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Troubleshooting

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Mails don’t arrive

  1. Open Contact Form → Entries. If the message is there with a red note, WordPress couldn’t send its mail.
  2. Install an SMTP plugin and connect it to your mail provider. Many hosts don’t send mail reliably without one.
  3. Use an address on your own domain in From. Mail from other domains often lands in spam.
  4. Check that the form’s Test mode and Don’t send mail are off, and that REMAILY_DISABLE_MAIL or REMAILY_TEST_MODE isn’t defined.

The form doesn’t show on the page

  • Check that the form is published, not saved as a draft.
  • Check the shortcode’s ID against the one in Copy shortcode. Logged-in editors see “Re:Maily: form … doesn’t exist” when it points nowhere.
  • If Logged-in users only is on, logged-out visitors see a message instead of the form.

Real messages are caught as spam

The time check needs a few seconds between opening the page and sending; lower Least time to fill a form or set it to 0. Messages per visitor can block several people sharing one office network; raise it. If a captcha turns everyone down, check its status and keys in Settings → Spam.

The form looks unstyled, or styled twice

Check the form’s Form style in its Advanced tab. Inherit from theme loads no Re:Maily CSS, so the theme has to style the form. If your theme already styles Re:Maily forms, it may also turn Re:Maily’s styles off with remaily_default_styles.

A chip in the editor is red or dashed

A red chip sits inside an HTML tag, where it would break the tag; drag it between tags. A dashed chip is a field with no settings yet; click it to set it up.

Copy form code does nothing

Browsers allow copying to the clipboard only on https:// sites and on localhost. Select the code in the box and copy it by hand.

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