Simple Basic Contact Form is a clean, secure, plug-&-play contact form for WordPress. Minimal yet flexible, SBCF delivers clean code, solid performance, and ease of use. No frills, no gimmicks, just a straight-up contact form that’s easy to set up and customize.
Overview
- Display form anywhere using shortcode or template tag
- Sends descriptive, well-formatted, plain-text messages
- Blocks spam and protects against malicious content
- Contact form is easy to configure via the plugin settings
- Provides a blazing fast, well-optimized contact form
- Code is lightweight, flexible, and standards-compliant
Core Features
- Optionally send a carbon copy of each email message
- Slick, toggling panels on the plugin settings screen
- Style the form via the settings screen using custom CSS
- Provides Template Tag to display SBCF anywhere in your theme
- Provides Shortcode to display SBCF on any WP Post or Page
- Displays customizable confirmation message to the sender
- Customizable success message can include email content
- Customizable placeholder text for all form fields
- Option to use PHP’s
mail()or WP’swp_mail()
Anti-spam & Security
- Optionally display anti-spam captcha to visitors
- Protects against bad bots, malicious input, and other threats
- Clear error messages to help users complete required fields
Awesome Performance
- Built with the WP API for optimal security and performance
- Custom CSS styles load only where the contact form is displayed
- Clean source code with proper formatting, alignment and spacing
- Squeaky-clean PHP and valid HTML5 output
More Features
- Works perfectly without JavaScript!
- Option to reset default settings
- Options to customize many aspects of the form
- Option to specify a specific time offset for your time zone
- Option to enable, disable, and customize default SBCF styles
- Email message includes IP, host, agent, and other user details
- Customize field captions, error messages, and success message
- Optionally hide Message field to make a simple opt-in form
What’s Next?
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Simple Basic Contact Form: Displayed on WP Twenty Sixteen theme 
Simple Basic Contact Form: Plugin settings screen (panels toggle open/closed)
Installation
- Upload the plugin to your blog and activate
- Visit the settings to configure your options
More info on installing WP plugins
Usage
Once the settings are configured, you can display the form anywhere using the Shortcode or Template Tag.
Shortcode
Use the SBCF Shortcode to display the contact form on any WP Post or Page:
[simple_contact_form]
Template tag
Use the SBCF Template Tag to display the contact form anywhere in your theme template:
<?php if (function_exists('simple_contact_form')) simple_contact_form(); ?>
Upgrades
To upgrade SBCF, remove the old version and replace with the new version. Or just click “Update” from the Plugins screen and let WordPress do it for you automatically.
Note: uninstalling the plugin from the WP Plugins screen results in the removal of all settings from the WP database.
Restore Default Options
To restore default plugin options, either uninstall/reinstall the plugin, or visit the plugin settings > Restore Default Options.
Uninstalling
Simple Basic Contact Form cleans up after itself. All plugin settings will be removed from your database when the plugin is uninstalled via the Plugins screen.
That setting enables you to customize the address used as the “From” header for email messages.
Keep in mind that if your site is example.com and you use john@somethingelse.com it’s likely that your hosting provider will block the emails from being sent.
So, it’s best to keep this setting to be an existing email address located on the same domain as your site.
I’m getting spam through your add-on
Lightweight and easy to use!
Thank you for this, a breath of fresh light air after Contact form 7 and Ninja forms.
Only one small thing: I get that it is a very light form, but i wonder if just one small addition is possible: selection of more than one default subject?
easy to set up and fast thank you. 5 star
This satisfies all my needs for a customisable but simple contact form. It appears to be lightweight too. Easy to set up. I like the confirmation message for the user.
Thank you for this perfect, simple contact form! So straight forward and easy to modify to taste. You’ve done all the heavy lifting for a great working form in a way that a mini-coder like me can tweek and get what I prefer. You’ve filled a great need.
And good support. Thanks for the quick response to my confusion and I see you’ve done this for others. Well done!
“Simple Basic Contact Form” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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