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• H2GD Part 41: How to create a simple contact form

  With the right plugin, creating a simple contact form should be almost as easy as typing

  display contact form here

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  Over on bobbingwidewebdesign.com I reviewed 6 Contact Form plugins. Today, since my Gravity Forms Licence had expired again, I tried Ninja Forms as well.

  It took me a while to get a working version. I eventually succeeded when I lowered my sights. In the end the results weren’t much better than the simple contact form that comes as standard with my oik plugin.

  How to create a simple contact form using oik

  1. Install and activate the oik base plugin
  2. Visit oik options > options and set a value for your email address: Email [bw_mailto]/[bw_email]..
  3. Create some content e.g. a new post or a page
  4. Somewhere within the content type
     
[bw_contact_form]
 
  5. Save

There, that wasn’t hard now was it?

Example

Features

• Enough fields to gather information from your site visitor.
• Name and Email are required fields.
• HTML5 validation.
• Spam checking using Akismet.
• Email sent to the content author.
• It’s also copied to the email given on the contact form.
• The email indicates the URL on which the form was completed.
• Default text for Submit button is “Contact me” if the Contact [bw_contact] field is not completed.

Related reading

• 6 contact form plugins compared
• [bw_code bw_contact_form]
• Extend the contact form for multiple authors using oik-user
• ninja-forms