Big Mailer – SendGrid vs Contact Form X

Overwrites the native wp_mail function and uses sendgrid servers to send emails. For a complete list of SendGrid features visit SendGrid Here is list of features provided by SendGrid Save Time, Resources and Money SendGrid helps you focus on your business without the cost and complexity of owning and maintaining an email infrastructure. SendGrid manages all of the technical details from scaling the infrastructure to ISP outreach and reputation monitoring to whitelist services and real time analytics. Save time, resources, and money by focusing your engineering resources on your business and leave the technical work to SendGrid. Messages That Reach the Inbox On average 20% of legitimate emails never reach the inbox. For your business, that means lower customer satisfaction, lost customers and less revenue. SendGrid offers world class deliverability expertise to make sure your emails get delivered. SendGrid handles ISP monitoring, DKIM, domain keys, SPF, feedback loops, whitelabeling, link customization and more. SendGrid even offers unique IP addresses so that you can maintain complete control of your own email reputation. Integrate in Minutes, Not Weeks Whether you’re sending transactional or marketing emails, SendGrid has an API to make custom integration a breeze. Choose from an SMTP API, Web API, Event API, and more. Or, integrate in merely minutes via a simple SMTP relay. You’ll be sending emails in no time. Actionable, Real Time Analytics Drive solid business decisions with precise analytics on your email campaigns. Easily categorize separate email campaigns and track statistics down to the email address. Track requests, delivered, bounces, repeat bounces, spam reports, repeat spam reports, invalid email requests, open tracking, unique open tracking, click tracking, unique click tracking, unsubscribe tracking and blocks. All stats are available via our website dashboard or customizable through our Event and/or Web APIs. Help When You Need It SendGrid offers support via phone or live chat during weekdays from 7am to 7pm (Mountain Time) with critical incident support available 24/7. Self-support is also available through extensive documentation, an online knowledge base, and an active support community at SendGrid.com Incredibly Scalable Infrastructure Whether you’re sending 100 emails or billions of emails per month, SendGrid’s infrastructure is ready to scale and meet the demand at any moment. SendGrid currently sends over 5 billion emails per month for tens of thousands of companies. We’re ready to make your scalability problems a thing of the past.

Displays a user-friendly contact form that your visitors will love. CFX: Contact form reinvented. Fast and friendly. Fresh and clean. Awesome for everyone 🙂 Overview Install, activate, and then display the form anywhere, using the widget, shortcode, or template tag. Here is an overview of Contact Form X: Easy to use Simple and secure ADA and WCAG compliant Lightweight and super fast Provides multiple form styles Customize just about everything Display the contact form anywhere Add Checkbox, Radio, and Select fields Customize the order of all form fields Send email to multiple recipients Complete documentation via Help tab Excellent free plugin support 😎 “The famous spam filter SpamAssassin” scores CFX = zero spam! For more details, check out the “Screenshots” section, below. Form Fields Easily choose which fields to display in the form. Each field may be set as required, optional, or disabled. Choose from these fields: Name Website Email Subject Custom Field 1 (can be dropdown, checkbox, radio, text, or phone number) Custom Field 2 (can be dropdown, checkbox, radio, text, or phone number) Custom Field 3 (can be dropdown, checkbox, radio, text, or phone number) Challenge Question Message Google reCaptcha (v2 or v3 Invisible) Cloudflare Turnstile (Invisible Captcha) Carbon Copy Agree to Terms You can change the order of these fields and customize their labels and placeholders, everything is super flexible. For a live demo of Contact Form X, visit my support page at Plugin Planet, and also my contact page at Perishable Press. Feel free to send a test email to see how it works, I won’t mind 😉 Also check out CFX in the “Screenshots” section (below) for a better idea of how the default form is styled out of the box. Geeky Stuff Lots of goodness for the geeks among us: Built with WordPress APIs Ajax-powered form submission Remembers all form data on error Cloudflare Turnstile (Invisible Captcha) Google reCaptcha (v2 or v3 Invisible) Drag/drop ordering of all form fields View your email messages on the WP Dashboard Option to enable/disable storing of email data in database Display form via widget, shortcode, or template tag Five CSS themes: Default, Classic, Micro, Synthetic, Dark Optionally disable all plugin styles and use your own CSS Optionally collect user data like IP, host, and referrer Works perfectly with or without Gutenberg Block Editor Focused on performance, security, and usability Include extra form and user info with each message Customize the form’s success and error messages Provides plenty of useful hooks for developers Targeted loading of CSS and JavaScript assets One-click remove email data from database One-click restore default options Translation ready Contact Form X is a fresh new, lighter alternative to the heavier contact forms out there. CFX is lightweight yet fully featured. As they say, “everything you want, nothing you don’t”. Privacy To help protect user privacy, Contact Form X provides the following features: Agree to terms checkbox, customizable Choose which fields to include with the form Option to disable collection of user IP address and other data Note: this plugin uses cookies to enhance form functionality Basically, this plugin enables visitors to send a message via contact form. Any information the user enters into the form will be sent directly to the recipient(s) according to plugin settings. When enabled in the plugin settings, details about each sent message will be stored in the WordPress database. Visit the “Advanced” plugin settings to control and/or disable this and other data-collection features. Note: CFX provides an option to enable Google reCaptcha, which is provided by Google as a third-party service. For details on privacy and more, please refer to official documentation for Google reCaptcha. Contact Form X 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: BBQ Pro – Blazing fast WordPress firewall Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots Banhammer Pro – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys 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 Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thanks! 🙂