September 27, 2009
Posting A Form to A WordPress Page
I develop quite a few sites in WordPress. Being that many of these sites are not “blogs” and need to behave like a traditional, static website, I’ve come across and worked through several obscure and (understandably) poorly documented issues and quirks in WordPress.
This is one of those stories.
I had a page template with a simple contact form that was posting to # (itself):
<form name="contactform" method="post" action="#"> <input name="name" /> <input name="email" /> <input name="phone" /> <textarea name="comment"></textarea> <input type="submit" name="submit" /> </form>
Looked great, but when I submitted the form, instead of reloading the page with the form posted, WordPress would display the 404 error page. Looking at the address bar, the URL was identical (except with a # at the end), and if I reloaded the page without reposting the form data, the unsubmitted page would load fine. I was both baffled and maddened.
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