If you own a WordPress blog, setting up a contact page is super easy. And yet there are a lot of WordPress blogs out there without a contact form.
Why do I want a contact page?
People might want to contact you for all kinds of reasons. I get emails from blog readers fairly regularly and 99% of them are *not* spam. Sometimes they are very interesting emails indeed. I do get a lot of emails about older posts where the comments are turned off – comments on this blog switch off after 90 days.
Can’t I just use an email address?
Of course you can! However, it is my advice to you not to put your email address out there in the usual format – eg mailme@email.com – you will get spammed hugely. Best to put it in this kind of format – mailme {at} email {dot} com – you can see my email address over in the sidebar and I have both a contact form and the address on my contact page..
Can I do this on Blogger?
Sure, but their built in version is a sidebar widget. Here are some instructions which might help – New Blogger widget contact form.
Here is The WordPress How To –
Click on add new page in your WordPress dashboard.
This will take you to the add a new page form. It looks identical to add a new post. So add in your title – Contact is the obvious one, but you could use Contact Me or Contact Us, if there are more than one of you.
You will see under the title area, a box titled Add Contact Form. Click on that.
You will see this pop up preview box appear. Everything is there ready to go, and you could simply click on add this form to my post at the bottom, and it will all magically happen. In fact – lets do that, and see what happens next.
This is how the contact form appears in the text box in your post –
it does not look like much here, but once you hit publish page and then visit the page, it will look something like this –
The form will be affected by your CSS in your theme, so it might look slightly different to the version you saw in the preview box.
So there you have it – a contact form.
What if I get some spam?
If you get some spam you might decide to add a check box to the post – regular humans will know to tick the box, but spam-bots cannot follow the instructions and cannot tick the box. How do we add one? See the section on the form creator which says Can I add more fields?
Click on that, and you’ll be given a drop down box.
Choose check box from the list, and add in text – you could put Tick box if you are human, tick this box to send your message, even just tick this box – but make sure you tick required before you hit save this field.. Changes are made live so you will see how your new field will look on the form.
Over To You –
Have you ever wanted to contact a blogger privately but been unable to?
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