The most powerful and user-friendly WordPress contact form plugin. Create beautiful contact forms, widgets and pages using shortcodes.
| Last updated | May 16, 2026Updated in the last year |
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| Tested up to | WordPress 7.0.8Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.5 or newer |
| Needs PHP | Not stated |
| First published | May 26, 2011 |
| Support, last two months | No threads opened |
4.0 / 5 from 292 reviews
| 5 stars | 201 |
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| 4 stars | 15 |
| 3 stars | 9 |
| 2 stars | 11 |
| 1 star | 56 |
Contact Form by BestWebSoft is an advanced form builder for WordPress that makes it easy to create and manage contact forms on your website. Receive messages from visitors directly to your email by using convenient shortcodes to insert contact forms into pages, posts or widgets.
Looking for a Contact Form 7 alternative? Our plugin offers similar functionality with an even more intuitive interface and additional features.
Key Benefits:
Why Choose Contact Form by BestWebSoft?
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
You can add the contact form in three ways:
1. Use shortcode [bestwebsoft_contact_form] in any post or page
2. Add the form as a widget through Appearance > Widgets
3. Use PHP code in your template files
While our plugin is a great alternative to Contact Form 7, it uses its own styling system. However, you can easily customize the form appearance to match your existing Contact Form 7 designs through our intuitive settings panel.
Yes, with our Contact Form Multi add-on, you can create unlimited forms with different fields, settings, and email recipients. Each form will have its own unique shortcode.
Our plugin includes built-in GDPR compliance features:
1. Enable privacy checkbox
2. Add custom privacy policy text
3. Include data processing information
We offer multiple spam protection methods:
1. Integration with Google reCaptcha
2. Built-in Captcha support
3. Custom validation rules
4. Email filtering options
5. Honeypot fields
Yes, you can customize:
1. Email recipients
2. Subject line
3. Message format
4. Reply-to address
5. Copy (CC) recipients
6. Auto-response messages
7. Email templates
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Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.