Contact Form Widget – Responsive Contact Form, Query Form & Form Builder vs ThreatPoint

Contact Form Widget is a lightweight, responsive contact form plugin for WordPress designed to collect user inquiries, leads, and customer feedback effortlessly. Whether you need a simple sidebar contact form widget or a full-width contact form shortcode inside your posts and pages, this contact form plugin provides an intuitive setup with complete administrative control. Unlike basic contact form tools that rely solely on email notifications, every contact form submission sent through this plugin is saved directly to your WordPress database. You can manage, review, and organize all incoming messages inside a dedicated admin query dashboard, ensuring you never miss a visitor inquiry or client lead. View Pro Demo: Contact Form Premium Demo More About Pro: Contact Form Premium Details Try Pro Version: Test Premium Plugin Why Choose This Contact Form Plugin? Building a functional contact form should be straightforward. This plugin combines the simplicity of a drag-and-drop contact form widget with the flexibility of a shortcode-based form builder. It handles real-time AJAX form validation, protects submissions with security nonces, and offers custom design controls so your contact form matches your site branding seamlessly. Key Features of Contact Form Widget Stored Contact Queries – Automatically saves every contact form message in your database table for easy tracking and record keeping. Dual Display Options – Embed your contact form using the shortcode [CFW] or place it in any sidebar or footer widget area. Asynchronous AJAX Submission – Visitors can submit the contact form instantly without page reloads, complete with loading spinners and inline confirmation notices. Pre-Built Layout Templates – Select between Template 1 (classic centered layout) and Template 2 (modern two-column grid layout for Name and Email). Full Design Customization – Adjust form background color, title color, max-width slider (10% to 100%), and container alignment (left, center, right). Custom Field Placeholders – Customize text labels and placeholder prompts for Name, Email, Subject, and Message fields. Custom Error & Success Messages – Tailor validation error alerts for blank inputs or invalid email addresses, as well as submission response messages. Custom CSS Editor – Add your own custom CSS styling directly from the settings panel to tweak form appearances without editing theme files. CSV Export Tool – Export all stored contact form queries into a structured CSV file for offline reporting and customer relationship management. Admin Query Dashboard – Sort, paginate (5 to 250 records per page), view details in a popup modal, and delete single or bulk form entries. Pro Features Upgrade to Contact Form Premium for enhanced control and advanced form building capabilities: Google reCAPTCHA Integration – Block spam submissions and automated bots. SMTP Email Support – Deliver notifications reliably via Gmail or custom SMTP servers. Auto Email Responder – Send automatic reply emails to visitors after contact form submission. Custom Email Templates – Personalize administrative and user notification emails. Submission Analytics – View daily form submission trends and statistical reports. Priority Premium Support – Access dedicated support from our technical team.

This plugin validates email in realtime using live connections and aggregated data, by leveraging the ThreatPoint email verification API service. One use of this is to prevent spam bots inputting content into comments, easily and effectively External Service This plugin allows administrators include email validation using a real time verification service provided by the ThreatPoint email verification API. The Plugin uses existing is_email functionality and passes manually entered email addresses to the restAPI service at ThreatPoint. The response back from the ThreatPoint API provides information related to the email validity(valid email, valid domain, disposable, free, role, risk score). Automatically stop spam bots from entering comments onto your posts by verifying the email address first. The plugin calls the rest API (requires an API KEY) at this ThreatPoint api endpoint The rest API is only passed the email address from the contact form via the is_email function. This external service is called whenever a form using is_email is used. By default the Contact Form 7 is supported. You can include any form field name (email address field) in the plugin to override the default. An API key is required to utilise the service, although the plugin will operate without one it will not be able to pass the email address or call any data from the API. Your email addresses will not be validated without a valid API key. Privacy Policy The privacy policy for the api services is viewable here privacy policy This plugin only passes the email address information – no other PII is transferred. The email address is analysed across the aggregated data within the ThreatPoint email verification reputation service and a risk score with email properties (valid, free, role, disposable) to the plugin. Simple rules within the plugin dictate whether the email address is considered valid(set through the plugin settings). The email address is stored in the email address aggregated data and used as part of email address consortium for all customers. No other data such as originating website is stored. Only the email address is held, with date, time and risk scores associated with the request. Plugin Features Validates email addresses in real time including: Valid email Valid domain Disposable Addresses (One time Use) Role/Group Addresses Free Email Addresses Breached Email Addresses Email Addresses known to be high risk (spam) API Documentation is available here: documentation Video is here Special Features Provide real time email validation and decisions through configuration to allow an administrator the correct flow for their site. Configuration Items API Key – An API key is required to access the email address validation service as explained above – ([email protected]) Blacklisted domains – a list of domains that you would not wish to have entered into your forms Email Field Name – the field name to pick the email address values from. Defaults to ‘your-email’ which is the contact form 7 default Allow Free Email addresses? – Option to allow or deny free email addresses (gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc.) Allow disposable Email addresses? – Option to allow or deny one time use email addresses Allows Role/Group Email Addresses? – Option to allow role and group email addresses ([email protected]) for example Localization English (default) – only language currently supported Feedback Many thanks for taking the time to look at the plugin Drop the ThreatPoint team a line @threatuk on Twitter Email questions or suggestions via ([email protected]) Api key requests via [email protected] Translations English – default, currently the only language supported Contributors & Developers The ThreatPoint team are often asked to investigate attacks on web sites and other services. More often than not these attacks begin from IP addresses that should be considered before access is granted. ThreatPoint UK provide IP reputation, email verification, device reputation, dark web monitoring and password monitoring services as part of the API service layer. Please contact [email protected] to find out more about these additional services. The ThreatPoint IP Reputation WordPress plugin is also available from the WordPress official site. Credits Many credits go to the fraud and analytics team at ThreatPoint UK and the team behind the API services Credits to numerous wordpress tutorials used to understand the plugin creation process. notably this article https://www.sitepoint.com/real-world-example-wordpress-plugin-development/