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Hi there! I know this is not a new topic, but I simply haven't found the answer I'm looking for in this forum! I admit I am as green as can be, so there is the possibility I simply missed the clues I need for my problem. But could anyone please help me?

I have installed Serendipity 1.5.3. I have been experimenting with building weblogs/sites for the past few days and all is going quite well, except for one thing: I still don't know how to insert a contactform in the website.

In my Bulletproof template I have installed the plugin, I have put it in the right sidebar, I have entered the target e-mail address, but no contactform shows up. There is no active link in the right sidebar directing towards a contactform (although you can see the (inactive) plugin there).

What do I miss?

I would like to have the contactform under the tab 'contact' in the navbar. How do I have to do that?

Could anyone help me on this one? I'm quite new in websitebuilding/html/serendipity, so please avoid using jargon if possible .

p.s.: Although I don't have enough experience to be able to compare, Serendipity is fantastic! I really enjoy working with it (except for the contactform ). My compliments!

The contactform is an event plugin, not a sidebar plugin. It should be installed as an active event plugin, which is below the list of sidebar plugins.

Once installed, the plugin's configuration page will show a path to the contactform, such as /pages/contactform.html, or index.php?/pages/contactform/html if you do not have URL rewriting enabled in serendipity's core configuration.

You can create/modify one of your bulletproof navigation links to point to this URL, or better, the full URL including your site, such as http://yoursite.com/pages/contactform.html

And that's just it, isn't it? I knew I was missing something simple. For some reason I had overlooked a small (yet important) detail, but it works!

I had already tried to put it under a navbar link, instead of in the sidebar, but since that didn't work at the time either, I was completely at a loss. For some reason I had filled in an incorrect URL. Thanks to your reply, Don, I knew where to look! Problem solved!

Thanks and good luck!

Glad it worked. Be sure to show us your site when complete!