If you don’t have a “Contact Us” form on your site, you should get one! Thanks to Tyhada, I’m going to tell you a bit about the best WordPress contact form plugins.
What is the best “Contact Us” plugin to use?
Tyhada
The hands down, best form plugin is: Gravity Forms. However, Gravity Forms is not free (cheapest package is $39), and it’s probably a little overkill if you ONLY want a “contact us” form. I use Gravity Forms because it allows me to create new posts from form submissions, analyze data (from surveys), register new users automatically from form submissions, and add people to my MailChimp subscription lists from form entries. Awesome, huh?
But, if you ONLY want to use it as a “contact us” form, then you shouldn’t be paying $39.
Here are two free alternatives:
Neither of them are as amazing as Gravity Forms, but you get what you pay for. And both of those free plugins will do the job just fine if you only need a simple contact form.
Ooh I was looking for one of those for on my contact page! 😀 Thanks!
Yup! You already know how I feel about this one Ash. 😉
I totally spent the $39 on the contact form alone, but I did plan to use it for other things… eventually. Lol. I guess it really came in handy for LBBA.
I originally was going to use it to format our review posts, but then UBB came along and made my life 200% easier. Lol.
Thanks Ashley!!
I just downloaded one of those, I think it’s a great idea to have an easy contact area on your blog 🙂
Hmmm. So I could technically totally detach myself from Google Drive by purchasing Gravity forms?
Because currently, I use the Forms by google for Indie Author Excerpts signups. It’s like the very last thing I have left to get rid of.
how about for blogger? Eehehehe
Unfortunately it’s not possible to have a built-in contact form on Blogger. 🙁
Ahh all of this WordPress stuff is making me want to switch! I must do more research when I get off of my lazy butt *runs off*
Fantastic post!
Yes yes yes! It’s time to switch! 😀
Gravity Form is awesome – the developer license is expensive at $199 but it’s really worth it IMHO. I use Contact Form 7 for my book blog – there is a wordpress plugin called Contact Form DB where you can save all form submissions to your wordpress database that I find useful. Great post, Ashley!
Just want to let you know that right now, there is a coupon code for all the licenses, SEODENVER, that gives 20% off. I paid $31.20 for the personal license. $8 off!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
I’m currently cruising through your Bitching Book Blogs posts and I’m enjoying them immensely! As for contact forms, I’ve heard great things about Gravity Forms but I’m cheap so I’ve used Contact Form 7 a lot!
Right now though, I’m using Jetpack’s Contact Form. It creates a “Feedback” page on your dash and you can see the messages people have sent to you through your form. It, of course, also sends an email to the address you used to install WordPress with 🙂
Great suggestion! Jetpack is a pretty good option too. 🙂
Gravity Forms is awesome, but you really don’t need it if you only want to use it for a contact form. It’s a tad overkill and expensive if you’re only going to use it for that purpose!
I have been considering getting gravity forms… what else can it be used for other then just contact forms??
The most popular example is that you can create posts from form entries. For example, let’s say you accept guest posts on your blog. You could create a page on your blog with a guest post submission form. Anyone can come to that page, put in a post title, and add in the content of their post, then press Submit.
Then you can set it up so that Gravity Forms automatically creates a new post from that submission. So essentially, the post is already created for you and all you have to do is review it! You can make the post be set up as a “Draft” if you want so that it’s not automatically published. You can also create order forms, limit the number of entires (for submissions), create conditional fields (like if someone selects “Yes” as one of the options then a ton more options appear, but they never appear if the person selects “No”), etc.
So, in short, Gravity Forms is for complex forms. Many bloggers use Gravity Forms for review requests, author interview requests, guest post submissions, surveys, and more.
But if you ONLY want a simple contact form and no other form on your blog, then it’s a bit overkill!
Oh awesome I think it is something I will look into getting 🙂
Thanks Ashley!
Do you know if this works with UBB? I’d love to be able to populate the information we are collecting from the book submission form into a new post using the UBB post form but pulling straight from the submission based on book name or author name. (Like how they search for the book details on the web when you click the button)
So you’re saying you want a form on your website with fields for book title and book author, then when they press “submit”, it automatically creates a new post with all the UBB book information filled in?
Not necessarily a new post created. I’d still prefer the post be generated when a reviewer is ready to write the review. But I’d like to be able to import the data collected upon submission into the post fields. It bugs me that the info is already stored in a database of some sort and a redundancy is created with the post. Instead of pasting the info in, it would be helpful to wave a magic wand and have it populate. (for example if I’m reviewing Doctor Sleep, and it was a submission, click a button to find that book name in the database and ask if I want to import the details)
Okay that’s not possible. At least it’s not something that’s built in. It may be possible to code something like that custom, but it would require a lot of PHP and MySQL coding.
Bummer…zero coding skill here
I am using easy contact forms but now i’m thinking to change this form. Fast Secure Contact Form is good and i am going to download it. Thank you for sharing this.
Always used contact form 7 but it’s all of a sudden become a bit of a pain to use, so have recently started using WPForms and I have to say is pretty dam good!
Simple, easy and some great features