For EU-facing forums, classifieds, business directories, membership communities, review sites and small marketplaces: any site that stores what its users post. Since 17 February 2024 you must take illegal-content notices electronically (Digital Services Act, Article 16), and small businesses are not exempt from it.
One payment, no subscription. For comparison: Gravity Forms, a general form builder, costs $59 to $259 per year (gravityforms.com/pricing, September 2026) and ships no DSA notice fields.
Article 16(4): when a notice includes an email address, you must send a confirmation of receipt without undue delay. The paid plugin sends it automatically; here you can copy it by hand.
A notice that contains all four Article 16(2) elements counts as giving you actual knowledge of that content (Article 16(3)). From that moment, your hosting liability shield holds only if you act expeditiously to remove or disable it (Article 6). Without a working notice mechanism, the breach itself can be fined up to 6% of annual worldwide turnover.
Why a free contact form is not enough: it does not ask for the four Article 16(2) elements and sends no Article 16(4) confirmation of receipt, so you cannot show that a notice was complete or that you answered it.
Free plugin, complete on its own: the 8-field notice form above on your site with one shortcode, name and email optional for child sexual abuse reports (Article 16(2)(c)), your point of contact and handling statement above the form, spam trap and nonce check, and every notice listed in WordPress admin, 50 per page.
Paid plugin ($60 once): confirmation of receipt emailed to each notifier with a copy of their notice · new notice emailed to your moderator · every notice as CSV with date and time · search notices by URL · a separate form per section (shortcode name attribute).
[dsa-notice-action-form] into a page called "Report illegal content" and link it from your footer.Menu names can differ slightly by WordPress version and admin language. Needs PHP 7.4 or newer. No other plugin is required. The plugin takes, logs and confirms notices; the decision on each notice stays yours.