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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And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:
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<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/blackhole-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Blackhole Pro</a> – Automatically block bad bots</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!! :)



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

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Your WordPress website is sending emails out daily, but are your users and visitors receiving them? When it comes to ensuring email deliverability, lean on a proven equation: SMTP plugin + email service provider = success. Solid Mail is an easy-to-use, set-it-and-forget-it SMTP plugin that will help you stop worrying about email deliverability.
<h4>❓How does Solid Mail Help You Implement SMTP Email on your website?</h4>
Solid Mail makes connecting to many popular SMTP services straightforward and clear. Solid Mail currently supports the following Email Service Providers (ESPs):
<ul>
<li>Sendgrid</li>
<li>MailGun</li>
<li>Brevo (formally Sendinblue)</li>
<li>Amazon SES</li>
<li>Postmark</li>
<li>Manual connection (connect to any ESP)</li>
</ul>
Enjoy complete flexibility and reliability in email delivery. Set up multiple connections to send emails via different Email Service Providers according to the From: address, and choose a fallback connection to ensure messages are sent even if a connection fails or the address doesn’t match an existing connection.
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WordPress out the box uses PHP’s built-in mail function to send emails such as password reset requests, WooCommerce order invoices and more. The issue? PHP Mail is only as good as your server and most hosts don’t have dedicated PHP Mail monitoring.
Even hosts that specialize in hosting WordPress either don’t offer email services or don’t actively monitor for deliverability. That means you can be at the mercy of noisy neighbors sending spam to purchased email subscriber lists, or spammers running the latest scam. Either way it impacts the health of the server in the eyes of ESPs such as Google, Yahoo, Outlook, and others meaning that most of the time your emails don’t even hit the inbox!
Go from spam-box to inbox with Solid Mail: an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) plugin. Combine with an email service provider such as SendGrid, Brevo, Amazon SES, and others and see your emails start getting delivered.
An SMTP plugin – like Solid Mail – is essentially a higher-level and more advanced method of sending emails between servers that uses a username and password or other secure method to create the connection to an email service provider (ESP). ESPs (like those listed below) provide robust solutions to deliverability issues by running dedicated servers for sending that are managed ‘round the clock for issues like blacklisting, spam removal, and more. In addition they use authentication protocols like SSL/TLS to secure email transmissions and ensure better deliverability.
Using an SMTP plugin combined with an email service provider instead of PHP Mail on the server leads to more reliable, secure, and efficient email communication for WordPress websites. <a href="https://solidwp.com/blog/wordpress-not-sending-email/" rel="nofollow ugc">Find out more about SMTP and WordPress email deliverability here</a>.
<h4>📑How does Solid Mail Validate Email Deliverability with Email Logs?</h4>
Solid Mail gives you an easy-on-the-eyes interface to review and inspect your comprehensive email logs and understand if your email was sent or not. This transparency helps in debugging any email deliverability issues with your website.
Many email service providers offer advanced features like email tracking and analytics. Solid Mail’s email logs help optimize email strategies by making it easy for you to view and act on patterns and trends.
<h4>📧 Email Logging is a great way to help troubleshoot WordPress email deliverability issues</h4>
But how do you know and validate that your emails are actually being sent from your website correctly? The answer is email logs.
Email logs are crucial for validating that your emails are being delivered as intended, serving as an indispensable tool for troubleshooting and ensuring reliability in communication. These logs provide detailed records of every email transaction, including timestamps, recipient addresses, and errors in the SMTP authentication process.

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This plugin was responsible of the largest data breaching in Mossack Fonseca's wordpress website. wordfence states something like this. so please don't use this plugin if you care about the security of your website. 
MF are running the WP SMTP plugin which gives you the ability to send mail from your website via a mail server. This plugin stores email server address and login information in plain text in the WordPress database. The login information stored is a mail server SMTP login for sending email. Here is a screenshot showing the login information for this plugin appearing in a database as plain text on one of our test servers:



One of most dangerous plugins in the whole world for wordpress

As always it good

With the addition of a default Reply-To, it would be perfect for the websites I install SMTP plugins on.

Almost perfect


I'm satisfied with version 1.2.7.The newer updates add unnecessary features.With version 1.2.7, the emails are reliably delivered to the inbox and even marked as important.But with the latest versions, emails often go straight to the spam folder.


I'm satisfied with version 1.2.7

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