You work hard to ensure that your website is reaching the right audience. However, you don’t want to lose your audience once they are on your site. Driving traffic is only part of the equation, you also need to engage with and call your audience to action once on your site. Your audience needs your product or service, so you need to find an easy way for your audience to contact you when necessary. Forms can range from a simple contact form to a purchase form, login form, subscription form, giveaway form, as well as a survey form.
Contact forms are beneficial because they can help businesses and their (prospect) customers engage with one another in a simple manner. When you use contact forms on your WordPress website, you can expect the following benefits:
When used correctly, contact form plugins can be a very powerful marketing and sales tool. However, trying to find the best WordPress plugin to use can be a daunting task. We know and understand this! So to help save you time, we bring you some of the best free WordPress contact form plugins that you should consider for your site:
A fantastic drag-and-drop style form, Ninja Form produces beautiful contact forms. The free version allows you to create contact forms without having to touch a line of code. You can edit, export, and manage every submission that gets sent through the form. The free version is very powerful, but there is also a wide range of premium add-ons you can purchase to extend the plugins functionality.
Contact Form 7 is the second most downloaded WordPress plugin, and for good reason. This plugin comes in a wide range of different languages, has a straightforward and easy to use interface, and comes with 16 pre-defined fields. Also, there are many third-party plugins available that act as add-ons and most of them are free. If you are looking for some creative freedom, Contact Form 7 allows you tweak the HTML structure so you can add in custom elements to your contact form.
This popular plugin is simple and only takes a few minutes to configure. While it lacks in additional features, Using the Jetpack plugin is an easy and quick way to add a contact form to your WordPress website in a matter of minutes. Unlike other plugins, Jetpack allows you to create a contact form on the post and page editing screen. Jetpack allows you to create multiple forms simply for each post or page.
Visual Form Builder allows you to create beautiful, functional contact forms in minutes, without writing one word of coding! While there is a professional version available for purchase, the free version is an accomplished plugin. Add fields to your contact forms easily with a click of a mouse, and then drag and drop each field to reorder them however you like. If you want to keep track of your submissions, Visual Form Builder gives you the ability to download your forms to a CSV file, and store them in your WordPress database.
If you want a contact form to be up and running in 60 seconds or less, then you must try Formidable Forms. While there are two professional versions available, the free version is quite capable. If you are not that knowledgeable, don’t fear, this contact form has a drag and drop builder that makes it incredibly simple to create your first WordPress contact form. This plugin even gives you the option of choosing a pre-built contact form, or you can create your own from scratch.
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