Contact Form X vs Smart Forms – when you need more than just a contact form

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! 🙂

Smart Forms Want to see a demo? Click here Want to create a form with calculations? This is the best plugin for you And Here Is Why So you want to create a beautiful form, the problem is, you are not a developer and of course you have no time to learn any of that?, well, if that is you (or your client) this is the plugin for you. This plugin is focused in making really easy the process of creating your forms, with it you can add formulas to calculate totals (it doesn’t matter if your totals require complex calculations) or show the fields that you need just when you need them. Emailing is easy, you can even send different types of emails to different persons at the same time, again no coding needed at all since everything is configured in a friendly screen. You do know programing or web development? That’s fine!, even though it is not needed, because there is a friendly interface for everything, you can still use those skills to add custom css or javascript code into your form and tweak it as you want it. If you want to learn more keep reading, there is a list of features bellow, or even better check out the video tutorials here: http://smartforms.rednao.com/tutorials. I hope you like it =). Features: Responsive Forms– The forms adjust automatically to available space, making them look great in a pc or any device. Shortcode Forms– The forms can be easily added to any post or page using a shortcode or block. Forms Entry Screen– Easily view responses you can also edit them. Export to pdf or csv– Export the submitted information as pdf or csv. Customizable forms emails– After a form is submitted, send notification email with any information, and in any format that you need. Conditional emails– Configure a type of email to be send only when a condition is met Calculated forms fields– Formulas fill fields automatically (up to three fields per formula in the free version) Custom forms fields– The plugin currently supports these custom forms elements: name, phone, email, address, number, captcha (free version support up to 8 fields per form). File Uploader (pro)– Allows you to upload files in a form; you can configure the form to accept only one file or multiple files. Conditional Logic– Show and hide fields depending on values in other fields; allows you to have an all-in-one form all in one place, instead of in multiple pages; prevents forms from overwhelming users. Tons of icons to decorate your form– Create awesome forms with more than 200 icons; more coming soon. Style editor– Change the aspect of your form with the build-in style editor, or if you are a designer create your own css rules easily. JavaScript editor_ Create your own JavaScript code and customize your form exactly as you want it. Forms Compatible with Smart donations– – You can create paypal forms with this plugin, and also enjoy all the power of smart donations (https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-donations/, a smart donation license is required). Multiple Step Forms(pro)– Split your forms in section, making them easier to understand and submit. Smart forms quick tutorials Special thanks to Designmodo – https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/115789/trash_icon#size=16 Installing Smart Forms 1. Upload smart forms to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory 2. Activate the item named ‘smart forms’ in the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Go to Smart Forms /Add new and create a new form 4. To add the form to a widget go to widgets and drag the smart form widget 5. To add the form to a post type [sform]formid[/sform] (example:[sform]1[/sform]), you can find the formid of your form on the form list Creating a new Forms 1. Follow “Installing Smart Forms” 2. Click in smart forms 3. Click in add new 4. Drag the forms elements that you want to display 3. (Optional) If you want to do an additional action after a form is submitted. Go to the forms after submit tab, you can: a)Send a notification email with the form information b)Show an alert with the text that you want. This alert is shown after the form was successfully saved. c)Redireect the user that submitted the form to another page. 4. Save the form. 5. After the form is saved you might want to add the form to a post (Follow “Add form to a post”) or add the form to a widget (Follow “Add form to a widget”) 6. For a video tutorial please visit the smart forms tutorial screen Add the form to a post 1. Follow “Installing Smart Forms” 2. Follow “Creating a new Form” to have your new form. 3. Go to a page or post 4. Click in the smart forms button 5. A pop up will show with the list of forms that you have created in Smart Forms. Select the form that you want. 6. Save the post. 7. When you visit the post the form will show up 8. For a video tutorial please visit the smart forms tutorial screen Add the form as a widget 1. Follow “Installing Smart Forms” 2. Follow “Creating a new Form” to have your new form. 3. Go to the widget configuration 4. You will see an Smart Forms widget, drag it to wherever you want to display the form 5. The widget will contain the list of all the forms that you have created with Smart Forms. 6. Select the form that you want 7. The widget will display the form 8. For a video tutorial please visit the smart forms tutorial screen Configuring forms notification email 1. Follow “Installing Smart Forms” 2. Click in smart forms 3. Click in add new 4. Drag the forms elements that you want 5. Go to edit email (in the forms after submit tab) 6. Configure the email as you want it. You can click in the field buttons to add form values 7. Put the emails that you want to be notified of a form submission in the “Send email to” box, you can also define a form field. 8. Save the form 9. For a video tutorial please visit the smart forms tutorial screen