Essential Form, the most basic and lightweight contact form plugin for WordPress

Note that in the title of this post, I say contact form plugin, and not "form plugin."

You see, I'm sure that like you, on certain occasions, a web project did not require fancy tricks with the forms, because at most a basic contact page had to be implemented.

As we are traditionalists and we do not need to reinvent the wheel, as most of us would do, we would install a Contact Form 7 or a Ninja Forms or whatever we like the most.

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But we are now with the same thing as always, without resources, without adding very powerful plugins for very specific functionalities... We know it.

For a basic contact form with “name, email and send query” do we have to load an entire “suite of forms”?

Maybe not, it clearly depends on whether we know if in the future we will need more and more complex forms on the same site. Meanwhile…

What if we stick to the most basic things, that it doesn't add unnecessary CSS and JS files, and it's simple, secure and spam-proof?

Well, for this same site, I found the lightest contact form plugin in the world:

You activate it and you can now add its shortcode. To show how simple, limited and sufficient it can be in certain cases, here is the link to my contact page in CachitosWP, and the shortcode snippet with the location parameters of the field labels:

[essential_form label_name="Name" label_emal="Mail" label_message="Message" button_text="Send" agreement_text="Acceptance of privacy policy" success_message="Got it, talk to you soon!"]

Note: in the example snippet on the official WordPress plugin page there is a typo, use mine better if you try it. Health!