In today’s online world, nearly every website needs some type of form to interact with. Whether it be a simple contact form, a user registration form or even a payment form, forms are an essential part of most every website. WordPress makes this simple with the use of form generating plugins. There are many to choose from, some with a hefty price tag. Contact From 7, Ninja Forms, and Gravity forms are just a few a web developer has to choose from. At Cup O Code Marketing and Websites, we have learned to use one of the best free form plugins for WordPress – Forminator from popular developer WPMUDEV.
It’s Free
Forminator offers integration for Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor, Trello, Slack, and many other resources. It also supports settlements and payments through Stripe and PayPal. Plus, preliminary forms for sending messages, surveys, and questionnaires – all the functions for which you will have to pay a lot to install premium form plugins.
A Feature List to Die For
No matter that the Forminator is a free plugin its features list is the same as he is a premium plugin.
Forminator provides a visual drag and drops builder to create your own forms. His only drawback is that he doesn’t have a visual preview.
The plugin creates 5 types of forms:
- Standard forms.
- Polls.
- Quizzes
- Calculations
- Payments
For standard forms, Forminator is more flexible than other available plugins. For example, you can create:
- Forms of payment through Stripe or PayPal.
- External forms of sending messages that add content to any type of message.
- Email Subscription Forms Through Multiple Email Marketing Integrations.
When it comes for integration, the Forminator comes with a long list of third-party integrations like email services, CRM, storage, and project managers:
- HubSpot
- Campaign Monitor
- ActiveCampaign
- Google Sheets
- Zapier (connects you to +1000 apps)
- Trello
- MailChimp
- AWeber
- Slack
Other useful features:
- Manage form input / submit in the toolbar, including the ability to disable or restrict it to match GDPR.
- Conditional logic.
- Custom email notification forms.
- Spam protection with reCAPTCHA or honeypot fields or only authorized users can submit the form.
Final Thoughts
The Forminator Plugin is totally free and you can download it form inside of your dashboard or on WordPress.org. Member of WPMU DEV can install it through WPMUDEV.
Premium plugins with similar features usually cost no less than $ 100. That’s why this free plugin is amazing and we choose to use this for most of our WordPress builds.
WPMUDEV is a long-standing and respected WordPress developer. Often times you see support for free plugins drop and diminish, this is not the case with Forminator.
So, if you are looking for a free plugin for WordPress forms that do not save on features, be sure to take a look at Forminator.
