While wandering around on my Dashboard today, I noticed a “new” Plug-In I could get for the blog.\u00a0 I use a few, but I’m not a Plug-In hound, per se.\u00a0 This one looked interesting though, it’s titled Fast Secure Contact Form.\u00a0 There’s a lot to like in that title, and it incorporates Akismet, WordPress’s spam filter, which works very well.\u00a0 It also allows CAPTCHA, which I do not like and won’t employ unless Akismet doesn’t work well enough on it’s own (I have trouble seeing what letters I’m supposed to input, and I know I’m not alone in that frustration).\u00a0 I don’t have huge traffic here at the blog, and most of my visitors seem to be known to me.\u00a0 I did recently re-enable search engines, so that could change.\u00a0 For now, I’m going to figure I have humans checking in here, and you’re reasonable people.<\/p>\n
Why now and why a Contact Form?\u00a0 I’ve always used comments as the sole way to contact me on the blog, and that’s probably been enough.\u00a0 But I’ve wondered if it was.\u00a0 Once I saw this plug-in, I figured it was worth a try to enable another means of contacting me.<\/p>\n
It’s not particularly news-worthy unless other WordPress users on self-hosted sites want to add the plug-in.\u00a0 I’ve incorporated a basic implementation, but you can use at least four different forms, and use it to gather a lot of data — there’s a lot more configuration available than I’ve chosen to employ so far.\u00a0 If you’re looking for a robust comment form, this might be the plug-in for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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