WordPress Contact Forms
In this tutorial I’ll be reviewing 3 WordPress contact form plugins:
If you've followed my tutorials by now you shold be able to install the plugins without any problems. Now let's get to the review part.
Secure Form Mailer Plugin:
Well, now this is a lot better! Although it's not the easiest plugin for a beginner to configure, it does have an option that make it preferable to the others: you can configure the type and number of fields that appear in the form.
In "Options -> DDFM1" you'll be able to configure the form structure by inputting a few lines of code, which isn't that hard once you get the hang of it. For more details see the developers' docs.
All in all I found this to be the best WordPress contact form plugin out there.
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Although it's easy to set up you don't have too much control over it - you can't add or remove fields from the form. It's nice for someone that doesn't have special needs, but if you want customizable fields (anything other than name, email, subject and message) head elsewhere.
After enabling the plugin click "Options -> Contact Form ][", which will take you to the configuration options. Everything is explained very clearly so you won't have any problems. The last option on the page is a checkbox that will (at least it should) insert a button in your editor that will let you insert the contact form in any page you want. This didn't work for me so I after a quick lookup in the readme file I wrote [CONTACT-FORM] in the editor, which did the trick.
All in all it’s a good plugin – it works and does what it’s supposed to do without any fuss.
Simple WordPress Contact Form Plugin:
Ok, this is one of the weirdest WordPress plugins I’ve tried so far: after you enable the plugin you have to create a post, enable the comments, disable pings, password protect it and then insert the post id in the contact form configuration page.
So what did this do for me? Well… nothing that special: the post it created had 2 forms on the same page – one that looks like an email form and a comment form. They are practically the same, which looks pretty weird and confusing.
Also, as you can see in the snapshot below it renamed some of the posts, unpublished and moved them to a different category:
This may simply be a compatibility issue, but it’s really strange.