I enjoy hearing about unexpected ways in which people are using my applications. This is one of the best yet!
Both simpleContact Pro and Lite play nice with the popular blogging platform WordPress. They’re PHP/MySQL based so they can be hosted on the same website, even sharing a database. As a matter of fact they’re both installed on this website…
If you’ve installed WordPress you’ll find that the process with SCP is familiar (which is no coincidence). However, SCP is not a WordPress plugin. It’s a separate and self-contained application. This means that some people might prefer it to be more integrated with their blog that it currently is.
Enter Stephen Meehan of d3creative, a talented designer and personal friend of mine. He’s wrote a tutorial on his blog explaining how to add the simpleContact Pro contact form to a WordPress page template. It involves a bit of copying and pasting, but there’s nothing to intimidate someone who’s used to bending WordPress to their will.
Let me know what you think! I’m tempted to record a screencast video to describe this process…