Safe & User-Friendly: Ajax Contact Form

Ajax Contact Form is a simple, lightweight contact form plugin for WordPress that focuses on three areas: accessibility, spam protection, and ease of use.

Accessibility

One of the notable features of Ajax Contact Form is its accessibility. The form works even when visitors have JavaScript disabled, which isn't the case with all contact form plugins.

Field validation follows WCAG guidelines when handling user input, meaning error messages are presented in ways that assistive technology can interpret.

This makes the plugin relevant for websites that need to prioritise accessibility, such as those serving visitors with visual impairments or government and education sites with compliance requirements.

Multiple Layers of Spam Protection

Spam remains a persistent problem for contact forms, and Ajax Contact Form provides several protection options:

A honeypot field is included by default. This invisible input field catches automated bots that fill in every field they encounter. If the honeypot is filled, the submission is blocked.

The plugin also uses cookie-based timing checks. If a form is submitted too quickly after the page loads, the submission is rejected on the assumption that humans don't complete forms in milliseconds.

Beyond these defaults, you can enable additional protection through external services like Cloudflare Turnstile or hCaptcha. You can also block submissions based on the visitor's country of origin.

Ajax Contact Form integrates with Maileroo's Email Verification API, which validates sender email addresses before accepting submissions. There's also an option to add challenge questions for additional human verification.

A logging feature tracks intercepted spam attempts, which helps identify which measures are working for your particular situation.

Simplicity and Ease of Use

Ajax Contact Form takes a minimalist approach rather than offering a full form builder. You can create multiple contact forms through a simple interface and insert them via the block editor or shortcode.

The settings are straightforward, which suits anyone who wants a basic contact form without configuration overhead.

Additional Features

The plugin includes several standard utilities:

• Autoresponder — send a confirmation email to the user after a successful submission
• Email notification for the site owner
• Email log / backup of all submissions
• The ability to track form submissions as events in your web analytics
• Compatibility with various SMTP plugins

Want to learn more? Visit the Ajax Contact Form website or install the plugin directly from the WordPress repository.

Limitations

Because it doesn't include an advanced form builder, the plugin isn't suitable for complex forms with many fields, conditional logic, or integrations with payment systems or CRMs. The developers acknowledge this and suggest larger form-building plugins for those use cases.

If you enable external spam protection (Turnstile or hCaptcha), you'll need to configure API keys. The basic honeypot and cookie protection work without configuration.

Users needing advanced design customisation or deep integrations will find the options limited.

Who Is Ajax Contact Form Best For?

This plugin suits small to medium-sized websites that need a standard contact form rather than surveys, order forms, or complex multi-step processes. It's also relevant for sites where accessibility matters or where spam has been a recurring problem.

For users who need more than basic contact functionality, a dedicated form builder would be a better fit.