Blogger Contact Form Widget

Finally, the day has come when all the bloggers using the Blogspot platform for blogging will not have to run for third-party solutions for adding a contact form on their blogger’s blog as now we have an official contact form for blogger.

From the past few weeks, we have noticed that Google is introducing many changes in different Google services like Google Maps, Android OS and Blogger.com.

The contact form widget is one of the major changes after the introduction of the new HTML editor in bloggers’ blog.

 

Blogger Contact Form New

 

How to Add Contact Form Widget in Blogger?

Adding official contact form widget to your blog is very simple and does not involve any coding or modification in templates. Just follow below simple steps below to add the contact form to your blog.

 

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Step 1: Go to your blogger dashboard, click on Layout, and then click on Add a Gadget as shown below.

 

Blogger Layout

 

Step 2: Now in add a gadget, browse to more gadgets and you will Contact form widget on first place. Just click on it and you will see configuration screen for contact form.

 

Blogger Contact Form Widget

 

Step 3: Now in the contact form configuration screen, just name your contact form as per your need and requirement. Here we are naming it Contact Us. Now just click save.

 

Blogger Contact form Configuration

 

Now you have added your blogger contact form successfully, it’s now turn to visit your blog and have a look at newly installed contact form widget. Our contact form as per our template looks like the below screenshot.

Blogger Contact Form

 

Now whenever someone contacts you through this contact form, you will get an email notice in your Gmail with subject line [Your Blog Name]New message received.

 

Advantage of Official Contact Form Widget

 

1. No need to add any coding to your blog templates.
2. Less chance of crashing.
3. Reliable as it is from Blogger itself.
4. Fully adaptable, you can place it at any location in your blog.

 

Disadvantage of Contact Form Widget

 

1. No captcha support, so spam email can increase.
2. No attachment can be added at present.
3. Does not support HTML


This is how you can simply add your contact form widget to your blogger blog. Though currently this widget needs some improvement and spam control but all over it is a good initiative by bloggers and most of the new bloggers will be very happy to use this widget. Hope you like this article and will recommend it to your new blogging friends.

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