Forms are not found in code

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I am stumped over an issue with forms detection. I have a website that is NOT built on Netlify. It is an old WordPress site, prepared for Netlify forms and then statically exported because no honest provider would support such an old PHP and WP versioning. There are multiple forms (on all Accommodation subpages, Book now, and Contact page in 4 languages each).

  1. all forms have data-netlify="true" as an attribute
  2. all forms have unique name attributes
  3. form processing is enabled

Nothing indicates that forms are checked or recognized when I deploy the site (pushing to Github, then Netlify updates by itself and deploys the export folder). The forms still have the data-netlify attribute inside the form tag, indicating they are not preprocessed.

I had it working in an earlier state, then discovered plenty of form fields in the reports that are not required and removed them within WP. Sometime after this, they stopped working. I think the point was when I added name attributes (I didn’t test between). Names are required, though, because “form 1”, and “form 2” that was automatically added didn’t help distinguish where they came from.

I tried the following approaches:

  • disable forms and enable them
  • all forms have unique names
  • deploy via CLI
  • deploy via Github
  • disable and enable post processing

None of them worked. I read through the troubleshooting docs for forms and if I didn’t list one of the approaches named there I forgot to list it here.

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Site name: chorchang
Site ID: ac024495-be46-4f44-b899-d67a2d7e3438
Last Deploy: https://main--chorchang.netlify.app/

What might be the issue here? This is not my first Netlify site and not the first with forms. They usually work pretty nicely, as expected.

I also did an HTML check, and of course, there are many errors, but none within the form tag, so I don’t know if that influences the form detection.

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From a quick test deploying a page with only one of the forms in it, the issue is the action URL as is possibly doesn’t exist or does not resolve (this URL must resolve for the form to work) e.g.

action="https://chorchang.local/contact/success/"

After removing the action the form was recognised.

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Thank you for your response. That page might not have been exported… I’ll check and get back in a bit.

Edit: Thank you :slight_smile: That was exactly the issue. Thanks for your keen eye!