Jeff Starr

<a href="https://perishablepress.com/contact-coldform/" rel="nofollow ugc">Contact Coldform</a> is a secure, lightweight, flexible contact form with plenty of options and squeaky clean markup. Coldform blocks spam while making it easy for your visitors to contact you from your WordPress-powered website.
The plugin settings make it easy to take full control with plenty of options and several built-in themes for styling the form. Coldform delivers everything you need and nothing you don’t — no frills, no gimmicks, just pure contact-form satisfaction.
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Overview
<ul>
<li>Use shortcode or template tag to display Coldform anywhere</li>
<li>Coldform sends descriptive, well-formatted plain-text email</li>
<li>Safe and secure: Coldform blocks spam and malicious content</li>
<li>Lightweight, standards-compliant, semantic, valid HTML markup</li>
<li>Easy to configure and style from the Coldform Settings page</li>
</ul>
Features
<ul>
<li>Slick toggle-panel Settings Page makes it easy to customize</li>
<li>Style Coldform using built-in “coldskins” or use custom CSS</li>
<li>Use template tag to display Coldform anywhere in your theme</li>
<li>Use shortcode to display Coldform on any WP Post or Page</li>
<li>Displays customizable confirmation message to the sender</li>
</ul>
Anti-spam & Security
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<li>Anti-spam: Coldform includes optional challenge question</li>
<li>Bot trap: hidden input field further reduces automated spam</li>
<li>Solid security: protects against bad bots and malicious input</li>
<li>User-friendly error messages to help users complete the form</li>
</ul>
Customize Everything
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<li>Includes option to enable users to receive carbon copies</li>
<li>Coldform message includes IP, host, agent, and other details</li>
<li>Customize field captions, error messages, and success message</li>
<li>Includes three built-in themes “coldskins” to style, or</li>
<li>Style the Coldform with your own custom CSS</li>
<li>Option to add a custom prefix to the subject line</li>
<li>Option to disable the captcha for registered users</li>
</ul>
Clean Codes
Coldform brings delicious code on every front:
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<li>Standards-based code, built with the WordPress API</li>
<li>Valid, semantic source code with proper formatting</li>
<li>Coldform emails include descriptive, well-formatted content</li>
<li>Better performance: CSS loaded only when form is displayed</li>
</ul>
More Features
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<li>Works perfectly without JavaScript</li>
<li>Option to reset default settings</li>
<li>Options to customize many aspects of the form</li>
<li>Options to customize success, error, and spam messages</li>
<li>Option to enable and disable CSS styles</li>
<li>Works perfectly with or without Gutenberg Block Editor</li>
</ul>
Like Contact Coldform? Please <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-coldform/reviews/?rate=5#new-post" rel="ugc">give a 5-star rating</a>, thank you!
Privacy
Contact Coldform enables visitors to send a message via contact form. Any information that the user enters into the form will be sent directly to the recipient(s) according to plugin settings. Each email message optionally includes the sender’s IP address, user agent, and other data (visit the plugin setting “Disable Data” to disable sending of IP address and other user data). This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party location(s).
Contact Coldform is developed and maintained by <a href="https://x.com/perishable" rel="nofollow ugc">Jeff Starr</a>, 15-year <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress developer</a> and <a href="https://books.perishablepress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">book author</a>.
Support development
I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can <a href="https://monzillamedia.com/donate.html" rel="nofollow ugc">make a donation</a> or purchase one of my books:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wp-tao.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">The Tao of WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digwp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Digging into WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://htaccessbook.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">.htaccess made easy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wp-tao.com/wordpress-themes-book/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Themes In Depth</a></li>
<li><a href="https://books.perishablepress.com/downloads/wizards-collection-sql-recipes-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress</a></li>
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Contact Coldform

Contact Coldform was launched in January of 2008, and has been rocking contact forms for awesome WordPress sites ever since! So huge THANK YOU to everyone who uses the plugin -- here's to another 7 years of Contact Coldform!! :)



Celebrating 7 Years of Contact Coldform!

Contact Coldform is a secure, lightweight and flexible contact form with plenty of options and squeaky clean markup.

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<a href="http://www.mailgun.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mailgun</a> is the email automation engine trusted by over 10,000 website and application developers for sending, receiving and tracking emails. By taking advantage of Mailgun’s powerful email APIs, developers can spend more time building awesome websites and less time fighting with email servers. Mailgun supports all of the most popular languages including PHP, Ruby, Python, C# and Java.
One particularly useful feature of this plugin is that it provides you with a way to send email when the server you are on does not support SMTP or where outbound SMTP is restricted since the plug-in uses the Mailgun HTTP API for sending email by default. All you need to use the plugin is a <a href="http://www.mailgun.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mailgun account</a>. Mailgun has a free account that lets you send up to 200 emails per day, which is great for testing. Paid subscriptions are available for increased limits.
The latest version of this plugin now supports regions. Select either U.S./North America or Europe to choose the API endpoint from which you will send email.
The current version of this plugin only handles sending emails, tracking and tagging and list subscription.

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I’ve seen the negative reviews, but honestly my experience has been the opposite: the plugin just works, exactly as it should. Updates are rare, but that’s simply because the plugin is straightforward; it does one thing and does it well.



Mailgun itself deserves praise too. They’ve kept their quality and reliability over the years, without suddenly changing pricing or taking advantage of their position, unlike so many other companies. That’s rare, and really appreciated.



Thanks a lot for existing and staying awesome! 💕


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