Description
Displays a user-friendly contact form that your visitors will love.
CFX: Contact form reinvented. Fast and friendly. Fresh and clean. Awesome for everyone
Overview
Install, activate, and then display the form anywhere, using the widget, shortcode, or template tag. Here is an overview of Contact Form X:
Easy to use
Simple and secure
ADA and WCAG compliant
Lightweight and super fast
Provides multiple form styles
Customize just about everything
Display the contact form anywhere
Change the order of the form fields
Send email to multiple recipients
Complete documentation via Help tab
Excellent free plugin support
“The famous spam filter SpamAssassin” scores CFX = zero spam!
For more details, check out the “Screenshots” section, below.
Form Fields
Easily choose which fields to display in the form. Each field may be set as required, optional, or disabled. Choose from these fields:
Name
Website
Email
Subject
Custom Field
Challenge Question
Message
Google reCaptcha (v2 or v3 Invisible)
Carbon Copy
Agree to Terms
You can change the order of these fields and customize their labels and placeholders, everything is super flexible.
For a live demo of Contact Form X, visit my contact page at Perishable Press. Note: the form at Perishable Press is highly customized with CSS, but all other functionality is the same. Feel free to send a test email to see how it works, I won’t mind Also check out CFX in the “Screenshots” section (below) for a better idea of how the default form is styled out of the box.
Geeky Stuff
Lots of goodness for the geeks among us:
Built with the WordPress API
Ajax-powered form submission
Remembers form data on error
Google reCaptcha version 2
NEW: Google reCaptcha version 3 (invisible)
NEW: Drag/drop ordering of the form fields
View your email messages on the WP Dashboard
Option to enable/disable storing of email data in database
Display form via widget, shortcode, or template tag
Five CSS themes: Default, Classic, Micro, Synthetic, Dark
Optionally collect user data like IP, host, and referrer
Works perfectly with or without Gutenberg Block Editor
Focused on performance, security, and usability
Include extra form and user info with each message
Customize the form’s success and error messages
Provides plenty of useful hooks for developers
Targeted loading of CSS and JavaScript assets
One-click remove email data from database
One-click restore default options
Translation ready
Contact Form X is a fresh new, lighter alternative to the heavier contact forms out there. CFX is lightweight yet fully featured. As they say, “everything you want, nothing you don’t”.
Privacy
To help protect user privacy, Contact Form X provides the following features:
Agree to terms checkbox, customizable
Choose which fields to include with the form
Option to disable collection of user IP address and other data
Note: this plugin uses cookies to enhance form functionality
Basically, this plugin enables visitors to send a message via contact form. Any information the user enters into the form will be sent directly to the recipient(s) according to plugin settings. When enabled in the plugin settings, details about each sent message will be stored in the WordPress database. Visit the “Advanced” plugin settings to control this and other data-collection features.
Note: CFX provides an option to enable Google reCaptcha, which is provided by Google as a third-party service. For details on privacy and more, please refer to official documentation for Google reCaptcha.
Contact Form X is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author.
Support development
I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books:
The Tao of WordPress
Digging into WordPress
.htaccess made easy
WordPress Themes In Depth
Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress
And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:
BBQ Pro – Super fast WordPress firewall
Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots
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USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms
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