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Every website needs a contact form. Besides using your official web resource for marketing and promotional purposes, it’s also a valuable source of communication with your loyal clients and prospective customers. By default, WordPress isn’t integrated with contact forms. So, you will need to look for an easy way to feature a WordPress contact form on your site. In this guide, we’ll share step-by-step instructions on how to add one to your site without tweaking a single line of code.
The most common mistake made by beginners is putting an email address somewhere in the footer of a site instead of bringing a dedicated contact form to a web page. Without digging deeper into the question, many suggest they won’t manage to add a contact form to their site because of the lack of coding knowledge. However, the truth is that you do not need to be a programming expert. You can integrate your website with a simple WordPress contact form code-free. The reasons for adding the respective functionality to your site are the following:
There are many WordPress plugins letting you add a contact form to your site. With more than 5 million active installations, Contact Form 7 is one the most popular solutions that can be easily managed code-free. It’s a free plugin that provides enough customization options needed to add a personal touch to your WordPress contact form. Let’s see how it works and how to create a simple contact form step-by-step.
Plugin installationThe plugin is free. It gets installed similar to any other plugin available in the WordPress repository. To install it, log in to your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New and type in Contact Form 7 in the search field. The plugin will show up in the first place. Click Install Now > Activate.
After the plugin is successfully activated on your site, you will find a new menu item in your WordPress sidebar – Contact.
You will see a default contact form already available for you. You may continue working on its customization while simply clicking on Edit. You will see the following screen. It may seem to be a bit cryptic at the beginning. No worries, it’s easy to understand every line that it features.
In the example above, the first field asks a user to enter the name, second asks for an email, third – Subject, fourth – the message that a user wants to send to you. You may leave it as it is and publish on any page of your site.
To publish a contact form, copy the shortcode (it’s highlighted in the screenshot above) and paste in on any page of your site. The result will look like this:
Contact form customization
Even if you decide to leave the default WordPress contact form, you may adjust it by adding new fields or removing the ones that have been already added to the form. To customize the contact form, go to Contact > Contact Form and click Edit the chosen form.
Contact form customization
Even if you decide to leave the default WordPress contact form, you may adjust it by adding new fields or removing the ones that have been already added to the form. To customize the contact form, go to Contact > Contact Form and click Edit the chosen form.
To add more fields to your contact form, navigate to the Form tab. In the following steps, we’ll see how to add a drop-down menu to the contact form.
Click on the drop-down menu. A pop-up window with the Form-tag generator will show up. Here, you can specify what options customers will be suggested to choose from. You can also adjust to allow multiple selections. You may also insert a blank item at the first option. When you finish, click Insert Tag. The drop-down menu option will be added to the contact form. Save the changes.
Go back to the page where the contact form is published. Refresh the page and check the added functionality in action.
There are many factors that can affect the conversion rate of your WordPress contact form. Luckily, you can take control of most of them. Let’s consider several of the most common tips on how you can improve your contact form’s conversions.
Here we go. A WordPress contact form is a must-have element of every business that wants to establish better communication with the audience. Add one to your site and forget about the need to clear your email from spam.
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