VS Contact Form free WordPress plugin

About

This is a lightweight plugin to create a customized contact form.

Add shortcode [contact] on a page or use the widget to display your form.

Form has fields for Name, Email, Subject and Message. It also has a sum to solve and a privacy consent checkbox.

You can personalize your form via the settings page or by adding attributes to the shortcode or the widget.

It’s also possible to list form submissions in your dashboard.

How to use

After installation add shortcode [contact] on a page or use the widget to display your form.

Settings page

You can personalize your form via the settings page. This page can be found via Settings > VSCF.

Settings and labels can be overridden when using the relevant (shortcode) attributes below.

This can be useful when having multiple contact forms on your website.

Shortcode attributes

You can also personalize your form by adding attributes to the shortcode mentioned above. Attributes will override the settings page.

Misc:

• Add custom CSS class to form: class="your-class-here"
• Change default email address: email_to="your-email-here"
• Send to multiple email addresses (max 5): email_to="first-email-here, second-email-here"
• Change “From” email header: from_header="your-email-here"
• Change prefix of email subject: prefix_subject="your prefix here"
• Change email subject (including prefix): subject="your subject here"

Field labels:

• Name label: label_name="your label here"
• Email label: label_email="your label here"
• Subject label: label_subject="your label here"
• Message label: label_message="your label here"
• Privacy consent label: label_privacy="your label here"
• Submit label: label_submit="your label here"

Field placeholders:

• Name placeholder: placeholder_name="your placeholder here"
• Email placeholder: placeholder_email="your placeholder here"
• Subject placeholder: placeholder_subject="your placeholder here"
• Message placeholder: placeholder_message="your placeholder here"

Field error labels:

• Name error label: error_name="your label here"
• Email error label: error_email="your label here"
• Subject error label: error_subject="your label here"
• Sum error label: error_sum="your label here"
• Message error label: error_message="your label here"
• Links error label: error_links="your label here"
• Privacy consent error label: error_privacy="your label here"

Form messages:

• Message when sending succeeds: thank_you_message="your message here"
• Message in confirmation email to sender: auto_reply_message="your message here"

Examples:

• One attribute: [contact email_to="your-email-here"]
• Multiple attributes: [contact email_to="your-email-here" subject="your subject here" label_submit="your label here"]

Widget attributes

The widget supports the same attributes. Don’t add the main shortcode tag or the brackets.

Examples:

• One attribute: email_to="your-email-here"
• Multiple attributes: `email_to=”your-email-here” subject=”your subject here” label_submit=”your label here”

List form submissions in dashboard

Via Settings > VSCF you can activate the listing of form submissions in your dashboard.

After activation you will notice a new menu item called “Submissions”.

SMTP

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is an internet standard for sending emails.

WordPress supports the PHP mail() function by default, but when using SMTP there’s less chance your form submissions are being marked as spam.

You must install an additional plugin for this, such as:

• WP mail SMTP
• Post SMTP
• Easy WP SMTP

For support visit the relevant plugin forum.

Uninstall

If you uninstall plugin via dashboard all form submissions and settings will be removed from database.

All posts of the (custom) post type “submission” will be removed.

You can avoid this via Settings > VSCF.

Question?

Please take a look at the FAQ section.

Translation

Not included but plugin supports WordPress language packs.

More translations are very welcome!

Credits

Without the WordPress codex and help from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so: thank you!

Enjoy!