I have decided that I would like to have a spiffy form for visitors to fill out when they e-mail me. Just a simple thing to gather a bit more information on what kind of service someone might be after. This way I can be more prepared when I get back in touch with them. Once again, I find myself wading through the many plug-ins that are available. As always, I begin my search by going to the WordPress plugins page.

Contact Form ][: Sounded like a nice plug-in with a simple to use form. I didn’t try it. Here’s why: (this is a direct quote from the developer’s site)

Bugs - Features - Support
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One word: No.

I offer this plug-in as-is. I don’t have time (for now) to fix bugs,
add features, help you, etc. I will, however accept and merge
patches that successfully address issues and/or limitations. Folks who
donate substantial amounts of money for my time will receive support.
Freeloaders won’t.

This is how open source works. You’re on your own. If you’re willing to help,
you’ll make me and other users of the plug-in happy. Freeloaders looking for
support will simply be ignored. Case closed.

It’s OK to ask for donations, but to call people who don’t ‘freeloaders’ is a tad rude. This is exactly what open source is not. Unfortunately, at this point, I don’t even care how good the plug-in may be. Go get a job with Microsoft.

Accessible and Secure Contact Form: This is a very nice contact form. It is very easy to configure and works right out of the box. There are a bunch of pre-made themes to choose from or you can customize your own. The only thing it doesn’t have is a way to save the info in a spreadsheet.

Secure Form Mailer: This plug-in allows for more customization of the fields. You can choose between using their already made standard form or you can customize the fields however you want. In order to customize the fields you have to manually enter the field set information which could be confusing for some. Again, there is no way to store info in a spreadsheet.

There are a couple more forms plug-ins available, but I didn’t feel like looking at any more for now. If you need a basic form any of the two I looked at will work just fine. If you want a form that has a lot more features I suggest using the cforms II plug-in. You can see it in action on the Contact page.