Contact Form X vs Post Status Notifier Lite

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! 🙂

Notify every WordPress post change! You want to be notified when one of your contributors have submitted a new post for revision or an editor published one? Vice versa you want to notify your contributors when their posts got published? This is just the beginning of what you can achieve with Post Status Notifier (PSN)! It works with all kind of custom post types, supports all custom taxonomies like categories and tags other plugins are using. You can grab all these taxonomy values and custom fields attached to a post and use them as placeholders in your custom notification texts. PSN has a powerful conditional template syntax featuring many filters and functions to get the most out of the placeholders! Define as many notification rules as you need with all kind of settings, like custom CC, BCC and FROM emails addresses. PSN is extensible! Build your custom module to implement a new notification service. PSN works great with plugins like WP Job Manager (read more), Calendarize.it (read more), Crowdfunding by Astoundify (read more) or Advanced Custom Fields, just to name a few. The possibilities are endless. Want to automate your publishing workflow with Buffer? No problem! Plugin homepage: https://www.ifeelweb.de/wp-plugins/post-status-notifier/ Always up-to-date online documentation: https://docs.ifeelweb.de/post-status-notifier/ FAQ: https://docs.ifeelweb.de/post-status-notifier/faq.html Features Get the Premium version for all features Define custom notification rules Support for posts, pages and all custom post types Support for all post status values Create custom email texts with support for many placeholders Manipulate placeholders content with filters to completely adjust the output to your needs (uses the filters of the famous PHP template engine Twig / limited to one filter in the Lite version) WordPress multisite compatible Premium version: HTML emails / mail templates Premium version: Mail queue / deferred sending Premium version: Categories filter: Include or exclude categories (even from custom post types) from notifications Premium version: Supports SMTP. You find all necessary SMTP settings to connect your SMTP server in the options section. Premium version: Supports user roles (custom roles too) as email recipients Premium version: Optional logging: Logs status changes based on your rules Premium version: Dashboard widget showing the latest log entries (can be disabled) Premium version: Import / Export of your notification rules Premium version: Copy rules Premium version: Conditional template syntax (Manual) Premium version: Extensible (Manual) Premium version: Custom sender e-mail. Define the notification sender (FROM) per rule or as a default in the options. Premium version: Dynamic recipients Premium version: Late execution to support frontend submission plugins as well as possible Premium version: Rule trigger limitations Comprehensive documentation Included translations: english, german Support in english and german via Zendesk: ifeelwebde.zendesk.com Tested on Windows, Mac OS and Linux Built on our ifeelweb.de WordPress Plugin Framework The Lite version features two notification rules and one CC email What customers say “Great plugin, look through maybe 7 plugins until found this one and it is the best.” – misolek “just got the pro version and it’s working great, awesome plugin man and thanks for your excellent support” – nomadone “This plugin is very intuitive and works great. Very helpful support. Top notch!” – Rick “Thank you for your great support – the plugin works great now and has accomplished what 5 other commercial and free plugins couldn’t – to provide simple and configurable email notifications for WP status changes.” – Jon “just got the pro version and it’s working great, awesome plugin man and thanks for your excellent support” – nomadone Comment-Source Configuration Go to the new option page Post Status Notifier Lite. Here you can define custom notification rules. Here you can find a detailed documentation: https://docs.ifeelweb.de/post-status-notifier/ Info If you find any bugs please use the comments on the plugin’s homepage. Please also contact me for feature requests and ideas how to improve this plugin. Any other reactions are welcome too of course.