Savelo Form Autosave for WordPress Plugin Directory

Savelo Form Autosave silently saves everything visitors type in your forms — text, email, number, textarea, select, checkbox, radio — and brings it back if they navigate away and return, close the tab by accident, or their browser crashes.

All data is stored exclusively in the visitor’s own browser (localStorage). Nothing is ever sent to your server. Zero database queries on the front end.

Features

Universal form support — works with any HTML <form> element

Smart exclusion — automatically skips login, registration, password reset, and WooCommerce checkout forms

Security-first — never saves password fields; respects autocomplete="off"

Contact Form 7 — saved draft is cleared automatically after a successful AJAX submission

Configurable expiry — 1 to 90 days; expired drafts are cleaned up silently

Restore notification — optional, auto-dismissing, fully customisable message

Clear on submit — optionally delete the draft when the form is submitted

Custom exclusions — exclude any form by CSS selector, by adding the savelo-exclude class, or the data-savelo-exclude attribute

Zero front-end dependencies — vanilla ES5 JavaScript, no jQuery required

Assets on demand — scripts and styles are never loaded in wp-admin

Translation ready — .pot file included

Clean uninstall — all plugin data removed when you delete the plugin

Privacy All form data is stored in the visitor’s own browser via the localStorage API. No data is transmitted to your server or any third party. Compatible with GDPR-aware workflows. Users can clear their localStorage at any time via their browser settings.

How to exclude a form

Add data-savelo-exclude attribute directly to the <form> tag, or

Add the CSS class savelo-exclude to the <form> tag, or

Enter a CSS selector in Settings → Form Autosave → Exclude Forms