How do you include a custom PHP contact form?

Add this right at the top of contact-form.php:

<?php
/*
Template Name: My Contact Form
*/
?>

Read more about this technique here. Then go create a page and under Template inside the Attributes box select My Contact Form. This way the page shows your form. Maybe you want to add calls to get_header and get_footer to the template as well.

Anyway, I would recommend using Contact Form 7. Install it, configure a form under “Tools – Contact Form 7” and put the shortcode – e.g. [contact-form 1 "Contact"] – into the content of a page. It’s pretty easy.

That’s a cool solution. Thanks!

I would like to use something like Contact Form 7 in the future though. I was using one, but it became a pain in the butt to work with when it came to styling so just writing a basic on of my own made better sense. But I’ve struggled to write my own module thus far so this sort of hack was my best immediate solution. Thanks!