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.
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.
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
- 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.
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