WordPress Plugin: Contact Coldform : Perishable Press

Welcome to the homepage for Contact Coldform, a secure, lightweight, flexible contact form with plenty of options and squeaky clean markup. Coldform blocks spam while making it easy for your visitors to contact you from your WordPress-powered website. The comprehensive Settings Page makes it easy to take full control with plenty of options and several built-in themes for styling the form. Coldform delivers everything you need and nothing you don’t — no frills, no gimmicks, just pure contact-form satisfaction. Now available at the WP Plugin Directory!

Overview

Plug-n-play: use shortcode or template tag to display Coldform anywhere
Sweet emails: Coldform sends descriptive, well-formatted messages in plain-text
Safe and secure: Coldform blocks spam and filters malicious content
Ultra-clean code: lightweight, standards-compliant, semantic, valid HTML markup
Fully customizable: easy to configure and style from the Coldform Settings page

Features

Slick, toggling-panel Settings Page makes it easy to customize and style Coldform
Style Coldform using built-in “coldskins” or upload some custom CSS
Provides template tag to display Coldform anywhere in your theme
Provides shortcode to display Coldform on any post or page
Displays customizable confirmation message to the sender

Anti-spam & Security

Captcha: Coldform includes challenge question/answer (w/ option to disable for users)
Bot trap: hidden input field further reduces automated spam
Firewall: secure form processing protects against bad bots and malicious input
User-friendly: same-page error messages to help users complete required fields

Customize Everything

Includes option to enable users to receive carbon copies
Coldform message includes IP, host, agent, and other user details
Customizable form-field captions, error messages, and success message
Includes three built-in themes “coldskins” to style, or
Style the Coldform with your own custom CSS
Option to add a custom prefix to the subject line
Option to disable the captcha for registered users

Clean Codes

Coldform brings delicious code on every front:

Squeaky-clean PHP: every line like a fine wine
Crispy-clean markup: valid, semantic source code with proper formatting
Shiny-clean emails: Coldform emails deliver descriptive, well-formatted content
Better performance: conditional loading of styles only when Coldform is displayed

More Features

Works perfectly without JavaScript.
Option to load CSS and custom styles only when/where Coldform is displayed
Option to reset default settings
Options to customize many aspects of the form
Options to customize success, error, and spam messages
Option to enable and disable CSS styles

Installation and Usage:

Typical plugin install: upload, activate, and customize in the WP Admin.

Unzip and upload the entire directory to your “plugins” folder and activate
Use the shortcode to display Coldform on any post or page, or:
Use the template tag to display the Coldform anywhere in your theme.
Visit the Coldform Settings Page to configure your options and for more info.

Shortcode: [coldform]

Template tag:

<?php if (function_exists('contact_coldform_public')) contact_coldform_public(); ?>

For more information, visit the Coldform Settings page and readme.txt file.

Coldform Screenshots

Coldform Demos & Examples

Check out the Coldform Demo. Feel free to send a test message to check out the formatting of the success message. Also check out the error functionality by omitting any required field. Also, listed below are examples of Coldform “in the wild”.

Live Examples:

If you use the Coldform on your site, share a link and I’ll add it here. Thanks! :)

Coldform Download

Download Coldform from the WP Plugin Directory:

Download Contact Coldform

Alternate/Previous Versions

160 Responses

Tyler Abell – April 29, 2011

I am using this on my design studio, I love it. I like it better than gravity forms. This is more simple and allows easy customization and better integration into my theme.

Thanks man!
Lydia – May 8, 2011

I’d really appreciate some assistance. I configured my form on my coldform wp admin page. I went to the html tab on the page I want to insert a cold form put in  into the section I want the form…..nothing.

What am I doing wrong?
Here’s the page. I’m trying to put it down where it says “If you answered Yes to any of these questions email now to find out about availability for personal consulting.”

Thanks!
Jessica – May 18, 2011

Hey, Question from a noob here…
I have just checked my e-mail but the test message i sent wasn’t there. Although, i did get a message on my website and it said that the message was sucessfully sent. What could be the problem?
Ben – May 18, 2011

I downloaded four different contact form plugins to see which one I liked the best. This was the first one I tried, and I feel no need to even try the others. I was a bit disappointed the styling of the form didn’t look good right out of the box, but downloading one of your Coldskins fixed that lickety-split! Thanks for a great plugin.