If your not getting emails from your contact form 7 form then most likely your putting your sending email address correctly. To resolve this problem, you need to make sure your sending or from email should using a domain that is on the server. Meaning if your wordpress site is on fishing.com, then the email address for sending should be something like tom@fishing.com. The email address should be of the wordpress site domain. Also be sure to use words in the subject of the email that dont trigger the spam filter, like porn and so on. Lastly, once you get your email either in junk or inbox, mark it as safe so it does not goes not get blocked in future.
Most popular form plugin for wordpress now saves your data as custom posts! What this means now is, if you move your blog to another server you dont need to loss your email body’s that were created for the forms.
We learned first hand this problem when we moved a big clients site to wordpress. We found the email body was missing. After looking into it, we found the problem happening because data was being serialized in the database making it only work on the domain the data was created. Since then we were creating a backup of the email body before moving the sites.
Now this problem is gone, as all the data is saved as custom posts in the post table of wordpress, allowing us to not loss the data after site gets moved.
To reset the password for wordpress all you need to do is the following:
1) Upload to your hosting phpminadmin. This is a simple script that allows you to run a database query on your site allowing you to reset your password. You can download it from http://phpminiadmin.sourceforge.net/
2) You need to get database logins for your wordpress database. You can find them by viewing wp-config.php file. Values that are needed are in the following area:
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘database-name-here‘);
/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘database-user-here‘);
/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘database-user-password-here‘);
/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);
3) Open the phpminiadmin file and update the values there in the following locations:
‘user’=>”database-user-here“,#required
‘pwd’=>”database-user-password-here“, #required
‘db’=>”database-name-here“, #default DB, optional
‘host’=>”",#optional
4) Upload phpminiadmin file to where you have your wordpress site is running.
5) Run the script and load the table called “wp_users”. Run the following query when you view the table:
UPDATE wp_users SET user_email= “youremail@yourdomain.com” WHERE user_login=”admin”
6) Now go to the login page on wordpress and click on “Lost your password?”. Put in your email address or user name. WordPress will send you a link to reset the password and you will be back in business.
To reset the password for phpBB3 all you need to do is the following:
1) Upload to your hosting phpminadmin. This is a simple script that allows you to run a database query on your site allowing you to reset your password. You can download it from http://phpminiadmin.sourceforge.net/
2) You need to get database logins for your phpbb3 database. You can find them by viewing config.php file. Values that are needed are: $dbhost, $dbname, $dbuser, $dbpasswd.
3) Open the phpminiadmin file and update the values there in the following locations:
‘user’=>”database-user-here“,#required
‘pwd’=>”database-user-password-here“, #required
‘db’=>”database-name-here“, #default DB, optional
‘host’=>”",#optional
4) Upload phpminiadmin file to where you have your phpBB3 form is running.
5) Run the script and load the table called “phpbb_users”. Run the following query when you view the table:
UPDATE phpbb_users SET user_email= “youremail@yourdomain.com” WHERE username=”admin”
6) Now go to the login page on phpBB3 and click on “I forgot my password”. Put in your email address and user name. phpBB will send you a link to reset the password and you will be back in business.
Also see our post on how to reset password of wordpress.