A WordPress website provides a means to create community and communicate with your customers. Whether you’re a business, non-profit or an individual blogger – this is invaluable. But it’s not without its downsides. Among the biggest is in dealing with the inevitable WordPress spam that can arise from all corners of your website.

Gravity Forms is one of WordPress’s most popular form plugins, and our first choice to create a contact form. Below is a step-by-step guide to creating a contact form with Gravity Forms.

Josh Pollock is a longtime friend of WPShout, and an even-longer-time friend of WordPress itself. He’s also built what, it turns out, is an extremely cool form plugin, Caldera Forms.