Simple Email Form
Simple Email Form creates a simple email contact form to your WordPress site.
Maintenance 22/1003206d since update
Active installs
30
Downloads
4,180
Reviews
2
Age
14.9y
Tagsemailformcontactsimplerecaptcha
Plugin info
Total downloads: 4,180
Active installs: 30
Total reviews: 2
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 2 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 3/22/2017 (3206 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 2/25/2011 (14 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.1
Tested up to WordPress version: 4.7.31
Minimum PHP version: f
Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Possibly abandoned • Last updated 3206 days ago • 2 reviews
22/100
Is Simple Email Form abandoned?
Possibly abandoned (last update 3206 days ago).
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 4.1
Tested up to: 4.7.31
Requires PHP: f
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Description
Easily add a simple email contact form to your WordPress site.
Features
- Easily add the simple email form to a page or post using the shortcode “[simple-email-form]”.
- Add simple email form to a template using the “simple-email-form” action.
- Customize the template by adding simple-email-form.php to your theme.
- Ability to display your email address above the form (optional, your email address is encoded with HTML entities if shown).
- Google reCAPTCHA (optional).
- Responsive, so it looks good on any device.
- Client and server side validation.
- AJAX form submission.
- Scripts and Styles are minified and only loaded when used.
Installation
1. Upload to your plugins folder, usually `wp-content/plugins/`
The plugin is in the form of a directory called ‘simple-email-form’.
2. Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.
3. Change settings on the “Settings > Simple Email Form” options screen.
Frequently Asked Questions
No FAQ available
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Changelog
v1.0
- First Stable version
v2.0
- Rewrote plugin to work with latest version of WordPress (4.6.1).
- Removed TinyMCE button to insert shortcode.
- Replaced captcha with Google reCAPTCHA v2.
- Added AJAX form submission.
v2.0.1
- Fixed bugs with some translations (updated .pot).
- Added language code support for Google Recaptcha.
- Fixed bug with new lines in email message body.
v2.0.2
- Fixed missing translation (updated .pot).
- Fixed email subject encoding issue.
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Added “simple-email-form-headers” filter.
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v2.0.3 =
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Changed text domain from “simple-email-form” to “snsimple-email” for easier WP translations.
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v2.0.4 =
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Added German translation (thanks @bwaack).
- Fixed issue with right border of input/textarea sometimes getting cutoff.

