how to create contact us page without wordpress plugin

how to create contact us page without plugin

Every wordpress site is need to contact us page for there website or blog. All the people use the wordpress plugin for creating the contact us page. When you install the wordpress plugin that will install some extra code to your wordpress site. After using wordpress plugin you need some customization in that plugin due to UI. You need R&D time and development time. Code for contact us page without plugin.

contact us page without plugin

In this article I will show how you can create the contact us page with out any wordpress plugin. Using following code you can create the contact us form very easily.

First create contact-us.php page in your wordpress theme folder and put following code in that file.

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01<?php
02/*
03Template Name: Contact Us
04*/
05if($_POST[sent]){
06 $error = "";
07 if(!trim($_POST[your_name])){
08 $error .= "<p>Please enter your name</p>";
09 }
10 if(!filter_var(trim($_POST[your_email]),FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)){
11 $error .= "<p>Please enter a valid email address</p>";
12 }
13 if(!trim($_POST[your_message])){
14 $error .= "<p>Please enter a message</p>";
15 }
16 if(!trim($_POST[your_subject])){
17 $error .= "<p>Please enter a message</p>";
18 }
19 if(!$error){
20 $email = wp_mail(get_option("admin_email"),trim($_POST[your_name])." sent you a message from ".get_option("blogname"),stripslashes(trim($_POST[your_message])),"From: ".trim($_POST[your_name])." <".trim($_POST[your_email]).">\r\nReply-To:".trim($_POST[your_email]));
21 }
22}
23?>
24<?php get_header(); ?>
25<div id="container">
26 <div id="content" role="main">
27 <?php if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
28 <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
29 <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
30 <div>
31 <?php if($email){ ?>
32 <p><strong>Message succesfully sent. I'll reply as soon as I can</strong></p>
33 <?php } else { if($error) { ?>
34 <p><strong>Your messange hasn't been sent</strong><p>
35 <?php echo $error; ?>
36 <?php } else { the_content(); } ?>
37 <form action="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" id="contact_me" method="post">
38 <input type="hidden" name="sent" id="sent" value="1" />
39 <div id="form">
40 <div id="lebel">Your Name (required)</div>
41 <div id="input-field"><input type="text" name="your_name" id="your_name" value="<?php echo $_POST[your_name];?>" /></div>
42 <div id="lebel">Your Email (required)</div>
43 <div id="input-field"><input type="text" name="your_email" id="your_email" value="<?php echo $_POST[your_email];?>" /></div>
44 <div id="lebel">Subject</div>
45 <div id="input-field"><input type="text" name="your_subject" id="your_subject" value="<?php echo $_POST[your_subject];?>" /></div>
46 <div id="lebel">Your Message(required)</div>
47 <div id="input-field"><textarea name="your_message" id="your_message"><?php echo stripslashes($_POST[your_message]); ?></textarea></div>
48 <div id="lebel"> </div>
49 <div id="input-field"><input type="submit" name = "send" value = "Send email" /></div>
50 </div>
51 
52 </form>
53 <?php } ?>
54 </div><!-- .entry-content -->
55 </div><!-- #post-## -->
56 <?php endwhile; ?>
57 </div><!-- #content -->
58</div><!-- #container -->
59<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
60<?php get_footer(); ?>

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Then go to your wordpress admin panel. Create page called contact us. In Right side panel you will find the “page attribute” section. From template drop down choose the Contact Us option. and create the contact us page.

contact us page without plugin
contact us page without plugin

WordPress uses the wp_mail() function for sending the email. all wordpress plugin also use the wp_mail() function for sending the email.

If you are having issues with sending the email with this function then you should use the different SMTP mail server for sending mail.

For sending email through SMTP  in detail you should check the following article.

https://purabtech.in/send-smtp-email-wordpress-plugin/

With this code you can write your own CSS for styling the contact form as per your wordpress theme. If you are having any issues or question about this script then please write to me.

All wordpress websites has requirement to add the contact form in there website. We always searching for wordpress contact form code, wordpress simple contact form, wordpress contact form with captcha, wordpress default contact form, wordpress contact form without plugin, wordpress contact form not sending email, wordpress custom contact form, best wordpress contact form solution. We can easily add the contact form without using any wordpress plugin very easily. You can use the my code snippet in your wordpress theme and you will be able to add the wordpress contact form.

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7 thoughts on “how to create contact us page without plugin”

  4. Thanks for sharing this article. But it would have been great if you could have shared how exactly the “Contact Us” page will look. And will i need to write something also while i am creating the page ?

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  6. Great tips to create a contact us page without using any plugin, I just need to add one thing here , try to add your email as image so that you did not start getting spam email.

    it really help you to protect your email address.

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