I have made a site in Wordpress.
In my front-page.php and in my index.php files I entered both post and get methods just to echo a message in page-message.php file.
When I click the subscribe button the posts page:news appears.The posts page:news is defined in my Wordpress settings: dashboard=>settings=>reading=>Front page displays=>a static page.
In page-message.php I wanted to show the data I had entered from this form. T
Code for the forms:
<h2>Sign to Newsletter</h2>
<form action="page-message.php" method="post">
Name:<input class="input" type="text" name="name" value=""/><br/>
Email:<input type="text" name="email" value=""/>
<br/><input class="submit" type="submit" value="Subscribe"/>
</form>
Code for page-message.php:
<?php
$name = $_POST["name"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
echo 'Congratulations!You have been successfully subscribed to our newsletter' .$name .$email;
?>
When I click the subscribe button my url changes to http://localhost/wordpress/page-message.php?name=stergios&email=something%40someone.com.
This seems to be correct when using the post method. The problem is the content!
It always loads the news (posts page from settings =>reading) and not the simple echo message?
It always shows the posts page when I write anything beyond my pages in the url. For example the url localhost/wordpress/hhhhhhhhhhh (a page that does not exist) does load the posts page and not a message error!
I know the reason why it is not working.
action="page-message.php"
your static page's path should be /wp-content/themes/{themename}/page-message.php u can try it,
action="<?php echo get_template_directory(); ?>/page-message.php"
But I don't think it will work. You can try
action="/index.php"
It is untested. let me know if it work.
Update: As you set that page as front page, then your wordpress root url will be that page's url (example.com or example.com/wpdirectory). Then simply do it,
action="/"
or
action="/wpdirectory"
if "page-message.php" is a custom template in your theme you can get the page ID where it is assigned to with following query:
$get_message_pageId = new WP_Query(array(
'post_type' => 'page',
'meta_key' => '_wp_page_template',
'meta_value' => 'page-message.php'
));
and then you can set the action with:
action="<?php echo esc_url( get_permalink( $get_message_pageId->posts[0]->ID ) ); ?>"
so you will always have the correct URL in your form, but it will only work if you have 1 page where this template is assigned to