How to Create a Contact Form in WordPress
Are you looking to add a contact form on your WordPress site? Contact forms can certainly help your readers get in contact with you for any reason that you can imagine. In this video we will show you how to create a contact form for your site as simply as possible.
If you liked this video, then please Like and consider subscribing to our channel for more WordPress videos.
Summary of this tutorial:
For creating your contact form, you would first want to decide on a form plugin. For that purpose we recommend WPForms:
With the plugin selected you would want to add it under Plugins, Add New. Search for WPForms and click to install and activate the plugin.
When starting with WPForms you would go under WPForms, Add New to begin creating a form. Add the name for the form and select Simple Contact Form as that is what we are wanting to add to the site.
You will be given options for different fields you can add or you can leave it with the default fields as they are already set up with some of the standard fields with a contact form.
Each has some customization options on the left once selected for letting you change the title of it and a few other options.
You can add the shortcode to a post or page by visiting the page editor and there will be a new add form button. Select the form you created and then click add form to insert the shortcode for you.
Should you want the form in a widget you can use the WPForms widget that allows you to select the form for you to add and then save.
28 Comments
Leave a Comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Nice one. Keep it coming. Thanks.
Nice little plugin, one to use for my clients, thanks for sharing
Thank you for this. Been looking for an alternative to Contact Form 7 which seems to now play up since the last update. Love your videos – because they are short and straight to the point.
Thanks, great help. great channel.
hey how do you make those beautigul thumbnails
what software do you use to create??
We use photoshop to modify the images and add text.
dang i love you thank you so much
This was incredibly helpful! Thanks so much!
thankyou for this great information, love your work
Thanks, it was very Helpful
Thank you!! That was so easy and helpful!! 🙂
Thank you, awesome
Amazing ! Thank you so much .
Thank you.
Thank you I did exactly as you but I do not receive any email :/
Your email provider may not like how your WordPress site is sending the emails. You may want to use the method in our article below to send emails properly:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-send-email-in-wordpress-using-the-gmail-smtp-server/
Thank you!
You’re welcome 🙂
This plugin works with all WP themes?
It should as long as the theme does not specifically state it does not support the plugin for some reason
i keep getting some false false embedded texts in the code, any help with that?
It would depend on what you are seeing, if you reach out to the plugin’s support they should be able to help remove the embedded text 🙂
Hey there great tutorial. I have a question though when I click on my contact page edit button it brings me to a page that looks different then the page you show my page just says contact and then underneath that it says edit with elementor Which would bring me to the standard edit page with an elementary I don’t see anywhere where it allows me to add to form any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
It sounds like you’re looking at a pre-generated contact page created by Elementor. You would want to create the contact form in the WPForms admin area then add the shortcode or WPForms block to the page depending on what Elementor allows
Thank you – great tutorial… I’ve been putting off tackling this for months because I thought it would be hairy. You made it a 10 min job!
Glad our guide could help make this an easy process 🙂
thank u so much, GOD bless you
You’re welcome 🙂