Secure & accessible contact form for WordPress + multi-user version
The ‘Secure and accessible contact form for wordpress’ has been a huge success (over 10,000 downloads!), and due to this I have decided to repost the plugin (and also its less known multi-user sister version) to further increase the popularity of this awesome plugin for the wordpress blogging platform.
The Secure & accessible contact form is designed to make contacting you from your website easy, accessible, and secure. It will definitely deter spam emails from arriving in your mail box!
What is it?
Well, this could well be the best, most accessible, spam proof contact form available, and its now a wordpress plugin!
Based on the PHP contact forms by Mike Cherim, Mike C and I have developed a fully configurable, spam-proof, wordpress contact form plugin.
This plugin lets you add a contact form to a wordpress page or a template, and after configuration, works a treat. It is fully customisable with CSS, and even has a few themes contained to get you started.
Documentation & the readme file is included in the zip, and the help file will show in your wordpress control panel too.
Admin/form Screenshots
You can see this plugin in action on my contact page.
The multi-user version
We have a multi-user version available (for use, for example, if you have multiple departments each wanting separate messages) which costs just $70, and is great for small organisations with multiple recipients.
You can see this multi-user plugin in action here.
Plugin Features
The PHP form itself, its accessibility and usability features can be found on its official page here, but here are some plugin specific features and some highlights.
- Easy to use form Overview page, with config information, and spam count.
- Great security measures implemented, to prevent spam and high-jacking.
- Form designed with accessibility and usability in mind.
- Standards compliant code and form, with XHTML and HTML strict support.
- Simple setup, with helpful prompts and extensive documentation.
- Configuration built into the wordpress interface, no need to edit any code manually.
- Easy to style, either using your own CSS files, are in-built editor, or a pre-made theme for the most popular wordpress themes.
Plugin update history
The plugin was released on the 25th October 2006, and has been updated and maintained since. For old update logs see the old post, as newer updates are being listed here only.
- 31st July 2008 – v.2.0WP B20080731 – General Fixes and updates.
- 7th Feb 2008 – v.2.0WP B20080207 – Mike C moved the labels, reduced their length, spanned the legends, added 3D to make a working Whois query input. Plus I used a couple of WP functions to wptexturize() and autop() the page output. Most changes were for greater accessibility.
- 14th April 2007 – v.2.0WP B20070414 – Due to threats from a disgruntled user Mike has removed all link-backs in the wp-gbcf_form.php file if Showcredit “No” is selected in the config. The documentation file, wp-gbcf_help.php, was also updated. Recommendation: Swap out the wp-gbcf_form.php and wp-gbcf_help.php files. This was never meant to dupe or spam anyone. It was used purely for software promotion and innocuous tracking.
Get the plugin now!
Normal version – B20080731
Terms of Use: You are free to download and use this form but you may not redistribute it without written permission. Donations are gratefully accepted but no payment is required to use this script. If you do use this form whether on your site or a client’s site, it is requested that you keep the built in link-back in place but it is no longer required by these terms.
Downloaded a total of 23013 times from Blue Anvil.
German Version Available
German Version released Nov. 4th, 2006, translated by: “Monika Thon-Soun” Danke!
Download German Contact Form | Download Deutsche Kontaktform
Multi-user version – B20070414
The multi-user version can be bought via paypal for $70 and will be sent via email in zip format, so please remember to provide your email address either via paypal or by contacting us.
Plugin Installation
Installation is fast and easy, it basically entails unzipping the folder, uploading and activating, and adding a tag to a wordpress page! Simple. Full instructions are found in the readme file within the plugin download file.
Additional template tag: There is also an alternate templating method of installation. A little more involved but better in its flexibility if you are having problems with the page tag method of including the form.
Plugin Supported Themes
If you use some of the more popular
href=”http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/”>WordPress Themes, contact
form themes have been provided to get you up-and-running faster than ever.
The following WordPress themes have been provided for (use these links to
get info or download them):
- Default by Michael Heilemann
- The default WordPress theme based on the famous Kubrick. Included with WordPress.
- Classic by Dave Shea
- The original WordPress theme that graced versions 1.2.x and prior. Also included
- Beast-Blog by Mike Cherim
- Beast-Blog Info |
Beast-Blog Demo |
href=”http://green-beast.com/logger_dl.php”>Download Beast-Blog. - Almost Spring by Becca Wei
- Almost Spring
Info |
href=”http://themes.beccary.com/index.php?wptheme=Almost+Spring”>Almost
Spring Demo |
href=”http://beccary.weblogs.us/almost-spring.zip”>Download Almost
Spring. - Blix by Sebastian
Schmieg - Blix
Info | Blix Demo |
href=”http://www.kingcosmonaut.de/blix/download/Blix-0.9.1.zip”>Download
Blix. - Connections by Patricia
Muller - Connections Info |
Connections Demo |
href=”http://www.vanillamist.com/blog/files/connections.zip”>Download
Connections. - Green Marinee by Ian Main
- Green Marinee Info |
href=”http://e-lusion.com/greenmarinee/”>Green Marinee Demo |
href=”http://e-lusion.com/greenmarinee/greenmarinee-1.0.1.zip”>Download
Green Marinee. - Ocadia by Becca Wei
- Ocadia Info |
Ocadia Demo |
href=”http://beccary.weblogs.us/ocadia.zip”>Download Ocadia. - Pool by Borja
Fernandez - Pool Info |
Pool Demo |
href=”http://www.lamateporunyogur.net/misc/pool-v107.zip”>Download
Pool. - SeaBeast by Mike Cherim
- SeaBeast Info |
href=”http://green-beast.com/seabeast/”>SeaBeast Demo |
href=”http://green-beast.com/seabeast/download/”>Download SeaBeast.Note: This theme has an included contact form but it
can be disabled in its
href=”http://green-beast.com/seabeast/?page_id=44″>configuration and
deleted and this one used instead for great security and flexibility. Also
note this theme’s special
href=”http://green-beast.com/seabeast/?page_id=16″>terms and conditions
for use.
Update:
Beginning with build number 20070204 a large number of random themes have been added for you to play around with.
Credits
This plugin was created by Me (Mike Jolley) and Mike Cherim, and was based on Mike C’s initial PHP contact forms.
Mike Cherim also has a page dedicated to this plugin, find it here.
Support our sweat, blood and tears
I know, that sounds gross, but we really did put ALOT of effort in to this plugin to make it the best. If you like this plugin, or it has benefited you, please make a donation via paypal! Any amounts are welcome, we will split it between us (Cherim & Jolley). Your support is much appreciated.
*This link will take you to green-beast.com where you can use Mike’s paypal button to send a donation
Disclaimer
You are free to use this application but may not redistribute it without written permission. Use of this application will be at your own risk. No guarantees or warranties are made, direct or implied. The creators cannot and will not be liable or held accountable for damages, direct or consequential. By using this application it implies agreement to these conditions.
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carl martin says:
Is there a way to make multiple forms that go to a different email address with the same styling sing this plugin? If so whats the procedure? I have this for a regular contact form, but I want to create another form for people to sub,it Advertising requests with totally different fields….can you add/delete fields?
Comment made on January 28, 2009 at 2:22 am
Mike Jolley says:
@carl martin: No you can’t but the next major version will let you so for now you will need an alternative. Try cforms plugin. Not as secure, but works.
Comment made on January 28, 2009 at 1:12 pm
carl martin says:
thanks for the reply. Any thoughts on when the next version might be available by chance?
Comment made on January 28, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Eric says:
Everything was working fine till i updated to B20081118 and now when you try to go to my contact page or the configuration page in the admin its giving me this…
Fatal error: Cannot access empty property in /homepages/20/d159566430/htdocs/erichamby/wp-includes/functions.php on line 452
Any ideas?…. Anyone
Comment made on February 2, 2009 at 8:53 am
niche guy says:
I thought I should chime here. After digging through the net, here’s the solution for:
Fatal error: Cannot access empty property
Always backup your database first in case!
There is a null or empty entry in the options table located in the wordpress database
To fix this you need to login to the cpanel and load the mysql database – phpmyadmin
Select the your wordpress database and choose the wp_options table on the left hand side
Select the browse tab at the top of the page
Show all entries and find the one with an empty option name
Delete the offending entry
This should fix your problem
Comment made on February 7, 2009 at 2:46 am
carl martin says:
Do you have any idea when the next version of this will be out? Any plans? Just want to create more than 1 contact form, and want all of them to be uniform. Thanks
Comment made on February 20, 2009 at 2:29 am
Ken Lin says:
help!
After installing this plugin, I try to click “submit” to send an email, and it comes to a blank page: http://www.mysite.com/contact/#results
How come it’s not working?
Comment made on March 6, 2009 at 5:46 am
Ian says:
Thanks for a great form. I would like to style it however cant find the style link in drop down sub menu. Does that mean that my theme (Arthemia) does not support your contact form. Thanks Ian
Comment made on June 8, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@Ian: Its supported – it just has not been styled by us to match your theme. You can either use one of the pre-made themes if they are a close match, or make your own by adding the css styles to your theme.
Comment made on June 11, 2009 at 5:53 pm