A Better Blog Contact Form

As more and more blogs grow from being a one-person operation to a multiple blogger situation, and more companies bolt on a blog to their corporate site, the one size fits all contact form is not cutting it.

Consider the scenario where everything goes to one person. So all contact, from “nice article” to “I have a problem with the widgets you sell” all go to one unfortunate individual. Far better to sift and sort to the appropriate people, right?

I have been looking for a more capable contact form for clients and I seem to have found it in WP_ContactMe

contact form

  • Easy to add to post and pages with BBCode.
  • Easy to add to a sidebar with a widget.
  • Easy to add anywhere in a template with a function call.
  • Comes ready configured with a standard Contact form.
  • Has HTML/PHP templates to allow you to customise the form to collect what information you like.
  • Emails the poster of the page/post by default.
  • Allows you to specify the address to receive the message.
  • Allows the setting of subjects to allow dynamic selection of the recipient of the message.
  • SPAM Protection by an optional CAPTCHA question.
  • Optionally allows the sender to receive a copy of the message.
  • Collects standard information about the sender, such as IP , referrer etc.
  • Has its own theme independent stylesheet to allow styling without modifying your theme.
  • Has localisation to allow easy modification of all default messages.

As well as setting subject lines that appear in a drop down, you can also shoot off to different people depending on the different purposes, so you could have “General Feedback” go to Joe, and “Advertising” go to Mary. Or maybe have one contact form that lists all your authors.

contact emails form

Check it out over at the DCoda WordPress plugin page

Posted on June 19, 2008 by Chris Garrett 
Filed Under Blogging

Comments

20 Responses to “A Better Blog Contact Form”

  1. @Stephen on June 19th, 2008 5:37 pm

    Awesome, I have been looking for a flexible and attractive contact page. This is perfect!

  2. Fiar on June 23rd, 2008 12:47 am

    I don’t get how to actually use it. I guess I’ll have to stay with the Contact form plugin that I’ve been using.

    Thanks for the tip, though. Maybe one day I’ll even understand how to use it.

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