WordPress Forminator Plugin

Why it is a good option as a free WordPress form Plugin

Forminator is a powerful free WordPress plugin. Developed by the WPMU Dev; they have amazing plugins. They have plugins for everything, such as security, SEO, Pop-ups, etc.

Forminator is considered one of the outstanding WordPress form-building Plugins. It’s a unique plugin that includes almost everything for form creation.

Active Installations: It has 300,000+ active installations and is provided in 14 languages.

Average Rating: 5 stars from 900+ reviews.

With Forminator, you can create Forms, Polls, Quizzes submissions, and integration.

Why Best Option as a Free Plugin?

Here are some reasons why Forminator is a good choice as a free WordPress form plugin:

Forminator provides many features in the free version. Using Forminator, users can create standard forms, quizzes, polls, payment forms, calculator forms, etc.
It provides a built-in Contact Form importer to import your existing forms and the relevant plugin settings from the current Contact Form to Forminator.
Provides Stripe and PayPal integration without the need for the Pro version
It allows you to create a track-and-trace solution in the free version. Forminator collects data so you can keep track and analyze submissions to generate leads, and increase engagements by analyzing user behavior, which also helps in lead generation.
Provides highly used third-party integrations – email services, CRM, storage, and project managers and integrations with other plugins like WPML, and WooCommerce as add-ons.
Free webhook integrations on +1000 different platforms such as Slack, FortressDB, Trello, Google Sheets, Mail Chimp, HubSpot, Campaign Monitor, AWeber, etc.
A great user interface, easy drag & drop, and automatic functionalities even a non-technical person can manage with a little knowledge.

Demonstrates your point with a live and functional form embedded within the page.

Live embedded registration simple demo form.

https://www.recimag.com/registration

The user can add a name, Phone, Email, and Password for the form on the above URL. When users click on the register button, their account will be created as a subscriber and data will be stored in the database. The user will receive an email at the provided email address and can update his password.

Explains how you built the form in a step-by-step fashion that would help the reader create a similar form.

Installation of Forminator Plugin

Go to the right sidebar of your screen and click on Plugins> Select Add New.

Then, in the search typer Forminator in the search box, click on the Install Now button. This will automatically install the plugin on your site.

Next, you need to activate the plugin by clicking the ‘Activate’ button.

After Activation, you can see Forminator on your sidebar menu and explore its features. Here we are creating a Registration Form so, first, we will click on Dashboard.

Create a Custom Registration Form in WordPress

By clicking on Dashboard, you have options to create a custom Form, Quiz or Poll. For the sake of this example, we will go ahead and select the ‘Create Form’ button.

A pop-up window will appear to choose Which type of form you want to create.

Select Your Form Type

Choose a template according to your Form type.

Add a name for your registration form and click on the Create button.

Field Customization

Here you can click on the Insert Fields button to add custom fields.

Here you can customize your Form by adding different types of fields. Choose custom fields according to your form requirements and click on the Insert Field button. We are choosing the Phone number.

Next, the edit window gives you to choose a custom Lable, Setting, Styling, and Visibility option for your field. You can also edit each field, add descriptions, and change style, colours, and font as well.

Drag and Drop Fields

You can simply re-arrange form fields by drag and drop feature.

Settings:

Under settings, you will see the following options:

Apply validation:

It allows you to make sure that the provided text is in the right format (e.g., for email, user@example.com), and if the text fits the qualifications for a suitable entry (e.g., the email isn’t already registered, or the password fits the criteria).

Select Require Fields: If you want to get specific user information, you can make some required fields.

Pre-Populate: Pre-populate form fields to eliminate having to fill out the same information twice for your form submitters. This is a go-to with use cases like Copying contact information from one form to another so that you can attribute a second form to the same person without having to fill out all the information again.

Styling:

Forminator has a clean and modern design.

Additional CSS Classes: You can add code to add a custom style using CSS.

Visibility:

Visibility is a great feature of the Forminator Plugin; it allows user registration fields to be hidden in the frontend form or your account profile page as per your choice.

You can also specify rules for user passwords as shown in the below example: