How to Add a Contact Form to Your Ghost Blog

Recently, one of my customers at Aspire Themes asked me if there is a way to add a contact form to his new Ghost blog as there is no built-in contact form shipped with Ghost and there is no support for plugins like WordPress for example.

I did some research and found some interesting tools to add a contact form quickly to Ghost. I found Formspree to be a great and quick option to try and it is also free to use.

In this post, I will go through adding a contact form, from creating the contact page, add the form, and then add the page to the site navigation.

Create the Contact Page

From the Ghost admin Pages section, click the New Page button, then add the page title, for example, Contact.

Creating Contact Page

Once this is done, we can now move to the next step.

Create the Contact Form

The following code is a simple example, which contains the name, email, and text area fields, which the sender can fill and send the message.

<form action="https://formspree.io/your@email.com" method="POST">
  <input type="text" name="name">
  <input type="email" name="_replyto">
  <textarea name='message'>  </textarea>
  <input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>

Once you are in the page editor, click on the circle icon and then choose the HTML block.

Add HTML Block

Copy the code to the block area, then you can publish the page.

The required thing to do is to replace your@email.com email with your own email address, copy the code to the page content, then you can publish the page.

Now, go to the contact page and submit the form once. This is a required step and you will get an email asking you to confirm your email address.

Once you confirmed your email address, the form will be ready for work and you will get an email once anyone sends you an email like the following one.

Message Example

Add the Page to the Blog Navigation

The last step is to add the contact page to the blog navigation. Go to Design > Navigation and a new navigation field with babel and the page slug, then click the SAVE button.

You can then style your form based on your design and add more fields or customize the form based on your requirements, so make sure to visit the Formspree website for more information.

If you are looking for fast, elegant and premium Ghost themes, make sure to visit Aspire Themes 👌

Thank you!