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.
• 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).

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
• Address Field - Power it up with Google address autofill and geolocation.
• 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.

6.33.1

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

6.33

• New: A new Gated Content form action type has been added. Now you can easily give access to restricted pages, views, pdfs, and files!
• New: A new Spam settings section has been added to Form settings. Several spam settings have been moved here. In addition this section includes a summary of Global Spam settings, and a new Include Captcha in this form setting to easily add and remove Captcha fields.
• New: PayPal Commerce front end error messages have been improved.
• New: A Payment Settings button has been added to the Payments list page.
• Fix: Google Pay would use the test environment incorrectly when using PayPal Commerce.
• Fix: A Using null as an array offset is deprecated, use an empty string instead PHP deprecated message has been fixed.

6.32.1

• Security: An issue has been fixed where requests could be manipulated to attempt form submissions using test payments instead of live payments, for Stripe, Square, and PayPal Commerce.
• Security: An incorrect status check would allow forms to submit without errors when using PayPal Commerce to handle subscriptions in a pending approval status. Credit to Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara and WPScan for reporting the issue.
• Security: Additional validation has been added to guarantee a PayPal Commerce Apple Pay payment has the correct status.
• Fix: A cron job for handling overdue subscriptions would not properly get unscheduled after disconnecting Square and PayPal.
• Fix: The PayPal Commerce test mode option would not properly update on save when the PayPal add-on was also active.
• Fix: Email settings in payment actions would incorrectly display autofill options in Safari.
• Options to use credit cards in PayPal Commerce subscriptions has been removed as it did not properly work.

6.32

• New: The form listing table now includes new Embeds and List Settings columns, for displaying every post and page where a form is embedded, and an added gear icon for controlling screen options.
• New: The generated Formidable CSS file can now work from the uploads directory instead of the plugin directory. This will automatically work based on the DISALLOW_FILE_MODS constant, and can additionally be controlled using a new frm_add_css_to_uploads_dir filter.
• New: Field errors will now get removed automatically on change events regardless of the JS validation setting.
• Fix: The aria-describedby attribute would not update properly when a form was submitted with errors for fields with multiple inputs.
• Fix: A small styling rule has been added to prevent HTML fields from overflowing past their container when using long strings.
• Fix: Color pickers used on the styler page have been updated to help maintain the active color format, preventing automatic conversions from rgb to hex.
• Fix: Validation for Square has been modified to prevent the submit button from remaining disabled when the Square inputs do not include a postal code input, which happens in some countries including Japan and Australia.
• Fix: A cannot modify header information - headers already sent by FrmTransLiteHooksController.php:108 warning has been fixed.
• Fix: Custom CSS saved in styles would not appear as expected after duplicating, showing additional CSS selectors for the original style.
• Fix: A possible TypeError when calling wp_is_valid_utf8 with a null value has been fixed.
• Fix: A new style would not properly rename when it did not yet have a style ID.
• Fix: PayPal Commerce has been updated to prevent issues where Google Pay and Apple Pay options would not appear if the SDKs had not loaded in time.
• Fix: PayPal Commerce orders and products were not including the payment action description setting.
• The overdue subscription cron message will no longer get logged when there are no active subscriptions.

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.