=== Contact Form by ContactUs === Contributors: contactus.com Stable tag: 3.2 Requires at least: 3.4.2 Tested up to: 3.8 Donate link: Tags: contact form, contact, contact form plugin, contact form to email, contact tab, contact us, contact us button, contact form button, contact form CAPTCHA, easy contact form, contact form builder, contact form integration, demo request form, contact us button tab, contact us form, contact page, contact us page, contacts, contact form autoresponder, ContactUs.com Form, customer support form, feedback form, contact manager, contact form database, contact form shortcode, contact form short code, customizable contact form, quote request form, widget License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Flexible and fast contact forms. We’re WordPress evangelists and have built tons of customization options to build a supercharged contact form. == Description == **In less than five minutes,** you can be up and running with a contact form on your WordPress website. Our contact forms are mobile optimized to increase conversions, focused on fighting spam, and we’ve got quick customization options for beginner admins and advanced features for code ninjas. When you use our contact form solution, you can also get alerts via SMS, email or direct the signups to 3rd party apps like MailChimp, Constant Contact, Google Docs, Zoho, SugarCRM, and many more. In short, we'll supercharge your contact form and make it easy to manage the submissions! [vimeo http://vimeo.com/76561638] When you download and install our plugin, you’ll be prompted to create an account, which will give you free access to our integrated contact management app hosted by ContactUs.com. Our web app also has additional customization options for admins who are creating a contact form, and we’re always adding new features to make your lead generation and contact management efforts easier and more effective. **Examples of Short Codes below** * Default Inline Contact Form Shortcode: [show-contactus.com-form] * Specific Inline Contact Form Shortcode: [show-contactus.com-form formkey="FORM KEY HERE" version="inline"] * Specific Tab Contact Form Shortcode [show-contactus.com-form formkey="FORM KEY HERE" version="tab"] > **User Support:** > > We try to provide the best user support we can for our users and their contact forms. > > * View some of our Frequently-Asked Questions for contact forms on ContactUs.com [here](http://www.contactus.com/frequently-asked-questions/). > * View our contact form user support forum [here](http://help.contactus.com/home). > * Submit a support ticket [here](http://help.contactus.com/anonymous_requests/new). If you have any contact form questions we're here to help! > * [Find tutorials on our YouTube channel](http://www.youtube.com/user/ContactUsCom). **Flexible Contact Forms with Clients Across the World** The contact form plugin can be used for multiple uses such as: simple “Contact Us” contact form, Support contact form, a Price Quote Contact Form, Demo Request contact form, Newsletter signup form, “Advertise with Us” contact form, a Customer Feedback contact form, Request a Consultation contact form, and a Suggestion form. Contact forms powered by the plugin are currently used by lawyers, doctors, wedding vendors, real estate agents, home contractors, online stores, offline retail, insurance agents, web software companies, independent consultants, marketing agencies, advertising agencies, PR agencies, tour operators, florists, writers, designers, tutors, bands and musicians, accountants, financial planners, church groups, non-profits, blogs, web publishers, and many different types of websites. **Our Floating Tab and Quick Install Shortcodes** The most popular implementation of the contact form plugin places a callout tab overlay onto the margins of your website so that it’s visible on every page. The callout contact form tab, using “Contact Us” as the default text (although there are options for additional text), opens up the hosted contact form created by this plugin. (More about our contact form callout tabs [here](http://www.contactus.com/callout-tabs/) ). Additionally, webmasters can decide to place their contact form “inline” directly onto specified pages of your website. Lastly, WordPress developers can also place shortcodes on specific pages and posts to call the contact form. **Users can select different contact form and callout tab templates from within the plugin.** You can manage even more customizations for you contact form from inside your free ContactUs.com account, which is automatically created for you upon installing your plugin and registering your account. Lastly, from your ContactUs.com account, you’ll be able to manage your delivery options for your contact form, whether to direct form signups to an email address, receive an SMS alert, or post inquiry information to a 3rd party software tools like MailChimp, Zoho, Hubspot and Google Docs. **Tools to Get You Started with our Contact Form Plugin** Our Contact Form Plugin offers these options within the plugin: * Contact Form with choice of contact form designs * Callout contact form Tab with choice of callout tab – text and color * * Name, Email and Message fields for your contact form * Different implementation paths for your contact form (callout tab + form, inline form) * Include the ability to place a short code for a specific contact form * Choice of which website pages and posts to include the contact form * Instant notification emails upon contact form submission * Auto-responder email with default text * * Confirmation page with default text * Note: The asterisk (*) Signifies that this contact form feature can be further customized (outside of the plugin) from within your free [ContactUs.com account](http://www.contactus.com/login/) **Additional Customization for Contact Forms and Contact Management within the ContactUs.com web app** From within your free ContactUs.com account that is integrated with your contact form plugin, you’ll be able to further customize your form with advanced functionality: * Choose the placement of the callout contact form tab within a page (right, left, top, bottom or each corner) * Customize the tooltip text that appears upon hovering over the callout tab * Create or upload a custom contact form tab (so you can use alternative text besides “Contact Us”) * Run A/B optimization experiments of callout contact form tabs and form templates * Modify text in the email auto responder for each contact form * Modify text in the confirmation page each contact form * Modify the headline and call-to-action each contact form * Modify the button text each contact form * Add CAPTCHA protection to any of your contact forms * Add your Google Analytics code onto the contact form and confirmation page * Send your contact form submission data to 3rd party tools you already use, such as Google Docs, Zoho CRM, Constant Contact, MailChimp, Vertical Response, SendGrid, Emma, Sendy, GetResponse, ActiveCampaign, SugarCRM, Hubspot, Tactile CRM, Highrise, Capsule, and others (see http://www.contactus.com/3rd-party-software-integrations/ for a list of supported tools) * Modify your contact form mobile settings to automatically show a mobile-optimized contact form to mobile visitors * Extend your contact form to Facebook with our Facebook app * Include social media links and icons **Finally, powerful contact management tools: **your integrated ContactUs.com account provides** * Track contact form submissions inside of your secure, cloud-based contact management database * Take notes on individual submissions * View overall submission stats (form views, submissions, segmentation by devices) * Gain detailed contact form analytics on each submission (referral source, pages visited, time on site, new/existing visitor) * Add our lead qualification API * Receive retargeting alerts when people who previously submitted your contact form come back to your website > **Legal** > > * [Privacy & Security](http://www.contactus.com/privacy-security/) > * [Terms of Service](http://www.contactus.com/terms-of-service/) > * [DMCA Policy](http://www.contactus.com/dmca-policy/) > * [SPAM Complaint](http://www.contactus.com/spam-complaint/) Follow for new product updates from ContactUs.com: * [Blog](http://www.contactus.com/blog/) * [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ContactUscom) * [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ContactUsCom) == Installation == 1. Log into your WordPress.org account as an administrator. 2. Go to the “Plugins” section from the side panel, and choose “Add New”. 3. Search for “ContactUs.com Contact Form Plugin” to find the ContactUs.com Contact Form Plugin, and choose to install. 4. WordPress will automatically install the plugin into your account. 5. Once completed, go to your list of plugins (bottom of your side panel), and choose to “Activate”. 6. After the plugin is activated, open the ContactUs.com plugin. 7. Log into your ContactUs.com account from inside the plugin to connect accounts, and then you’re done! Detailed instructions, which screenshots, on how to implement the ContactUs.com Wordpress can be found here. == Frequently Asked Questions == Most installation-related questions can be answered from the ContactUs.com Help Desk at http://help.contactus.com ContactUs.com is part of an overall lead generation and lead management system. It's not just a front-end form. For registered ContactUs.com users, the settings for your form can be set within the ContactUs.com client admin. If you aren't a registered user, you will need to sign up for free at ContactUs.com form here. You will then log into the ContactUs.com client admin in order to set-up and customize the form and form settings. Below are links to answer additional questions about: * Logging into you ContactUs.com account (here) * Setting up a new form (here) * Managing your leads (here) == Screenshots == 1. Wide variety of tab templates to choose from 2. Example of a live tab button 3. Example of a live tab form window 4. You can configure a follow up email 5. This is how our Facebook App looks 6. Dashboard view of contact analytics and lead statistics 7. Form Settings and Third Party Integrations 8. Form Settings & Dashboard Buttons 9. Advanced: Shortcodes & Php Snippets == Changelog == = 3.2 = * NEW : Added Go to Third Party Integrations button * NEW : Added Go to Dashboard button * NEW : Added Go to Configure Form button * NEW : Added Go to Configure Tab button * NEW : Added Go to Detailed Reports button * NEW : Added API Integration Upgrade * Renamed Tabs: Form Placement tab and Form Settings tab. * *Launch date 13.12.2013* = 3.1.1 = * Changed PopUp library, now using ColorBox * *Launch date 29.11.2013* = 3.1 = * NEW : Ability to configure 3rd party delivery options * NEW : Go to my Form Control Panel button * NEW : Shortcodes Tab page * NEW : Plugin Documentation page * NEW : Quick video tutorials * Bug Fix: Looking for a dafault form when previous users login * Bug Fix: Form settings -> page selection: default form is now preselected * Other Minor Bug Fixes * *Launch date 15.11.2013* = 3.0 = * NEW : Ability to choose Form and Tab Templates on SignUp * NEW : Manage Multiple Forms * NEW : Form Templates Manager in plugin settings * NEW : Tab Templates Manager in plugin settings * NEW : Shortcodes for multiple Forms and Tabs * NEW : Php Snippets for Advanced Users * NEW : Plugin Look and Feel * Minor Bug Fixes * *Launch date 02.10.2013* = 2.5.5 = * Resolved minor sign up issues * *Launch date 21.08.2013* = 2.5.4 = * NEW: Button Tab by default at first time * Fixed: Validation for required data * *Launch date 21.08.2013* = 2.5.3 = * ***NEW : Plugin Look and Feel*** * Bug Fix: Minor url encode issues on sign up * *Launch date 29.07.2013* = 2.5.2 = * ***NEW : Most form templates are now responsive design (with minimums and maximums for best appearance)*** * Bug Fix: Minor javascript issues * Udated: Using wp core jQuery UI * *Launch date 12.07.2013* = 2.5.1 = * NEW : One-step activation process * Simplified: Signup process so that initial password is auto-generated * Removed: Requirement for separate activation via email * Bug Fix: Our Button Tab javascript file is located before the body tag, the right way * *Launch date 05.07.2013* = 2.5 = * NEW : CUSTOM Form Settings. Choose which page(s) to place your contact form * Bug Fix: UI compatibility issue in older WordPress versions * *Launch date 21.05.2013* = 2.0.1 = * Bug Fix: Form Settings - Inline Form Page Version was not assigning a variable correctly. This has been resolved * *Launch date 30.04.2013* = 2.0 = * NEW : One-Step Registration. Sign up directly from our plugin * NEW : Instant Activation. Check your email after registration * NEW : Easy Login. Connect your account for future sessions * NEW : Form Settings. Update main form settings within the plugin * *Launch date 29.04.2013* = 1.0b = * First version available to WordPress community * *Launch date 13.03.2013* == Upgrade Notice == = 3.2 = New version available, update NOW! = 3.1.1 = New version available, update NOW! = 3.1 = New awesome features in this version now available, update NOW! = 3.0 = New awesome features in this version now available, update NOW! = 2.5.5 = New version available, update NOW! = 2.5.4 = New version available, update NOW! = 2.5.3 = New version available, update NOW! = 2.5.2 = New version available, update NOW! NEW - Most form templates are now responsive design (with minimums and maximums for best appearance) = 2.5.1 = New version available, update NOW! = 2.5 = New version available, update NOW! = 2.0.1 = Bug Fix: This has been resolved. = 2.0 = New cool features added to the V.2 plugin. = 1.0b = First version available to WordPress community.