A simple and effective WordPress contact form & SMTP plugin. Compatible with best themes out there, is both a secure and responsive contact form p …
As of April 2026, Contact Form & SMTP Plugin for WordPress by PirateForms is a WordPress smtp plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 223 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.8M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 12% this week. Top alternative: WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most….
Pirate Forms is no longer under active development. We recommend using WPForms because it is the most beginner-friendly WordPress contact form plugin in the market.
In Sep 2018, Pirate Forms was acquired by WPForms. We’re retiring Pirate Forms in favor of the modern form builder by WPForms, so users can have access to best user experience and more powerful WordPress form features.
Stay in touch with your visitors very easily. Pirate Contact Forms offers you a great and friendly contact form for your website.
This is an easy-to-use WordPress contact form with captcha plugin. To create a contact form you just need to use the [pirate_forms] shortcode or use the WordPress contact form widget.
Time-saving features available in the FULL WPForms version:
- Unlimited Forms
- Email Marketing I…
About a month ago, contact form entries stopped coming in via email and I just checked the system and it displayed “Mail sending failed! (Could not instantiate mail function.)” in the Mail Status page on ‘edit.php?post_type=pf_contact’
I haven’t changed any settings and wasn’t sure of where I could get any support from so I can keep using it.
Thanks, Luke
It works fine as it does what it is supposed to.
This is a great little add-on to get feedback, or other sorts of forms to your WordPress based sites.
Ha funcionado perfectamente, gracias
Very easy to use and install. A great plugin!
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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