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guest - Guest
4:01 pm - November 26, 2007
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Please replace the ??? with your data!
- Your URL: http://???
- The browser used: ???
- cforms version: ???
- Your Wordpress version: ???
Is the copyrght link ("cforms contact form by delicious:days") mandatory or can you choose not to show it?
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Oliver
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7:38 pm - November 26, 2007
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Hello guest!
Why would you want to remove the credits?
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I Have That Question - Guest
11:00 am - January 14, 2008
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Hello guest & Oliver,
I have the same question -- but to answer Oliver's question first, I'd want to remove the credits to keep a site looking clean & professional.
It's a tough issue. I *greatly* appreciate the many, many individuals that work on the tools used for websites (especially in the open source community). But, having "____ by ____" throughout the site starts to make the presentation look rather sloppy.
Keeping credits in the code is one thing (since those who could really benefit from knowing where the contact form code originates would know to look in a page's code) -- but the majority of site visitors (i.e. "the general public") don't need to know a certain system is coming from one place or another.
That being said, it's YOUR system and you should request whatever makes you happy -- it would just be good to have a definitive answer so we know that, if we want to keep a clean, minimalistic site, we should use a system that doesn't have that restriction.
Whatever the case: thank you for your great work.
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Oliver
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8:25 pm - January 14, 2008
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Hello "I Have That Question Guest" and "Guest", no real names?
Here is some feedback:
throughout the site starts to make the presentation look rather sloppy.
I agree if you use a plethora of plugins and all leave their foot print on the website it might look crowded. If we're talking about one discrete credit line on a page (next to perhaps credits in the footer) I don't see the problem.
How many times do really see more than that anyway, so this is only hypothecial.
Keeping credits in the code is one thing (since those who could really benefit from knowing where the contact form code originates would know to look in a page’s code) —
I disagree. It would surprise me if today the majority (not the early adopters) of the WP users are code wizards. And for the normal user a link back to authors plugin page may come in handy.
Bottom line, if you're using free (copyrighted) code you should at least have the decency to credit the author, in this case (cforms) the link is provided for convenience :-)
With that said, I'm totally fine with anyone hiding the credit line underneath the form (for whatever reasons, valid or not) and giving credits for instance on a separate page.
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seamus - Guest
3:20 pm - March 28, 2008
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Related to the above credits. Not sure what really happened but I just wanted to reduce in size, but in my mind not the meaning of the credit line from "cforms contact form by delicious:days" to "cform by delicious:days" and this small change caused cforms.php to pretty much disappear - file went to 0. Okay I suppose I should have asked first, but it appeared such a minor edit. The shocking thing was this deleted the two pages that had forms on them. It's okay because I'm backed up, but I don't understand why? I guess you've built in some protection? Good luck to you, but I guess I would have appreciated the warning if indeed that is the case. It certainly woke me up!
Thanks for a great plugin - it is such a pleasure to work with. I personally like the credit page approach rather than links dotted around , however I appreciate the authors point of view afterall it's their work we get to enjoy.
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Oliver
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3:57 pm - March 28, 2008
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No, there is no such thing as builtin "protection". Whatever you do to cforms could possibly only break the plugin, nothing else.
Like I suggested in some other thread if someone likes to show credits elsewhere on his/her blog that's super fine with me. All I suggest in this case is a non-intrusive approach: use CSS to set display:none; for the .linklove class.
That way you don't run the risk of breaking the plugin through direct code changes.
But again, anything you *would* potentially do to the plugin has NO effect on anything else.
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seamus - Guest
9:02 pm - March 28, 2008
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I agree strange, but I assure you it happened. I even did again just to check! Thanks once again for your advice. Have a great weekend.
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