Forms problems
Broken contact forms and missing form emails. Start with the free guide that matches your situation.
Contact Form 7 Not Sending Email
Your Contact Form 7 form either shows a red "error trying to send your message" box, or it says the message was sent and nothing ever reaches your inbox. Both usually come down to how the email is addressed and how WordPress sends it.
Read the guideContact Form Emails Not Arriving
The form looks like it works and shows a success message, but you never receive the emails — so leads quietly disappear and nobody can tell.
Read the guideContact Form Not Working
Your contact form won't submit, shows an error, or seems frozen when visitors try to send a message — and every silent failure is a customer you never hear from.
Read the guideFormSubmit, Formspree or Netlify Form Not Working
Your site uses an outside form service like FormSubmit, Formspree, or Netlify Forms, and messages have stopped arriving — or never started. The fix is usually a setting on the service, not your website.
Read the guideGetting Spam Through Your Contact Form
Your contact form works, but you're flooded with junk, fake, or bot messages — and the real danger is the customer message buried on page three of the garbage.
Read the guideHow to Test Your Contact Form (Properly)
Most broken contact forms look perfectly fine. Here is how to test yours end to end — and how to find out the next time it quietly stops delivering.
Read the guidereCAPTCHA Is Blocking Real Visitors
Your spam protection is turning away genuine customers — puzzles that never complete, forms that reject everyone, or an error only your visitors ever see.
Read the guideShopify Contact Form Not Working
Your Shopify store's contact form submits without errors, but the messages never arrive — or customers report the form won't send at all.
Read the guideSquarespace Contact Form Not Working
Squarespace forms send submissions wherever each form was told to send them — an email address, a Google Drive spreadsheet, Mailchimp — and any of those connections can quietly break.
Read the guideThe "Form Was Unable to Submit" Error
Visitors fill out your contact form, press send, and get "The form was unable to submit. Please contact the site administrator to resolve this issue." — the message from a working form that the server rejected.
Read the guideWix Contact Form Not Working
Wix almost always captures the form submission — the messages are usually sitting in your Wix dashboard. What breaks is the email that was supposed to tell you about them.
Read the guideWordPress Contact Form Not Working
Your WordPress contact form either refuses to submit, or it submits happily and the email never arrives. Those are two different problems with two different fixes.
Read the guideWPForms Not Sending Email Notifications
People fill in your WPForms form, see the confirmation message, and the notification email never reaches you. The form is working; the email after it is not.
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