I love simple and beautiful things. I needed a nice uniform feedback for my WordPres blog, but the contact forms I used (the most popular Contact Form 7 and Jetpack Contact Form), unfortunately, are ugly. And I don’t want to waste time on their design. Therefore, I decided to find a ready-made stylish feedback form and it must have a captcha, otherwise it will be filled with spam. So, I had a very simple goal - to find a WordPress contact form that satisfies the following requirements:
- presence of captcha,
- free,
- stylish, beautiful.
I selected all the popular WordPress plugins to create a feedback form, with a large number positive reviews and active installations. At the same time, I made sure that they were updated recently. I must admit that I spent no more than 5 minutes installing and studying one plugin with a contact form, and if I couldn’t configure it right away beautiful shape feedback, then I moved on to the next contact form. Therefore, I admit that I may have missed a good plugin with a contact form that satisfies all the requirements, the setup of which is not immediately obvious. Below you can see screenshots of all the feedback forms I reviewed.
WpForms Lite
Popular, free, understandable, but ugly feedback form, too simple, and there are no additional ready-made designs. There is Recapcha Google. Paid version, which starts at $49, allows you to integrate a contact form into email marketing services like Aweber, allows you to accept payments, and much more. This contact form is American, but I wouldn't say so.
Caldera Forms
More difficult to set up than WpForms, but nicer. There is a captcha, but it did not appear for me. The design of the feedback form is average.
Jetpack Contact Form
A feedback form from the creators of WordPress; when activated, the Add Contact Form button appears in the editor. No captcha, lots of spam! Ugly.
Contact Form 7
The most popular and sophisticated feedback form, rich in functions and settings, but ugly - you need to spend time on design.
Fast Secure Contact Form
I didn’t like the design of this feedback form - it’s ugly!
Form Maker by WD
Free, there are many beautiful feedback form templates. A real candidate! But I couldn’t set up ReCaptcha, so I didn’t use it.
Ugly feedback form! Very limited functionality - there is nothing...
Contact Form by BestWebSoft
Ugly! Very limited functionality of the feedback form - there is nothing...
Ninja Forms
This is a regular feedback form with a standard design, but something about it caught my attention, if I don’t find anything decent, I can try using it. There is Google ReCaptcha integration.
Huge-IT Forms
You can change design themes with different designs for the same contact form. The designs are nice, there is a captcha. Only in my admin panel the layout of the plugin was creeping apart, if you don’t pay attention to this, then it’s a worthy contender.
Formidable Forms
This feedback form doesn't have fancy designs, but the basic design is more or less acceptable, so I started using it.
Table with an overview of WordPress feedback form plugins
The results of my searches for the feedback form are summarized in the table below.
| Plugin | Number of active installations | Number of reviews | Average rating | My impressions |
| WpForms Lite | 200 000 | 600 | 5 | Popular, free, understandable, but ugly. Recapcha Google. The paid version, which starts at $49, allows you to integrate your contact form into email marketing services like Aweber, accept payments, and much more. The American wpbeginner.com praises this contact form as the best, but I wouldn’t say so. |
| Caldera Forms | 70 000 | 250 | 4.5 | More difficult to set up than WpForms, but nicer. There is a captcha, but it did not appear for me. The design is average. |
| 90 000 | 500 | 4.5 | Free, there are many beautiful form templates. A real candidate! But I couldn't set up ReCaptcha. | |
| Contact Form & SMTP Plugin by PirateForms | 200 000 | 30 | 4.5 | Ugly! Very limited functionality - there is nothing... |
| Contact Form by BestWebSoft | 200 000 | 300 | 4 | Ugly! |
| Ninja Forms | 900 000 | 800 | 4.5 | This is an ordinary form with a standard design, but something about it caught my attention, if I don’t find anything decent, then I can try using it. There is Google ReCaptcha integration. |
| Huge-IT Forms | 30 000 | 70 | 4.5 | You can change design themes with different designs for the same contact form. The designs are nice, there is a captcha. Only in my admin panel the layout of the plugin was creeping apart, if you don’t pay attention to this, then it’s a worthy contender. |
| Formidable Forms | 300 000 | 200 | 4.5 | There are no fancy designs in this form, but the basic design is more or less acceptable, so I started using it. |
Conclusions: the best WordPress feedback form
To be honest, I didn't find what I was looking for. Of the eleven most popular feedback forms reviewed, only two contact forms have beautiful design templates: Form Maker by WD and Huge-IT Forms. But on the first one I didn’t have the captcha installed, and on the second one the layout in the admin panel was falling apart. The developers don't seem to care about the design and therefore all other feedback forms come without a design and are therefore ugly and you will have to customize the design yourself by editing the CSS.
Nevertheless, I chose the Formidable Forms feedback form, since it still has at least a basic (the developer tweaked it a little!), but stylish design, has reCaptcha and is free. Everything worked for me right away!
If you know a free and beautiful feedback form for WordPress with captcha, please share it in the comments.
In order to create unique shapes for different tasks we need a universal one WordPress plugin- form designer. The free, standard contact form 7 form builder is limited in functionality, it is difficult for a beginner and takes a lot of time to master, requiring knowledge of code, so we will not consider it. There are a lot of premium plugins, let’s remember the market leaders:
- FormCraft
- eForm
- Super Forms
- Usernoise Pro
Each of these plugins deserves a separate review, which is worth one eForm with its diverse and confusing structure, but we are not looking for complicated paths and therefore our main guidelines are:
- Simplicity
- Versatility
- Get started quickly
Therefore, in this review I will talk about the FormCraft plugin, which performs all of the above tasks and many others. The choice of this plugin was not accidental, since I worked with it for a long time and in practice created many unique feedback forms that still work. In addition, FormCraft is easy to learn, has ready-made form templates that also work in the pop-up modal window, and in expanded form, are embedded anywhere on the site in the form of a widget or button.
For examples of feedback forms made in the FormCraft plugin, see the video
Why feedback forms are important
A trouble-free, perfectly working feedback form is the thread that connects the site owner with the visitor. I call it a thread because the visitor writes a request that no one knows how it will end, perhaps in further cooperation, perhaps in a successful transaction, or simply in interest. Therefore, our task is to ensure that the feedback form is not only trouble-free, but also unique for different pages site.
Unique forms of interaction allow us to respond to the wishes of visitors that may arise in the process of exploring the site. For example, in a product card a clarifying question often arises and there should be a form for this - ask a question about the product or calculate its cost using a calculator. On home page It wouldn’t hurt to make a pop-up order form call back. Also, for our part, we can offer the site visitor to receive special terms of cooperation, discounts or consultation through the appropriate form, motivating him to take certain actions.
Flexibility and integration into various designs sites, one of the main advantages of good forms. Modern feedback forms should be displayed on everyone, on the one hand, without going beyond the screen area of a smartphone or tablet, and on the other, without overloading with the burden of processing. The versatility of forms is the ability to model and alternate various text fields at your discretion, numerical values, date entry, file uploading, data calculation, payment, captcha. Such forms are made by plugins for WordPress.
Looking for the perfect solution
When I was researching different form plugins, I settled on eForm first. There was a lot of documentation and videos on it English, but still it remained a complex system, and it was necessary to create websites and there was practically no time for in-depth study. Then I started using FormCraft. This plugin allows you to create excellent, responsive, beautiful feedback forms very quickly. Moreover, it is thought out from the point of view of understanding and mastering. On the one hand, it requires a minimum of knowledge to get started, on the other hand, it offers a lot of hidden functionality as you master it.
Plugin installation video
Forms plugin for WordPress FormCraft
After installation, the plugin is immediately ready to work; you just need to make a minimum of settings. It is necessary to enter an email and translate into Russian the messages that appear for the user after submitting the form and that’s it.
Let's go through the main advantages of the FormCraft plugin:
- Easy to set up
- Quickly create forms based on built-in templates
- Intuitive interface
- Testing directly in the form designer
- Flawless work on many sites.
- Flexible settings
- Any shapes
- Special fields
- Full control of response messages
- Correct display on different screens
- Regular updates
Visualization of forms
Depending on the tasks, you can use fields for entering numbers in a certain sequence, create input masks, for example, limit the field for entering a phone number only by entering numbers in a given format. Make it mandatory to fill out fields. FormCraft creates an unlimited number of fields in one single contact form.
Using FormCraft, it is not difficult to create a unique callback request form, subscription form, booking form, various cost calculators, surveys, voting. Each form works separately, independently of the others, sending information about itself to a separate email address. Also view form usage activity directly in WordPress admin on the plugin page.
Almost every time a webmaster develops a new website, he has to choose the best (for specific needs) WordPress plugin for contact and feedback forms. This usually happens because the client does not always like a simple contact form, and sometimes there is a need for several forms on one site at once.
The feedback form is one of the most important elements of a WordPress site, because without it you lose a great chance to always keep in touch with your readers, partners, and customers. Plus, you're missing out on a lot of opportunities to attract new customers. The WordPress contact form plugin makes it easy to add a contact form to your website. I'm not even talking about various corporate and sales sites where sometimes very specific forms are required not only for simple contacts.
In this article, I will list the most popular plugins in completely random order. The article will certainly be supplemented over time with the best solutions.
Contact Form 7 is the most popular (currently over 12,000 downloads and counting) WordPress contact form plugin. The plugin boasts AJAX submission, built-in , Akismet spam filter and the ability to upload files. The plugin is completely free and can be easily customized using simple HTML.
Pros: If you need a simple contact form, this plugin is what you're looking for as it's easy to install and configure with a simple settings page. With just one line of code, you can insert a contact form into any post or page.
Cons: Technically this plugin doesn't need any work, but it would be nice to have a few to choose from. If you want to change the appearance of the form, you will have to play with the CSS.
Fast Secure Contact From is another popular plugin that has already been downloaded over 3.5 million times. It allows blog owners to easily create and add contact forms to WordPress sites. You can also use the form to send invitation requests for a regular or video call.
The plugin has an admin interface with which you can create an unlimited number of forms and view their previews. Using captcha and Akismet Fast Secure form, it blocks attacks based on the most popular spam tactics.
Pros: Unlike other similar plugins, Fast Secure form does not give users the option to register a profile, but it does offer other great features such as scheduling, online meetings, support for multiple email addresses, etc.
Cons: B current version The plugin lacks a simple interface, but the author of the plugin recently released a beta version in which things are much better with the interface. Thus, the interface problem is not so acute.
Contact Form by Contact ME
Contact Form is a free plugin with basic functionality, but it requires you to register on contactme.com. Registration is completely free and does not require any effort from you. The developers of the plugin claim that it is an order of magnitude better than many popular contact form plugins, including contact form 7!
Pros: the plugin offers some useful functionality - the option to send notifications to your mailbox and a smartphone, the ability to add arbitrary code or scripts to the form, as well as the fact that it places a logo for the card in the form, contact information companies, and even links to profiles in social networks and much more.
Cons: In order to use the plugin you will have to create a profile on the Contact Me website. Even though registration is simple and free, it still doesn’t make you happy when you are forced to do something.
Initially, the FormCraft plugin was created and developed only in the premium version. Relatively recently, the authors made a separate free version- FormCraft - Form Builder.
As in the premium version, FormCraft - Form Builder allows you to easily and quickly design different forms in a special and very convenient drag & drop editor. Naturally, there are fewer possibilities here, but for ordinary users it will be enough.
The premium version of FormCraft can boast of setting up script logic, auto saving, more than 20+ additional custom fields, popup and fly-in forms, export to CSV and other joys.
One of best plugins today in both premium and free versions.
The Visual Form Builder interface will pleasantly surprise you, as the plugin allows you to create and manage all types of forms on your website from one place. In one click you can add new fields, reorganize existing ones, and apply an antispam solution. To change the order of fields you can use drag technology&drop.
Pros: Although Visual Form Builder is similar to other contact form plugins listed here, it has its own interesting features - the ability to change the order of elements by simply dragging and dropping, exporting entered data to CSV file, customizable confirmation messages, a submission form that supports entering multiple emails.
Cons: If your WordPress site is very large, you may be better off using another plugin as this one stores the form input in your WordPress database.
nForms – WordPress Form Builder
Drag and Drop Builder provides you with a simple multi-column contact form template, with Ajax submission and validation. You can even display the form using a popup plugin. It is possible to display the form using a shortcode, regular PHP functions or widget.
If you need more than just a contact form, then nForms is the plugin you can use.
Gravity Forms - the most complete solution to add a contact form to your site. Thanks to its set of cool features, this plugin can be called the most progressive and advanced premium WordPress plugin currently available. You can use the visual editor to create complex feedback forms for your website. There is also a handy feature that makes it easier to use long forms, allowing them to be embedded in multiple pages; moreover, how complete the form is is shown via a fill indicator.
Pros: Gravity Forms can offer you completely exclusive functionality that is not available in other similar plugins, such as the option to create order forms (including real-time costing), dependent fields to hide or show fields, sections, pages or even submit button of user choice.
Pros: Compared to other plugins presented here, this one is on the pricey side, but again, Gravity Forms offers much more than just a contact form. If you are looking for a simple feedback form, then there is no point in spending money on this plugin.
Mapped Contact Form Pro WordPress uses a different algorithm to display the form on your website. This is a great solution for a business or company as it can be used to mark branches or offices on site. The plugin is also ideal for those who use maps on their websites.
You can enter your address for each location that appears in the contact form. The plugin is easy to use and can be placed on any post or page with a simple shortcode.
Another popular form builder lately. Very powerful, with an excellent, intuitive editor (like paid plugins), in which you can build your form simply by dragging and dropping the necessary blocks and customizing them. It has a whole set of pre-prepared fields and blocks. All fields are immediately edited when created in the language you need. By default, it has only a standard contact form for feedback and a corresponding shortcode.
Pros: Excellent functionality. During creation new form you can use the convenient switch to quickly preview and test your “designs”.
Cons: Lots of block settings can be daunting for newbies. In addition to the main functionality, it has a lot of plug-in premium modules for working with various services for accepting payments, mailings, and other things. Although, this can be considered a plus, of course.
Ninja Kick: WordPress Contact Form
The most original contact form from the entire collection. It differs in that it is displayed as a separate panel - a slider on the left or right side of the site. It looks extremely impressive. Has many settings, but for the most part - relative to its own appearance. Setting up the fields themselves is minimal here. However, you can use a shortcode from the popular Contact Form 7 and it will work.
Interesting plugin and form itself. You can read more in .
Let's sum it up
Now is the time to choose the right extension for your website. Contact Form 7 or FormCraft - Form Builder - it's likely best solutions for a regular blog, and for large sites offering different services, I would advise using Gravity Forms or Ninja Forms. For those who like to “stand out,” Ninja Kick: Contact Form is perfect.
The three most important pages on a business website are: “ Site description», « Services" And " Contacts».
You may not know it, but many high-profile businesses have clunky navigation on their websites. Such factors do not help attract customers.
Page « Our contacts» is the only means for your readers, visitors or other interested parties to contact you. Of course, you can simply paste your email address. You could, but you'd actually be inviting thousands of spambots to crawl the Internet for email addresses. Your mailbox will be full of spam. This is why you shouldn't leave your email address.
If you're thinking something like: Pochta (dog) gmail (dot) com was able to evade spam bots, then you are wrong! Today, spambots have become much smarter - they have adapted and learned these little tricks. So, it is important to use contact without sharing your contact email address.
WordPress doesn't have a built-in contact feature. But thanks to its versatility, we can easily add interactive contact forms simply by using a plugin. This article lists some of the contact form plugins for WordPress - free, free, and premium options.
Best Free Contact Form Plugins for WordPress
CONTACT FORM 7
Probably the best free contact form plugin for WordPress with over 16 million downloads on WordPress.org. Its main features include checkboxes, radio buttons, file upload features and anti-spam features such as captcha.
It also has special fields where you can enter telephone numbers, email addresses, data, etc.
JETPACK
Jetpack is a plugin for a new WordPress site. It includes many features, including free CDN integration, spell checking, grammar modules, and a contact form.
Although the contact form is very simple user interface, but this is quite enough for the job.
Contact Form Contact Form for Wordpress
Don't let the simple name fool you. Being a free plugin, it offers you enough unique way to display a contact form using active engagement. In this module, the contact form is pre-loaded on each page, located in the lower right corner. Just one click and the contact form appears on the screen.
Don't worry, you also have traditional post entry forms - in the sidebar using widgets.
FAST SECURE CONTACT FORM
Fast Secure Contact Form is available in two versions - as a plugin for WordPress and PHP code for integration into other sites. A unique feature of this plugin is the ability to automatically block all spammers. This significantly reduces comment spam. It has the usual tools - checkboxes, radio buttons and backup/restore modules.
Also has styling of greeting and message confirmation. You can send each message to multiple email addresses.
NINJA FORMS
Ninja Forms– a plugin that has a variety of functionality and a drag-and-drop interface. It has many features, including an optional AJAX handler, robust anti-spam modules, and data import/export capabilities. And this is only in the free version.
Extensions turn Ninja Forms into a game module. Modal Forms is one of the most popular extensions. Other useful extensions include PayPal, Stripe, MailChimp, Mad Mimi, and Constant Contact integration, among others.
VISUAL FORM BUILDER
As the name suggests, this plugin has user-friendly interface is drag-and-drop and has over a dozen useful fields. Anti-spam measures include message confirmation and the use of captcha.
The $20 premium version includes email design, analytics, and conditional logic modules. In my opinion, however, you're better off using a dedicated product like MailChimp for this.
FORMIDABLE FORMS
This plugin uses a freemium payment option. For basic use it has numerous functions. Formidable Forms uses a drag-and-drop interface and includes recaptcha and Akismet to combat spam.
The premium version, priced at $47, includes amazing additional features, such as PayPal integration and email management, as well as a registration option for visitors. Unfortunately the download file, which is free for most plugins, is paid for here.
CONTACT FORM
This is a very simple and easy to use contact form plugin for WordPress with over 2 million downloads. It integrates with the Captcha plugin to combat spam. Its professional version, available for $15, includes additional features such as input validation - which is free in Contact Form 7.
Best Premium Contact Form Plugins for WordPress
GRAVITY FORMS
The first name that comes to mind when it comes to premium contact form plugins for WordPress is Gravity Forms. Starting at $39 for one website, there are two other pricing models: $99 for three websites and $199 for a developer license.
It includes many features, the most significant of which are Multi-Page Forms, Visual editor forms, Conditional Logic and Order Forms.
Gravity Forms plugin– another source of surprise for this plugin. In addition to integrating with an email service, it also integrates with payment systems, such as Authorize.net, Striple, PayPal and accounting software, such as FreshBooks.
QUFORM
Quform has a beautiful drag-and-drop interface and has fifteen different field types, optional filters, and validation options. Quform comes preloaded with three unique themes, a theme customizer, and customizable notifications. email. At $29, it is the most expensive contact form plugin for WordPress in CodeCayon.
FORMCRAFT
Living up to its name (“Skillful Shape”), this WordPress plugin features a multi-dimensional shape and retails for $35. With this plugin you can create various types forms, including newsletter forms, surveys and questionnaires.
Important features include conditional logic, analytics, form auto-save, simultaneous upload of multiple files, a user-friendly interface that allows you to instantly navigate both within one page and when moving to another page.
CONCLUSION
If you're just getting started with your website, you don't have to buy the premium version right away. However, a contact form is a strict necessity. Whether it is a simple website, a blog or even a corporate website, there should be an option to contact the site owner.
I would personally recommend Contact Form 7 as one of the best free plugins with a contact form and has many functions. Some of its features are paid for in other freemium plugins. However, if you want to purchase a premium plugin, I recommend Gravity Forms. Almost everyone I know uses Gravity Forms.
Which contact form do you prefer? Maybe we missed your favorite plugin? Let us know in the comments!
A feedback form is present on every website; it is something like an integral part of the web resource. Since it serves as an appeal to the administrator with any proposal or claim in the area of their interests. And such cases happen often, especially if you are a company, organization, or just a private enterprise that produces some kind of product.
To create a feedback form on WordPress, you don’t have to write the code yourself or have a specialist write it. This has already been implemented and even repeatedly, all you need to do is select a plugin that meets your requirements. The article discusses 5 more popular plugins that are in demand at the proper level.
One of the most widely used plugins for creating contact forms is Contact form 7. It quickly gained popularity due to its ease of customizing the form content. Plus supports spam filtering and allows you to set CAPTCHA using the additional Really Simple CAPTCHA plugin. The plugin also supports Ajax technology, which means that the web page does not reload while processing the request.
After installing and activating Contact form 7, you will see new tab to manage forms. To find with him common language You don’t have to mess around for a long time, the plugin is multilingual and Russian is also available. The contact form is styled depending on the theme you have installed, but with knowledge of CSS it is possible to edit it to your liking.
Example form.
2. Form Maker
Form Maker is a modern and advanced tool for quick creation forms of communication. It offers many field types, captcha installation, ready-made form templates, open source to edit styles and the result can be immediately seen in preview. When you purchase the commercial version, integration with Google Maps, as well as a file upload field. The plugin supports a large number of languages.
Example form.
3. Fast Secure Contact Form
A simple and at the same time powerful feedback form has a number of positive functions and settings. You won't have to worry about being flooded with spam because the plugin supports Akismet and allows you to set CAPTCHA. It is also possible to export and import settings, redirect the user after sending an email to any address, send files, edit styles and much more. Partial Russian translation.
Example form.
4. Visual Form Builder
A very convenient and simple feedback form. All settings and functions are available on one page, which makes it easy to manage. It has many fields that can be easily added with one click of the mouse. There is also the possibility of redirecting after sending a letter, anti-spam, form adaptability and much more.
Settings window.
Example form.
5. Slick contact forms
A very simple form, it doesn’t have a ton of settings, huge functionality, only 4 fields and nothing superfluous. The plugin differs from others in that the form is displayed through a widget and creates the effect of a floating or sliding form on the page. When pressed, it smoothly appears from the side, from above, etc. depends on the settings you choose.
Example form.
