Contact forms are tools that most bloggers and website owners install on their webpage so that those who visit their site or blog can get in touch with them. WordPress being a premier blogging platform, also makes this tool available to those who use its resources for blogging and website hosting. The usual methods that enable blog viewers to contact you are through your blog comments, or through the email address that you have provided or through a WordPress contact form.
A WordPress contact form is probably the safest way for establishing spam free contact between blogger and viewer on WordPress as it hides the email address and provides you more security. They also can be customized to alert you about the emails that come to your blog and also to ask only specific questions which narrows down the range of requests. There are also options for character limits which allow only certain number of characters to be included in each request.
As an example, if you are someone who provides technical support for plug-ins, themes, shareware etc on WordPress for software programs or WordPress itself, then you can include only those questions in your WordPress contact form that are related to only the things that you deal with. This narrows down the amount of content you will have to read through while reading the contact forms. This can be done using closed response accepting tick boxes which work in the form ‘ Do you want this or do you want that’. If the blog has multiple bloggers, then different forms can be set up to contact the specific people.
The WordPress contact form plug-in is already included in the WordPress installation and it is easy to activate it from the control panel of your host server. Once you download the plug-in and have it installed and activated on your host, it is easy to include it to your WordPress web site or blog. It can be added to a post or a page, depending on how you would like it. After writing the content, you can choose the option for the contact form from the post field at the top. After placing the cursor where you want the form to be included, clicking on the contact form button would finish the task. When the page is published it would appear with a contact form.
For those who use the WordPress blog and not a host server, having a contact WordPress contact form appear on their blog is very easy, one has to just type in contact form into any post or page on the blog. A simple contact form would include the name, email, website and a box for typing in the request or information that needs to be passed onto you. The good thing is that your email address in never shown and the sender has no way of finding it out. This avoids your getting spam on your personal email id. Though the form could be used for spamming it won’t be too much. All the messages are usually filtered for spam before they are sent to the blogger.