Contact forms are essential for your online business. You may lose many potential deals, paying customers, and other business opportunities without them.
But do you know how to make a contact form in HTML using a WordPress plugin?
If you don’t, keep your eyes peeled through this content.
We’ll show you which plugin to use, what to consider before picking it, and how to utilize it to build and design a contact form – any form type.
Thus, sit back and carefully follow the tutorial.
How to make a contact form in HTML using a WordPress plugin
This is a step-by-step guide to making a contact form in HTML with a WordPress plugin. Make sure you carefully follow along all the steps.
Step 1: Select a form plugin
You need to cautiously choose the best contact form plugin among thousands or even many more out there. And here’s what you can keep in mind during the selection process.
- User Interface: Seek plugins with a user-friendly interface that allows you to create and manage forms without requiring coding knowledge.
- Customization options: Ensure the plugin offers a variety of customization options for form fields, layout, and design.
- Conditional Logic: Check if the plugin allows you to show or hide fields based on user responses.
- Reviews and ratings: Inspect reviews and ratings on the WordPress plugin repository to see what others think about the plugin.
- Performance and customer support: Ensure the plugin doesn’t slow down your website and that it offers good customer support.
Lastly, check the pricing and see if its free version is available. After considering all these factors, go with the plugin.
To illustrate how to make a contact form in HTML using a WordPress plugin, we’ll pick Contact Form 7. Let’s see how to install and use it.
Step 2: Install Contact Form 7
Visit your WordPress Admin Dashboard. Then go to Plugins > Add New Plugin.
After that, type “Contact Form 7” in the plugin search field.
Then, click the Install Now button of the marked plugin in the screenshot below.
Lastly, hit the Activate button.
You’ve completed the initial steps. Let’s now create an HTML contact form with this plugin.
Step 3: Create a simple contact form in HTML with this plugin
Once you install Contact Form 7, this plugin will automatically create a contact form to display on your preferred page or post.
If you visit your WordPress Admin Dashboard and head to Contact > Contact Forms, you’ll notice the form has been automatically built.
Here’s the screenshot of an automatically created form titled “Contact form 1.”
You can either use it or build a new form. Let’s assume you want to create a new form in HTML with this plugin from scratch.
So, to do that, visit WordPress Admin Dashboard > Contact > Add New.
Now, name your contact form using the Add New Contact Form field.
Afterward, scroll down and click the Save button.
You’ll then see a shortcode. We recommend you copy and save that code somewhere, preferably in Notepad for later use.
Display your form on a post or a page
Now, decide where you want to embed/display your form. You can choose a specific page or post. To demonstrate, we’ll select a sample page.
Let’s visit the WordPress Admin Dashboard > Pages > All Pages.
After that, hover the mouse pointer over your desired page and click the Edit option when it appears.
Paste that shortcode (you copied and saved in Notepad) inside the block editor.
Finally, click the Save button in the upper right corner.
Congrats! You’ve successfully created a contact form in HTML using a WordPress plugin. Let’s view the page and the result.
Here’s what our contact form page looks like. Your one may appear different based on your theme and other site factors.
Bonus: Add style or design your contact form
Though you’ve installed the easy-to-use plugin to create contact forms in HTML, it has limitations – it doesn’t let you stylize forms as you wish.
Therefore, you’ll need another plugin to design all form types: Ultimate Addons For Contact Form 7.
Install this plugin by following the identical steps you took to install Contact Form 7. That means head to your Admin Dashboard > Plugins > Add New Plugin.
Type in the keyword “Ultimate Addons For Contact Form 7.”
Then, hit the Install Now button.
Finally, click the Activate button.
You’ll then see the setup page of this plugin.
We recommend you scroll down and enable all or some free features {especially the Form Styler (Single)}. To unlock the pro features, you can get the pro version of the plugin.
After that, you can click the Next button in the lower-right corner to generate a new form. Otherwise, to stylize an old form, hit the Back to Dashboard button in the lower-left corner.
We’ll stylize an existing form we’ve just created a while ago. So, we choose to click the Back to Dashboard button.
Stylize a contact form in HTML with UAFC7.
Designing a contact form using this plugin is super easy. You need to follow a couple of steps: choose form color and set padding and margin.
That’s it! You’ll have your form designed beautifully in minutes.
We recommend reading this Contact Form 7 Style article to learn more about decorating your form with Ultimate Addons For Contact Form 7.
FAQs
Does WordPress have a built-in contact form?
😔 Unfortunately, no! WordPress doesn’t contain an integrated contact form, even though it has many other built-in features. Therefore, you need a plugin like Contact Form 7 to create a form.
What is the most accessible contact form for WordPress?
We’ve already discussed it: Contact Form 7. It’s the easiest one that non-techies can effortlessly use.
That’s a wrap
Okay, you now know how to make a contact form in HTML using a WordPress plugin, specifically Contact Form 7. This article shows that this plugin lets you create a simple form.
But to make forms alluring and professional, you’ll need Ultimate Addons For Contact Form 7. These two plugins work together, allowing you to build and design any form without hassle!
So, try them out to build catchy contact forms in HTML. You’ll get more deals, business opportunities, and paid customers.
