Here is my update as I have been tinkering with it: I can get images through the gallery that will show up. However, even though I have the thumbnail 150×150 selected in ecards, that is not how they are displaying on the webpage. You can see how it looks at the same link as above.

Hello @drpudding. A new version will be released today, although the latest version is compatible with 3.9. Indeed, the screenshots are a bit old, I will replace them.

1. Read the help section on the plugin’s dashboard, you do need to use a third-party plugin, such as the ones recommended.

2. There is no preview. You can send an eCard to yourself and see how it looks.

3. You cannot see images in Edit mode. The plugin extracts them automatically and displays them as a list of floated images.

4. This should work. Did you change the thumbnail size from WordPress -> Media recently?

5. The message text only appears in the email. Because the eCards are simple images, not custom posts, you don’t see the text. The message text is optional anyway, as the eCard should contain all the required info (such as a nice landscape postcard with a “Happy Anniversary” text on it).

Contact me via email (maybe send me your WordPress admin details) and I’ll take a look at your site.

Thanks for the quick reply! I’m good on all points. A few other quick questions.

1. In your demo screenshots you show how one can add a “You have received an eCard from [Sender’s name]” line in the email. That feature no longer appears in the Settings. Is there any way to do something like this? I think that lets the receiver know this is not SPAM. I see you append the sender name at the bottom, but I’d like to use elsewhere, if possible.
2. Any reason why I can’t send from a no-reply address, or is this ill-advised?
3. As this is a form POST, I’d just like to be sure you have taken security precautions (e.g. to prevent injections).

OK.

1. I have removed that option and only kept “You have received an eCard!” as the sender’s name appeared in the name section.

2. No reason. I have set up a noreply@getbutterfly.com email address and I’m using that one on my site. If you check the demo, you will see it works and it doesn’t end up in Spam (it doesn’t for me).

3. Yes, I am using WordPress-based functions to sanitize the input.

re: 1—so there is no code I can use to display the sender name in the mail in any place that I’d like? Just double-checking.

A couple more issues I’ve noticed. Thanks for your patience.

1. It appears that the last ecard image is checked by default. I would prefer that no image is pre-checked when arriving. Is that possible? And if no image is checked, is there validation to make sure an image is checked?
2. I am using the feature to allow users to upload their own image, but the image appears at the very bottom of the email, not in the same place that the normal image appears (just after the sender’s message).

There is no code, except for the sender field.

1. It’s not possible, because they are radioboxes, and one of them needs to be checked.

2. I can change that in the next version.

I do concur it is the W3C standard that one radio button be checked, but that creates an issue. If a user chooses to allow senders to upload their own images, they can only do so while also sending one of the other images, since one is forced to be checked. So both images are sent. There doesn’t appear to be a way to just send your own uploaded image, unless no other images are provided.

Hmm, it doesnt seem to want to email either. The page it is on is http://brickyardpeds.com/ecards

You cannot combine the theme’s features with the plugin’s features. You can add 100 images to a post and the plugin will add checkboxes and the eCard form to it. No need to create separate pages. But the images won’t appear as a mosaic inside the eCard page.

There’s a bit of a mess there. Try to remove the [code] tags from your shortcode. Try to set up a diferrent thumbnail size (such as medium or large) for your eCards.

Just “ecard” instead of “[ecard]”? Would the plugin still work? Am I misunderstanding? Sorry, I am no programmer …

No, [ecard] is OK, but you have (in HTML/text view) [ecard]< /code > – delete that.

Moreover, I just noticed on your site, try to activate the Metro (Light) theme.

I tried this now in the functions.php – because I am not using the medium size setting anywhere else anyway: And assigned medium size in the plugin-settings.

update_option( 'medium_size_w', 200, true );  
update_option( 'medium_size_h', '200', true );  
update_option( 'medium_size_crop', true );

Looks much better. How do I get it to fill the row instead of having a line break after each card preview?

Good, good. Activate the Metro (Light) theme and you’ll be all set.

Strange … I did not add < /code > etc. It did that by itself. I deleted it now. My theme is called Lookbook. Not Metro Light…

So, first of all, the < /code > was added when you copied the shortcode into your page.

Second, Metro (Light) is the name of the eCard theme (go to plugin Settings -> Use Metro (Light) Style.

aha! Ok, I did it. But now it looks quite a mess again – only in small. And the from is gone.

Swicth to using thumbnails (where you have “medium” now). Try activating the other styles. The form is not gone, it’s just the same colour. Unfortunate coincidence.

Got it with the form (vintage style). But my theme’s thumbnail settings are now clashing again – it looks like when we first started, before I redefined and assigned the medium size.

Seems like your theme deactivates the standard thumbnail size (150×150). I’ve never seen a theme doing this and it’s a bad, bad thing. Could you take a look at your Settings -> Media page and see the thumbnail properties?

I could fix it for you with some CSS code, but some of the images might look stretched or distorted.

The media properties are Width 640, Height 0 and no cropping. That’s apparently the setting needed for the theme’s mosaic … I can change it in the functions.php, just as I did with the medium size, but it would destroy the look & feel of the mosaic – which is one of the main features.

That is why I redefined and assigned the medium size. Looked ok, did it not? But for the fact that it showed up in a single column.

no … the cropping is not working. Did not notice the different heights in the column.

Hmmm, I’m not sure about this theme’s behaviour. No theme should mess with default WordPress settings especially since LOTS of plugins depend on thumbnails. Give me a day and I’ll implement a customized thumbnail size and add it to the plugin. I’ll release an updated version (2.4.1) on Monday (or Sunday evening).

The themes make the eCards float, so they can be positioned in rows. Without floating, there’s nothing you can do because there are 2 elements in there (the image and the radiobox). Wait for the new version, it will work perfect with your theme.

Actually, could you contact me via email and send me your WordPress credentials? I may be able to whip something up.

So either I make specific images with all the same sizes to avoid the mess or no ecards for me, right?

Ohhh.. I did not see your responses here. A new version because of this? Wow! Thanks. Way cool!

You can activate the PayPal module and it will have a payment gateway before sending the card.

great ! the demo preview has te paypal function active for test it? THANKS

There are no minimum requirements. You only need PHP 5+, MySQL 5+ and mail() function, which comes by default on all servers.

Did you try the SPAM/junk folder?

Thank you I have told them that, yes I’ve tried three times to different addresses and nothing in the junk folder.

Did you check your spam/junk folder? Sometimes mails end up there. If not, try contacting your hosting server, there may be some clues in the server log.

Mail is not in the junk. If an ecard is sent the “your card has been sent successfully” appears. Yet my service provider says: “I can’t find anything in the logs to indicate that there is any attempt to send from the wordpress, but since I’m not sure what e-mail its sending from i can’t be sure that there is no attempt at all

I’ve checked the system e-mail and the wordpress e-mail as well as a search by domain and haven’t see anything indicating that the script is sending

and usually a plugin requires some kind of SMTP set up to work”

Do I need to set up some sending email option somewhere to make this work?

The plugin works by default with not SMTP settings.

Try to add an address and a name to the FROM section of the plugin.

I did, no mail goes through.

Try to add an address that exists on your server.

I have, no help.

I am testing my plugin on my dev server and I am trying to capture all requests to the server and see how the actual sending works. I will try to add some checks in the next version.

So you mean this plugin does not actually work properly now? Wasted a whole day so far to sort this out…

These are the only instructions you need. After you add the images, yes, just click the cross to close the window, do not insert them. It is really that simple.

I can’t help you unless I see the site myself, and maybe access the backend. Stupid question on my part, but did you insert the [ecard] shortcode?

Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me. The URL:

Yes, I have the [ecard] code and emails are sent, just there are no images to select.

IMG 1 http://www.tibetrelieffund.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/attached.png

Images are “attached” to the page, not not displayed.

IMG 2 http://www.tibetrelieffund.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/gall_cross.png bottom left shows three images selected, and then I should just click the cross (top right)?

I am not sure why there is a problem.

OK, could you contact me via email and provide me with the WordPress admin details? Or create a new admin user and send the details to my email address? I usually do this for users, as I don’t know what the issue is.

It usually is a conflict with the theme, or another plugin, or the shortcode filter gets overridden.

Hopefully you have received the info you need. Thanks.

Yes, I have. I see you are using WordPress 3.5. Could you update to the latest version?

ok. it has been updated. Still doesn’t work.

OK, it works now. The update was necessary, anyway.

You had a disabled option. On eCards -> Settings -> Disable all images. It is now fixed.