As it stands once a form is filled out and submitted the email you receive can be very cluttered as each field name/label and answer is only separated by a semicolon and broken onto another line for each field. This is fine for small forms containing little information. However if you have a form with lots of entries and the questions and answers can be quite long then the email can look very cluttered like below.

Q1. Are You Currently In Receipt Of ANY/ALL Of Your Pension Benefits? (If Yes End Survey): No
Q2. What Age Will You Feel Satisfied That You Have Sufficient Funds To Retire?: 65
Q3. What Income Would Be Required From Your Pensions, Which If You Had It, Would Allow You To Live The LifeStyle You Want In Retirement?: 20000
Q4a. Which Companies Are Your “Frozen Pensions” With? □ None (End Survey): Yes
Company Name: cannot reember the name of the company
1. Years Service: 6months- 1year

To change the format of the email so that there is an extra line break and the answers are in bold do the following.

Click on ‘Editor’ under ‘Plugins’ and select the ‘Custom Contact Form’ plugin in the drop down menu and hit ‘Select’ to display the files available to edit.

Locate the file named ‘custom-contact-forms/custom-contact-forms-front.php’ and select it.

You will then need to scroll to line number 526 or find the following line using the find function (ctrl + f)

$body .= htmlspecialchars($mail_field_label) . ‘: ‘ . htmlspecialchars($val2) . “<br />\n”;

Replace the above line with:

$body .= htmlspecialchars($mail_field_label) . ‘: <strong>’ . htmlspecialchars($val2) . “</strong><br><br />\n”;

You can see I have added the bold tag ‘<strong>’ and an extra line break at the end. Save the file and test your form.

Now my emails come back looking like

Q1. Are You Currently In Receipt Of ANY/ALL Of Your Pension Benefits? (If Yes End Survey): No

Q2. What Age Will You Feel Satisfied That You Have Sufficient Funds To Retire?: 65

Q3. What Income Would Be Required From Your Pensions, Which If You Had It, Would Allow You To Live The LifeStyle You Want In Retirement?: 20000

Q4a. Which Companies Are Your “Frozen Pensions” With? □ None (End Survey): Yes

Company Name: cannot reember the name of the company

1. Years Service: 6months- 1year

 

Step One. 

Locate the ‘functions.php’ file in the ‘Theme’ folder.
Find the function highlighted in yellow below located in the ‘functions.php’ file. Here you can see three side bars are registered – ‘custom’,  ’debt’ and ‘loan’.  Copy one of the side bar formats and rename it with the new sidebar you want to create. Save the ‘functions.php’ file.

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) :
register_sidebar(array('name'=>'custom',
'before_widget' => '',
'after_widget' => '',
'before_title' => '<h3>',
'after_title' => '</h3>',
));

register_sidebar(array('name'=>'debt',
'before_widget' => '',
'after_widget' => '',
'before_title' => '<h3>',
'after_title' => '</h3>',
));

register_sidebar(array('name'=>'loan',
'before_widget' => '',
'after_widget' => '',
'before_title' => '<h3>',
'after_title' => '</h3>',
));

endif;

Step Two.

In your ‘Theme’ folder there should be a file called ‘sidebar.php’ with code similar to below. Copy this file and rename it ‘sidebar-(your side bar name).php’. For example if I have created a new sidebar called ‘loan’ the file will be called ‘sidebar-loan.php’. With in your new sidebar file change the name of the dynamic_sidebar to you new sidebar name as you can see I have changed it to ‘loan’ below. Save this new file in your ‘Theme’ folder.

<div id="sidebar-wrapper">
    <div id="sidebar">
        <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')  || !dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar') ) : ?>
        <?php endif; ?>
    </div> <!-- end #sidebar -->
</div> <!-- end #sidebar-wrapper -->

Changed to new sidebar name.

<div id="sidebar-wrapper">
    <div id="sidebar">
        <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')  || !dynamic_sidebar('loan') ) : ?>
        <?php endif; ?>
    </div> <!-- end #sidebar -->
</div> <!-- end #sidebar-wrapper -->

Step Three.

Find the page template you want to apply the sidebar to and change the code to call the new sidebar like below, new name highlighted. Save the page template and go to widgets in your dashboard to see the sidebar available.

	<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php'); ?>
</div> <!-- end #container -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>
</body>
</html>

Changed to new sidebar name.

	<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar-loan.php'); ?>
</div> <!-- end #container -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>
</body>
</html>

The result of installing the below plugins will allow members to login through the widget bar without having to reload the current page or be automatically directed to a new page. When logging out they can also be directed to a nominated page. Once logged in members can view nominated pages that non-registered visitors can’t see. When registering, a popup screen will appear allowing visitors to enter details into selected fields as part of the registration process.

To do achieve the above you need to download three basic plugins.

First install the ‘Members Access‘ plugin and edit the settings to select what pages visitors should be directed to when attempting to visit restricted pages or posts. You will then notice an additional setting on ‘Pages’ that will allow you to select whether the page is restricted to members or all visitors.

Secondly install the ‘Register Plus’ plugin. In the settings you will be able to select which fields visitors must fill in to register along with verification settings.

Thirdly install ‘Login with Ajax‘. The ‘Login with Ajax’ widget will appear amongst the widgets needs to be dragged into the sidebar.

Voila!

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