One of the essential elements of your website is your contact form. Here, you should list the important information that could be relevant to you about your visitors, such as an email address, location, phone number, etc. If you don’t know, a contact form is a set of questions filled out by visitors on your site. This is automatically sent to your email.
This can be used for anything, from being able to respond to questions from your visitors to giving them more information about a product or service. This is also great as it reduces spam and leads to information control since you can specify what information to receive from customers (this is good for leads as you already know which customers are interested in your business).
We will list five free contact form plugins we think you should use for your WordPress site.
Formidable Forms
Formidable Forms is an online form builder plugin. It also comes in 2 versions, free lite version and a premium version with extra features. It also has an easy to use drag-and-drop builder so you can create different forms, including a contact form. You can change colors, text, templates, and more.
This plugin uses GDPR compliant forms so you can add a checkbox asking for consent or stop saving IP addresses. It is mobile responsive and is optimized for speed and server performance, meaning it will look great and load fast on all devices. It can be integrated with MailChimp, Salesforce, HubSpot, AWeber, and more.
This plugin is a bit better for advanced web developers as it is not as intuitive and easy to use as WPForms.
Here is a video showing you how to create a contact form with Formidable Forms.
Caldera Forms
Caldera Forms is a free plugin you can use to create responsive forms. It is compatible with almost any WordPress theme and comes with different templates. It has a drag and drop builder, a free form builder, and it comes in a free and premium version.
This plugin works for both beginners and web developers, as it comes with the easy drag and drop builders, but also many add-ons for more experienced developers. You can also add different fields, such as dropdown select, radio, file upload, and more. You can create front-end post submissions with a custom fields add-on and export entries to CSV.
The plugin creates a responsive form, which is great for mobile users, and it comes with an anti-spam system.
Here is a link to a video where you can see how Caldera works and how to create a contact form.
Ninja Forms
Ninja Forms is another WordPress contact form plugin. It has a visual interface, so it is easy to use if you are a beginner, no coding experience needed. However, you are limited to only a few options on where you can put your form; it lacks the embed option like WPForms.
It is mobile-friendly, so no need to worry about losing visitors if your page is slow to load. It has options for advanced users if you have some developer knowledge. You can create web forms and add more fields, such as email, date, office phone, and more.
Your users can upload files, export submissions as PDF, you can accept payments, and generate leads as it can be integrated with MailChimp, Salesforce, Zoho, and Insightly. It is compliant with GDPR rules.
The plugin comes with great tech support if you have any issues or questions.
A premium version has add-ons like user analytics, multi-step forms, and fronted post submissions. If you need help getting started, here you find tutorials on how to create forms, and much more.
HappyForms
HappyForms is a contact form plugin designed by The Theme Foundry.
Google reCAPTCH is enabled, and you can customize what message you want to show to customers. You can change colors, font, text, and alignments. You have a live preview so you can see your forms as you are creating them. Forms are mobile-responsive, and you can add them anywhere on your site. The plugin has a drag and drop builder, so it is easy to use if you are a beginner in the website coding world. Lastly, it is also compliant with GDPR rules.
It is free and does not offer conditional logic or any advanced fields and add-ons as some premium plugins do, but it comes with great technical support from real experts.
This video can help you learn how to use this plugin.
In Conclusion
We hope this article has helped you find which contact form builder plugin you will use.