You should always add a contact form to your website, you never know when your visitors might wat to get in contact with you. Adding one is pretty easy. First off, make sure you’ve got one of two recommended plugins installed:

1. Jetpack by WordPress.com
2. Contactform7

Jetpack by WordPress.com

Jetpack by WordPress.com offers a wide variety of extra features for your WordPress website, a contact form being one of them. To add the Jetpack contact form to your website:

1. Login to your WordPress admin panel
2. Make sure the Jetpack plugin is activated
3. Go to Jetpack → Settings
4. Locate the “Contact Form” and click the Activate link
5. Go to Pages → Add New and create a new page, e.g “Contact”
6. Click the Add Contact Form button
7. Set up your contact form and click the Add this form to my post button
8. Click the Publish button to publish your new page

That’s it. The shortcode that was added to the post editor will display a nice contact form on your newly created page.

Contactform7

Contactform7 is probably the biggest (free) contact form plugin in the WordPress Plugin Repository. It’s actively maintained and offers a wide variety of options. To add a Contactform7 contact form to your website:

1. Login to your WordPress admin panel
2. Make sure the Contactform7 plugin is activated
3. Go to Contact → Add new
4. Click the Add New button
5. Create your form and click the Save button
6. A shortcode will now appear underneath the title of your form
7. Copy this shortcode
8. Go to Pages → Add New and create a new page, e.g “Contact”
9. Past the shortcode into the post editor
10. Click the Publish button to publish your new page

That’s it. The shortcode you added to the post editor will display a nice contact form on your newly created page.