Jetpack which is a plugin developed by the company which owns WordPress, Automattic, has just released a new feature which creates and adds a contact form to your site.
The great thing about this feature is the fact all emails will be filtered through Akismet which is the best anti comment spam plugin for WordPress.
Another benefit of installing the Jetpack plugin is you won’t need to install another plugin to create contact forms unless of course you need a highly customized form like what you can build using Gravity forms.
Once you setup a contact form, you’ll see a link has been added to your admin screen where you can view the content of your feedback.
Creating a Contact Form
You’ll find a new icon has been added to your editor.
Contact Form Builder
Here you can customize your form, add new text boxes, radio buttons, checkboxes and drop down menus.
Add New Fields
Email Settings
By default, any feedback submitted using the form will be sent to the author of the post. If you want to customize it, you can so that the form content is sent to another address when submitted.
Feedback
A new link is added to your Dashboard where you can view the contact form content.
Jetpack is one of the best free plugins for WordPress and will be adding more features or plugins within a plugin soon.
Another free super plugin offering multiple plugins and features within the one plugin is named WooDojo.
Do you use Jetpack?
What do you think of the new contact form?
I’ve been using the contact form from Jetpack for about four months now. It was great at never sending spam through the form until about two weeks ago. Now, I have been getting close to 50 a day… I was going to add a captcha element to the form, but from all the forum posts I’ve read of Automatic’s, it seems that they do not have a way to add this to their forms and instead assure users that since everything is fed through Akismet that there is nothing to worry about as far as spam is concerned. Do you know of any way to either add a captcha to the Jetpack contact form, or know of another solution to decrease the amount of spam sent through the form. Thank you very much for any information, it is greatly appreciated.
FYI: I am running Genesis 2.1 framework with a Studiopress Child Theme called in(SPYR). All plugins/themes/Genesis/Jetpack are up to date.
Can’t be done without modifying the contact form modules code.
What you could do is remove the website URL field from the contact form which may help however this too would require modifying the plugins code.