When a customer arrives at your (or your client’s) website to figure out how to contact the company, what do they find? They may stumble upon a live chatbox in the bottom corner of the site or a phone number to call.
While these are wonderful customer support solutions, it’s important to provide multiple avenues for customers to get in touch with you. After all, people are busy. They don’t have all the time in the world to sit on the phone or chat back and forth with a Virtual Assistant (VA), especially when this might take their focus away from their current work.
This is one of the reasons why email is still one of the most convenient and reasonable ways of communicating and why it should be an option for business websites. An email form allows customers to shoot off a quick message and respond at their own convenience. Plus, contact forms let you direct the emails to the proper department for response.
Thanks to plugins, adding these forms on your site is easier than ever. In this post, we’ll take a look at 11 of the best WordPress contact form plugins to use, as well as the unique advantages and features of each. Let’s get started!
01. WPForms
WPForms is a powerful WordPress contact form designed for even the most novice of website owners. Building online forms in minutes using one of the many pre-built WordPress form templates, this plugin provides all of the fields and features required to create your desired form. In addition, it easily integrates with your preferred email service provider and even configures to collect booking and order payments.
With WPForms, you can:
- Utilize the drag and drop form builder
- Take advantage of the instant notification feature for making quick responses to promising leads
- Learn more about your users using intelligent geolocation data
In addition, WPForms also includes a number of useful add-ons such as the one designed to let readers submit their own content to your website.
Lastly, this beginner-friendly form plugin implements smart CAPTCHA and honeypot techniques for combating spam and allows for multi-page form creation. It streamlines your workflow with its entry management system, placing leads in one convenient location.
There is a free version available that includes many features needed to achieve effective, powerful forms for your WordPress site. However, there are also premium plans that unlock access to advanced capabilities.
In the end, you simply can’t go wrong with WPForms. It is one of the most feature-packed and user-friendly from builders on the market today.
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02. Gravity Forms
Gravity Forms is one of the more popular premium form plugins available. It runs from $59 (for one site) to $259 (for unlimited sites).
Multi-page forms are a standout feature, giving your customers a chance to fill out extensive forms and view how much longer they have until completion. You can even limit your entries if you’re running a contest and only want to accept, say, 50 entries.
It features a plethora of standard fields you can use for posting items such as:
- Radio buttons
- Paragraph fields
- Dropdown boxes
Advanced fields bring in information like websites, file uploads, and street addresses. You can incorporate schedule forms to allow people to set up appointments, as well as try pricing or post fields for the ultimate customization experience.
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03. Contact Form 7
With over five million active installations, Contact Form 7 is the most popular form plugin in the WordPress repository. This is due in no small part to its simplicity and customization features. With the plugin, you can customize and manage multiple contact forms and place them on your sites within just a few seconds.
Contact Form 7 lets you modify the mail contents however you want. Plus, you can do all of this with some of the simplest markup on the market. The best part is that the plugin is quite clean, allowing it to work well with other plugins and tools such as Akismet spam filtering, CAPTCHA, and Ajax-powered submitting.
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04. Simple Basic Contact Form
Our Simple Basic Contact Form plugin offers a secure, clean, and flexible way to add contact forms on your WordPress site. Much of the value of the SBCF plugin is fastened in its simplicity.
It’s a powerful option if you’re looking for a no-frills solution and don’t need any fancy or complex bells and whistles. Plus, it’s completely free!
With this plugin, you can:
- Display forms anywhere on your site using the shortcode or template tags
- Send descriptive, well-formatted, and plain-text messages
- Easily configure and customize the contact forms via the plugin settings
In addition to the ease of use that you can enjoy with this plugin, you will also be able to appreciate the peace of mind that comes with knowing the forms are safeguarded against malicious content. The Simple Basic Contact Form plugin includes a handful of security features that helps with tasks such as spam blocking.
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05. Formidable Forms
Formidable Forms is a free plugin that also comes with two pro versions, priced at $99 (for one site) and $399 (for unlimited sites). The plugin-maker pitches that you can get a form up and running on your site within 60 seconds.
Formidable Forms has a drag and drop builder that helps even the least knowledgeable webmasters. Email notifications are smooth and clear, and you can create forms with up to seven field types.
With this plugin, you can:
- Import and export forms with XML
- Customize HTML and CSS to make your form exactly the way you want
- Tailor the success message the user sees after they submit the form
However, if you’re looking for a plugin that goes beyond creating a standard contact form, this is certainly worth considering. It comes with a built-in survey feature as well as a registration form option. More, you can even create payment forms and accept online payments directly from your WordPress site.
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06. Contact Form by BestWebSoft
Contact Form by BestWebSoft is another ‘freemium’ plugin that comes fully loaded with dynamic features. Prices range from $30 per year for one site (for one site) to $300 for lifetime access.
One of the things that makes this plugin unique is that it lets you incorporate actions into your forms to control who the form submissions are sent to. You can choose one or multiple people within your organization.
Additionally, you can also add a field for customers to include attachments and send out a copy of the email to the person who actually submitted the form. Each of the fields you create on your form is customizable, allowing for the changing of labels and submission fields when your form is displayed on the front-end.
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07. Jetpack Forms
You may know Jetpack as one of the most installed plugins from the WordPress repository. The plugin features a suite filled with plenty of free tools to power up your site and make it run a little smoother.
Some of the tools that come along with it include:
- A mobile responsiveness builder
- Site performance tool
- Site stats and reports
- Social network commenting system
However, this is an article about WordPress forms, which Jetpack also offers. This versatile plugin provides a sleek and powerful form builder, which is backed by Akismet for blocking spam from building up on your website. The forms are some of the more simple options on this list, making it easy for designers at any level to work with.
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08. Ninja Kick Sidebar Contact Form Plugin
Ninja Kick Sidebar is a premium WordPress plugin that lets you add a contact form with content push animation effects and clean design to every page of your site. You can also use it to add a floating button to your site that is always visible.
This plugin not only adds a well-designed contact form to your WordPress site, but it also increases the likelihood of your audience connecting with you, generating more sales, and landing more clients. Check out our Ninja Kick Sidebar review and how-to guide to understand how to configure the plugin properly and get more leads.
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09. Visual Form Builder
The Visual Form Builder plugin is free to start, but they also offer a pro version starting at $29. The goal with this plugin is to build forms within a few minutes, without having to touch any code.
So if you’re looking for a straightforward solution, this is a strong contender. The plugin lets you add fields with one click and use the drag and drop functionality to arrange fields in whatever order you like.
Feel free to export your forms to a CSV file and automatically store your forms in the WordPress database. Not to mention, the plugin has one-click form duplication to save you time while designing.
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10. Quform WordPress Form Builder
The Quform plugin is a premium option that goes for $29. However, this is a modest price for what you get. It uses a live form builder and 15 form elements to make it super easy for you to build unique, fully functional contact forms within a few minutes.
With this plugin, you can create unlimited forms and manage the entire list of submissions from the convenience of your WordPress dashboard. The plugin comes with both light and dark color options. Additionally, the responsiveness and reCAPTCHA functionality helps it stand out from other plugins.
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11. Ninja Forms
Ninja Forms has the power of a premium plugin, but it doesn’t take a dime out of your pocket. It lets you quickly and easily design stunning forms using a drag and drop interface, all without having to touch a line of code. The custom input mask restricts some submissions for things like currency and dates.
With this plugin, you can manage, edit, and export every submission that comes through the form. You can also save some of the fields you create as favorites for use in the future.
Another appealing bonus is the datepicker feature. Finally, the plugin provides messaging to multiple people in your organization, along with confirmations to the customers who submit the forms.
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I hope our roundup helped you find the best contact form plugin for your site. You may also see our comparison on the best WordPress mailing list plugins.
Drop a line in the comments section below if you have any questions about the best WordPress form plugins. Have you used any of these plugins? Would you recommend any others that are not listed in this post?
Keep reading the article at WPKube. The article was originally written by Brenda Barron on 2020-02-10 07:00:06.
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