Most of us need a contact form. If you are completely new to Wordpress and just recently installed a copy of Wordpress, but you need to add a form, it is a very simple task that you can achieve in 5 minutes or less.

First, we are going to look at two options.

1. Cforms plugin
2. Contact-form-7.1.8

Which one do I prefer? Let me give you the break down. They are both very easy to install. The one problem I had was with Contact Form, after adding a drop-down menu. My choices are not being emailed. The new choices are present in the form but did not arrive on the email. This of course might slow down the set-up of your form, specially if you don’t have much HTML experience and this is all new to you.

We decided to use Cforms for our site.  It’s very easy to create new form elements and they had no problem being sent email without having to do anything but add the new fields and update settings.

You have the ability to make multiple forms like Contact-form but It comes as a drop-down menu on your write post/page section.  You can make multiple forms and add them throughout the site for any of your specific needs.

Cforms provides you with new tabs where you can edit Global settings and also style the CSS of the forms.

So we recommend Cforms. If you need to get your form set up in less than 5 minutes.

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