Send E-mail
Add a contact form to any post or page by inserting [contact-form] in the post. Messages will be sent to the post’s author or any email address you choose.
Consider an alternative
Send E-mail shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 100+ sites and was last updated 15 years ago, and scores 25/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (100+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 15 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 3.1 (latest is 7.1)
How does it stack up?
Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & supportDaily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Send E-mail stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| akismet | >100 |
| contact | >100 |
| contact form | >100 |
| >100 | |
| i18n | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
About Send E-mail
From the official readme · v1.3Description
Add a contact form to any post or page by inserting [contact-form] in the post. Messages will be sent to the post’s author or any email address you choose.
Or add a contact form to a text widget. Messages will be sent to the email address set in your Settings -> General admin panel or any email address you choose.
Your email address is never shown, and the sender never learns it (unless you reply to the email).
As seen on WordPress.com.
This plugin was imported from Grunion Contact Form but it adds full internationalization using localized string from WordPress core.
An e-mail signature block was appended to the end of the e-mail message containing the sender’s name, email address, website and IP and delimited from the body of the message by a single line consisting of exactly two hyphens, followed by a space, followed by the end of line (“– \n”). This signature cut line allows software to automatically mark or remove the sig block.
Configuration
The [contact-form] shortcode has the following parameters:
-
to: A comma separated list of email addresses to which the messages will be sent.
If you leave this blank: contact forms in posts and pages will send messages to the post or page’s author; and
contact forms in text widgets will send messages to the email address set in Settings -> General.Example:
[contact-form to="you@me.com"]Example:
[contact-form to="you@me.com,me@you.com,us@them.com"] -
subject: The e-mail subject of the message defaults to[{Blog Title}] {Sidebar}for text widgets
and[{Blog Title}] {Post Title}for posts and pages. Set your own default with the subject option.Example:
[contact-form subject="My Contact Form"] -
show_subject: You can allow the user to edit the subject by showing a new field on the form. The
field will be populated with the default subject or the subject you have set with the previous option.Example:
[contact-form subject="My Contact Form" show_subject="yes"]
License
Send E-mail
Copyright (C) 2011 Paolo Melchiorre
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see Licenses – GNU Project.
Donation
This plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL License, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog. But if you enjoy this plugin, you can thank me and leave a small donation for the time I’ve spent writing and supporting this plugin.
Installation
- Upload the entire
send-e-mailfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Add a contact form to any post or page by inserting
[contact-form]in the post.
Changelog
Now with more internationalized text, options and a fixes.
1.3
- Tested with WordPress 3.1.
- More internationalized text.
- Fixed some typo.
- This version is aligned with the 1.2 version of Grunion Contact Form.
- Fix a PHP Warning in some CGI environments.
- Move to shortcode API.
- Add
to,subjectandshow-subjectoptions. - Allow use in text widgets.
- Move spam check to a filter.
1.2
- Tested with WordPress 2.9
- Fix in the readme.txt
1.1
- Imported from Grunion Contact Form.
- Added full internationalization using localized string from WordPress core.
For developers
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Send E-mail: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 10, 2026
Is Send E-mail free?
Yes. Send E-mail is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Send E-mail safe to use in 2026?
Send E-mail shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 100+ sites and was last updated 15 years ago, and scores 25/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Send E-mail?
Send E-mail is active on 100+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 25,191 times since it launched in December 2009. It was downloaded 90 times in the last 30 days.
Does Send E-mail work with WordPress 7.1?
Send E-mail is officially tested up to WordPress 3.1.4, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Send E-mail last updated?
The latest version, 1.3, was released on April 29, 2011 (15 years ago).
Who makes Send E-mail?
Send E-mail is developed and maintained by Paolo Melchiorre.
What are the best alternatives to Send E-mail?
The most popular alternatives to Send E-mail are WP Armour (400K+ installs), Honeypot Anti-Spam (10K+ installs) and FV Antispam (900+ installs).
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