How Do I Add A Contact Form On WordPress.com?

by Brian Groce on March 10, 2010

From the WordSprung Blog:

Q: How Do I Add A Contact Form On WordPress.com?

A: On the standard version of WordPress.com your only built in option is to use the “[contact-form]” short code.

To do this, place “[contact-form]” (without the quotes) in your page where you’d like it to appear and save it.

Once saved you’ll see a form show up that looks similar to your standard comments form. Note that this will look differently to anyone who is logged into WordPress.com.

WordPress.com Contact Form (logged in view)

WordPress.com Contact Form (logged out view)

If that doesn’t suit your needs and you’re after a more customizable solution you’ll need to look for hosted form solutions of which there are various options. And of course, you can always opt to go the self-hosted WordPress.org route.

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About The Author: Brian Groce

Brian Groce is a native Indianapolis resident and is the President & CEO of Watershed Studio, a web design & social media marketing firm located in the historic Stutz building in downtown Indianapolis. Brian is also a co-founder of Indy Media School and the man behind the curtain of all things Surge Bucket Media related. But first and foremost, Brian is the husband of his beautiful wife Amanda and the father of a house full of little ones.

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deggyphoto March 18, 2010 at 2:12 pm

I have followed the instructions, and this does not work at all.
What am i doing wrong?

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Brian Groce March 18, 2010 at 2:40 pm

It appears that you’re running WordPress on your own server, and not a WordPress.com hosted account, correct? If so, you should grab a plugin like Contact Form 7 and use that instead.

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