Ok so I have a couple of quick questions, sorry I am just trying to get this BASIC thing sorted today and launch, the first question is why oh why aren’t my simple contact forms working??

Every time I try download another version of a pluin, and go to widgets and drag the widget to side panel it never shows up….EVER.

The second is why oh why are my ‘pages’ displaying differently to my main post. The main post has everything aligned, i.e. the text and images are flush on the LHS with the header and menu, but on the pages it is kind of all over the place and starts about half way down the page??

Argh help please! I will shut up soon!

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@arty I’ve never gotten one of the sidebar contact forms to work.  I just use a separate page using the Contact Form 7 plugin.  

Not sure what you mean about the pages vs. posts.  Do you have a link you can share with us…

@arty can you make it clear whether you are using wordpress on your own hosting site or using wordpress.com i.e. wordpress hosting?

@arty @kristi-hines sorry to inform you but simple contact form worked well for me. I had installed simple contact form in my test blog and worked well, i sent form and got email tool.I followed these steps:

I logged in to my wp blog panel, then from left admin menu(vertical), go to pluggin, click on add new. Now in plugin search box, type simple contact form (if you have already installed, deactive, once you found it, click on install now–>activate plugin.Now in the vertical menu again, go to appearance tab–>widget. Here, you will see all widgets. From this area, drag simple contact form to right side area just beneath primary widget area (here you’ll have all active widgets). Finally, click on small down arrow next to title (simple contact form) in the right side widget area, then a setting tab will be opened where you need to click on setting link (there will be a notice like click here something like this) upon click on click here link, setting tab will be opened. Now, you just have to enter email address on which you want to receive form feedback from visitors, you can also change any field name or text title.

That’s all,Let me know if it works or not. It worked fine for me.

@arty Hi Arty, I have checked your website and I came to know of the following 2 answers from your questions;
Q1: Every time I try download another version of a pluin, and go to widgets and drag the widget to side panel it never shows up….EVER.
Ans: You should you use the “Fast Secure Contact Form”. you can install it from plugins>> search with the name>> install it & once its activated than you can make your own choice fields in that form as it has a lot of functions and most of all you can embed it in the sidebar only just copy & past the code which this plugin provides you in the plugin settings.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-contact-form/screenshots/

You can download that plugin for above link as well. It is very easy to use everywhere you want you contact form should appear.
Q2. The second is why oh why are my ‘pages’ displaying differently to my main post.
Ans: I don’t know which theme you are using for your website but this error mostly comes from the CSS/stylesheet settings which your theme is using to design your website layout.
You have to make changes in it to look the same as you want to.
Hopefully, this will answer your questions. 

@moinshaikh @moinshaikh @dcoville001 @ayaz1 @ptwylie

Thank you for your reply.

To answer, no the contact form didn’t work. I tried this multiple times with the same simple contact forms (fast secure etc).

Have watched many tutorials and am not wasting any more time on this.

I think this is why people pay someone else to do all this silly running around and troubleshooting in WP. You need to be paid when it takes you two weeks to work out how to make a button or move some text. And I’m not, I do it for the love. Shish.

Thank you for your replies.

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AB