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Contact Coldform

Contact Coldform is a secure, lightweight and flexible contact form with plenty of options and squeaky clean markup.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.2
Current version20261101
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.2
Minimum stackWP 4.7 · PHP 5.6.20
Directory statusactive
Last directory update1 Nov 202616h ago
Active installations200Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.5 / 5 from 13 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Contact Coldform version 20261101 as active, updated 16h ago and tested up to WordPress 7.2.

Overview

About this plugin

Contact Coldform is 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 plugin settings make 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.

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Overview

  • Use shortcode or template tag to display Coldform anywhere
  • Coldform sends descriptive, well-formatted plain-text email
  • Safe and secure: Coldform blocks spam and malicious content
  • Lightweight, standards-compliant, semantic, valid HTML markup
  • Easy to configure and style from the Coldform Settings page

Features

  • Slick toggle-panel Settings Page makes it easy to customize
  • Style Coldform using built-in “coldskins” or use custom CSS
  • Use template tag to display Coldform anywhere in your theme
  • Use shortcode to display Coldform on any WP Post or Page
  • Displays customizable confirmation message to the sender

Anti-spam & Security

  • Anti-spam: Coldform includes optional challenge question
  • Bot trap: hidden input field further reduces automated spam
  • Solid security: protects against bad bots and malicious input
  • User-friendly error messages to help users complete the form

Customize Everything

  • Includes option to enable users to receive carbon copies
  • Coldform message includes IP, host, agent, and other details
  • Customize 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:

  • Standards-based code, built with the WordPress API
  • Valid, semantic source code with proper formatting
  • Coldform emails include descriptive, well-formatted content
  • Better performance: CSS loaded only when form is displayed

More Features

  • Works perfectly without JavaScript
  • 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
  • Works perfectly with or without Gutenberg Block Editor

Like Contact Coldform? Please give a 5-star rating, thank you!

Privacy

Contact Coldform enables visitors to send a message via contact form. Any information that the user enters into the form will be sent directly to the recipient(s) according to plugin settings. Each email message optionally includes the sender’s IP address, user agent, and other data (visit the plugin setting “Disable Data” to disable sending of IP address and other user data).

This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party location(s).

Contact Coldform is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author.

Support development

I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books:

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WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • contact form
  • email
  • mail
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.2
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.7 · PHP 5.6.20
Update activity1 Nov 202616h ago

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Version2026041720261101
WordPress compatibility7.17.2
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