why are my contact details in my published contact form
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My name, email address and web address appear on the live post every time I try to publish my new contact form. How do I publish the contact form with empty boxes? Thanks.
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Hi there,
Good news–you see your contact info in the form because you are logged into WordPress.com. When others go to the contact form they either see their own personal details, or if they aren’t logged in they see the blank form.
If you’d like to test this yourself, jut log out of your WordPress.com account and go back to the contact form page. You’ll see that it’s blank.
Hope that helps!
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OK thank you. That makes total sense. However, i have really tried and failed to work out how to create a ‘page’ for my contact form rather than a ‘post’. Does my theme restrict creating a page in the Contact tab on my front page? Page attributes only offer me a ‘template’ option or ‘order’ option. No ‘parent’. Hope you can help! Thanks.
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I do not recommend creating a static front page with a contact form on it.
By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors, who come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, and know that static front pages are traffic killers, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts.
To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/A static page (select below)
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Happy to help. You should absolutely be able to make a contact “page” rather than a contact “post.” Here’s how to do it.
If you use the new editor (the blue one) the process for creating a page will be a little different than you are used to–you’ll need to do it from your dashboard. (Here’s a link just in case you don’t go there very often: http://homegrownkate.com/wp-admin).
From the dashboard, go to Pages>add new. You’ll see an editor page (very much like what you use for posts.)
You can create your page from there.
To add it to your menu, just use the custom menu feature. (here’s more info on that if you need help: http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
Let me know if any of that was confusing or if you need more help.
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