How to Troubleshoot Contact Form 7 Configuration Error

How to Troubleshoot Contact Form 7 Configuration Error

Process of Elimination for Contact Form 7 Configuration Error

I use the Contact Form 7 plugin on almost all of the WordPress sites I create. Recently, I was creating a very long form, saving frequently, and then noticed there was a configuration error: “Multiple form controls are in a single label element. ”

I looked through the code and nothing jumped out at me that could have been wrong.

So I thought, how am I going to find the error? There were almost 50 input fields!

Answer: Process of elimination

I opened up Notepad, copied the entire form, and pasted it into Notepad.

Next I went back to the form, and deleted all but the top several fields. Saved it. No error.

This told me that the error was somewhere in the remaining part of the form.

I copied the next few fields from Notepad and pasted it at the bottom of the form.

Saved again. The error showed up! So now I knew the error was in the fields I had just pasted.

So, I used this process to isolate the part of the form with the error. It saved a lot of time that I would have spent going over the code repeatedly, looking for some problem.

I hope this tip will save you time. It can be applied in situations other than just html forms, too.

Turned out the error was a misplacement of the closing ‘label’ tag.