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Having a contact form on every website is a must. If you don’t have the contact form then how would visitors will contact you for your products or services. To avoid the disconnect, the Contact form is added to the site.

By default in WordPress, there is no built-in functionality where you can create a contact form. With the WordPress plugin, you can create a contact form.

The beginners who are new to WordPress often feel that creating a form will require coding knowledge. But it is not.

We wil help you to get the contact form ready for your site.

In this article, we will help you on how to easily create the contact form in WordPress without having zero coding knowledge.

Why do we need a contact form?

For any websites on the internet, it is mandatory to have the contact us page on their site. Thats is how the visitors will connect you.

The contact us page on the websites tells about how visitors can connect with the support team.

The contact us can have the following things.

  • Email ID
  • Address
  • Contact number

Benefits and Drawbacks

Benefits of using Contact Form

  • Spam Emails: To get rid of spam emails, the contact form is used so that the spam bot regularly scrapes such emails.
  • Consistent information: Information shared by visitors will be relevant to your site.

Drawback of not using Contact Form

  • Spam Emails: Using an email ID on the contact us page will trigger a lot of spam emails in your inbox. The worse part is you cannot stop it.
  • Inconsistent Information: There is a high possibility that you won’t get the information on what you are looking for.

This is how it will look when you create your first contact form.

Steps to Create the Form and adding to Contact Us page.

To get the contact form ready for your blog or website we have to perform 2 main task.

  • Creating Form
  • Adding Form to Contact Us page

Here we will explain in how you can get your first form ready for your site. Follow the below steps in sequence to avoid any error.

Choosing Best Contact Form plugin

You will find plenty of contact form plugins in WordPress. Being a begineer you will not know which plugin will best suite for your website.

Here we will help you in selecting the right plugin so that you won’t struggle in searching the plugins.

Our recommendation is to use WPform Lite, as it is a good choice for beginners. It is simple, light in weight, and also doesn’t affect your page speed.

Without wasting the time lets proceed with the creation of contact us page.

Step 1. Install Contact Form plugin in WordPress

The first step which comes is to install the right plugin. Since we are doing it for the first time we will use the simple contact form which is a free plugin on WordPress.

As recommended, we will install WPFORM LITE plugin.

  1. Log in to WordPress Admin Panel
  2. From the left side menu browse to Plugins >> Add New.
  3. In the search bar, search for WP forms Lite.
  4. Click on Install
WPForm Plugin Install on WordPress
  1. Once installed click on Activate.
WPForm Plugin Activate on WordPress

You are done with the plugin installation and activation of plugin.

Step 2: How to create the Contact Form in WordPress?

Once you click on Activation it will open the page which will guide you on How to create your first form?

  1. Click on Create Your First Form?
WPform Plugin Create Your FIrst Form
  1. A form will open and it asks for the Form Name and Type of form you required. Since we are creating a simple form we will select Simple Contact Form.
WPform Plugin Creating Simple Contact Form
  1. You will see the contact form and if needed you can make the changes as per your requirements. Click on the Save button. The form will be saved with the name Contact Us.
WPform-Plugin-Creating-Simple-Contact-Form-Save-the-form-3

Step 3: Adding WordPress Contact Form to a Page.

Your form is created and it has be added on the page.

  1. Open the form and on top click on Embed and click on Create New Page. If you have already had the page then click on Select Existing Page.
WPform Embed the first form
  1. It prompt you for page name, give the page name as Contact Us. Click on Let’s Go.
WPform Embed the first form
  1. Your page is now created. Verify the page and see if you are able to fill the form and the notification is getting triggered.

To check the page, from the dashboard browse to Pages >> All pages. You should see the Contact Us page.

Contact Us page
Contact Us Page on Website

Conclusion

I believe now you must have the confidence of creating the contact form of your own by just going through this article.

However, we are always here to help you, in case you face any difficulties you can connect with us by click on this link (Contact Us).