While blog readers can contact you through your blog comments those really are designed to discuss the specific blog post and those comments are public.  If a visitor wants to contact you directly then they need your phone number or email address.  The best way to arrange this is via  a contact form. A contact form is a popular method as it hides the email address in the form, providing more security. Contact forms can also be set up to allow you to require certain data be provides and allow you to track where the meail came from in case you have multiple sites and contact forms.

Hide Your Email From The Evil SPAM Harvesters

Harvesters are web automated robots or bots which search the web looking to collect email addresses.  Once collected, these email addresses are provided /sold top companies that will essentially send you plenty of spam messages.  These automated programs can find email addresses in the most unsuspecting places, especially in your blog. There are a wide range variety of WordPress Plugins which will allow you to post your email address yet “hide” them so they are visible to the reader while at the same time hidden from the email harvesters.

You should explore these plugins before you ever post your email address on your blog:

• Email Immunizer
• Anti-Email Spam WordPress Plugin
• EmailShroud WordPress Plugin
• Transpose Email Plugin
• eMail Unicode Konverter WordPress Plugin

Popular Contact Form Plugins

Contact Form 7- Over 400,000 downloaders can’t be wrong!  Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. It has been translated into dozens of languages!

Cforms WordPress Plugin - This plugin allows for multiple contact forms throughout your blog, or even more than one contact form on the same page. It uses AJAX, but degrades gracefully for non-AJAX/Javascript browsers. It features a lot of customization and a clean layout.

Enhanced Contact Form is another “improved” contact form. Additional features include the referring page on the site, original referrer, and other small details that can help you learn more about how the visitor accessed your blog.

Easy Contact - Easy Contact features spam-reduction measures, GUI-based customization, carbon copying option, and more. Emails include tracked referrer information, including keywords for search-based landings, user agent, and IP address.  Easy Contact includes newer WordPress features (e.g., shortcode) and greatly improved form security.

Contact Form ][ -  If you want the absolute basic contact form, use Contact Form ][. It’s simple to configure and lightweight.  However, it does not have the tools of some of these other plugins.  No spam prevention and it’s restricted to a simple form.

cformsII - This plugin has the ultimate flexibility, multiple forms on one page, complex forms, ability to backup forms - everything you can think of.

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