Best Free WordPress Form Builder Plugin in 2024

There are many free form builder plugins on WordPress but there are certain limitations like phone no. field is not included or there are field limits. Caldera Form Builder was one of the best but the plugin is discontinued in 2022. 

Forminator is one of the best free form builder plugins out there on WordPress as of 2024.

Features available in free version of Forminator Form Builder Plugin:

1. Create Contact Forms Faster Using Time-Saving Templates

2. Customize Forms to Suit Your Needs by Adjusting Their Appearance

3. Control the Behavior of Your Form for Maximum Performance

4. Set Up Email Notifications for Instant Alerts

5. Advance Forms Further by Integrating with Popular 3rd Party Apps

6. Control Your Data Storage to Your Standards in Settings

7. Separate a Form Perfectly with Pagination

8. Preview and Easily Implement Your Form Using Shortcodes

Fields you can create with Free version of the plugin.

1. Name

2. Email

3. Phone

4. Address

5. Website

6. Text Input 

7. Text Area

8. Number

9. Radio

10. Checkbox

11. Calculations

12. Select

13. Datepicker

14. Timepicker

15. File Upload

16. Post Data

17. Captcha

18. HTML

19. Page Break

20. Hidden Field

21. Selection

22. Consent

23. Currency

24. Stripe

25. PayPal

26. Field Groups

27. Sticker

28. Signature

Fields like Phone, Calculation, Timepicker, Stripe & PayPal, Sticker and Signature are rarely available in few form builder plugins and that's why Forminator is one of the best free plugins available on WordPress. The UI is also very good and it's easy to create form.

Link to Forminator Free Form Builder Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/forminator/

Best WordPress plugin to build a social media, community or subscription based website

 

If you are creating a social media, community or paid subscription based website on WordPress and looking for a great WordPress plugin then nothing can beat 'Profilegrid' plugin. Firstly, it has many features in free version which other plugins have in Premium version. Secondly, the premium version is less costlier then other premium plugins.Secondly, If you buy 'Premium+ plan, you get unlimited site license and lifetime support. 

With premium plugin you can create a decent social media or community site. It has all the following features, which is required for social media or community site.

• Group creation
• Profile Pages and Customization
  
• Membership Pages
• WooCommerce Integration
• Chat or Messaging Feature
• Friendship Feature (Send friendship request, etc.) 
• Social Login
• Rating Features (MyCred)
• Content Restrictions
• And Many More.

You can download or install it from WordPress Library or following is premium version download link.

Buy Premium+ 

https://metagauss.com/get-profilegrid-for-wordpress/?mgp=200

 

If you want to use custom forms like registration or login forms then RegistrationMagic Plugin is from same family recommended. Below given is the download link.

https://metagauss.com/get-registrationmagic-profilegrid-eventprime-wordpress-bundle/?mgp=200 

Get rid of WordPress spam users with this plugins.

There are many ways attackers can attack your site and completely ruin it. One popular way now-a-days is spam registration on your WordPress site. Attackers will get an entry through using registration page and then they may ruin your site or hack your site's data.

There are many solutions for this problem like deleting the spam users regularly, disable registration or install security plugins but the more effective and relevant plus cost effective solution is activating Google Captcha. Following are few best plugins that works well and effective ones.

1. Advanced noCaptcha & Invisible Captcha (v2 & v3): 

This plugin gives you option to show noCaptcha or invisible captcha. Advanced options like captcha in comment, multiple captcha in same page, selection of captcha version, implement captcha in woocommerce and using it with shortcode. 

 

 

Download Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-nocaptcha-recaptcha/

2.  Login No Captcha ReCaptcha:

It's a simple Google captcha plugin can be implemented on WordPress or WooCommerce login. 

 

 

Download this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/login-recaptcha/

3. Simple Google reCAPTCHA:

This is one more simple Google captcha plugin that help you protect from spammers attacks. This plugin help you protect login, comments and registrations on your WordPress site. 

 

 

 

Download Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-google-recaptcha/ 

Hope this article helps you protect your page. If you have questions or want to contact, please comment below.

 

Why Caldera Form Builder is the best free form builder WordPress plugin?

There are many free wordpress plugins for custom form maker / builder. But there are reasons why Caldera Form Builder is the best free form builder WordPress plugin.

               

Description	Other Form Builders	Caldera Form Builder
No. of fields:	Limited	Unlimited
No. of forms:	Limited	Unlimited
Save data in backend (DB Entry):	No	Yes
File upload field:	Some Plugins	Yes
Customization Options:	Limited	More compare to others

Download the free plugin here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/caldera-forms/

Share your post on multiple social media channels (Facebook,Twitter,LinkedIn,Google Plus,Tumblr and Path) automatically with single click

Social media marketing executives,bloggers, startups, entrepreneurs or anyone in digital marketing needs to share their content, products, or posts social media sites. Sharing your same content on each social media channels is tedious and time taking task. There are many tools or applications available that can share your content on multiple social media channels but they have limited functions or paid ones. 

If you are using WordPress site or blog, it becomes easy to share or publicize your post on multiple social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Tumblr and Path with single click, when you update it on your site or blog. Yes, you are reading it right. Jetpack plugin's Publicize feature can do it. You just have to install or activate Jetpack plugin into your wordpress site or blog.

For more details and additional information read here : https://jetpack.com/support/publicize/

Build ERP on WordPress Site

Want to manage documents, HR and accounting tasks from your website? You just need to install WP ERP plugin.

WP ERP is free plugin for enterprise resource management system. It's core modules for HR and Accounting will help you manage employee profiles, departments listings, leave and holiday management, company profile, workflow, invoice creation, vendor credit management, payment system, and more.

WP ERP is not just a plugin but entire framework that builds ERP on your WordPress site. Apart from profile management WP ERP helps in scheduling tasks, customer & vendor management, invoicing and payment details. That is fantastic about the plugin. I'll give 4.5 out of 5 to the plugin. 

Here is the link you can download WP ERP Plugin : https://wordpress.org/plugins/erp/

Free page builder plugin you can use in place of Visual Composer

Visual Composer is #1 page builder which can be used to build page layout without knowledge of coding. But if you have limited budget for your site and looking for free page builder plugin then Live Composer is better option.

Live Composer has over 30 modules inbuilt like thumbnail, title, content area, accordion, html, post, galleries,testimonials, woo products,widgets,navigation,etc.

You can create projects with project image and link and add into the page for project portfolio site. Similarly, add partners and staff in into the page or post. If you have installed widgets without shortcodes then you can add sidebar widgets in page or post.

You can edit page in default visual or text format or edit with Visual Composer.

The plugin is easy to use and free but there are few basic features not available or it is paid. Google map, or Gallery Grid is paid. So, you need to install separate plugins for that. 

Overall experience is good with Live Composer and It's worth trying for your website with limited budget.

See how to use Live Composer plugin video: 

Plugin Download : https://livecomposerplugin.com/

These plugins can make your blog or website completely professional looking

Do you want to make your blog completely professional looking with features like member login, social media sign in and other features? Following are the plugins you must have installed in your WordPress blog site:

Shortcode Plugins

You can add table, box, button, columns, videos, images, accordion, etc. in post or page without hectic coding. You just have to put simple code in your page to add any of the above features. Personally, I prefer following plugins for shortcode.

1. Shortcode Ultimate:

You can add heading, tabs, box, column, table, quotes, accordion and more than 60 features with the help of Shortcode Ultimate plugin.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/

2. WordPress Shortcodes:

WordPress shortcode plugin is feature rich with SEO friendly tabs, button, links, author cards, lists, layouts and more. It has more than 25 featuers / shortcodes. You can adjust features with custom css feature in it.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/synved-shortcodes/

Customizing & White Labeling Plugins

If your site is subscription based or require member to login then you need custom look and appearance while login and dashboard with your custom logo, colors, and options. Following are some of plugins I found, which will help you customize your site's login page, dashboard and options.

1. AG Custom Admin: 

AG Custom Admin plugin helps you to customize your login page with your logo and background image, dashboard and admin bar with preferred options, colors and small logo, colorize your dashboard, choose admin panel options like screen options, links, menus,etc.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ag-custom-admin/

2. White Label CMS:

Customize your login page with your logo, login page background, dashboard panel options, menu options, admin setting and more features.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/white-label-cms/

Customize E-mail Sent From
When e-mail is sent from WordPress for new registration of member or e-mail subscription or new post uploaded, by default receiver sees it received from WordPress. But, you can change the setting and customize e-mail sent from your company name and custom email id like yourcompany@yourcompany.com with the help of plugins.

1. WP Mail Bank:

You can change PHP mail setting and SMTP mailer setting with the help of WP Mail Bank plugin. Change name and email address sent from details with the help of this plugin.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-bank/

2. WP Mail From II:

WP Mail From II is simple and easy to set name and email received from plugin. You just need to mention name and email id and that's it. When member / subscriber receive mail from your site, they will see the your custom name and email id set.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mailfrom-ii/

Custom Forms

You need custom forms for product enquiries, customer information and database and other purpose. Basic contact forms are useless then as you need to add some custom fields. Following are some of the plugins you can install to create custom forms with additional fields.

1. Caldera Forms:

With Caldera Forms plugin you can create custom forms easily by drag and drop. No coding knowledge at all required. You can create multiple forms with multiple fields like text fields, paragraph field, upload file, captcha, button and other fields.

There are add on available for advanced fields like:

• MailChimp - Seamlessly integrate MailChimp optins into your forms.
• Stripe - Accept credit card payments via Stripe.
• PayPal Express - Accept payments via Paypal Express.
• Connected Forms - Create sequences of forms with conditional logic. Split your forms into smaller pieces, with total control over what comes next.
• Users - Register or login users from your form.
• A/B Testing - A/B testing for your forms. Powered by Ingot
• Geolocation - Make a text field a geolocation auto-complete field and recorded geocoded data.
• Mark Viewed - Let users track what content they have viewed using a Caldera Forms.
• Dwolla - Accept payments with low fees using Dwolla.
• Authorize.net Accept all major credit cards by integrating Caldera Forms with Authorize.net.
• BrainTree Accept credit card payments in your form through BrainTree.
• Nexmo Get SMS notifications of form submissions.
• Mail Templates - Add your logo, and your brand's color scheme to your emails sent from Caldera Forms.
• Caldera Custom Fields - Save form submissions as post and post meta.
• Verify Email for Caldera Forms - Send an email with a validate link to verify the email address before completing the form submission.
• Form as Metabox - Custom Fields - Use a Caldera Form as a metabox in the post editor to save custom field values.
• Slack Integration for Caldera Forms - Get notifications in Slack whenever a Caldera Form is submitted.
• Run Action - Trigger a WordPress action with your form submission.
• Sprout Invoices Integration - Use Caldera Forms for Sprout Invoice forms.
• Conditional Fail - Set conditions to cause that if met will allow or prevent form submission.
• Postmatic - Subscribe users to your posts and comments using Postmatic.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/caldera-forms/

2. Form Maker: 

Form Maker is easy drag and drop create form plugin. You can add many custom fields like name, email, phone no., captcha, multiple options, address, etc. with the help of the plugin.

The forms to create are limited in free plugin but you can get pro if required.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/form-maker/

Plugin for match making or matrimony website

Are you planning a wedding match making or matrimony site? You might find limited numbers of WordPress themes for matrimony or match making site. But this plugin is definitely going to help you in your project. You can choose any good WordPress theme and install the plugin for match making.

Genie WP Matrimony:
Genie WP Matrimony is plugin helps you convert your blog in to matrimony site. It has following features like:

• Profile management
• Astrology information of profile
• Photo Upload
• Gallery
• Activities
• Message
• Search id, name, caste, education,etc. any field.

Genie WP matrimony plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/genie-wp-matrimony/

WordPress plugin for optimizing or increasing page speed

WordPress plugin which will help you boost your site / page speed download faster that will result in increase of visitors.

1. WP - Optimize:
WP-Optimize increases your speed with following options and actions:

1. Clean post revisions
2. Clean auto draft posts and posts in drafts
3. Removing unapproved comments
4. Remove pingbacks and trackbacks
5. Clean post meta data and comment meta data
6. Clean orphan data
7. Optimize database tables

Download Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/installation/

2. W3 Total Cache:

W3 Total Cache caches pages and posts in CDN, memory or on disk, caches feeds, comments, tags,etc.,caches database objects, controls browser cache, java script control, etc.

Download Plugin : https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/

3. WP Smush

WP Smush resize and optimize images on the site. It will set your images automatically before added to media library, resize it, auto-smush your attachments, give compression stats,etc.

Doanload Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/