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- Managing Form Submissions
- Searching and Filtering Submissions
- Submission Context Tracking
- Customizing Submission Columns
- Editing Submissions
- Deleting Submissions
- Importing Submissions
- Exporting Submissions
- Exporting Submissions with a Webhook URL
- Tracking the User's IP Address
- Tracking the User's Country
- Disable Submission Storage
- Auto-Delete Old Submissions
- Auto-Save Each Submission to a JSON file
- Increment a Count on Each Submission
- Add a Unique ID to Each Submission
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- Set up Auto-Responder Emails
- Email the Person Who Filled Out the Form
- Send an Email Only When a Checkbox Is Checked
- Attach the Submission PDF to Emails
- Send Email Based on Drop Down Selection
- Send Different Email Content Based on Form Responses
- Styling Emails with CSS
- Sending Plain-Text Alternative Body Emails
- Troubleshooting Email Delivery
- Tracking Sent Emails
- Resending Emails
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- Browser Autocomplete for Form Fields
- Redirect to a Menu Item After Form Submission
- Show a Form Only to Logged-In Users
- Adding an “Other” Option
- Show or Hide Form Fields Based on User Joomla User Group
- Scroll the Page to the Top When a Long Form is Submitted
- Display Submissions Count for a Specific Form
- Populate Drop Down, Radio Buttons or Checkboxes with a CSV File
- Silently POST Submitted Data to Any API or URL
- Create a Custom Login Form
- Auto-Populate Fields with Article Data
- Add a placeholder text to a Dropdown field
- Create Multilingual Forms in Joomla
- Redirect User to a URL After Form Submission
- Importing and Exporting Forms
- Display Convert Forms in a popup
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- Does Convert Forms Use Cookies?
- Minimum Time to Submit
- Restrict Form Submissions Based on IP
- Enforcing a Custom Password Policy in Convert Forms
- Add Cloudflare Turnstile to your Joomla Form
- Implement the Iubenda Consent Database in Joomla with Convert Forms
- Add Custom Validations to Fields and Forms
- Add Math Captcha to your Form
- Prevent a Field From Saving in the Database
- Add hCaptcha to your Form
- Enable Double Opt-in
- Allow Form Submissions in Specific Date Range
- Ensure a Unique Value is Entered Into a Field
- Block Form Submissions Containing Profanity (Bad Words)
- Block Email Addresses or Email Domains
- Honeypot
- Setting Up Google reCAPTCHA
- Create GDPR Compliant Forms
Troubleshooting Issues with the Joomla Email Cloak Plugin
When using Convert Forms, you may encounter issues if you're using email addresses as default values in input fields (value="[email protected]"), inside placeholder text (placeholder="[email protected]"), or in dropdown options (<option value="[email protected]">).
The Joomla Email Cloak plugin attempts to encrypt these email addresses, which breaks the form's functionality and prevents proper submission.
The Solution
To resolve this specific issue in Convert Forms, we've developed the Convert Forms Email Cloak Fix plugin. This plugin prevents the Joomla Email Cloak plugin from interfering with email addresses used within Convert Forms while maintaining email protection elsewhere on your site.
We do not allow cloaking of email addresses in the following cases:
- Input Fields: value, placeholder, data-value, data-calc-value
- Select Fields: value attribute in
<option>elements - Textarea Fields: placeholder attribute
- Label Elements: text content inside
<label>tags
Important: Email addresses that appear as regular text content in your forms (such as in descriptions or HTML fields) will still be properly cloaked by Joomla's Email Cloak plugin, maintaining protection where needed.
Implementation
The Convert Forms Email Cloak Fix plugin comes enabled by default. To verify its status:
- Log in to your Joomla administrator
- Go to Extensions → Manage → Plugins
- Search for the Convert Forms - Email Cloak Fix plugin
- Enable the plugin
Important Notes
- This plugin is only needed if you use Joomla's Content - Email Cloaking plugin.
- The fix only applies to forms created by Convert Forms.
- Email addresses elsewhere on your site remain protected by the core Email Cloak plugin.
Email pulled from a custom field is still cloaked
If your form field gets its value from a Joomla custom field via a Smart Tag (for example, a Default Value of {user.field.email}), the email may still arrive cloaked. If the same tag is used in emails like in the BCC field, the submission will fail with an error like: "Invalid address: (bcc)".
This happens because resolving a custom field Smart Tag runs the value through Joomla's content plugins, and Email Cloak replaces the address before it ever reaches the form. The Convert Forms Email Cloak Fix plugin can't catch it, since there's no plain email address left in the form HTML to protect.
Fix: add .rawvalue to the Smart Tag so it returns the field exactly as stored, without running any content plugins:
{user.field.email.rawvalue}Use this wherever the address is pulled from the custom field (Default Value, BCC, etc.). See Preventing Shortcode Parsing in Custom Fields for the full explanation.
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