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5 Best WordPress Contact Form Plugins – Compared - 2024

Last modified: August 8, 2024

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A WordPress website is incomplete without a contact form, an essential engagement tool that allows your audience to get in touch with you instantly and easily. Businesses have innumerable choices in WordPress contact form plugins to collect visitor information and conduct surveys. It often creates the ‘problem of plenty’, overwhelming you and risking the fact that you will choose the wrong plugin. This post discusses the 5 best WordPress contact form plugins that you should definitely explore.

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Contact Form 7
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HubSpot Forms
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Ninja Forms
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Gravity Forms
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Formidable Forms – Form Builder for WordPress
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Fast Secure Contact Form
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Contact Form 7

Contact form 7

There are many reasons why Contact Form 7 has the highest download rate of all contact form plugins in the WordPress.org repository.

  • Free to download and install on any number of sites.
  • Offers a user-friendly interface, simplifying the process of creating and managing multiple forms.
  • Supports submission via Ajax, Akismet spam filtering and CAPTCHA
  • Available in 60 languages
  • Ideal for creating a basic contact forms (most WP users start with it) yet provides the benefits of several extensions for add-ons and options.

Some of the best Contact Form 7 extensions include:

  1. Contact Form 7 Select Box Editor Button – enables you to add a styled select box to your forms
  2. Contact Form DB – one of the plugins I use on almost every site. Save each contact from submission to the site’s database in an easy to use list and exportable, right in your admin dashboard
  3. Contact Form 7 MailChimp Extension – combines the functionality of Contact form 7 and Mailchimp
  4. Custom Skins Contact Form 7 – pretty self explanatory name

CF7 (as the experts call it) is pretty simple to use, yet it has any functionality you night need from a contact form on a website. You can add any type of field(email, tel, text, textarea etc.), you can add placeholders, add IDs and class names,limit input lengths and the list just goes on and on.

This is definitely hands down my no.1 WordPress contact form plugin that I use on every site

HubSpot Forms

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HubSpot’s WordPress Forms plugin enables businesses to build and manage forms effortlessly from within their WordPress dashboard. This plugin allows users to create a variety of forms, including contact forms, newsletter sign-ups, and registration forms, with a simple drag-and-drop interface. Forms integrate seamlessly with HubSpot CRM, ensuring all collected data is centralized for easy access and analysis. The plugin supports automation, allowing users to set follow-up actions such as redirecting visitors or sending automated emails. Its compatibility with Gutenberg and Elementor editors ensures forms can be easily embedded and customized without any coding knowledge.

Highlights

  • Easy Integration: Connects directly with HubSpot CRM for streamlined data management.
  • Drag-and-Drop Builder: Intuitive interface to create and customize forms quickly.
  • Automation: Automate follow-up actions and email responses based on form submissions.
  • Seamless Embedding: Compatible with Gutenberg and Elementor for easy form placement.
  • Advanced Analytics: Track form performance and user interactions with built-in analytics.

Fast Secure Contact Form

Fast Secure Contact Form

Another free, top rated plugin makes it to our list of the best WordPress Contact Form Plugins. It is a reliable option if you want to quickly set-up a simple contact form. You will need WordPress 3.4.2 or higher to use this frequently updated plugin.

  • Drag and drop functionality (excellent for non developers)
  • Spam-blocking CAPTCHA and Akismet support
  • By default, you can collect subscribers’ information in your master email address; you also have the option to add multiple contact mails to collect information
  • Supports all major form fields
  • ‘Thank you’ message, extra URL redirect and double opt-in options
  • Customizable, with added CSS functionality
  • User-friendly backend
  • Multilingual support

Conclusion

Depending on your requirements and budget, you may find one form builder to be better than the rest. Check out the WordPress contact form plugins on this list, read user reviews and make a decision. Each project we build has different requirements and there’s when other plugins that we are unfamiliar with come into play. This is how we learn about other options. These top 5 contact form plugins will basically cover any option you might need.

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    One thought on “5 Best WordPress Contact Form Plugins – Compared - 2024”
    1. Mike says:

      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

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