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Is there any way that a response from the Contact Form can go to the email listed on the form rather than to me, the registered site owner
When you create a contact form there is a Settings tab where you can specify that a particular form must go to a different email address. You need to add the address there, or form submissions will go to the email address of the site owner instead.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/forms/contact-form/#notification-preferences
But now the form shows Name: olliroy & Email: (email visible only to moderators and staff).
That is your browser auto-filling the information. If I look at the form I see my own information, and so will anyone else looking at the from. So you don’t need to worre about that.
How do I get the name & email of the responder plus the name of the mentor on the profile page that the responder is reading? Do I have to ask for this info in text that I add outside this form or can I ask for this inside the form?
In the Settings tab I mentioned above you can also set a subject line for the particular form. So set the subject line as the mentor’s name, and set the email address as that of the particular mentor. The mentor should be the one that receives the email, but if you look at the submitted forms in your site’s dashboard you should also be able to tell which form was submitted for which mentor.
to make this easier for me, can I add two more administrators so that they can create some if the 50 mentor pages and add the 50 contact forms, etc.?
I suggest if you want to add additional users, add them as editors. Editors can create and edit pages on your site, so they’ll be able to help with this. Admins have full power over the site, so they can add and remove users, change the theme, or even completely delete the site. It’s best not to have too many admins on one site.
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kokkieh – once again, many thanks. Believe it or not, I am reading the website instructions but obviously not enough of them.
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hokkieh – thanks to you, my site is really rounding into shape!
How do I highlight sections of previous text of our communication as you do?
“But now the form shows Name: olliroy & Email: [email redacted].
That is your browser auto-filling the information. If I look at the form I see my own information, and so will anyone else looking at the from. So you don’t need to worre about that.”
You mentioned that the reason that I see olliroy and my email on the contact form on my profile is that my browser is auto-filling that text. But why wouldn’t it list Roy Cook instead if olliroy, my handle ONLY on WordPress. If, in fact, it’s using olliroy because that’s how I signed up for Word Press, can I somehow change it to Roy Cook?
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How do I highlight sections of previous text of our communication as you do?
Above the text box in the forum is a Quote button. Click that, paste the text you want to quote from a previous reply, and then click it again. You’ll see it wraps the text in two “blockquote” tags. That’s what creates the highlighting.
But why wouldn’t it list Roy Cook instead if olliroy, my handle ONLY on WordPress.
If you are logged in on WordPress.com that field will use your display name, which is the same as your username by default. But you can set a public display name that will be used instead in your Profile Settings:
If you set a display name, that will also show as the author of your pages, and if you comment on a post or page it will show the display name rather than the username. You’ll still use the username to log in and it will show if you post here in the forums, but it won’t be visible otherwise.
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kokkieh – I want to remove Archives and, maybe, Meta widgets on my Home page. So I read the Widgets support info but can’t get it done.
Here’s what I did from my Home page: My Sites > Themes/Customize > Widgets. I couldn’t then select the pencils for Archives or Meta and take any further steps. The pencil icons were inert or inactive.
So I clicked on Primary Widget Area > +Add a Widget (since I saw no choice to Delete) > Archives (Meta isn’t even listed) > Delete. That obviously didn’t work since it appeared to delete only the widget Archives that I might have added but did not effect the Archives that came with my Header Image.
I couldn’t find any setting where the widget pencils would become active and allow me to Delete the widgets.
Where did I go wrong?
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It sounds like you are trying to remove the default widgets. This is a bit counter-intuitive, but you need to add a new widget in order to remove the default ones. If you want no widgets to be visible, add a text widget, but don’t put anything inside it.
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kokkieh – specifically in order to select a text widget, do I select “Primary Widget Area” and then “Text”?
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kokkieh – when I try to add an editor, I go to people/add but on my iPad the email section does not allow me add text.
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This is using Safari, correct? It appears this is a known issue, but there are 3 possible ways around it.
1) Install the iOS app on your iPad. It has a similar interface to My Sites, so you should be able to manage quite well there.
2) Install a different browser, like Chrome. Not sure if that’s possible on an iPad.
3) Use the WP-Admin dashboard instead:
https://ollimentors.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
You’ll find the option under Users
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kokkieh – I made two of my people editors. Does WordPress send them anything about how to sign-in as an editor? If not, what do I need to do so that they can start editing? Thanks.
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kokkieh – what do you recommend that I do with my two editors to insure that they don’t foul up the site? Can I recover from any blunder that they might accidentally do? They’ll primarily be adding profiles and mugshots.
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Editors can create, edit and delete all posts and pages on a site, and they can moderate, edit or delete any comments on the site.
Any post, page or comment that are deleted by accident goes to a Trash folder from where you can restore it for 30 days.
Any edits they make on a post or page can be reverted via the post’s revision history.
Editors cannot change your site’s theme, widgets or menus, and they cannot delete the site. Only admins can do those things.
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The mentor should be the one that receives the email, but if you look at the submitted forms in your site’s dashboard you should also be able to tell which form was submitted for which mentor.
Where exactly do I look for this in Dashboard? I’ve had “test” submitted forms already but can’t find them
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If you go to the WP-Admin dashboard, click on Feedback ->Feedback:
https://ollimentors.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=feedback
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kokkieh – I’m getting resumes sent to me that have no blank lines between entries but when I copy and past them on a page on my WP site, extra blank lines appear. I don’t want this as it lengthens the page unnecessarily and doesn’t look good.
Here’s an example of the resume on a wWord doc:
Chair, Department of Management, CSUC (January 1997 – August 1998).
Associate Professor of Management, CSUC (August 1993- August 1996).
Assistant Professor of Management, CSUC (January 1987 – August 1993).
Lecturer of Management, CSUC (August 1986 – January 1987).Here’s how it looks on my site after pasting:
Chair, Department of Management, CSUC (January 1997 – August 1998).
Associate Professor of Management, CSUC (August 1993- August 1996).
Assistant Professor of Management, CSUC (January 1987 – August 1993).
Lecturer of Management, CSUC (August 1986 – January 1987).
I don’t want the extra lines. I know that I can delete them one by one in the HTML view. But is there any way that I can format the basic Word doc before pasting into my site. I’ve tried everything on the Word doc (ie, eliminating paragraph breaks, etc). Nothing seems to work. The resume looks good with no empty lines between text phrases but the site always has the extra empty lines.
Is there a upfront solution or any other solution other than the HTML one by one deletion of the empty lines?
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hokkieh: when I click on Write at the upper right, does that always create a blog post page as opposed to a normal page. I told someone that the Write button was a shortcut and she created a bunch of profiles but they are all blog posting with a “posted…” message. We have to redo them!
Is there any way to convert the Write button so that it creates “pages” only?
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hokkieh: is there any way to change the post blog pages what we created to regular pages without the “posted …” line?
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hokkieh – how do Editors get to the Media Library on the website? I want then to be able to add head shots of mentors. I know that I can do this via the WP Admin link. Will that work for them to?
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