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It is very easy to have a contact form on your blog. All you need to do is type the following into any post or page on your blog:

[contact-form]

After publishing, a simple contact form asking for the sender’s name, email address, website and message will be displayed.

If the visitor is already logged into WordPress.com, their profile information will be used and the contact form will be similar to the image below.

When someone submits a message through the form, you receive that message in an email.

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Your email address is never shown, and the sender never learns it (unless you reply to the email!).

You may get some spam, but you shouldn’t get a lot. All the messages people send to you through the contact form are filtered through Akismet.

Visitors can type anything into the name and email boxes, so it is easy to fake an identity. If a logged in WordPress.com member sends you a message, the end of the email will let you know that the message was sent by a verified user, and you can trust the name and email. Otherwise, you can’t trust anything. As with anything online, know that anonymity is both a curse and a blessing :)

The contact form cannot be used in the sidebar.

You can include any text or other allowed elements above or below the contact form. If you have Custom CSS you can customize the look of the form. You cannot add/remove form fields from the contact form, however.

The email is sent to the author of the post or page with the contact form in it. So each author on your blog can have his or her own contact form. You could have a text widget which links to each author’s contact page, or at the bottom of each post add something like “Please contact me here if you wish”.

Last modified: October 23, 2009