Contact Form 7 : Easiest Way to Add Contact Us Form

Having contact with your readers is a very important part of any marketers day. Many of your readers want direct contact with you through email, and not in the public arena of comments. If you, like many new marketers, add your email address to your blog, the next thing you know, your email box is full every time you look and none of it is important.  Someone has harvested your email address from the blog and is spamming you. This makes it almost impossible to find the legitimate emails among all the junk email. There is nothing that loses a sale faster than not answering someone’s email.

If you don’t give your readers an easy way to email you, you will lose potential sales, and a possible follower. You can’t afford to lose a potential sale, that you have worked so hard to bring to your blog.

The easiest solution is to add a contact form to your blog, but you need to make sure you choose the right contact form and install it properly, to avoid possible contact form spam. The contact form I use is Contact Form 7 for Wordpress. It is easy to install, and you can even integrate it with a Captcha box to eliminate possible spambots. Adding Contact Form 7 will allow your readers to fill out a simple form, enter the Captcha, and click the button to send you their questions by email. It solves the issues of easy contact, and helps eliminate the potential spam flood to your inbox.

Here is how you install Contact Form 7 on your blog:

1. Logon to your Wordpress admnistration page.
2. On the left side control panel, click the tiny arrow on the Plugin section and click “Add New“.
   
3. Put “Contact Form 7” on the search field, click the “Search Plugins” button and click “Install“.
   
4. On the installation Window, click “Install Now“.
   
5. After the installation process has finish, click “Activate Plugin“.
   
6. Go back to the “Add new” plugin page. Type “Really Simple Captcha” on the search field. And repeat the installation process which mentioned on the step 3-5.
   
7. After the CAPTCHA plugin is installed, you can start to create your contact form by clicking the Plugins > Installed > (Contact Form 7) Settings.
   
8. Click “Add New” to create a new form. And click “Untitled” to change the contact form title.
   
9. By default, you already have “Name“,”Email“,”Subject“,”Message” fields provided on the form coloumn. To add the CAPTCHA field, click “Generate Tag” on the right side of the form coloumn and pick “CAPTCHA“.
   
10. Choose your desired image size, background color and foreground color. After you complete the setting, copy and paste both codes which shown on the bottom to the left form coloumn on HTML format.
    
    
11. Scroll down to the Mail section on the bottom and change “To” Address to your email address.
    
12. After you’ve done with the setting, go back to the top page and click “Save“. Copy the code which shown under the title to your blog posts, pages, or widgets.