really in use right now.

It doesn't look like the plugin is available for download any more but I can upload the latest version I have for anyone who wants it to either use or use as a base.

I wouldn't mind taking a look at it.

[film_girl]

Chip,

Sure thing!

http://cl.ly/8c30ee19da77897e22b3

[chipbennett]

And just as i write this, I continue my chronic habit around here of answering my own question ...

http://www.techairlines.com/2010/01/...lugin-scripts/
http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/...n-functionsphp

So there are ways to remove the scripts and CSS of Contact Form 7, hence solving the problem of it loading a bunch of junk which is unneeded on all but a single a page.

You know, I wonder if I could do a similar thing for NextGen Gallery, Lifestream, and other plugins that enqueue their style/scripts indiscriminately?

e.g. for NextGen, use a custom is_tree() function in functions.php, and then do like so:

 function deregister_NextGen_js() {
   if ( is_tree( 'photos' ) ) {
    wp_deregister_script( 'shutter' );
    wp_deregister_script( 'ngg_script' );
     }
}
add_action( 'wp_print_scripts', 'deregister_NextGen_js', 100 );

function deregister_NextGen_styles() {
   if ( is_tree( 'photos' ) ) {
        wp_deregister_style( 'NextGEN' );
        wp_deregister_style( 'shutter' );
    }
}
add_action( 'wp_print_styles', 'deregister_NextGen_styles', 100 ); 
  

Any reason it wouldn't work, or that I shouldn't?

(The only one I can think of would be adding NextGen Gallery images to other pages or posts via shortcode - I'd need to find some way to account for that occurrence.)

[chipbennett]

Re: Lifestream

This sucks: Lifestream isn't enqueueing scripts and styles using wp_enqueue, but rather echoing them directly into the header.

*facepalm*

[Ryan]

I never really saw the point in enqueuing stuff when I first started writing plugins/themes. This type of problem sure does demonstrate why you should always do it though.