We’ve used the popular Contact Form 7 plugin for Wordpress for most of our Wordpress projects. It allows you to define multiple forms, with custom fields – ideal for longer or more complex contact / enquiry forms.

On one site, we encountered an issue where Wordpress would return a 404 error when submitting the form – although we’d still get the email containing the form information. We’d configured Contact Form 7 with a single form, called “Contact”. The code used to insert it into the Contact page was [contact-form 1 "contact"].

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Whether you’ve a designer, developer or client, it’s likely that you’ve agreed a deposit of 50% before work begins. This makes some financial and business sense; the designer / developer needs your financial assurance that you want to go ahead with the agreed project, and the client need the security that they’re going to see something in return for that investment, meaning the client will then pay the rest.

But why 50%?

We discuss our alternative payment schedule, and how it’s worked for us.

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