How to fix – Unable to submit your request. Please, try again later – Contact Form

If you're using a Magento 1.3 theme with a Magento 1.4 install your contact form will not work.

It just shows an error

Unable to submit your request. Please, try again later

Solution

Add the following line to the form.phtml The location of the file will depend on wich theme are you using (base, blank...).

/app/design/frontend/YOUR_THEME/template/contacts/form.phtml

Add this after the <form> tag:

<input type="text" name="hideit" id="hideit" value="" style="display:none !important;" />
Code language: HTML, XML (xml)