If you don’t have a contact form on your blog, I highly recommend setting one up. I receive a surprising number of e-mails through my contact form.
Many of those e-mails have been to ask how to set one up. Fortunately, if you have a WordPress blog, it’s super easy.
First, which WordPress hosting option do you have?
WordPress-Hosted Blog
If your web address is mytravelblog.wordpress.com or anythinghere.wordpress.com, then you have a WordPress-hosted blog. Fortunately, they’ve made setting up a contact form a snap for their customers. Simply:
- Login to your WP admin panel.
- Create a new page. Maybe call it “contact” or whatever you like.
- Drop this snippet into the body of the page:
[contact-form-7 404 "Not Found"] - You’re done!
Get the full scoop straight from the horse’s mouth here.
Self-Hosted Blog
If your web address is simply www.mytravelblog.com, then you probably have a self-hosted blog. There are a ton of contact form plugins for WordPress, but I use Doug Karr‘s. His page explains setting it up pretty well and I had no trouble at all setting it up on my site. I’ve also received zero spam through my contact form, so I can’t complain there.
Good luck!