Posted: Monday, April 23rd, 2007 at 9:44 pm. Filed in Uncategorized.
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.
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Very Good…
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Now that is cool and useful.
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:59 pm
What can I say, this is something we’ve been looking forward to. Easy to use. Great addition. Thank you.
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:03 pm
extemely usefull… previously only a few themes @ wordpress.com had a contact form page
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Very cool! Thanks for making this possible.
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Can I put it in a text widget on my sidebar?
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:14 pm
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.
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:16 pm
This is great. Thanks, guys.
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Great news!
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:20 pm
You guys like seriously rock…Sainthood???
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:28 pm
well, Thanks !
{as usual what more can one say to his “sysadmins” ?
}
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Sweet!
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:32 pm
This is a good day regarding useful additions. Thanks Again!
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:36 pm
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!)
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Awesome! Y’all seriously deserve an award for all your hard work!
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Now, that sounds cool
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Outstanding!
Thanks for the added layer of privacy protection!
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Thanks!! Any possibility that this could be a WordPress.org standalone plugin?
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:45 pm
That’s wonderful. Thanks! I’ve already put it on my About page.
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Gotta try this one
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Awesome!!!!!
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:57 pm
thanks its perfect!!
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Been waiting for that in a while. Thanks.
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Good!! Thanks for all!
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Awesome, I just added my own contact page. Now we’ll just have to see how much it is used.
Thanks all.
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Neat, although I did make an email account seperate just for my blog, so this isnt going to help me too much haha
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:44 pm
That’s the stuff i have waiting for!! Now staying in contact with me will be more easy
Thanks a lot guys:)
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Very nice!
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:46 pm
EXcellent ~!
Contactability with minimal vulnerability to the blog author.
THANK-you~
April 24th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Awesome! I’ve been waiting for this kind of thing. Thank you so much!
April 24th, 2007 at 12:47 am
Awesome!! Thanks!
April 24th, 2007 at 12:54 am
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!
April 24th, 2007 at 12:58 am
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.
April 24th, 2007 at 1:33 am
Yippeeee. I’ve been wanting something like that for quite some time.
Thanks =)
April 24th, 2007 at 1:42 am
Awesome. Thanks !!!! \m/
April 24th, 2007 at 1:53 am
Thank you!!!
April 24th, 2007 at 2:06 am
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)
April 24th, 2007 at 2:43 am
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.
April 24th, 2007 at 2:45 am
Sweet. I was looking for this like last week. You guys aren’t watching me are you?
April 24th, 2007 at 2:57 am
Thanks *SO* much, guys! This is *terrific*!
April 24th, 2007 at 2:58 am
Gets better everyday
April 24th, 2007 at 3:03 am
This is cool!
April 24th, 2007 at 3:27 am
Pwning. Thank you!
April 24th, 2007 at 3:34 am
Hmm… Asik mboten nggih? Déréng kula cobi jé.
April 24th, 2007 at 3:36 am
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April 24th, 2007 at 3:38 am
Right on!!!! This is so great!
April 24th, 2007 at 3:42 am
thank you
April 24th, 2007 at 4:06 am
WOW! I’m impressed, I requested this just last week and here it is!
Very good job, I’m glad I switched to WordPress.
April 24th, 2007 at 4:22 am
Excellent! Thank you very much
April 24th, 2007 at 4:28 am
Sweet!
April 24th, 2007 at 4:39 am
‘Bout time! Good job!
April 24th, 2007 at 5:06 am
cool
April 24th, 2007 at 5:14 am
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April 24th, 2007 at 6:07 am
HOLY COW THAT IS AWESOME!!!
Thank you so much!
You guys rock!
April 24th, 2007 at 6:31 am
Great, Thanks!
April 24th, 2007 at 6:51 am
hey that’s coooool!!!
April 24th, 2007 at 6:54 am
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April 24th, 2007 at 7:03 am
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!!
April 24th, 2007 at 7:25 am
That is great!!! It will reduce all the spam traffic!!
April 24th, 2007 at 7:38 am
Excellent! I needed that!
April 24th, 2007 at 8:10 am
Very awesome! Can’t wait to start using this.
April 24th, 2007 at 8:21 am
XCELLENT !!!!!!!
April 24th, 2007 at 8:34 am
What a nice addition this is.
Well done guys.
April 24th, 2007 at 8:40 am
This feature rocks, I have been looking for this for a very long time. Thanks a ton
April 24th, 2007 at 9:59 am
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.
April 24th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Very good and useful !
Thank U !
April 24th, 2007 at 10:36 am
too good
April 24th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Good, Thanks.
April 24th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Fantastic! It’s a very useful stuff and it works well.
Thank you, guys.
April 24th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Thanks
April 24th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Sweet! Good job guys! Thank you
April 24th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Sweeeeeeeeeeet!
April 24th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Great feature! Works nicely as a page.
April 24th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Very nice guys.
Thats gonna be very useful
Great job
April 24th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
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! 
April 24th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
excellent.
-Loki.
April 24th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
cool. i have been waiting for that for a very long time!
April 24th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Very usefull feature
April 24th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
whoa. That is super hot.
April 24th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Really useful, thanks.
April 24th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Excellent!
April 24th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
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.
April 24th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
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April 24th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
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!
April 24th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Nice one. Another reason why I’m sticking with WordPress.
April 24th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
is that useful? yeah, it is.
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April 24th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
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!
April 24th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Sweeet!
April 24th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
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April 24th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Fantastic! I’ve been waiting for this!
April 24th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
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!!!
April 24th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
This confuses me, but at the same time, helps. Perhaps I’ll give it a go. Thanks.
April 24th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Two really useful tools (this and box.net) in one month! You guys are hot. Thanks.
April 24th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
brill brill brilliant
April 24th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
way cool. thanks.
April 24th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
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April 25th, 2007 at 12:43 am
I guess this is pretty good.