Simple Basic Contact Form – The Winner

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Jun 082023
 

The winner of the contact form test comparisons is “Simple Basic Contact Form” by WPKube. I’ve had it running now for the past 3 years or so and it is simply the best. Easy to set up and administer and the emailed form contents are nicely formatted and includes the IP address, host and browser info as I wanted.

What really sets it apart is the Antispam measure which is unique: you can enable and create your own unique challenge question! Then you input what the correct response should be and whether it needs to be case sensitive. No need for Google’s CAPTCHA (though the option is there) and you can change your question if need be. If you look at my contact form you’ll see my simple question: Well anyone past 5th grade should know the answer to that one so I expect any adult who can read English to be able to answer that.

But-the best part is that the bots cannot! In the past 3 years not a single bot has gotten past my challenge.

I’ve seen about 3 human generated spam comments during this  entire time and thousands of bot scripts visiting the site and totally failing.

That is impressive.

So, a big kudos to WPKube and if you need a simple contact form then this is your answer. Thanks guys!

WPForms review with some new tricks

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May 282019
 

Just finished setting up a WPForms created Contact page to test out. It looks good and I like better how I can lay out my checkboxes inline instead of just in a column as I had to do with using the Formidable forms plugin. I also prefer the shortened Name, Email and Subject field text boxes. I also really like the user interface for setting up the form. Intuitive and friendly. The form submission works well and I like the way the confirmation message appears afterwards, especially after I turned off the scroll to message option which was on by default.

On the down side with WPForms is that it does not provide the submitter’s IP Address and User-Agent (Browser/OS) info like Formidable Forms does. I also like the formatting of the email message by Formidable much better. I had to resort to changing my messages to plain text in WPForms and it still doesn’t even compare, oh well. It would be simple enough to improve though.

There is a bug with WPForms as well. If you enable the cc email option and add an address there AND put two or more comma separated addresses  in the primary field slot then the cc’d address gets multiple mailings per each address in the primary field slot… It seems the form sends each message separately per each address listed. That’s poor form I’d say, lol.

As for the tricks, well that’s for the bots to find out 🙂