Contact Forms
What did you ask for? Contact forms. What you get? Contact forms!
Now people can send you an email without you ever publicly displaying your email address.
Here’s how: put
[contact-form]
in any post, and a simple contact form asking for the sender’s name, email address, website and comment will be inserted. When someone submits a message through the form, you receive that message in an email.
Your email address is never shown, and the sender never learns it (unless you reply to the email!).
As an added bonus, all the messages people send to you through the contact form are filtered through Akismet. That should help reduce the amount of spam you get.
Tips:
- The email is sent to the author of the post with the contact form in it. So if you have multiple authors on the same blog, each can have his or her own contact form.
- You can put contact forms in Pages as well as posts. In fact, you’ll probably find them more useful there.
- The email you receive will tell you if the message was sent by a logged in and verified WordPress.com user or not.
- Make sure to uncheck “Allow Comments” in the blue “Discussion” box when you make the contact page. Thay way, people won’t get confused about the difference between the contact form and the comment form.
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Very Good…
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Now that is cool and useful.
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What can I say, this is something we’ve been looking forward to. Easy to use. Great addition. Thank you.
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extemely usefull… previously only a few themes @ wordpress.com had a contact form page
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Very cool! Thanks for making this possible. 😀
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Can I put it in a text widget on my sidebar?
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Rattling the Kettle,
Currently you can only put the form in a post or page. You can, naturally, link to that form from your sidebar, but there’s no way to put the form itself in the sidebar at the moment.
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This is great. Thanks, guys.
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Great news!
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You guys like seriously rock…Sainthood???
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well, Thanks !
{as usual what more can one say to his “sysadmins” ? 😛 }
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Sweet!
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This is a good day regarding useful additions. Thanks Again!
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freakin’ awesome. WordPress keeps getting better and better, and I not for one day regret ditching Blogger for WordPress! (only been here for 19 days!)
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Awesome! Y’all seriously deserve an award for all your hard work!
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Now, that sounds cool
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Outstanding!
Thanks for the added layer of privacy protection!
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Thanks!! Any possibility that this could be a WordPress.org standalone plugin? 😀
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That’s wonderful. Thanks! I’ve already put it on my About page.
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Gotta try this one 🙂
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Awesome!!!!!
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thanks its perfect!!
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Been waiting for that in a while. Thanks.
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Good!! Thanks for all!
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Awesome, I just added my own contact page. Now we’ll just have to see how much it is used.
Thanks all.
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Neat, although I did make an email account seperate just for my blog, so this isnt going to help me too much haha
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That’s the stuff i have waiting for!! Now staying in contact with me will be more easy 🙂 Thanks a lot guys:)
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Very nice!
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EXcellent ~!
Contactability with minimal vulnerability to the blog author.
THANK-you~
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Awesome! I’ve been waiting for this kind of thing. Thank you so much! 🙂
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Awesome!! Thanks!
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It can be useful, especially with Akismet support. And the fact that WordPress.com users are identified goes well with what seems to be the current thrust toward community-building for WordPress.com in general.
A minor issue I have with the plugin for self-hosted WordPress as well as with this version is that the form doesn’t include a subject line. Not that much of a problem, especially if we rarely receive messages this way, but it does make it harder to identify those messages. We do get the title of the post in which the contact form is found, which can be helpful.
Thanks for continuously improving WP.com!
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What? And give up the 100 spam a day I get in the gmail account that’s linked to this site? Blasphemy!
No seriously, this is a great feature.
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Yippeeee. I’ve been wanting something like that for quite some time.
Thanks =)
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Awesome. Thanks !!!! \m/
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Thank you!!! 🙂
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This I like and have working just fine…I do like the suggestion to be able to put it in the sidebar though (hint hint)
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Good idea! I’ve added that in. At least it keeps off the numerous spams I get and I don’t have to ‘disguise’ my email address anymore. 🙂
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Sweet. I was looking for this like last week. You guys aren’t watching me are you?
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Thanks *SO* much, guys! This is *terrific*!
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Gets better everyday
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This is cool!
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Pwning. Thank you!
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Hmm… Asik mboten nggih? Déréng kula cobi jé. 🙄
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Right on!!!! This is so great!
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thank you
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WOW! I’m impressed, I requested this just last week and here it is!
Very good job, I’m glad I switched to WordPress.
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Excellent! Thank you very much 🙂
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Sweet!
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‘Bout time! Good job!
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cool 🙂
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HOLY COW THAT IS AWESOME!!!
Thank you so much!
You guys rock!
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Great, Thanks!
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hey that’s coooool!!!
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Great, that is a neat little addition with big impact!
I created a single contact-page as a child-page of my About-page, and that’s it – just perfect! Thank you guys!!
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That is great!!! It will reduce all the spam traffic!!
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Excellent! I needed that!
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Very awesome! Can’t wait to start using this. 🙂
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XCELLENT !!!!!!!
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What a nice addition this is.
Well done guys.
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This feature rocks, I have been looking for this for a very long time. Thanks a ton
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We’ve added the Contact Form to our Contact page, along side our email addresses to give visitors contacting options.
Having a contact form allows visitors to email us without having to go into their email accounts. This is especially useful when visitors are using a computer system other than their own PC, and their email accounts aren’t as easily accessible.
Thanks for an awesome feature to enhance our blogs! Rock on.
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Very good and useful !
Thank U ! 🙂
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too good
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Good, Thanks.
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Fantastic! It’s a very useful stuff and it works well.
Thank you, guys. 🙂
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Thanks
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Sweet! Good job guys! Thank you
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Sweeeeeeeeeeet!
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Great feature! Works nicely as a page.
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Very nice guys.
Thats gonna be very useful
Great job
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Its really cool…. Would have liked it better if it had fields like from, location, subject etc 😉 … But, then I guess those individual-specific needs. Leaving it blank and open might be the best way! 🙂
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excellent.
-Loki.
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cool. i have been waiting for that for a very long time!
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Very usefull feature
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whoa. That is super hot.
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Really useful, thanks.
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Excellent!
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whoa! this is great. thanks so much! you guys are always looking out for us. i love the idea of being able to be emailable without giving away my address to crawlers. yuck.
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This item is incredibly timely, since I have a post pending this week that was going to include my email address since the replies I needed would be better as private messages than as comments. Thank you for reading my mind!
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Nice one. Another reason why I’m sticking with WordPress.
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is that useful? yeah, it is.
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Kool!
Should’ave put in one here so that we could say our thanks to you personally
But I think the form should be adjustible….also there’s no place to put in the Author’s name and Email ID!
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Sweeet! 😀
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Fantastic! I’ve been waiting for this!
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Just an update to my last post – I’ve got the contact form as a page and using the page widget it is on the sidebar… but it is under the title ‘pages’ so a contac t widget would still be a good idea!!!
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This confuses me, but at the same time, helps. Perhaps I’ll give it a go. Thanks.
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Two really useful tools (this and box.net) in one month! You guys are hot. Thanks.
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brill brill brilliant
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way cool. thanks.
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I guess this is pretty good.
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