by Jeff Starr
5 (32 reviews)
Contact Form X
Displays a user-friendly contact form that your visitors will love. Lightweight, fast, secure, accessible (ADA/WCAG compliant).
Compatible with WP 6.9
v2.9.2
Current Version v2.9.2
Updated 2 months ago
Last Update on 12 Nov, 2025
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- Version
- 2.9.2
- Last Updated
- Nov 12, 2025
- Requires WP
- 4.7+
- Tested Up To
- 6.9
- PHP Version
- 5.6.20 or higher
- Author
- Jeff Starr
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Contact Form X
The plugin provides five form styles (themes): Default, Classic, Micro, Synthetic, and Dark. The first three themes (Default, Classic, Micro) employ minimal, mostly structural styles. One of the benefits of using the minimal styles is that they allow your WordPress theme to set the form's appearance. And that's good because it helps keep your pages looking visually consistent across your site. The last two themes (Synthetic, Dark) go much further with the stylings. The Synthetic and Dark styles will override any/most CSS applied via your WordPress theme. So if the contact form looks weird or whatever when trying Default, Classic, or Micro, try either Synthetic or Dark should do the trick.
By default, Contact Form X loads its assets (CSS and JavaScript) on every front-end page. So if you display a contact form in your sidebar, it will work on all pages. Some sites prefer to have a "Contact" page, and then just display the contact form in one location. In this scenario, it doesn't make sense to include plugin assets on every front-end page. So CFX provides a setting called "Targeted Loading" (under the Advanced tab). There you can enter the URL of the page that displays the contact form. That way, the plugin will know to load assets only on that page. This is an excellent way to help keep things optimized for performance and so forth.
In the plugin settings, visit the "Appearance" tab. There you will see the first option, "Form Style". That tells you which styles are used for the form. So to change the button color, scroll down to locate the styles that you are using (e.g., Default, Classic, Micro, et al). To change the color of the submit button, add the following line to whichever styles you are using: #cfx .cfx-button { background: red !important; } Change the red to whatever color you want. Can use hex values, rgba, or any valid CSS properties. Save changes and done.
Visit the Advanced tab and enable "Extra Email Info" option. Save changes and done.
The recommended way to defer or async load JavaScript is to use a trusted plugin, such as this one.
It is possible to set a maxlength attribute on the Message field, a textarea. To do so, add the following code via (child) theme or custom plugin: function contactformx_textarea_maxlength($chars) { return 500; } add_filter('contactformx_textarea_maxlength', 'contactformx_textarea_maxlength'); You can adjust the number of characters by changing 500 to any number.
Enable the Advanced option, "Widget Shortcodes". Save changes and done.
By default, the Google reCaptcha field is displayed in English. To change that to some other language, first locate the two-digit abbreviation for your language here. Then add the following code to your theme (or child theme) functions.php, or add via simple custom plugin: function contactformx_recaptcha_querystring($query) { return 'en'; } add_filter('contactformx_recaptcha_querystring', 'contactformx_recaptcha_querystring'); Notice where it says en, that is the two-character language code you want to replace with your own. Then save changes and done.
In CFX v1.9, sent emails optionally may be stored in the database as custom post types. Before CFX v1.9, email data was stored in its own/separate database table. So that means users who are upgrading from previous versions to 1.9 or better will have an unused email table in their database. It won't hurt or affect anything, but you may want to empty or remove it to help save space. Important: the following steps are for users of CFX v1.9+ who have upgraded from a previous version. Do NOT follow these steps if using CFX versions less than 1.9, OR if you never have used any version of CFX less than 1.9. To empty the old/unused CFX database table: Log in to WordPress as admin-level user Create a new page and leave in Draft status Add [contactformx_legacy_empty_table] to the page Preview the page on the frontend Click the link to Empty the CFX database table After seeing the success message, delete the draft page and shortcode To remove the old/unused CFX database table: Log in to WordPress as admin-level user Create a new page and leave in Draft status Add [contactformx_legacy_drop_table] to the page Preview the page on the frontend Click the link to Empty the CFX database table After seeing the success message, delete the draft page and shortcode Using a temporary/draft page for the shortcode and then deleting it afterwards ensures that only YOU are making changes to the database. It is important to not display either of the above shortcodes publicly.
According to Google docs, it's fine to hide the reCaptcha badge (the little blue badge that displays in the corner of the page), as long as the official requirements are met. So if you've got the requirements covered, it's fine to add the following CSS to hide the reCaptcha badge: .grecaptcha-badge { visibility: hidden; } You can append that bit of CSS to your chosen form styles under the Appearance tab, in the CFX settings. Save changes and done. Or alternately, you can add the CSS using a custom plugin, or via any other method.