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<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.

th23

Provide your users and visitors a simple and straight forward contact form.
The modern design is very clear, easy to navigate and with light-weight JS and CSS code. One big benefit is its flexible positioning in pages and posts as a modern style block or classic shortcode.
To keep your website safe, it comes with built in spam and bot protection, by using Akisment and reCaptcha for messages sent by visitors. The plugin is continuously improved and used on live websites since 2012.
th23 Contact is built with some few goals in mind:
<ul>
<li>Simple and straight forward option for user to contact you</li>
<li>Light-weight code basis without overheads and frameworks</li>
<li>Easy to adapt styling to fit any page design and layout</li>
<li>Fight spam and bots without unnecessary hurdles (admittedly it’s a compromise)</li>
</ul>
See it in action on my <a href="https://thorstenhartmann.de/kontakt/" rel="nofollow ugc">Contact page</a>.
<h4>Usage</h4>
Simply insert a new <code>th23 Contact form</code> block into the post / page using the plus sign in the Gutenberg editor or start typing <code>/th23 Contact form</code>.
Alternatively use the <code>[th23-contact]</code> shortcode directly in the source code editor view of a post / page or insert it as a legacy shortcode block.
<h4>NOTE</h4>
The th23 Contact form block and / or shortcode can only be used once per post / page!
Any second instance in the same post / page will be ignored upon frontend rendering and not show up.
<h4>TIP</h4>
Ensure th23 contact form is enabled for the sepcific post / page – see admin area under <code>Settings</code> -> <code>th23 Contact</code>.

th23 Contact

Simple contact form via block or legacy shortcode with optional spam protection via Akismet and reCaptcha

Simple Basic Contact Form vs th23 Contact