How do I get started with the best forms for WordPress?

The fastest way to build a form is to use the example we built for you. After you activate Formidable, insert [formidable id=contact-form] on the WordPress page of your choice.

Go to the Formidable page and click "add new". Choose the Contact Us form template or another free template and click "Create".

Next, edit or create a WordPress contact page. Click the "Formidable" button to open the shortcode generator. Choose your new web form and insert it into the WordPress page. Save the page for a beautiful WP contact form, ready to collect and store your leads. The contact form template will get you up and running fast.

Why isn't WordPress sending emails?

When you do not receive emails, try the following steps:

1. Double check the email address in your Email action on the settings page. The [admin_email] shortcode uses the email address from your WordPress Settings -> General page.
2. Are you receiving other emails from your site (ie comment notifications, forgot password...)? If not, notifications will not work either.
3. Check your SPAM box.
4. Try a different address in your settings.
5. Install WP Mail SMTP or another similar emailing alternative and configure the SMTP settings.
6. If these steps do not fix the problem and other WP signup emails are not going out, please reach out to your web host.

Read more about WordPress emails not sending in our blog.

What types of WordPress forms can I build?

Combined with our add-ons, Formidable is the most powerful form maker on the market. Here are some types of web forms you can create:

• Custom Contact Form
• Multi-Page Form with progress bar
• Dynamic Form (where fields change based on user's answers)
• Request a Quote Form
• Job Application Form
• Feedback Surveys
• Make a Suggestion
• Testimonials
• Change Requests
• Online Booking
• Event Booking
• Online RSVP Form
• Custom WordPress User Registration Form (Great for membership sites)
• WordPress Login Form
• Custom WordPress User Profile
• WordPress Post Submission (Great for guest posts)
• WooCommerce Form for Products
• Credit Card Form
• Make a Donation Form
• T-Shirt Order Form
• Product Purchase Form
• Lead Capture
• Auto Form with Car Make and Model
• Video Release
• Partnership Agreements
• PTO Request
• Online Petitions
• Signature Form
• Maintenance Request
• Scholarship Application Form
• File Download Form
• Employment Verification
• Make a Referral
• Membership, Customer, Vendor, Conference, and Volunteer Registration
• Camp, Course, School Class, and other Event Registration
• Custom Survey
• Polls
• Quizzes
• Mortgage Calculator
• Car Payment Calculator
• BMI Calculator
• User Age Calculator
• Online Quote Calculator
• Compound Interest Calculator
• Amortization Calculator
• Calorie Intake Calculator
• Pregnancy Due Date Calculator
• Days Between Dates
• Recipe Reviews
• Personality Quiz
• Viral Quiz
• Cosmos Style Quiz
• Create Your Own Adventure Quiz

To see more, visit our Form Template Gallery which has over 300 pre-made templates.

Can I see any example online calculators?

Sure! Here are just a few examples: * Advanced Mortgage Calculator * Basic Mortgage Calculator * Car Payment Calculator * Net Promoter Score (NPS) Survey * BMI Calculator and more Health and Fitness Calculators * User Age Calculator * Online Quote Calculator * Finance Calculator * Booking Cost Calculator * Product Price Calculator

How can I get access to all advanced features?

To get access to more features, integrations, and support, upgrade to Formidable Pro. A Pro license gives you access to the full version of Formidable for more advanced options, Formidable Views, graphs and stats, priority support, and Formidable Add-ons!

Can I create a payment form?

Yes! We make it easy to accept payments using Stripe, Square, PayPal, and Authorize.net.

Our Stripe integration helps you quickly accept credit card payments online. Our PayPal forms allow you to accept PayPal payments, subscriptions, and donations online.

Which field types does Formidable offer?

Our custom form and quiz builder comes with all the powerful fields that you need to create a solution-focused form, fast!

• Single line text - Great for name, phone number, address, and more.
• Name
• Email
• Website/URL
• Paragraph text
• Checkboxes and radio buttons
• Dropdown select boxes
• Number
• Phone number
• Hidden fields
• User ID
• HTML block - Great for custom HTML
• Captcha for Google reCAPTCHA (invisible V2 or checkbox V2, V3), hCaptcha, or Cloudflare Turnstile.
• GDPR - Great for compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
• Address - Power it up with Google address autofill and geolocation with add-ons.

Here is a list of our advanced premium fields that will come in handy:

• File Upload
• Rich Text
• Date
• Time
• Scale
• Star Rating
• Ranking
• Range Slider
• Toggle
• Dynamic - Great for creating relationships between entries.
• Repeater - Great for registering multiple kids, job history, and much more.
• Tags
• Summary - Great to review responses before submit.
• Lookup - Great for cascading lookups like country, city, state.
• Section Heading
• Page Break
• Embed Form - Great for reusing the same set of fields in multiple places.
• Password Field
• Signature - Great for contracts and booking.
• AI - Display AI-generated responses inside your form using OpenAI. Great for personalized results, recommendations, and dynamic content.

Additionally, our Payment fields will help you create a credit card form, donation form, or booking form.

• Single Item
• Multiple Items
• Checkbox Items
• Dropdown Items
• Product Quantity
• Total
• Credit Card (Stripe, Square, or Authorize.net)

Can I import and export submissions?

Yes, it's easy to import and export. This is incredibly useful for developers and agencies who are building websites for clients. You can also create custom form templates to use on client websites.

You can also import from other WordPress contact form plugins such as Gravity Forms and Pirate Forms. Although we don't have an importer available, this is also a great Caldera Forms alternative since it's no longer supported.

Can I integrate with my CRM or email marketing service?

Yes! We know that marketing is the key to growing your business. That's why Formidable allows you to connect your WP form (email form, payment form, etc.) with the marketing platform of your choice. You can easily send data from WordPress to your favorite CRM, email newsletter, and other marketing platforms.

Here is a list of our CRM and email marketing integrations:

• Mailchimp
• AWeber
• Constant Contact
• GetResponse
• MailPoet
• Active Campaign
• Salesforce CRM
• HubSpot CRM
• Campaign Monitor
• Highrise CRM

Using our Zapier integration, you can easily connect your website with over 5,000+ marketing apps including:

• SendInBlue
• Zoho CRM
• Zoho Mail
• Zoho Invoice
• Agile CRM
• Slack
• Trello
• Infusionsoft by Keap
• Microsoft Excel
• Dropbox
• PipeDrive CRM
• HelpScout
• Zendesk
• Freshbooks
• Freshsales
• Intercom
• Click Funnels
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM
• Capsule CRM
• Insightly CRM
• Printfection
• Acuity Scheduling
• Quickbooks Online

See all Formidable Zapier Integrations.

6.35

• Security: More strict sanitizing is now applied to entry key values before it gets used in the HTML of a form.
• Security: The value that records who last saved an entry is now always set from the current user, not allowing for any custom values unless importing.
• New: The shortcodes list now offers show options for more types, and long names are truncated so the list stays readable.
• New: The Processor column on the Payments list page can now be sorted.
• New: A message is now shown on the Payments list page after bulk deleting.
• New: The required email input used for Stripe Link payments will now display a required asterisk like other required inputs.
• New: A new frm_builder_after_field_label hook has been added for adding content after a label in the builder.
• New: A new frm_payment_user_id filter has been added for setting which user a payment belongs to.
• Performance: The builder now loads much faster when there are a lot of fields. Fields loaded with AJAX are now loaded in asynchronous batches.
• Performance: The way the denylist is checked has been optimized, so spam checks are much faster when a large amount of text is submitted.
• Performance: Pricing updates for Stripe payments are now debounced, and are skipped on pages with no payment intents.
• Fix: A subscription would not get cancelled after it reached its Recurring Payment Limit.
• Fix: Payment status actions could run twice for the same Stripe Link payment.
• Fix: Multiple customer objects would get created for Stripe Link recurring payments.
• Fix: Subscription plan details would not update after changing the trial period.
• Fix: A Stripe Link redirect would use the URL from Form settings instead of the URL in the confirmation action that ran.
• Fix: Square payments would not correctly follow conditional logic when two Square actions were used.
• Fix: The wrong amount would get used when verifying a buyer with Square.
• Fix: Connecting and disconnecting Square would go by whichever mode was active instead of the mode that was selected.
• Fix: In Pro, the dropdown on a style card would not populate, leaving no way to delete a style or set one as the default.
• Fix: In Pro, a section added after a partially sized field would move into the previous row after a reload.
• Fix: Adding the frm_first layout class would not start a new row for a group.
• Fix: A field id used in a description would not get switched when a form was duplicated or imported.
• Fix: Creating a field with a missing or invalid options value would raise a PHP warning and store null.
• Fix: The Embeds column would only update when a post was inserted, so it went stale when a page was updated or deleted.
• The old hard coded widths for the frm_grid_2 through frm_grid_10 classes have been removed from the generated stylesheets, helping to reduce the file size of styles used on the front end.

6.34

• Security: Additional validation has been added to guarantee that submitted HTML in form data by untrusted users cannot be used for XSS.
• New: Address fields are now included in Lite!
• New: Address field data is included in PayPal Commerce credit card payments when defined in payment action settings to help prevent entries from incorrectly getting flagged as fraudulent.
• New: Buttons on admin pages will now shrink slightly when clicked, to give a more tactile response.
• Fix: Additional checks have been added to make sure that pages will not result in 404 errors when Gated Content actions are not actually defined for the page. In addition, when a custom permission is used for handling access to a private page, the custom permission is properly checked for.
• Fix: Captcha field labels no longer use labels to prevent orphaned label issues since the label cannot reference the input in an iframe.
• Fix: A JS error would occur when removing the last layout class from a field.
• Fix: The JS spam token would get added to a form multiple times when multiple forms were on a page.

6.33.1

• Fix: Public taxonomy pages could result in 404 errors, caused by a missing check in the new Gated Content actions.

See changelog for all versions

1. Go to the Plugins -> 'Add New' page in your WP admin area
2. Search for 'Formidable'
3. Click the 'Install Now' button, then 'Activate'
4. Go to the newly added 'Formidable' menu
5. Click the 'Add New' button to go to the form generator page and create a new email form
6. Insert your newly created lead form, quiz, or survey form on a page or post using the Embed Form pop up. Or insert it manually or into a widget using a shortcode [formidable id=x]. Alternatively use <?php echo FrmFormsController::show_form(2); ?> to add it in a theme file.

Build a professional WP form without any code.



Page for creating a quote form, Stripe payment form, quiz form, and many more.



Field Options and CSS Layout Classes



Field Options for checkbox fields



View, create, edit, and delete entries on the back end from a to-do list, employment application form, and more.



Add a form widget into a sidebar



Create a contact form in minutes and start collecting submissions right away.



Collect payments by adding a Stripe, PayPal, or Square field directly to your form.



Add automatic field calculations to build quote, order, and pricing calculator forms.



Display submitted entries on the front end as a searchable directory or listing with Formidable Views.