Top 3 Contact Form Wordpress Plugins for Your Contact Page
If you’re using mailto:your-mail-box links, it is not a wise move because your email will be scanned by spammer viruses. Contact form is one of the most effective anti-harvesting method from spammers. The contact form provides a textarea for the message, and an input for the sender’s e-mail address. The server-side script that processes the posted form data, is then responsible for sending the actual message, which means that the e-mail address of the recipient is never exposed.
If you’re using wordpress, you’re in luck. There’re many different wordpress plugins you can use to create a contact form to reduce spam. I’m including some of the most common ones below:
WP-ContactForm Akismet Edition
The basic purpose of WP-ContactForm Askimet Edition is to make it easy to have a “Contact Me” form on your WordPress blog. Additionally, if you have Akismet installed, all messages will be checked for “spaminess” before being sent to you, effectively keeping the spammers out of your face. The reason why I listed it here because I like the idea of this plugin as combining with Askimet. With this plugin you don’t need any annoying image verification codes or checks to see if the user is “human” or not. If anyone attempts to spam you, it will likely never reach your e-mail box. Only one note for you, this plugin is not currently compatible with WordPress 2.5. He said that he was going to update it but there’s no update since April 22, 2007
WordPress-Ready Contact Form
Wordpress-Ready Contact Form is an easy-to-install contact form with many accessibility, usability, and security features. If you use some of the more popular WordPress Themes such as Green Marinee, Connections, Ocadia, … contact form themes have been provided to get you up-and-running faster than ever. I’ve just noticed that Brian Gardner, owner of Revolution Themes is using this one.
CForms II
Cforms II is a highly customizable, flexible and powerful form builder wordpress plugin, covering a variety of use cases and features from attachments to multi form management, you can even have multiple forms on the same page! I personally use CForms II on my blog (you can see it live on my contact page) because I love its features. The only thing I do not like this plugin is its size (900KB+) then I do not update it regularly! Anyways I highly recommend this plugin for building your contact form.
Main features of cForm II plugin
- Customizable fields with optional checkboxes, radio buttons, …
- Several fancy “styles”, change the look of your form with a single click
- Create multiple contact forms and display them on however many pages you want.
- Tell-a-friend form support.
- Backup and restore custom forms to other sites.
- Visitor verification questions, along with CAPTCHA support
That’s about it. Hopefully you find my post interesting and if you have any other great plugins for me then I’d like to see them. Do not forget to subscribe to our feed to stay up to date with all of our free themes and tutorials!
This is fabulous. No kidding … I have on my today’s TO DO list: “find a contact form.”
I love Askimet, whomever developed it should get a medal. It has made my life so much easier. Only one wrong call in thousands of spam finds.
WP-ContactForm Askimet Edition will be a no brainer for me.
Just upgrade cForms II to v10.5
The contact form on Contact page is working now http://themelib.com/contact/
Be careful when using contact plugins. My blog hacked by someone via this plugins (i am using TDO mini form contact wp plugin)