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The Best-Of Series: Contact Forms

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  1. Patrick Daly (6 comments.) says:

    How is this a “best of” without mentioning cforms? Its the ONLY advanced contact form out there. Its not drop-dead simple, as all the plugins you listed were, but that’s because its amazingly complex, which should gain it some attention here.

    • Carl Hancock says:

      Actually cforms is not the only advanced contact form out there… another plugin absent from this list is Gravity Forms for WordPress.

      While it is a commercial plugin, it is GPL compliant, is very advanced, extremely powerful and has a very user friendly user interface.

      Unlike cforms it is amazingly complex and drop-dead simple to use.

      • Trace (2 comments.) says:

        When I last checked Gravity forms doesn’t do multi-page forms and a bunch of other things that cforms does… that being said, cforms isn’t the easiest to use either….. gravity forms likely has the edge in that respect, but then again, less features means easier interface…..

        • Carl Hancock says:

          Actually Gravity Forms does things cforms doesn’t do, and cforms does things Gravity Forms doesn’t do. So it isn’t a one way street.

          Gravity Forms is also at Version 1.1 and cforms is at Version 11.0 so Gravity Forms has plenty of time to catch up.

          We actually don’t consider cforms to be our competitor anyway. We don’t model things after cforms and we don’t look to cforms for possible new features. We consider services like Wufoo, Icebrrg and FormSpring to be our competition.

          • Eric Marden (16 comments.) says:

            Too bad CFORMS is poorly coded and doesn’t work with alternative WordPress layouts, spawns WP processes needlessly because they don’t follow the api, etc etc.

            I, personally, would never use it (again).

  2. Online Flash Arcade (1 comments.) says:

    I actually use the Contact Me Widget in one of my blogs. The thing I like most about it is that it’s simple, yet gets the job done.

  3. NY Themes (2 comments.) says:

    Missing Plugins:

    [1] CForms
    [2] gravity forms

  4. Digigirl (1 comments.) says:

    I recently discovered MM Forms which has a lot of good features and is very simple to use. It worked like a charm to produce multiple forms when I had trouble getting some of the others to do what I wanted. I’m liking it a lot!

  5. paul (2 comments.) says:

    yes I don’t believe you haven’t mentioned cforms, but thanks for the other ones I didn’t know, I’ll give them a try :)

  6. Hugh Johnson (1 comments.) says:

    The WP-SpamFree plugin (http://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/plugins/wp-spamfree) is worth a mention as well. It includes a simple to configure contact form and does a great job keeping spam bots away from the contact form, comments, pingbacks and trackbacks in an invisible way.

  7. claire0917 (2 comments.) says:

    I’ve used Contact Me. Very simple and handles the basics well.

  8. Lars Tong Strömberg (14 comments.) says:

    Missing cforms as well, great plugin.

    Depends on the scope of the review though, “forms” or just “simple contact forms”? Cforms do them all in all kinds and shapes and I think they do the simple contact forms well too.

  9. Josh Straub (1 comments.) says:

    This list isn’t complete without mentioning the beautifully streamlined Contact Coldform by Perishable Press: http://perishablepress.com/pre.....-coldform/

    Coldform is extremely small and optimized. I checked out Contact Form 7 and it was nice but added the giant JQuery library to every pageload on my blog – an unforgiveable tradeoff, in my opinion. Especially for a page that only 0.1% of my visitors are ever going to use.

    Coldform was the best contact form plugin I could find that didn’t use JQuery or have any other obnoxious caveats.

  10. Tom - home business marketing (1 comments.) says:

    I use Cforms on my blog, very easy and simple to use.I think I will try the ones you have mentioned as well.

  11. Dan (1 comments.) says:

    I also use cforms had not had a reason to try any other ones.

  12. Diseño Web (8 comments.) says:

    What about a widgeted constant contact form with ajax load!

  13. Carrie (12 comments.) says:

    I personally love the contact form that comes with Wp-Spam Free :P

  14. James (1 comments.) says:

    In your form designing travels, did you happen to try FormBuilder?
    http://truthmedia.com/wordpress/formbuilder/

  15. anmari (3 comments.) says:

    What about my favourite – the secure and accessible contact form from green beast:

    http://green-beast.com/blog/?page_id=136

  16. Trace (2 comments.) says:

    Yeah, kind of a jaw dropping moment when I saw C-forms was missing…. it is so damn powerful! Will definitely check these out as well though…….

  17. Joss says:

    DekoBoko ftw!

  18. Lowell Christensen (1 comments.) says:

    Long before blogging, I sent up a service based business with a website. I’ve always just posted my email for people to contact me. It’s the easiest way for people to get a hold of you. I know if I am looking for a service, and there is a contact form, I always have this gut feeling that there is no one behind the form. I believe that is a standard feeling for many. So I look for a company that posts their address live.

    Since I’ve started blogging, I do the same thing. I post my email contact throughout the site and at the bottom of the blog. I think too many people are fearful that if they post their email address live online, they will be bombarded with spam. But with a good spam filter that emails you a daily report, it’s manageable.

    I did try a contact for once for a niche site offer automotive advertising, and the response rate from legitimate potential clients is way lower than when the email address is posted.

    I guess it depends on what you want to do. If you don’t really care if people email you, then go with the contact form. But if you really want to connect with people and give them the feeling that you a live body behind your site, then post the email. It always gets more response.



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