You are looking to add a contact form on your WordPress site but you don't know which plugins to use? In this article, we have hand-picked the 3 best contact form plugins for WordPress and compared their pros and cons, so you can easily add a contact form in WordPress.
The selection we made contains one free plugin, one freemium plugin and one premium plugin. All are really good and easy to use plugin, check the rest of the article to find which one fits your needs.
1. Contact From 7 ( Free )
Contact Form 7, this is the most downloaded contact from plugin for WordPress with more than 5 millions activate installation.
Pros:
- Completely free, you can install it on as many sites as you want.
- Since it is the most popular contact form plugin there is a lot of add ons to work with it.
- Google reCAPTCHA compatible.
- Multi-languages ready
- Detailed documentation
Cons:
- Limited support. ( remember the plugin is free )
- The Form builder may not be intuitive at first.
2. Ninja Forms ( Freemium )
Ninja Forms is a freemium contact form plugin for WordPress. It can be used to create highly interactive form with very little effort using the form builder.
Pros:
- Drag & Drop form builder.
- A lot of extension for the plugins ( Free & Premium ).
- Google reCAPTCHA compatible.
- Detailed documentation
Cons:
- Depending the number of extension you want to use the plugin can become really expensive.
3. Gravity Forms ( Premium )
Gravity Forms is a paid contact form plugin that has all the advanced functionality one can ask for.
Pros:
- With the help of additional add-ons, Gravity Forms can be used to create surveys, quiz, user submitted content, and even web directory.
- Premium support.
- Form builder.
- Detailed documentation.
Cons:
- A bit expensive but the best premium contact form plugin.
- No free version to try it.
Conclusion
If you only need a simple contact form that doesn’t involve payment or newsletter direct registration then Contact form 7 is the plugin we recommend.
The Ninja form plugin is really great and easy to use because of the form builder and the multiple add-ons available.
Gravity forms is what you might want to get if you want to create advance forms with extra features.
If you have any questions or know other form plugins that you think we should include in our article then leave us a comment!
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