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
<ul>
<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
<ul>
<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:
<ul>
<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
<ul>
<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.

WPKube

<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-basic-contact-form/" rel="ugc">Simple Basic Contact Form</a> is a clean, secure, plug-&-play contact form for WordPress. Minimal yet flexible, SBCF delivers clean code, solid performance, and ease of use. No frills, no gimmicks, just a straight-up contact form that’s easy to set up and customize.
Overview
<ul>
<li>Display form anywhere using shortcode or template tag</li>
<li>Sends descriptive, well-formatted, plain-text messages</li>
<li>Blocks spam and protects against malicious content</li>
<li>Contact form is easy to configure via the plugin settings</li>
<li>Provides a blazing fast, well-optimized contact form</li>
<li>Code is lightweight, flexible, and standards-compliant</li>
</ul>
Core Features
<ul>
<li>Optionally send a carbon copy of each email message</li>
<li>Slick, toggling panels on the plugin settings screen</li>
<li>Style the form via the settings screen using custom CSS</li>
<li>Provides Template Tag to display SBCF anywhere in your theme</li>
<li>Provides Shortcode to display SBCF on any WP Post or Page</li>
<li>Displays customizable confirmation message to the sender</li>
<li>Customizable success message can include email content</li>
<li>Customizable placeholder text for all form fields</li>
<li>Option to use PHP’s <code>mail()</code> or WP’s <code>wp_mail()</code></li>
</ul>
Anti-spam & Security
<ul>
<li>Optionally display anti-spam captcha to visitors</li>
<li>Protects against bad bots, malicious input, and other threats</li>
<li>Clear error messages to help users complete required fields</li>
</ul>
Awesome Performance
<ul>
<li>Built with the WP API for optimal security and performance</li>
<li>Custom CSS styles load only where the contact form is displayed</li>
<li>Clean source code with proper formatting, alignment and spacing</li>
<li>Squeaky-clean PHP and valid HTML5 output</li>
</ul>
More Features
<ul>
<li>Works perfectly without JavaScript!</li>
<li>Option to reset default settings</li>
<li>Options to customize many aspects of the form</li>
<li>Option to specify a specific time offset for your time zone</li>
<li>Option to enable, disable, and customize default SBCF styles</li>
<li>Email message includes IP, host, agent, and other user details</li>
<li>Customize field captions, error messages, and success message</li>
<li>Optionally hide Message field to make a simple opt-in form</li>
</ul>
What’s Next?
If you like this plugin, then please consider leaving us a rating / review. This plugin is completely free and maintained by <a href="https://www.wpkube.com" rel="nofollow ugc">WPKube</a>, a WordPress resource site, where you can learn from our free WordPress tutorials like <a href="https://www.wpkube.com/start-a-wordpress-blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">how to start a blog</a>, <a href="https://www.wpkube.com/install-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">how to install WordPress</a>, <a href="https://www.wpkube.com/best-wordpress-hosting/" rel="nofollow ugc">choose the best WordPress Hosting</a>, and <a href="https://www.wpkube.com/category/wordpress-tutorials/" rel="nofollow ugc">more</a>.
Our other projects: 
– <a href="https://www.meridianthemes.net" rel="nofollow ugc">MeridianThemes</a> – Beautiful and hand-crafted themes for WordPress 
– <a href="http://optinforms.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Optin Forms</a> – Simple and easy to use plugin for creating optin forms, works with most well know autoresponder services.

Simple Basic Contact Form

I've looked high and wide for a simple contact form that is not bloated or slows down my website (Contact Form 7 is slow!). Even went with online form creators like Jotform and hated them. Luckily I stumbled upon this gem of a plugin. It's simple and doesn't slow down my site. I love the anti-spam feature too! I set a simple question that bots cannot answer and it stopped virtually all spam! No need for Recaptcha that adds bloat to my site. I can't recommend this plugin enough.

Perfect for my needs

A clean, secure, plug-&-play contact form for WordPress.

Contact Coldform vs Simple Basic Contact Form