Forms, without a plugin

Text, email, phone, long text, choice and checkbox fields.

The form builder: a form's fields in order, each with its type and whether it is required.

A form builder

Fields in order, required where you say.

Emailed to you, kept only if you want

The messages sent through the site's forms, in a list.
Each message reaches you by email, with an optional reply to the sender. Keeping it in the admin too is your choice.
One message from a form, with the sender's answers.
The email settings: sending through a mail server (SMTP), the address mail comes from, and where notifications go.

SMTP or Resend

Resend's web API works on hosts that block SMTP. A test button tells you it works before a client finds out it doesn't.

Spam without a CAPTCHA

A hidden field, a timing check and a per-sender limit.

Making a form

In Forms, a new form starts with a name, an email and a message field. Add short text, email, phone, long text, a list of choices or a tick box, put them in order and mark which are required. Then put it on any page with the Form block, beside its words or under them.

A form belongs to one language, so a site in two languages has one for each. A page copied into another language brings its form with it, as that language's.

A form's settings for when it is sent: button text, thank-you message, email me each message, and a reply to the visitor.

When a message is sent

Write your own thank-you message and button text, or keep the usual ones in the form's language. Each message can be emailed to you, and the visitor can get an automatic reply that you write.

Kept, or only emailed

A form keeps nothing a visitor writes until you turn on Keep messages here: each message is only emailed to you, and nothing of it is stored on your server. If email can't be sent, the visitor is asked to try again rather than thanked for a message that went nowhere.

Turn it on and messages are kept in the admin as well, with the page they were sent from, whether or not email works. New ones are marked, and the Overview shows how many are unread. Reply by email from the message, or download them all as a spreadsheet (CSV).

Either way, the sender's IP address is never stored: the spam limit uses a salted hash of it.

Next: An admin that's nice to be in

Its own design, light or dark.

The admin