ONW Simple Contact Form is a WordPress plugin which produces a very simple form which you can add to any page or post using a shortcode.  The form is not customizable, although you can alter the appearance with CSS.

It has fully integrated reCAPTCHA, or a very primitive CAPTCHA-like bot check, asks for a name, email address, and body text, and then emails all of it to the blog’s administrative email address.

Once you’ve downloaded the .zip folder with the link on this page, install it into your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory and activate it from the plugins menu of your dashboard.  Then, to insert the form into the desired page, simply click the ONW Simple Contact Form button in the pages/posts TinyMCE editor (the button looks like an opened envelope. Button introduced in v1.7). You may define overrides for recipient address and subject in the dialogue box that pops up, or you can use the defaults by leaving the pop-up box blank. This will insert the shortcode into the post at the cursor’s place. Alternatively, you can write the shortcode manually. It looks like this:

[onw_simple_contact_form subject=”%name% (%email%) sent an email your way” to_email=”email@example.com” onw_recaptcha=”on/off”]

in the editor (either visual or HTML mode).

Version 1.4.1 introduces full reCAPTCHA integration. To activate it, you need to go to reCAPTCHA.net and sign up for your free API keys, then put them into the proper fields on the settings page for ONW Simple Contact. Once you have entered the keys, you need to enable reCAPTCHA on the same page. You can also opt to enable or disable the reCAPTCHA feature in individual shortcodes by setting the ‘onw_recaptcha’ argument to ‘on’ or ‘off’. In v1.5, I fixed a bug that would turn off all bot check functions if you put neither ‘on’ or ‘off’ in the shortcode argument. Now, if you don’t put in one of the two, it will revert to the global settings.

In version 1.6, I added the ability to customize the subject of the emails sent.  You can do this either on the admin screen or in the shortcode itself by using the `subject` argument.  To insert the user’s name or email address, use %name% or %email%.

in v1.7 I added a TinyMCE button to insert the shortcode automatically.

In version 1.8 I added a new tab to the admin page that allows admins to change the text above the form, remove or change the fieldset and legend, and change the labels for the form’s fields.

In version 1.9 I added the ability to control the ‘theme’ of the reCAPTCHA plugin, as well as limited integration with a couple of reCAPTCHA plugins (WP-reCAPTCHA by Jorge Peña, and WP-reCAPTCHA-Library by Matt Walters). Whenever you update either of those two plugins (or when you update ONW Simple Contact Form), ONW Simple Contact Form syncs the API keys and the reCAPTCHA theme between the plugins (where applicable).

In version 2.0 I added full L10n support, including the tinyMCE button’s strings, as well as a honeypot field to further prevent spambots from submitting the form. Additionally, I added support for WordPress 3.0′s custom post types and multisite. Unfortunately, I had to disable cross-plugin support. I give a full explanation here.

A few additions and updates to come in the future:

• Full reCAPTCHA integration Added in v1.4.1
• User defined recipient (define the recipient email address with an attribute in the shortcode) Added in v1.2
• An admin panel (Added in v1.4.1) for design and label modification (Added in v1.8)
• I18n
• WP-reCAPTCHA integration (Added in v1.9 Removed in v2.0)
• Full L10n support (Added in v2.0)
• … We’re open for suggestions.