Best free contact form plugins for WordPress in 2016

A contact form can be a useful equipment to get your users’ feedback or complains. Such forms can also be used to collect email addresses, user information or to do surveys. Especially— if your website or blog has a “contact us” page, then using such plugins will be very beneficial.

Finding a well-updated and free contact form plugin on WordPress which fulfils all your requirements can be a bit tough. Especially, when you have to select one from more than 942 plugins if you type and search for “contact us form” on WordPress plugin directory today.

So in this article we will try and find few contact form plugins that can fulfil your website requirements and are up-to-date.

Contact Form 7 (CF7)

When it comes to contact form plugins, no one is better than Contact Form 7(CF7) in my opinion. With more than 1 million active installs and 5 star rating till this date, this is the most reliable and safe plugin to use.

The publishers of this plugin keep updating their plugin on regular basis. Recently, Contact form 7 was updated on November 2015 and requires WordPress version 4.2 or higher. The plugin is simple and flexible —works fine with any WordPress blog.

Creating a contact form will be a child’s job if you are using Contact form 7. They have an extremely user-friendly interface which allows a user to easily create and manipulate forms.

To download and learn more about Contact Form 7, visit this page.

Contact Us Slider 

Contact us Slider is a newly created WordPress contact form plugin with some new and smart features. Since the plugin is so new —only 90 or more blogs are currently using it. But the main thing you should focus on is the user ratings which is 5 out of 5 until now.

The reason why I have listed “Contact us Slider” in this article is because they have introduced a new way to collect your website’s visitors’ data. By using Contact us Slider you create assortments for a user to contact you.

You can also customize the contact form to make sure that it matches your site’s theme and colours. The plugin was last updated on 13th February 2016 and works fine with WordPress version 3.0.1 or higher.

To learn more about Contact us Slider, visit their listening page on WordPress plugin directory.

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Jetpack Contact form

Jetpack is a much more dynamic plugin which offers more than 35 modules including site analytics, Related posts widget, Omni search and of-course a contact form.

You can use any of them according to your need. But a commonly used module of Jetpack is their Contact form module which allows you to create a smart contact form by just doing few clicks.

When your user will use the Jetpack’s Contact form to contact you, Jetpack will send a notification to your email address which is used as your primarily email address on your blog.

If you are using Akismet plugin, then each and every submission will be first checked for spam.

If you want to download and install Jetpack contact form, then visit Jetpack page at WordPress.org.

Ninja Forms

Ninja forms is a great contact form plugin for WordPress. With more than 8000 active installs —it is one of the most popular plugins in our list.

The best thing about Ninja forms is that they have a very user friendly interface. You can set-up a new form by just dragging and dropping items.

If you are a developer, then you can contribute to Ninja Forms. Just go to their github page and start making things better.

They also offer some premium extensions that you can use to enhance your sales and online business. Extensions include —Conditional logic, Multi- Part forms, Front-end posting, File uploads, Save user progress ability, Layout and styles, Front-end editor, Mailchimp forms, Campaign monitor, user analytics, constant contact, pushover and much more.

To find out more about Ninja forms premium extensions visit this page. The plugin was last updated in October 2015 and requires WordPress version 3.4 or higher.

You can get more information or download Ninja forms plugin from this link.

Contact Us Form

Contact us form is a very simple WordPress plugin that allows you to add a contact form on your blog. You can also use this plugin as a feedback or suggestion box to ask your blog visitors about their opinion and recommendations about your site.

You have to manually add an email address where all the emails from your blog visitors will be sent. After that just use a shortcode  [CONTACT-US-FORM] in any page or article where you want your contact form to appear.

The plugin was last updated about 4 years ago —but still it is a safe and reliable plugin to have. With more than 20,000+ active installs and 5 star rating, this plugin stands on fifth position in my list.

To download or to get more information about this plugin, go to their plugin page at WordPress.org.

AeroLeads

AeroLeads offers a new concept of a contact forms. They encourage bloggers to have a contact form on sidebar instead of putting it some where deep in the page.

Just download and install AeroLeads, and go to your blog’s widget.php page where you will find a AeroLeads widget.

If you want to embed your contact form on your blog posts/pages, then just use the shortcodes and share your contact info on your blog pages or posts. You can download this plugin from WordPress.org.

Fast Secure Contact Form

Fast Secure Contact form is one another great WordPress contact form plugin that has been used by more than 400,000 WordPress blogs. They have earned 4.5 star rating out of 5 which witnesses the user-friendliness of this plugin.

By using this plugin you can easily create new forms and can add, remove or re-order form fields. Fast Secure Contact Form allows your blog visitors to send you direct emails and to request you to have direct talks on phone or video call.

You can also redirect your users to a new page once a form is submitted. You can also add all form fields including —textareas, radio buttons, checkboxes, attachment date and time fields.

To insert the form on your blog just add a shortcode where you want your contact form to appear.

Read more about Fast Secure Contact form on WordPress.org.

Contact Form Builder

Contact Form Builder is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to create responsive forms for your blog. You can use this plugin as a tool to quickly arrange a contact form for your clients or visitors.

You can activate or deactivate a form, or rearrange it. However, to make forms suitable for your theme colours or design —you should do direct editing in the plugin’s CSS file.

You will also get 10 already built default form templates. The plugin also supports Google ReCaptcha and simple captcha to avoid spamming.

If you want to know more about this plugin, then visit this page.

Form Maker

Form Maker provides user-friendly interface by which you can easily create high quality and customizable contact forms. You can also create other type of forms in which you can also add Google Maps.

The best thing about Form Maker is that all the forms which you will create will be mobile responsive. You can also buy many premium add-ons including Import/Export add-on, Save progress add-on and much more.

By the time when I am writing this article —Form Maker requires WordPress version 3.4 or higher, they have also earned 4.4 star rating from 5.

The plugin is being used by more than 60,000 blogs worldwide and was last updated on 19 February 2016. For more details go to WordPress.org

Contact Form Clean And Simple

Contact Form Clean And Simple is yet another great plugin to build contact forms. You can easily build a simple form even if you do not have any programming skills.

This plugin uses Google reCAPTCHA, Twitter Bootstrap mark-up and Akismet spam filtering. The plugin also uses AJAX functionality to give better user experience.

Contact Form Clean And Simple has more than 50,000 active installs and 4.7 rating from 5. The plugin was last updated in January 2016.

This plugin requires WordPress version 3.3 or higher. To checkout this plugin visit WordPress.org

Bottom Line

This article contains few free and finest contact form plugins. If these plugins do not fulfil your requirement, then check for few premium ones. However, all of these plugins allow you to create a high-quality contact form that has all basic features.

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