Add a contact form to your site
Ever since I started my blogs I’ve been looking for a good Wordpress plugin that would create a contact form. I tried one popular contactform plugin a while ago, but I could never get it to work on my blogs.
Now I’ve discovered Wp-ContactForm, and in combination with the Exec-PHP (note this isn’t the more commonly used PHP-exec plugin - this one works better, well for me anyway!) I now have contact forms on each of my blogs.
One of the features of this contactform plugin that I really like is the ability to create drop down lists within the contact form. There’s often more than one reason why someone might want to contact the author of a blog using a contact form. It might be to have a private conversation about a post or about exchanging links or perhaps to request advertising. You can see an example of this sites contact form by clicking on the word contact in the top nav bar.
You can add security questions of your choosing when you set up your contact form too. I’m using a simple math equation, but you could ask your visitor to answer a more complex question or repeat a code and you can request that the case of the letters be ignored or otherwise. Hopefully this helps prevent abuse by spam bots. I haven’t used the contactform plugin long enough to know how well this feature is working yet.
Try the plugin out if you want to give your site visitors another way to contact you other than via you comment section.
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November 9th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
The plugin works for me. Now I have have contact forms too.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:34 am
This is fantastic! I’ve got a wordpress site, and I’ve managed to add a few nice features, but PHP isn’t my language.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Seems like a decent option.
But php scares me, as I have burnt my fingers earlier also, tweaking with php codes.
November 17th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Good post. If your knowledge of PHP is minimal, I think this is the way to go.
November 21st, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Never have had the need but glad someone created another great plug in for Wordpress which I do use!!
November 22nd, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Excellent plugin. Been looking for something to solve this problem too! Cheers, Paul
November 22nd, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Nice plugin, I’ll use it on my site very soon!
December 2nd, 2007 at 12:32 am
Thanks for the plugin. I might use it on my blog.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
This is fantastic, exactly what I was looking for. Great website by the way.
December 27th, 2007 at 4:47 am
I agree this is a better solution than putting up your email address online. You will get less spam that way with a contact form.
December 30th, 2007 at 12:37 am
I’ve been using this plug-in since August in conjunction with a mail filter that marks all messages as spam unless they use a specific word in the subject line. It’s been amazingly effective in eliminating the hundreds of spam I was receiving each month. I recommend anyone with a filterable mail service try it.
January 12th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
If you care about your xhtml being valid, check it after changing your contact form (or adding any plugin for that matter.
A lot of Wordpress plugin writers must just feel that if it works it’s all good, because there are a _lot_ of Wordpress plugins that generate xhtml errors.