Contact Coldform is a WordPress app, with a 4.5 average rating from 13 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Contact Coldform is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Jeff Starr. With a rating of 4.5★ from 13 reviews.
AppRanks verdict
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Contact Coldform is a highly rated WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 13 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.5★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Jeff Starr — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (13) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Contact Coldform works
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Contact Coldform is a secure, lightweight, flexible contact form with plenty of options and squeaky clean markup. Coldform blocks spam while making it easy for your visitors to contact you from your WordPress-powered website.
The plugin settings make it easy to take full control with plenty of options and several built-in themes for styling the form. Coldform delivers everything you need and nothing you don’t — no frills, no gimmicks, just pure contact-form satisfaction.
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Overview
Use shortcode or template tag to display Coldform anywhere
Coldform sends descriptive, well-formatted plain-text email
Safe and secure: Coldform blocks spam and malicious content
Lightweight, standards-compliant, semantic, valid HTML markup
Easy to configure and style from the Coldform Settings page
Features
Slick toggle-panel Settings Page makes it easy to customize
Style Coldform using built-in “coldskins” or use custom CSS
Use template tag to display Coldform anywhere in your theme
Use shortcode to display Coldform on any WP Post or Page
Displays customizable confirmation message to the sender
Anti-spam & Security
Anti-spam: Coldform includes optional challenge question
Bot trap: hidden input field further reduces automated spam
Solid security: protects against bad bots and malicious input
User-friendly error messages to help users complete the form
Customize Everything
Includes option to enable users to receive carbon copies
Coldform message includes IP, host, agent, and other details
Customize field captions, error messages, and success message
Includes three built-in themes “coldskins” to style, or
Style the Coldform with your own custom CSS
Option to add a custom prefix to the subject line
Option to disable the captcha for registered users
Clean Codes
Coldform brings delicious code on every front:
Standards-based code, built with the WordPress API
Valid, semantic source code with proper formatting
Coldform emails include descriptive, well-formatted content
Better performance: CSS loaded only when form is displayed
More Features
Works perfectly without JavaScript
Option to reset default settings
Options to customize many aspects of the form
Options to customize success, error, and spam messages
Option to enable and disable CSS styles
Works perfectly with or without Gutenberg Block Editor
Like Contact Coldform? Please give a 5-star rating, thank you!
Privacy
Contact Coldform enables visitors to send a message via contact form. Any information that the user enters into the form will be sent directly to the recipient(s) according to plugin settings. Each email message optionally includes the sender’s IP address, user agent, and other data (visit the plugin setting “Disable Data” to disable sending of IP address and other user data). This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party location(s).
Contact Coldform is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author.
Support development
I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books:
The Tao of WordPress
Digging into WordPress
.htaccess made easy
WordPress Themes In Depth
Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress
And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:
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Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots
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GA Google Analytics Pro – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics
Head Meta Pro – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress
REST Pro Tools – Awesome tools for managing the WP REST API
Simple Ajax Chat Pro – Unlimited chat rooms
USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms
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Keyword rankings
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Frequently asked questions
What is Contact Coldform?
Contact Coldform is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.5-star rating from 13 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Jeff Starr.