How to Add a Phone Field in WordPress

While adding a phone field to your online form can potentially impact lead generation, there are situations where it’s essential for collecting customer data on your WordPress website. This holds especially true for marketing efforts, given the significant impact of SMS marketing.

The great news is at Ninja Forms, all form fields — including the Phone field — are part of our free core plugin. Unlike WPForms, where you have to pay to access it!

Let’s take a look at how to add a phone field in WordPress and how you can leverage it along with a custom input mask feature, which is also free. Let’s dive right in!

Table of contents

1. How to add a Phone field in WordPress
2. Prevent duplicate phone numbers on your form
3. Format a phone number field with a custom input mask

1. How to add a Phone field in WordPress

Whether you need a Phone field for your event registration form or send promotional offers to your customers by SMS, adding a Phone field to your WordPress form is easy and free with Ninja Forms contact form builder.

All you need to do is click on, or drag-and-drop the Phone field located under the User Information fields into your form builder.