How to Setup a Contact Form for Your Wordpress Blog

Posted by Mike Richard on June 9, 2007
Filed under: Blogging

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If you don’t have a contact form on your blog, I highly recommend setting one up. I receive a surprising number of e-mails through my contact form.

Many of those e-mails have been to ask how to set one up. Fortunately, if you have a WordPress blog, it’s super easy.

First, which WordPress hosting option do you have?

Wordpress-Hosted Blog

If your web address is mytravelblog.wordpress.com or anythinghere.wordpress.com, then you have a WordPress-hosted blog. Fortunately, they’ve made setting up a contact form a snap for their customers. Simply:

  1. Login to your WP admin panel.
  2. Create a new page. Maybe call it “contact” or whatever you like.
  3. Drop this snippet into the body of the page: [contact-form]
  4. You’re done!

Get the full scoop straight from the horse’s mouth here.

Self-Hosted Blog

If your web address is simply www.mytravelblog.com, then you probably have a self-hosted blog. There are a ton of contact form plugins for WordPress, but I use Doug Karr’s. His page explains setting it up pretty well and I had no trouble at all setting it up on my site. I’ve also received zero spam through my contact form, so I can’t complain there.

Good luck!

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Vagabondish editor Mike Richard lives in Rhode Island - a small patch of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats and speaking in the third person.



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Comments

Douglas Karr
June 9th, 2007 - 4:30 pm

Thanks for mentioning the WordPress Contact form! It will be international here very soon!


Mike
June 11th, 2007 - 9:29 am

No problem at all, Doug. Thanks for adding spam protection to it - works like a charm!