Any one good with Wordpress out there?

Factual Questions
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I have a blog I use in Wordpress, and I’m having no luck finding a solution to this problem - I posted it to the Wordpress forums, and the question sank like a stone.

I have the Contact Form set up in my blog, and it works fine. But I would like to customize the landing page after the email is sent. Now, it just defaults to “Message Sent (go back)” and I’d like to put something a little more direct in there.

I have some limited programming skills, but the biggest problem is that I can’t find the programming for that contact form setup. It’s internal to Wordpress, and I can’t get to the coding to add what I want that landing page to say.

Thanks!

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Where did you come up with the contact form? From the theme? What theme is it?

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Wordpress.org? (where you host it on your own server). or Wordpress.com? (where you pick a theme and they host it for you?)

The native programming language of Wordpress is PHP, tied in with HTML and CSS, with plug-ins varying from that and JavaScript, and whatever else a programmer saw fit.
We would need to know some further details about your set-up, but a HTML contact form can redirect one to anything.

If you do not want to reveal too much personal information, at least tell us what theme you are using. Contact forms are pretty basic. The ability to edit them…depends on your platform and your ability to make some changes to the underlying code and your understanding how to do so.

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I think this is where I’m screwed on this - it’s a .com blog, so I don’t have access to any of the plugins. I’m just using the default contact form they provide. I don’t want to switch to self-hosted .org, since I use my web page address for links outside of my blog to a company page, and I don’t want to start all of that from scratch.

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Yeah, with the basic .com Wordpress account, I don’t think you can access the CSS to customize that. If you’re willing to pay to upgrade to Wordpress Premium(which would allow you to keep the existing .com url like you want), I believe you would be able to accomplish that.

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Can you clarify this? You mean right now your webpage is like sateryn.wordpress.com, and you use that on other websites?

If you’re willing to spend some money (not much, a few bucks a month), you can Export your existing Wordpress.com site and import it into a self-hosted Wordpress installation anywhere – that gives you a lot more flexibility, including the ability to modify all Wordpress files and use different plugins.