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Contact Form 7 has 100 settings. Gravity Forms costs $59/year. WPForms wants $49/year. I just wanted a simple contact form. So I built a plugin that actually makes sense.
Five people who were drowning in spam, losing leads, and wasting time. Here's how StaticForm helped them.
Email seems simple until it silently fails. Here's the story of debugging email delivery and why I built StaticForm to solve it.
From Zod schemas to HTML5 validation to custom JavaScript, I've implemented form validation every possible way. Most approaches are overkill. Here's what I built instead.
Form submissions contain goldmines of customer feedback. AI can help you actually understand what your customers are telling you. Here's how I built StaticForm to make this easy.
My contact form was drowning in spam. Real leads were getting lost. Here's how I fixed it and built StaticForm so others don't have the same problem.
Webhook failures seem rare until they happen to you. Here's the story of how one failed webhook cost me money and led me to build a better solution.
From reCAPTCHA to honeypots to IP blocking, I've fought spam with every weapon available. Most of them failed. Here's what I built instead.
I tried Cloudflare Workers, Netlify Forms, and everything else. Nothing worked well. So I built something that does.
What starts as a simple POST endpoint turns into a never-ending battle with spam, email failures, and infrastructure complexity. Here's how I solved it.