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Straight answers to the questions people ask about WordPress contact forms — most of them about email that never arrived. Each one says what Mailbag does about it, and the pages marked Pro are about the paid add-on.

Email that doesn’t arrive

• Contact Form 7 not sending email: finding where it stops
• WordPress contact form not sending email: what to check, in order
• WordPress contact form emails going to spam: read the headers
• How to test whether WordPress can send email
• Setting Reply-To to the sender in a WordPress contact form
• Which From address a WordPress contact form should use
• An automatic reply from your WordPress contact form
• Sending contact form messages to more than one person

Keeping every entry

• Saving contact form submissions in the WordPress database
• Exporting contact form entries to a CSV file
• Contact form entries not showing in WordPress admin: why
• Duplicate contact form submissions: stopping the double click
• A GDPR consent checkbox on a WordPress contact form
• Deleting old contact form entries automatically
• Personal data requests for contact form entries in WordPress

Spam without puzzles

• Stopping contact form spam without a CAPTCHA
• How a contact form honeypot works in WordPress
• Adding Cloudflare Turnstile to a WordPress contact form
• Using hCaptcha on a WordPress contact form
• reCAPTCHA v3 on a WordPress contact form
• When the contact form’s CAPTCHA is down: failing open

Leaving Contact Form 7

• A Contact Form 7 alternative that saves your entries
• Switching from Contact Form 7 without losing a form
• Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA keys when you switch plugin

Building and placing forms

• Sending visitors to a thank-you page after the form
• Adding a contact form with a Gutenberg block
• Placing a contact form with a shortcode
• A WordPress contact form that works without JavaScript
• Why contact forms break behind a page cache
• What makes a WordPress contact form accessible
• A request a quote form for WordPress
• A call back request form for WordPress
• A newsletter signup form in WordPress
• Copying a contact form to another WordPress site
• A lightweight contact form plugin without jQuery

Mailbag Pro: newsletters, CRMs and webhooks

• Connecting a WordPress contact form to Mailchimp Pro
• Adding contact form leads to a Mailchimp audience Pro
• Sending WordPress contact form entries to Brevo Pro
• Connecting a WordPress form to Kit (formerly ConvertKit) Pro
• Sending WordPress form entries to MailerLite Pro
• Sending a WordPress contact form to ActiveCampaign Pro
• Sending WordPress form entries to HubSpot without its plugin Pro
• Sending WordPress contact form entries to a Zapier webhook Pro
• Sending a WordPress contact form to Make or n8n Pro
• When a WordPress form’s Mailchimp integration stops working Pro
• When a form integration disconnects and leads go missing Pro
• Retrying form submissions that failed to reach your CRM Pro
• Sending a contact form to your CRM without Zapier Pro
• A WordPress lead form that doesn’t drop leads Pro