By Jeff StarrContact Coldform Plugin
Contact Coldform is a secure, lightweight and flexible contact form with plenty of options and squeaky clean markup.
Contact Coldform is a secure, lightweight, flexible contact form with plenty of options and squeaky clean markup. Coldform blocks spam while making it easy for your visitors to contact you from your WordPress-powered website.
The plugin settings make it easy to take full control with plenty of options and several built-in themes for styling the form. Coldform delivers everything you need and nothing you don’t — no frills, no gimmicks, just pure contact-form satisfaction.
Even better! Check out my new Ajax-powered Contact Form X »
Overview
- Use shortcode or template tag to display Coldform anywhere
- Coldform sends descriptive, well-formatted plain-text email
- Safe and secure: Coldform blocks spam and malicious content
- Lightweight, standards-compliant, semantic, valid HTML markup
- Easy to configure and style from the Coldform Settings page
Features
- Slick toggle-panel Settings Page makes it easy to customize
- Style Coldform using built-in “coldskins” or use custom CSS
- Use template tag to display Coldform anywhere in your theme
- Use shortcode to display Coldform on any WP Post or Page
- Displays customizable confirmation message to the sender
Anti-spam & Security
- Anti-spam: Coldform includes optional challenge question
- Bot trap: hidden input field further reduces automated spam
- Solid security: protects against bad bots and malicious input
- User-friendly error messages to help users complete the form
Customize Everything
- Includes option to enable users to receive carbon copies
- Coldform message includes IP, host, agent, and other details
- Customize field captions, error messages, and success message
- Includes three built-in themes “coldskins” to style, or
- Style the Coldform with your own custom CSS
- Option to add a custom prefix to the subject line
- Option to disable the captcha for registered users
Clean Codes
Coldform brings delicious code on every front:
- Standards-based code, built with the WordPress API
- Valid, semantic source code with proper formatting
- Coldform emails include descriptive, well-formatted content
- Better performance: CSS loaded only when form is displayed
More Features
- Works perfectly without JavaScript
- Option to reset default settings
- Options to customize many aspects of the form
- Options to customize success, error, and spam messages
- Option to enable and disable CSS styles
- Works perfectly with or without Gutenberg Block Editor
Like Contact Coldform? Please give a 5-star rating, thank you!
Privacy
Contact Coldform enables visitors to send a message via contact form. Any information that the user enters into the form will be sent directly to the recipient(s) according to plugin settings. Each email message optionally includes the sender’s IP address, user agent, and other data (visit the plugin setting “Disable Data” to disable sending of IP address and other user data). This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party location(s).
Contact Coldform 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 – Super 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
- Simple Ajax Chat Pro – Unlimited chat rooms
- USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms
Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thanks! 🙂
Installation
Installation
- Install and activate via the Plugins screen
- Visit the plugin settings to configure options
More info on installing WP plugins
Usage
To display Coldform on any Post or Page, add the Shortcode:
[coldform] To display Coldform anywhere in your theme, add the Template Tag:
<?php if (function_exists('contact_coldform_public')) contact_coldform_public(); ?> Advanced
To customize Coldform, visit the plugin settings. For advanced customization, check out CSS hooks for Contact Coldform. For more information, visit the Coldform Homepage.
Like the plugin?
If you like Contact Coldform, please take a moment to give a 5-star rating. It helps to keep development and support going strong. Thank you!
Screenshots
Contact Coldform: Contact form displayed via Twenty Sixteen theme
Contact Coldform: Settings page showing default options (each panel toggles open/closed)
FAQ
The shortcode may be used on any Post or Page. For example, if you log in to the Admin Area and view a Page named “Contact”, you can add the shortcode anywhere in the Page content to display the form. To use the template tag, add it to the desired location in your theme template. For example, if you have a custom page template named page-contact.php, you could add the template tag directly after <?php the_content(); ?> to display the form.
Visit the “Appearance and Styles” panel in the plugin settings. There you may configure appearance and add custom CSS for the form.
Yes, you can add multiple instances of the shortcode and/or template tag.
That setting enables you to customize the address used as the “From” header for email messages. By default, Coldform uses the same address that is used by WordPress to send alert messages. So if WP is installed on yourdomain.com, the default value is something like “[email protected]”. That address is proven to work great for most setups. But the option is there if you know what you are doing and want to change it to something else. If in doubt for the “From Address” setting, just use the default value, “[email protected]” (replace “yourdomain.com” with your actual domain name).
I try to keep an eye on the WordPress forums, but it’s best to contact me directly with questions or concerns. Thanks.
Changelog
FYI: For a much better contact-form plugin, check out Contact Form X. CFX is lighter, faster, and better than Contact Coldform in every way. Same great developer, waaayy better code 🙂
Version 20240617
- Tests on WordPress 6.6 (beta)
Full changelog @ https://plugin-planet.com/wp/changelog/contact-coldform.txt