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Contact Form Email

By codepeople

Forms & Data Collection / Contact Forms

Contact Form Email Review - In-Depth Analysis

Contact Form Email is a powerful plugin for creating contact forms. It allows email delivery, data storage, and CSV export. Features include a visual form builder and anti-spam protection.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

7.04/10

User Rating

4.3/5 (based on 102+ reviews)

Active Installations

8,000+

Update Frequency

Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

5.2 / 10 (Medium Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

Contact Form Email is a versatile WordPress plugin designed to create and manage contact forms efficiently. It enables users to send form submissions directly to email addresses, ensuring prompt communication.

This plugin also saves all messages into a database, allowing users to keep a record of submissions. Additionally, it offers the ability to export data to CSV or Excel files, making data management easier.

With a visual drag-and-drop form builder, users can customize their forms easily. The plugin includes features such as anti-spam captcha, field validation, and automatic email reports to enhance user experience and data integrity.

Comparing to Alternatives

Contact Form Email is a straightforward plugin focused on delivering essential contact form functionality with email integration. Compared to other form plugins, it emphasizes simplicity and ease of use.

Top alternatives

Strengths

Simple and quick setup process
Reduces exposure of email addresses on posts and pages
Reliable email delivery for contact inquiries
Lightweight and minimalistic interface

Weaknesses

Limited variety of form fields in free version
Main management screen can feel cluttered
Less feature-rich compared to some competitors
Customization options are basic

User Sentiment Analysis

User feedback highlights the plugin's ease of use and reliability, though some note limitations in form field variety and interface design.

Positive highlights

'Saves me time and tediousness' - Farallon5
'Easy to configure and functional' - crbarth
'Always works great with my website' - littlemike55
'Works as advertised' - ewcapers
'Quite easy to use and functional' - johnmahugu

Common complaints

Limited types of form fields in free version
Cluttered main screen with unimportant elements

Weaknesses

Basic form customization
Not suitable for complex form needs

Who Should Use This?

Best for

Users seeking a simple, reliable contact form plugin that integrates email notifications without unnecessary complexity.

Not ideal for

Those needing advanced form fields, extensive customization, or complex form workflows may find this plugin limiting.

Pricing & Value

Free version includes

The free version includes basic contact form functionality with a limited set of form fields and email integration.

Pro version

The pro version typically offers additional form fields, enhanced customization options, and priority support.

Final Verdict

Contact Form Email is a solid choice for users who want a straightforward and dependable contact form solution with email notifications. Its simplicity makes it accessible for beginners and those with basic needs.

However, users requiring more advanced features or extensive customization might consider alternative plugins with richer functionality. Overall, it provides good value, especially with its pro upgrade options.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Contact Form Email plugin.

Contact form

Email notifications

Data export

Screenshots

FAQ

Please report security bugs found in the source code of the undefined plugin through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the developers of this plugin.

A: Into the form editor click a field and into its settings there is one field named “Add Css Layout Keywords”. Into that field you can put the name of a CSS class that will be applied to the field.

There are some pre-defined CSS classes to use align two, three or four fields into the same line. The CSS classes are named:

column2 column3 column4

For example if you want to put two fields into the same horizontal line then specify for both fields the class name “column2”.

A: For each contact form you will be able to edit the following settings:

Form Processing / Email Settings:

Send email “From”: Indicate if the email will be sent from a fixed email address or from the email address entered by the customer. This is explained in more detail in the “Other notes” tab.
“from” email: The email used as from in the notifications (for fixed “from” addresses).
Destination emails (comma separated): List of administrators that will receive the email notification.
Email subject: Subject of the notification email sent after completing the payment.
Include additional information?: Optional information about the user IP and browser.
Thank you page (after sending the message): After the completing the payment the user may go back to a page into your website (usually a “thank you” page). Type the page address into this field.
Email format?: Select if the email will be sent as plain-text or HTML-formatted.
Message: Content of the notification email that you will receive after each submission of the contact form. Keep the tag , it will be replaced automatically with the form data send by the user.

Form Builder: The drag and drop contact form builder. It’s explained in detail in the “Other notes” tab.

Submit button: To specify the label of the contact form submit button (no need to add it from the visual contact form builder). Contains also other settings and instructions for further customizations to the contact form submit button and contact form CSS styles.

Validation Settings: This area contains the “texts” used for the contact form validations. You can easily translate them to other languages.

Email Copy to User:

Send confirmation/thank you message to user?: Select if you want to sent the “confirmation/thank you” message to the user.
Email field on the form: Select here the field that contains the user’s email on the contact form.
Email subject: Subject of the email sent to the user after payment
Email format?: Select if the email will be sent as plain-text or HTML-formatted.
Message: Content of the email sent to the user after payment. The tag will be replaced by the information sent using the contact form, if needed.

Captcha Verification:

Use Captcha Verification?: Select if the captcha image will be used in the contact form to prevent spam.
Width: Width of the captcha image.
Height: Height of the captcha image.
Chars: How many characters will appear in the captcha image.
Min font size: Minimum size used for the font (randomized).
Max font size: Maximum size used for the font (randomized).
Preview: Preview for checking how the captcha image will look.
Noise: Amount of noise to make it stronger.
Noise Length: Length of the noise to modify its look.
Background: Background color.
Border: Border color.
Font: Base font used to render the text. Four options already included.

Automatic Reports. Send submissions in CSV format via email: This area contains many settings to automatically send reports every the specified period of time containing the data of all the contact forms submitted during that period of time. The report settings are explained more in detail in the tab “Other Notes” (see “Customizing the automatic email reports”). Note: All the submissions are stored into the contact form database, so can be easily recovered when needed.

On the other hand to modify only a specific field into the contact form:

Step #1: Into the contact form builder, click a field to edit its details, there is a setting there named “Add CSS Layout Keywords”.
Step #2: You can add a class name into that field, so the style specified into the CSS class will be applied to that field.
Step #3 (Note): Don’t add style rules directly there in the contact form builder but the name of a CSS class.
Step #4: You can place the CSS class either into the CSS file of your template or into the file “wp-content/plugins/contact-form-to-email/css/stylepublic.css” located into the Contact Form to Email plugin’s folder.

Examples: Add a class named “specialclass” into the setting “Add CSS Layout Keywords” and add one of these CSS rules into the mentioned file:

For changing the field label:
```
.specialclass label { color: #00f; } 
```

For changing the input or textarea of the field:

.specialclass input[type=text],.specialclass textarea,.specialclass select { border: 2px solid #00f; }

To get the modifications shown into the public contact form you may have to refresh the page twice or clear the browser cache to be sure that the old CSS styles aren’t still being shown from the cache.

More info at add the needed styles into the “Customization area >> Add Custom Styles” (at the bottom of the page that contains the list of calendars)