Why when I submit a form in wordpress it loads a 404 page though URL is correct

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I am just creating a simple contact form, but I notice that it seems to post to an invalid page. The url in the browser is correct but the title of the page is “Page not found”

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$emailed = false;
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    wp_mail('example@example.com', $_POST['subject'], $_POST['content']);
    $emailed = true;
}

below … the HTML: 

<form action="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" method="post" id="contactform">
    <div class="formelem">
        <label for="name">Name</label>
        <input type="text" name="name" class="required" />
    </div>
    <div class="formelem">
        <label for="email">Email</label>
        <input type="text" name="email" class="required email" />
    </div>
    <div class="formelem">
        <label for="subject">Subject</label>
        <input type="text" name="subject" class="required" />
    </div>
    <div class="formelem">
        <label for="content">Content</label>
        <textarea name="content" cols="30" rows="10" class="required"></textarea>
    </div>

    <input type="submit" value="Submit Message" name="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
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5 comments

  1. I could be wrong, but I vaguely remember that: name, email get hijacked by WordPress to do post comments, if you renamed the form elements to be contact-name and contact-email, do you get the same issue?

  2. It is no only name or email problem, as Tom wrote. I had problem even with input field with name attribute same as one of my Custom Post Types. For example:

    ...
<input type="text" name="movie">
...

    And when having registered CPT “movie” somewhere else, your form submitting will end with 404 error.

    Conclusion: Don’t use name, email and any registered custom post type handle as input name attribute value in your forms.

  3. Try to change name="email" to something like name="my_theme_email", do the same with all your field it sounds like some name are reserved with WordPress when sending form data. I got the the same problem and I fixed it like that.