5 Free Contact Form Plugins for WordPress

Intro

If you have a website, you probably want to let your visitors contact you. However, simply displaying your email address is not ideal, as it can result in receiving lots of spam. This is why you need a contact form.

The great thing about WordPress is that it has so many useful plugins available. Various free contact form plugins for WordPress enable you to set up a contact form on your website quickly. Some of these plugins go beyond just providing contact forms and can be used for other forms, including newsletter signup forms, polls, and quizzes.

Let's dive in and explore some of these plugins.

Forminator

When it comes to free contact form plugins for WordPress, Forminator is one of the best, and it may be the best free form plugin available. You can create pretty much any form you want with unlimited fields. You can also create polls and quizzes, which could be fun for your visitors — and they can even share the quizzes on social media.

But the most useful feature of all could be the calculations function. Check out this video showing how you can use Forminator’s conditional and calculated form logic:

As you can see, Forminator can enable you to display products on your page without setting up a complete online store, such as WooCommerce. If you are only selling a few products, or even just one product, you can create a form that calculates the price based on quantity and allows your customers to pay with PayPal or Stripe without going through a checkout page.

Key features:

• Create any form with unlimited fields.
• Set up customizable polls to gather opinions from your visitors.
• Design fun quizzes that your visitors can then share on social media.
• Use calculations to gather information, generate leads, receive orders, and engage with visitors.

WordPress.org rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars — from 1,300+ reviews.

Pros:

• The best free contact form plugin available.
• Plenty of customizable options.
• Very user-friendly interface.
• Excellent support.

Cons:

• None that we could find.

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 is great if you want a straightforward contact form that you can easily insert into your website. All you need to do is put the shortcode into the page, and the contact form appears there. But you can also customize the form with additional fields if necessary.

Take a look at this video showing how you can easily set up Contact Form 7 on your WordPress site:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKzidnsMX8k

However, we want to give you a warning about this plugin. Some users have reported that a recent update caused their site to crash, while others have said it interferes with the translation of other plugins, including WooCommerce. As with all plugins, back up your website before installing it.

Key features:

• Includes a ready-made contact form that you can insert into any post or page.
• You can expand the standard contact form with additional fields.
• Built-in Captcha support helps prevent spam.

WordPress.org rating: 4 out of 5 stars — based on 2,000+ reviews.

Pros:

• Very easy to use and intuitive.
• Excellent styling options.

Cons:

• Some users report that a recent plugin update has crashed their site.
• Some users say it breaks the translation of other plugins, including WooCommerce.
• Support for the free version could be improved.

JetFormBuilder

If you like WordPress's Gutenberg block editor and are looking for a form plugin, Crocoblock’s JetFormBuilder plugin could be just what you need. It includes 24 eye-catching blocks, which you can mix and match however you want. Plus, it has custom field styles, enabling you to create any form.

It's one thing to have an attractive-looking form with many fields, but what happens once the user submits it? JetFormBuilder has 12+ different submit actions, including sending an email, updating a post, registering a user, updating the user, redirecting to a page, and more.

Check out this YouTube review of JetFormBuilder by Paul from WPTuts:

Key features:

• Includes 24+ eye-catching form fields that you can mix and match however you want.
• Offers 12 different submit actions, including sending an email, updating a post, registering a user, and redirecting to a page.
• You can add form page breaks to create multi-step forms.
• Custom field styles enable you to create any form.
• Pre-built form patterns for most-popular forms.
• All form submissions are stored in the dashboard.
• Integrates with PayPal and Stripe for easy payments.

Crocoblock Trustpilot rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars — from 880+ reviews.

Pros:

• The visual form-building interface makes it easy to create forms.
• Lots of customization to create whatever type of form you want.
• Excellent support.

Cons:

• None that we could find.

WS Form

One of the best things about WS Form is its many pre-built form templates that you can use immediately. For example, choose the contact form template if you want a contact form. If you're going to include an appointment request form, insert that particular template. But you can also customize these forms in many different ways, and it comes with more than 50 field types, covering pretty much everything you would ever need in a form. And if you want to make it super easy for your users to fill in large forms, you can break them down into multiple pages.

There are many great features to WS Form. However, one downside is that not all of those excellent features are available in the free version. Many useful integrations are only available in the Pro version.

Key features:

• Comes with over 100 pre-built form templates, including a contact form, customer satisfaction survey, product order form, appointment request, and more.
• Includes more than 50 field types, such as text, checkbox, Google map, address, price, quantity, submit, and more.
• Offers multi-step forms that are easier to complete by splitting them into chunks.
• Provides conditional logic with more than 100 IF conditionals and over 50 THEN/ELSE actions.
• Features calculated fields with over 200 variables and functions.

WordPress.org rating: 5 out of 5 stars — from 160+ reviews.

Pros:

• Beginner-friendly with good documentation.
• Very customizable with plenty of advanced features.
• Excellent support.

Cons:

• Some useful features, including many integrations, are only available in the Pro version.

Formidable Forms

Formidable Forms is one of the easiest-to-use form builders, with its drag-and-drop visual form-building interface. But you might not even need to build a form from scratch, as it comes with many form templates you can use immediately. You can also turn your form entries into website content like online event calendars, listings, and more.

One unique feature we particularly like is how you can create a custom search form. You could use this to create a searchable people directory, for example. Take a look at this demonstration video:

We also like how you can easily create a multi-step form with a progress bar. This is ideal for large forms that overwhelm your users if all fields are displayed on the page simultaneously. Take a look at this video showing how it works:

Key features:

• Drag and drop visual form builder.
• Lots of templates for many forms, including WooCommerce forms, payment forms, and calculators.
• You can create multi-step forms with a progress bar for large forms with many fields.
• Turn your form entries into website content such as online event calendars, listings, and more.
• Easily customizable with over 125 hooks.

WordPress.org rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars — from 900+ reviews.

Pros:

• Very user-friendly with an intuitive interface.
• Good documentation.
• Many customization options.
• Excellent support.

Cons:

• Some of the most useful features are not available in the free version.

Summary

You need a contact form if you want your website visitors to contact you. Here, we have looked at some of the best free contact form plugins for WordPress. To recap, these are:

• Forminator: The best free form plugin that enables you to display products on your page without setting up a full shop with something like WooCommerce.
• Contact Form 7: Great if you want a straightforward contact form that you can easily insert into your website.
• JetFormBuilder: Offers ready-to-use form patterns that you can edit however you want and 12 different submit actions.
• WS Form: Comes with many pre-built form templates and more than 50 field types, covering almost everything you would ever need in a form.
• Formidable Forms: One of the easiest-to-use form builders available, with its drag-and-drop visual form-building interface and many templates for many form