Are you looking for a contact form to be added to your WordPress website? Are you trying to jazz up the contact form that you have already used on your website? Are you getting foggy to choose a suitable plugin from a wide variety of options with WordPress?
Then, readers, I welcome you to my post!
This post is for beginners who are searching for guidance in adding or how to choose the best contact form for your website to a bunch of WordPress developers who are trying to permute the contact forms from its original look.
In this article, I am going to talk about 08 vetted contact form plugins for WordPress.
Best WordPress Plugins To Build Contact Form
1. WPForms
These forms are the most novice approachable and vastly used plugin for WordPress.
WPForms are said to be beginner friendly due to its simple drag and drop feature. In other words, coding knowledge is not required. As seen in the screenshot, the contact form which is created by using standard fields and fancy fields is shown. Name, Email, Street Address, etc come under fancy fields whereas insertion of text-box, check-boxes, etc comes from standard fields. WPForms are mobile-friendly that means they are responsive and compatible with mobile phones, PCs and tablets. One of the key points to use WPForms is that you need to have a self-hosted WordPress site.
- Active installations:1+ million
- Rating: 5/5
2. Ninja Forms
Ninja forms are another beginner friendly forms. With its powerful drag and drop feature, new forms can be built within moments. No coding is required and complex forms can be built. There are no limitations to the number of forms to be built using Ninja Forms. A success message can be used after filling the forms by the user or you can redirect them elsewhere once they complete the form. You can also save any specific modification in favorites and later re-use it.
The screenshot below shows various categories of forms you are looking to build. Here we will select the option of a blank form.
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As you can see in the screenshot below, the fields name, email are dragged and drop from the user information field section. From the save fields, the message field is dragged and dropped to the blank field portion below the email field.
As we can see, the common fields include checkboxes, radio buttons, Dropbox, etc. Whereas the user information field includes options like Name, Address, Email, etc.
In the screenshot below, you can see that the email field is selected. As soon as you select the field there are options on the right-hand side for your field. The Label ‘Email’ can be changed as shown in the option. You can change the position too. Rest a list is given below where a different set of actions can be assigned.
- Active installations:1+ million
- Ratings: 4.5/5
3. Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 is schizophrenically popular and free. This form is a one stop solution for business needing stable and reliable forms. This plugin includes many features like documentation, FAQ, a support forum and information filled website.
Contact form 7 also enables the user to create an unlimited number of forms by using several fields like URL, date, email, text, etc. Another advantage is that you can include your own email address of your choice to receive the messages from the customers directly.
- Active installations:5+ million
- Ratings: 4.5/5
4. Gravity Forms
These forms are one of the most popular premium forms of the plugin. One of the best features of Gravity forms is its multi-page forms. Suppose you want only 30 entries for a competition, you can limit the entries using Gravity Forms. Another advantage of using Gravity forms that they can be used for making surveys, quizzes, user-submitted content, and web directory.
- Active installations:10,000+
- Ratings: 4/5
5. Formidable Forms Pro
As per the official site of WordPress, Formidable Forms are the best form builder plugin for custom forms. A flexible and free plugin, Formidable forms are facile in terms of creating contact forms, polls and surveys, lead generation forms, email forms and so on. From a pre-built contact form blueprint to the creation of a custom form, formidable forms are used to build all. No coding is required for creating forms. Formidable Forms are responsive as well as mobile-friendly giving a pleasant view on mobile phones. Layout classes are used to change the form layout in a hassle-free manner.
The basic contact form creation is shown below:
As shown, the single-line text is selected and dragged and dropped to generate a field. The labels are then added/created.
A formidable form under construction. As we can see, various fields are selected as per the purpose and requirement for the form.
This screenshot is for a single field ‘Name’ and how it is edited. Once the field is selected, the field id is mentioned. Here the field id 29. The field Type is given “Single Line Text”. Below that is the * mark. This is for mandatory fields. We can decide upon that. The next option is CSS layout classes. To your right, you can see the option of ‘Layout’ where CSS layout classes field option are given. The next option is the Label Position. The label ‘Name’s’ current position is the default position. Field Size can be defined depending on the choice of the user. If you want to limit the size of the field up to 10 characters then you need to mention that limit. The Validation for your field is required.
- Active installations:200,000+
- Ratings: 4.5/5
6. Caldera Forms
An unshackled and burly WordPress plugin, Caldera Form creates amenable forms with an effortless drag and drop editor. It has many untied user-friendly add-ons for both tyros and WordPress web developers.
You can jazz up your forms with multiple columns, adding up pages and conduit user responses with contingent logic to get rugged and relevant data from your customers and site visitors. Anti-spam, AJAX, notification emails, and database entry tracking are enabled by default.
A sample Caldera Form is given below:
The selected field here is “Your Details” as shown. On the right-hand side, you will see various field descriptions like field id, field type, and many more.
- Active installations:100,000+
- Ratings: 4.5/5
7. Jetpack Contact Form
A sample Jetpack Contact Form is given.
Jetpack is without charge. As per the official site of WordPress, there are 5+ millions of active installations of Jetpack till date. This plugin guarantees for site speed and also acts as an antidote for plugin conflicts.
The entire process is able to speed up due to the plain-sailing ingress and one-click “form insert” button. You receive the notifications of email directly to the mail address of your choice. You can edit or adjust all the settings required for your forms in your post or page editor including the subject field, form fields, email address, etc.
Akismet is a spam protection service that protects WordPress sites from spams. The fusion of Jetpack plugin and Akismet from every form submission clear spams and thus not giving any problems.
- Active installations:5+ million
- Ratings: 4/5
8. Form Maker by WD
Being herculean, Form Maker is yet a user-friendly form builder plugin. With a spontaneous drag and drop interface, this plugin is what you are looking for. It aids you to create alive forms for WordPress easily within the stipulated time. Various questionnaires can be added to your website effortlessly. Take a note that the free version is limited to 7 fields. Your form using this plugin becomes very easy to access due to 4 different display actions.
A sample form that is created using Form Marker WD:
We see a map showing their location. This is shown how it is implemented using Form Maker. A map size is defined that can any dimension of your choice and as per your convenience. For location, drag and drop the marker on the map. Here the class name is wdform_map because our form is built for map/location of saying our office/organization/company. Left you can see there are options like text input, multiple choice, survey tools, etc.
The data which is submitted by the visitors during filling up any opt-in forms are stored in the database of your website. Form Maker collects each user ID for logged in users and their IP address on submission. This may be subjected to GDPR compliance.
- Active installations:100,000+
- Ratings: 4.5/5
Epilogue
The contact forms are normally a medium of interaction between the website owners and the website visitors. Contact forms also represent your business. It shows that you want to communicate and that becomes a very good step in getting leads. I have shortlisted a few plugins that can be used for your WordPress website out of plenty of options available. Do try them and let us know how was your experience with this write-up.
About The Author:
Harikrishna Kundariya is an accomplished Design & Development executive with over 10 years experience in the Developing industry. He is currently President and CEO of eSparkBiz Technologies, a Website Design Company. Connect with him on twitter @eSparkBiz.