Adding an attachment section in the Contact Form
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Hi, I’ve been trying to add a section for uploading attachments in my Contact form but I’m not being able to. Please advice on how should I go about it.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I don’t believe that’s possible as it is not stated in the relevant support doc that it is. https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/
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Is there an alternative option to this? How can I get users to upload relevant files as attachments on my blog?
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You refer to “users” and I want you to read what follows.
You can have either a public or a private WordPress.COM hosted blog and there is no limitation on the total number of contributors to any blog.
To change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settingsIf you’d like to invite others to publish posts or help approve comments on your blog, you can invite them to be a Contributor, Editor, or Author. Contributors cannot upload images. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
See:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-users-to-your-site
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-viewers-to-a-private-siteThe invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but does not need to register a blog. That requirement is because the software has to be able to differentiate between hackers and official users and allow access only to those with username accounts and official roles on the blog.
Username accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required.
If the person being invited to contribute to your blog does not already have one, he or she will have to register a WordPress.COM username account. He or she does not need to register a blog. There is a just a username please option. The invitees who lack username accounts select the “username only” option here: https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1
NOTE that as you have an account you would have to log out and clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies to witness the process as the invitees without accounts would experience it.
Upon receipt of the invitation, the invitee will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If the invitee is logged into their WordPress.com username account, he or she will be taken directly to your blog. If not, he or she will be taken to the log-in screen, where he or she can either log in, or can register a new WordPress.COM user account.
Note that invitees who do create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to log into wordpress.com, return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.
Lastly, there is a built-in spammer prevention so send out only 10 invitations at one point in time and then wait and manage those before sending out 10 more.
See here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/ -
Howdy!
We are not able to add any attachments to your contact form. Perhaps we can find a work around. Please share more details about what you’re trying to do with these attachments.
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Hi,
If somebody is trying to send a file to me through the contact us form, how will he/she do it ?
My form has name, location, number, comment section. I need one more section wherein any guest can also upload files if they want to.
Please advice.
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Hi there – Thank you for explaining. Our contact form is unable to accept incoming documents like you’ve described. What you can do is setup Wufoo.
This is our guide explaining the setup:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/wufoo/
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