thaxam

<p>The Shortcode Popup Forms plugin allows you to easily add contact forms to your WordPress pages using a simple shortcode. When users click the contact button, a modern contact form appears with fields for name, title, email, and message. The plugin supports custom SMTP settings for reliable email delivery and offers multiple button design options.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add a contact form anywhere using a simple shortcode</li>
<li>Assign the message recipient (person/department) per shortcode</li>
<li>Minimal, fast, and fully responsive</li>
<li>No bloat — only essential fields</li>
<li>GDPR-friendly (no tracking, no cookies)</li>
<li>Works with any theme</li>
<li>Supports custom success messages</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shortcode Example</h3>
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<p>[thaxam-contact name=”John Doe” email=”john@example.com”]<br />
    `</p>
<h3>Settings Page</h3>
<p>The plugin settings page can be accessed from your WordPress admin dashboard:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to <strong>Tools > Shortcode Popup Forms</strong></li>
<li>Configure SMTP settings for custom email delivery</li>
<li>Customize button designs and default recipient information</li>
</ol>
<p>The settings page includes three tabs:<br />
– <strong>SMTP Settings</strong>: Configure custom SMTP server details for reliable email delivery<br />
– <strong>Default Recipient</strong>: Set default contact name and email for forms when not specified in shortcode<br />
– <strong>Button Design</strong>: Customize button appearance, colors, and behavior with multiple design options</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Add the contact form to any page or post using the shortcode:</p>
<p>[thaxam-contact name=”John Doe” email=”johndoe@email.com”]</p>
<h3>Shortcode Parameters</h3>
<ul>
<li><code>name</code> (required): The name of the person to contact</li>
<li><code>email</code> (required): The email address to send the message to</li>
<li><code>design</code> (optional): Override the default button design (default, modern, gradient, outline, neumorphism, glassmorphism)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<p>[thaxam-contact name=”John Doe” email=”johndoe@email.com”]</p>
<p>This will create a “Send Email” button with the default design that reveals a contact form when clicked.</p>
<p>[thaxam-contact name=”Jane Smith” email=”jane@email.com” design=”modern”]</p>
<p>This will create a “Send Email” button with the modern design style.</p>
<h3>SMTP Configuration</h3>
<p>If the default WordPress email settings don’t work, you can configure custom SMTP settings:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to <strong>Tools > Shortcode Popup Forms</strong> in your WordPress admin</li>
<li>Enter your SMTP server details:
<ul>
<li><strong>SMTP Host</strong>: Your email server hostname (e.g., smtp.gmail.com)</li>
<li><strong>SMTP Port</strong>: Usually 587 for TLS or 465 for SSL</li>
<li><strong>SMTP Encryption</strong>: TLS, SSL, or None</li>
<li><strong>SMTP Username</strong>: Your email username</li>
<li><strong>SMTP Password</strong>: Your email password</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Save the settings</li>
</ol>
<h3>Gmail Configuration Example</h3>
<p>For Gmail:<br />
– SMTP Host: smtp.gmail.com<br />
– SMTP Port: 587<br />
– SMTP Encryption: TLS<br />
– SMTP Username: your-gmail@gmail.com<br />
– SMTP Password: Your Gmail app password (not your regular password)</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: You may need to enable “Less secure app access” or generate an app password for Gmail.</p>
<h3>Button Design Customization</h3>
<p>The plugin offers extensive button customization options:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to <strong>Tools > Thaxam Contact Form > Button Design</strong> tab</li>
<li>Choose from 6 different design styles</li>
<li>Customize colors using color pickers:
<ul>
<li>Background Color</li>
<li>Text Color</li>
<li>Hover Background Color</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Adjust styling properties:
<ul>
<li>Border Radius</li>
<li>Padding</li>
<li>Font Size</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h3>Form Fields</h3>
<p>The contact form includes the following fields:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Your Name</strong> (required): Sender’s full name</li>
<li><strong>Title</strong>: Optional title or subject</li>
<li><strong>Your Email</strong> (required): Sender’s email address</li>
<li><strong>Message</strong> (required): The message content</li>
</ul>
<h3>Security Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>All form inputs are properly sanitized</li>
<li>Nonce verification for AJAX requests</li>
<li>Email validation</li>
<li>XSS protection through proper escaping</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For support or feature requests, please contact Thaxam.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This plugin is licensed under the GPL v2 or later.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Made by Thaxam</p>


Shortcode Popup Forms

A lightweight plugin to create a clean, targeted contact form for a specific person using a simple shortcode. Ideal for quick, precise communication.

Takayuki Miyoshi

Rock Lobster Inc.

<p>Contact Form 7 is a plugin designed to be a practical tool for all WordPress users who embrace the philosophy of free and open source software. It employs sophisticatedly modularized architecture and its original <a href="https://contactform7.com/schema-woven-validation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Schema-Woven Validation</a> technology.</p>
<h4>Docs and support</h4>
<p>You can find <a href="https://contactform7.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">docs</a>, <a href="https://contactform7.com/faq/" rel="nofollow ugc">FAQ</a> and more detailed information about Contact Form 7 on <a href="https://contactform7.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">contactform7.com</a>. When you cannot find the answer to your question on the FAQ or in any of the documentation, check the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7/" rel="ugc">support forum</a> on WordPress.org. If you cannot locate any topics that pertain to your particular issue, post a new topic for it.</p>
<h4>Contact Form 7 needs your support</h4>
<p>It is hard to continue to maintain this plugin without support from users like you. There are several ways for you to <a href="https://contactform7.com/contributing/" rel="nofollow ugc">contribute to the project</a>: testing, coding, translating it into your local languages, helping other users, financial donations, etc, etc. We equally welcome you regardless of the way you contribute.</p>
<h4>Privacy notices</h4>
<p>With the default configuration, this plugin, in itself, does not:</p>
<ul>
<li>track users by stealth;</li>
<li>write any user personal data to the database;</li>
<li>send any data to external servers;</li>
<li>use cookies.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you activate certain features in this plugin, the contact form submitter’s personal data, including their IP address, may be sent to the service provider. Thus, confirming the provider’s privacy policy is recommended. These features include:</p>
<ul>
<li>reCAPTCHA (<a href="https://policies.google.com/?hl=en" rel="nofollow ugc">Google</a>)</li>
<li>Akismet (<a href="https://automattic.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Automattic</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/privacy-center" rel="nofollow ugc">Constant Contact</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Brevo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://stripe.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe</a></li>
<li>Turnstile (<a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/turnstile-privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare</a>)</li>
</ul>


Contact Form 7

I recommend this plugin. It's easy to use, both technical and non-technical and, most importantly, works as expected.

Recommended.


Unlike version 5.6.4 [ prnt.sc/6jnDIye9Dva4 ], update 5.7.1 continues to wrap "p" markup inside "div" and "td" [ prnt.sc/N7I5StxLCtVy ]. 



It breaks the appearance of the forms.


Update 5.7.1 continues to wrap markup inside and

This has never failed


We've been using this plugin for years with many clients. What we like about it is that if things go awry, it's almost always not the plugin that's caused the issue but instead the mail sending setup on the Wordpress installation. We also like that the plugin sporadically asks the admin to check / validate the forms for any issues.


Our go-to form plugin


It's a must have tool. We use it all the time in our agency!


Must have


Unbelivable stupid ReCaptch integration, why you require to use only Invisible Recaptcha ??? I want to use the checkbox because with the invisible all messages are SPAM no matter what I write!!!!


ReCaptcha


For someone who develops web pages from scratch like me, this is definitely the best and most configurable solution. Everything works flawlessly and it's free!



Thanks to the developer for a great plugin!


The most flexible contact form!


I absolutely love Contact Form 7. As a professional developer with clients at every price point, I still prefer it over the premium plugins because of how simple and versatile it is. It embodies the concept of plugins in that it only provides the functionality you need and if you want more, there's a plugin for that! Absolutely versatile and I personally love making add-ons for CF7!


Best contact form plugin for WordPress


I do not use many plugins but this is one of 2-3 essentials


The best plugin for contact form


What a useless developer. Can not reply to support requests!!!support/topic/add-a-code-to-validation-class-please


Useless Support


This free plugin is very useful and has done what it was supposed to do for many years. However, there are a few issues that are very annoying and a total deal breaker, if not a show stopper:




Plugin creator did not comply with WordPress Codex regarding how translations are handled. Thus this plugin will eventually cause problems in a multilingual site.



Forum support by plugin creator is very poor. He replies, yes, but his replies are a joke. He simply doesn't care. He doesn't read properly nor does he do any testing, even after providing everything he asked for. He is a time stealer.




My personal resume: I will switch contact forms on all of my clients' sites. There are better alternatives out there. I am of course willing to pay for support. And this is my suggestion for @takayukister : provide paid support, if you think your time is too valuable, to give a useful reply or provide assistance with your free plugin. Or take that plugin offline or officially state that you won't provide support at all and refrain from stealing people's time by requesting non sense things and then ignoring them in return.


Translation issue and nightmare support.

All time best

Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.

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