You absolutely need a dependable WordPress contact form plugin if you want people to be able to get in touch with you through your website. There are lots and lots of options; both free and paid. I have previously written about your “ about us” page on your site but to create a form for your website you don’t need to be fluent in coding. I have compiled this list of 10 contact form plugins that you should consider installing on your WordPress site.
Gravity Forms
Gravity Forms is a WordPress contact form plugin used for creating advanced forms for a WordPress websites. With this tool, you can quickly integrate a range of third-party services like PayPal and FreshBooks. With Gravity Forms you can select your fields, configure a variety of options and embed a form on your WordPress site. The tool comes with a free demo and includes a handy widget format too. It’s a premium plugin that cost $39. This covers the support team that assists with correctly installing and setting up the plugin, any problems using existing features or functionality, and bug fixes. Over one million WordPress sites are already using gravity forms.
Ninja Forms
Ninja Forms is an easy to use and flexible WordPress form builder. This plugin is completely free to try out and includes a 14-day money back guarantee once purchased. Ninja forms come with a wide variety of add-ons which include multi-part forms, multi-column form layouts and MailChimp. Some of the more well-known add-ons include partnerships with Vimeo, GoDaddy and PayPal. Choose from three great packages including a pro membership at $499, a Business package at $299 and a la carte ranging from $19 to $129. This WordPress contact form plugin has already been installed on 2,500,000+ WordPress websites.
Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 is an excellent content form that can help manage multiple contact forms along with customizing the form and the mail contents flexibly. This flexible plugin supports Ajax-powered submitting. Contact Form 7 comes with a variety of recommended plugins including Bogo and Postman. A well-known plugin Flamingo, by Takayuki Miyoshi, allows you to save submitted messages via contact forms in the database.
Contact Form 7 is easy to set up, and the built-in antispam and CAPTCHA make it secure and reliable. Contact Forms 7 is completely free and has already been installed on over 1 million WordPress websites. I have actually written about Contact Form 7 which you can check out here.
Fast Secure Contact Form
Fast Secure Contact Forms allows users to easily create and add forms to WordPress. The plugin has many fields that are easy to add, remove, and re-order. The contact form will allow the user to send emails, and also send a meeting request to talk over phone or video. Fast Secure Contact Form comes with many features including multiple forms, confirmation emails, and the ability to redirect after the message is sent. Spam should be no problem with Fast Secure Contact Form as it includes CAPTCHA and Akismet support to block spammers. The plugin is free but open to donations. This contact plugin has been installed on over 400,000 WordPress websites.
WP Forms
WP Forms is one of the most beginner friendly contact Worpress plugins to work with. It’s a drag and drop WordPress contact form plugin. You can use it for contact forms, subscription forms, payment forms, and other types of forms. There are many different templates you can use to make the entire process take minutes. It’s a mobile responsive theme and can be optimized for SEO, too. It had lots of features and was developed by the same people that run WPBeginnger.com. There is a free lite version of this plugin, or you can purchase a professional version for $39.
JetPack For WordPress
JetPack For WordPress is an excellent WordPress plugin that simplifies managing WordPress sites by visitor stats and security services. Another free plugin, JetPack is designed to get you more traffic by using tools like enhanced distribution and social sharing. It includes security features to protects your site like Wordfence against hackers and also includes a nice centralized dashboard to manage plugins and menus. There are a number of other features that users like about JetPack. Such features includes Galleries and Carousels, Notifications, Subscription and Configurable Widgets. Jetpack is open to contributions from the community weather it’s reporting bugs or an idea for improvement. This WordPress plugin has already been installed on millions of WordPress websites. If you’re interested in checking out more information on JetPack I have also written about it here.
GuiForm
Another simple and flexible plugin, GuiForm is very user-friendly. The plugin has a simple drag and drop function that allows users to create forms in flash. The program includes a variety of features including an interactive form builder, multiple forms in one page, fully responsive forms and the ability to export and import data entries. Users also can take advantage of the “Pro” ($29) upgrade to GuiForm. This serves as the first true WYSIWYG form builder that creates forms where you can use both front end and admin pages of WordPress and in other websites. This WordPress contact plugin hasn’t gotten as much popularity as other plugins and has only been installed on 900+ site so far, though.
Multi-language Responsive Contact Form
Contact Us Form is another simple and flexible WordPress plugin that creates an active contact form on your website. The form supports many languages including Chinese, Dutch, and Russian. Responsive Contact Form is compatible with Intranet Plus which allows users to track and manage sales leads, service inquires and feedback. Some of the recommended features of the plugin include Easy jQuery validations, choosing where to send the messages and new export lists of all user who have contacted you. The plugin is free however you can get support by selecting an advance level of support for installation and customization at $10/hour. This WordPress contact plugin has been installed on 5,000+ websites so far.
WordPress Contact Form Plugin by vCita
Simple and user-centered, Contact Forms is another great way to capture and manage leads on WordPress. The plugin allows users to create beautiful forms in just seconds. No coding is required. Choose from a variety of layouts including classic contact form and active contact form. Active contact form works well encouraging more visitors and potential clients to contact your team. Full translatable in several languages including Spanish, French and Russian, Contact Form has a number of great features. These include receiving all contact form submissions to your email, real-time mobile notifications for every new lead and reply on-the-go with the vCita Mobile App. This plugin has been installed on over 10,000+ websites.
Easy Contact Forms
Another simple WordPress contact plugin; Easy Contact Forms helps build a great site in any language. Working to be user-friendly, Easy Contact Forms automatically builds a database and provides you with support desk also when designing a form. The program comes with a long list of features including the ability to edit and delete your entries, Easy Contact Form Solution as a popup plugin, and plenty of spam protection. The plugin is easy to use, and no coding is required. Easy Contact Forms is a completely free download with limited support. This is a little known WordPress contact plugin that has only been installed on 500+ websites.
Thank you very much for sharing this list of great WordPress contact form plugins and for showing how it is important to have one on my site. These tools are good to have as they help to keep in contact with site visitors and have leads to follow up on and provide service to. Having these really makes your website professional, so I definitely recommend having one. Thank you very much for sharing, I am interested in the Jetpack plugin and the Ninja Form plugin. I will look into them and decide which one would best suit my site.
Both Jetpack and Ninja Forms are very good WordPress contact form plugins. I have used both of them over the years. I do like how easy Ninja Forms is to use. The downside to Ninja Forms is the cost. It can be a $19 a year expense.
But, Jetpack is also a great WordPress contact form plugin. JetPack is free though and does have social sharing features, custom CSS, WordPress stats, enhanced commenting, CDN support, email opt-in features, etc.
Really good list. I have been using Contact Form 7 for a long time now on all my sites as it really does a good job, especially for a free plugin. I like that it is easy to set up the form itself, and then embed it in another post or page. Quite interested to look at Jetpack. It also looks like an amazing plugin.
Yeah, Contact Form 7 is probably one of the more simple WordPress contact plugins. It is installed on over 1 million websites. Also, their support on WordPress is very quick to help you with any issues.
Jetpack is decent. It has a lot of really cool features. The good thing is it can take the place of 3-4 plugins if you install it. A lot of people don’t know that Jackpack actually has a paid option too. With the paid option it has, even more, features.
Don’t get me wrong Gravity Forms is a good plugin. However, the developer version cost $199 a year. This is a lot of money for a simple plugin that is just supposed to allow people to contact you.
I totally agree that $199 is a lot of money to pay for a contact form plugin. I am not a fan of yearly or monthly bills. I wish Gravity Forms did have an option like Elegant Themes where you could pay a one time fee. I think that is an excellent business model.
These are some great plugins to add a contact form to your site. I have added a contact form on my site from a site that generated an HTML code that I pasted on a page.
I have many plugins, and I always try to avoid plugins, so my site does not load slowly, I love your site, Garen. A lot of value and quality content, keep it up! 🙂
Make sure you check your HTML code that you cut and pasted to make sure your contact page works. I have seen sites that people tried this with, but there were some issues, and the webmasters never did receive their emails.