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<p>Easy Contact is a simple contact form that utilizes the <a href="http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/" title="Sandbox theme for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">Sandbox</a> design patterns to create a highly semantic, XHTML-based contact form you can insert using <code>[easy-contact]</code> on any page or post.</p>
<p>Easy Contact features spam-reduction measures, GUI-based customization, carbon copying option, and more. Emails include tracked referrer information, including keywords for search-based landings, user agent, and IP.</p>
<p>Easy Contact is for WordPress 2.6.x and features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Out-of-the-box function using shortcode without editing any files</li>
<li>Options menu for complete customization of form content</li>
<li>Spam reduction measures, i.e., math- and/or challenge-based question</li>
<li>Secure plugin operation and highly semantic XHTML</li>
<li>Use of the Sandbox comment form design patterns</li>
<li>An included starter CSS file with corresponding images</li>
<li>Tracked information, e.g., user agent, user referrers, IP</li>
</ul>
<p>Based partially on the classic <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-contact-form/" title="WP Contact Form for WordPress" rel="ugc">WP Contact Form</a>, Easy Contact includes newer WordPress features (e.g., shortcode) and greatly improved form security. Easy Contact is just another contact form, except built with clean XHTML and improved security.</p>
<h3>Use</h3>
<p>After activating this plugin, simply use the shortcode <code>[easy-contact]</code> wherever you want the Easy Contact form. This shortcode takes no attributes.</p>
<pre><code>[easy-contact]
</code></pre>
<p>You will also want to customize the Easy Contact plugin from the <em>Settings > Contact</em> options menu. Here you can set the email address to receive submissions, text for legends, labels, and prompts, turn on spam reduction measure(s), etc.</p>
<p>Included with Easy Contact is a example style sheet file with images. Easy Contact features dynamic classes, so when an input field is returned to the user for an error-related issue, the input is given the class <code>error</code>, etc.</p>
<p>If you are using the Sandbox or a Sandbox-based theme template, you probably won’t need much (if any) CSS customization, as Easy Contact shares the same design patterns as the Sandbox comment form.</p>
<p>And so on. A very simple plugin.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>Easy Contact, a plugin for WordPress, (C) 2008 by Scott Allan Wallick, is licensed under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html" title="GNU General Public License" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License</a>.</p>
<p>Easy Contact is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>Easy Contact is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but <strong>without any warranty</strong>; without even the implied warranty of <strong>merchantability</strong> or <strong>fitness for a particular purpose</strong>. See the GNU General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Extended Options. If not, see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/" title="GNU General Public Licenses" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</a>.</p>


Easy Contact

Easy Contact is a simple, highly extensible XHTML contact form featuring spam-reduction measures, GUI customization, and shortcode-based insertion.

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<h4>About</h4>
<p>With this lightweight plugin you can create a contact form.</p>
<p>Main features of the plugin:</p>
<ul>
<li>Free and lightweight</li>
<li>Support for Block Editor and Classic Editor</li>
<li>Display form with block, shortcode or widget</li>
<li>Fields for Name, Email, Subject and Message</li>
<li>Privacy consent checkbox</li>
<li>Customize your form via the settings page or with attributes</li>
<li>List form submissions in your dashboard</li>
<li>Built-in anti-spam features</li>
<li>Translation ready</li>
<li>Extensive documentation at WP plugin page</li>
<li>Active support from developer at WP forum</li>
</ul>
<h4>How to use</h4>
<p>After installation add the VS Contact Form block or the shortcode <code>[contact]</code> to a page to display your form.</p>
<p>You can also go to Appearance > Widgets and use the VS Contact Form widget.</p>
<p>Customize your form via the settings page or with attributes.</p>
<h4>Settings page</h4>
<p>The settings page is located at Settings > VS Contact Form.</p>
<h4>Attributes</h4>
<p>Settings and labels can be overridden by adding attributes to the block, shortcode, or widget.</p>
<p>This can be useful when having multiple contact forms on your website.</p>
<p>Misc:</p>
<ul>
<li>Add custom CSS class to form: <code>class="your-class-name"</code></li>
<li>Change email address for sending: <code>email_to="your-email-address"</code></li>
<li>Send to multiple email addresses (max 5): <code>email_to="first-email-address, second-email-address"</code></li>
<li>Change “From” email header: <code>from_header="your-email-address"</code></li>
<li>Change subject in email: <code>subject="your subject"</code></li>
<li>Change subject in auto-reply email to sender: <code>subject_auto_reply="your subject"</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Field labels:</p>
<ul>
<li>Name: <code>label_name="your label"</code></li>
<li>Email: <code>label_email="your label"</code></li>
<li>Subject: <code>label_subject="your label"</code></li>
<li>Message: <code>label_message="your label"</code></li>
<li>Privacy consent: <code>label_privacy="your label"</code></li>
<li>Submit: <code>label_submit="your label"</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Field placeholders:</p>
<ul>
<li>Name: <code>placeholder_name="your placeholder"</code></li>
<li>Email: <code>placeholder_email="your placeholder"</code></li>
<li>Subject: <code>placeholder_subject="your placeholder"</code></li>
<li>Message: <code>placeholder_message="your placeholder"</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Field error labels:</p>
<ul>
<li>Name: <code>error_name="your label"</code></li>
<li>Email: <code>error_email="your label"</code></li>
<li>Subject: <code>error_subject="your label"</code></li>
<li>Sum: <code>error_sum="your label"</code></li>
<li>Message: <code>error_message="your label"</code></li>
<li>Message – more than 1 link is not allowed: <code>error_message_has_links="your label"</code></li>
<li>Message – links are not allowed: <code>error_message_has_links="your label"</code></li>
<li>Message – email addresses are not allowed: <code>error_message_has_email="your label"</code></li>
<li>Banned words: <code>error_banned_words="your label"</code></li>
<li>Privacy consent: <code>error_privacy="your label"</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Messages:</p>
<ul>
<li>Displayed when sending succeeds: <code>thank_you_message="your message"</code></li>
<li>Displayed in the auto-reply email to sender: <code>auto_reply_message="your message"</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Example: <code>[contact email_to="your-email-address" subject="your subject" label_submit="your label"]</code></p>
<p>When using the block or the widget, don’t add the main shortcode tag or the brackets.</p>
<p>Example: <code>email_to="your-email-address" subject="your subject" label_submit="your label"</code></p>
<h4>Display form submissions in dashboard</h4>
<p>Via the settings page you can activate form submissions being stored and displayed in your dashboard.</p>
<p>After activation go to menu item “Submissions”. Your form submissions will be listed here.</p>
<h4>SMTP</h4>
<p>SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is an internet standard for sending emails.</p>
<p>By default, WordPress uses the PHP <code>mail()</code> function for sending emails. But when using SMTP there’s less chance your form submissions are being marked as spam.</p>
<p>You must install an additional plugin for this, such as <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/" rel="ugc">WP mail SMTP</a>.</p>
<h4>Cache</h4>
<p>If you’re using a caching plugin and want to avoid conflicts with the contact form, exclude your contact page from caching. This can be done via the settings page of most caching plugins.</p>
<h4>Have a question?</h4>
<p>Please take a look at the FAQ section.</p>
<h4>Translation</h4>
<p>Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs.</p>
<p>More <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/very-simple-contact-form" rel="nofollow ugc">translations</a> are very welcome!</p>
<p>The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference.</p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!</p>


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