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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 at 1:54 am

Adding a contact form to your WordPress blog

I'm sure everyone knows what is WordPress. Just to be sure, WordPress is an "open source blog publishing application" that is built with PHP and MySql. So if you want to start a blog, WordPress is one of the easiest platforms you can use to manage it. One of his strengths comes from the fact that you can use 3rd party widgets and plugins to rearrange the content without changing the PHP code. This makes it very easy to use WordPress.

Like all websites out there, WordPress users also want to have a "contact" page so that visitors can send messages. A simple way to achieve this is to use a contact form plugin. There are several out there, but the most popular are WP Contact Form, Contact Form 7 and 123ContactForm WordPress.

Contact Form 7 plugin was developed by Takayuki Miyos in 2007. Despite claiming to be "only another contact form plugin "is much more than that. It is a fully customizable contact form WordPress plugin that includes verification of fighting spam with images (Captcha), Ajax-based presentation and a fully integrated spam filter based on Akismet. After installation, a new box will appear in the WordPress admin panel. Through it, you can customize your Web forms. Moreover, the official website of Contact Form 7, you may find paid a PDF guide, which is very useful for beginners.

WP Contact Form is a relatively simple plugin for WordPress. After installation, all you have to do is include a tag line on a pole and you will have the form of a brand new email. It is very customizable, very fast 123contactform Internet emerged in 2003 as a free service of Adolix Software. Its purpose was to help all users to create an email form for your sites web. All you have to do is register on the website and use a 123ContactForm step by step wizard to generate your web form. It requires no expertise or experience programming. User final copy and paste the HTML code. The processing is done remotely on the web site 123ContactForm.

Installation and Deployment is similar to all the plugins out there, but there's a catch: the installation of this plugin to have access to a wide variety of features that can not be included independently plugin. 123ContactForm is a contact form generator online that made this plugin for WordPress that each user can access a wide variety of templates and advanced features such as field validation, multiple recipients or custom, archive messages, reference number and variety of color themes, styles custom export to CSV and Excel, the integration of payment Paypal and Google Checkout. Plans for free and paid services are available.

No matter what plugin you are using, make sure it is configured properly and check that by filling the contact form yourself.

About the Author

Ted Peterson writes for 123ContactForm. He uses their
contact form on his WordPress
blog.

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