VigIA – AI Visibility, Analytics & Control vs AFB – Auto Form Builder

Auto Form Builder (AFB) is the free WordPress form builder that gives you what other plugins charge for. Build contact forms, multi-step forms, surveys, file-upload forms, and forms with conditional logic — all with drag and drop, no code, and no monthly fees. Build a form by hand or let AI build it for you, turn any form into a friendly conversational chat, and embed your forms on any website, WordPress or not. Most form plugins lock multi-step forms, conditional logic, surveys, and integrations behind expensive subscriptions. Auto Form Builder includes them all, free, with no premium tier — the “Add-Ons” screen is simply optional free modules (Popups, Form Analytics, spam protection, Slack, User Registration, Entry Tags) you switch on in one click. The only paid extras are the optional AI service, which is off by default, and a separate Google Sheets integration plugin. Watch the full overview video · See all features · Support Why Auto Form Builder? Unlike form plugins that lock their best features behind expensive subscriptions, Auto Form Builder gives you multi-step forms, conditional logic, surveys, form analytics, spam protection, submission management, webhooks, Slack notifications, import/export, and full visual customization — all free. Privacy-first by design: your submissions stay on your own site, and the plugin makes no external calls unless you enable a feature that needs one. Drag & Drop Form Builder Build a form in minutes with the visual drag-and-drop builder: drag fields onto the canvas, reorder by drag-and-drop or Move Up/Down, undo/redo, preview on desktop, tablet, and mobile, and copy a shortcode to embed anywhere. Start from a template (Contact, Feedback, Support, Newsletter, Event Registration) or a blank canvas — or describe your form and let AI build it. 15+ Field Types (with deep per-field control) Text, Textarea, Email, Phone, Number, Date, Time, Month & Year, Checkbox, Radio, Dropdown, Name, Address, File Upload, Signature, Color Picker, an HTML content block, and Page Break (multi-step) — plus four survey fields: Tabular Survey (Likert grid), Star Rating, NPS, and Opinion Scale. Browse the full field reference. Every field is more capable than it looks: Text — placeholder and default value, min/max length, format/pattern validation with inline errors, password mode (mask input), text transform on submit, trim whitespace, input type control, and hidden-field mode. Email — built-in validation, a confirmation field (re-enter to prevent typos), restrict allowed domains (e.g. company emails only), and use as the recipient for confirmation emails. Number — min/max values, step size, starting value, display as plain number, money (currency symbol), percentage, or fixed decimals, and an optional slider. Checkbox — single consent box (with a link inside the label) or a multi-option group with minimum/maximum selection limits, “start checked,” and stacked or column layouts. File Upload — allow multiple files, drag-and-drop, restrict file types and size, previews, and a custom button label. Name & Address — separate components, per-part required toggles, and per-component URL prefill. Most fields also support label and inside-the-field icons, help text, conditional logic, auto-fill, custom CSS class, and hidden-field mode. Conditional Logic Show or hide any field based on earlier answers, using multiple AND/OR conditions per field. Logic also controls confirmations and emails: change the success message or redirect, reroute the admin notification or change its subject and message, skip it, or send a different confirmation email. Multi-Step Forms Split long forms with Page Break fields to boost completion. Add step titles, custom Next/Previous labels, and a progress bar. Answer-based branching skips steps or jumps ahead (forward-only and loop-safe), so every visitor sees only the steps that apply. Surveys & Visual Results Build complete surveys with Tabular Survey (Likert grid), Star Rating, NPS (0–10), and Opinion Scale fields, then read per-question reports: distribution and stacked-bar charts, an automatically calculated NPS score, and a 30-day trend. Survey answers appear formatted in entry details and CSV exports, and conditional logic works with every survey field. Signature Field Collect e-signatures inside your form. Visitors sign with a mouse, finger, or stylus; the signature is stored securely and shown as an image in the entry details — ideal for consent forms, agreements, and approvals, on WordPress pages and embedded forms alike. Full Visual Customization Make forms match your brand: theme presets (Corporate, Minimal, Modern, and more), reusable saved themes (design once, apply to any form with one click), per-form header image, background, colors, fonts, layout, field and button styling, and visual effects. Every change previews live across desktop, tablet, and mobile. HTML Content Blocks Add formatted text, headings, links, and dividers inside your form with the HTML content block — perfect for instructions, section headings, and separators that make longer forms clear and easy to complete. Partial Entries Don’t lose a lead when someone doesn’t press Submit. In-progress answers are saved and reviewable on the Partial Entries screen. Abandoned entries auto-delete after a retention period you control (1–365 days). Submission Management All submissions live in a clean inbox with Unread, Starred, Read, Spam, and Trash tabs. Search by any field value, filter by form or date range, sort, print, and act on many at once with bulk actions (mark read, star, spam, trash, delete). Export to CSV or JSON any time. See submission management. Email Notifications Per-form admin and user confirmation emails, fully configurable — recipients, subject, and a custom message with placeholders like {submission_data} and {form_name}. Choose styled HTML or plain text, and use conditional rules to send different emails or none. Embed on Any Website Every form comes with a ready-made embed code for any site — including non-WordPress platforms and page builders such as WP Bakery, Brizy, and Elementor. The embed keeps your design, auto-resizes to its content, and stays isolated from the host theme; redirect thank-you pages can even break out of the frame. Also available as a Gutenberg block and a WordPress dashboard widget. Prefill from URL Populate fields — including individual Name and Address components — from URL parameters, and forward them securely to embedded forms. Popup Forms (free) Show any form in a popup without a second plugin: modal, slide-in, sticky bar, full-screen, welcome mat, or a floating launcher button. Choose which pages they appear on, trigger by time delay, scroll depth, exit intent, or element click, cap how often each shows, and decide what happens after a successful submission. Fully keyboard accessible; loads nothing on pages without an eligible popup. Form Analytics (free) Track views, submissions, average conversion rate, and per-form breakdowns with a 30-day chart. Sync historical submissions or reset data anytime. Spam Protection (free) Google reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare Turnstile are both included — use either or both on any form. User Registration & Login (free) Turn any form into a registration form: map fields to the account email, username, password, and name (a single Name field is split automatically), choose the new user’s role (never Administrator), and send a custom welcome email with placeholders like {username} and {set_password_url}. Includes an independent login form via the [auto_form_builder_login] shortcode — sign-in, lost password, and reset on your own page. Passwords are handled by WordPress core and never stored with the submission or emailed. Slack Notifications (free) Notify your team in Slack the moment a form is submitted. Paste a Slack Incoming Webhook URL and choose which forms post to which channels. Only hooks.slack.com URLs are accepted, no credentials are stored, and passwords and file contents are never sent. Entry Tags (free) Organize submissions like a lightweight CRM with color-coded tags. Create your own tags or start from templates (CRM workflow, support tickets, content types), assign them from the submission screen, and see a Tags column plus one-click quick filters on the submissions list — combine several tags to show entries matching any of them. A statistics panel shows tag usage; a cleanup action removes tags no longer in use. Off by default; enable it under Forms → Add-Ons. Tag data stays in your database if you turn the add-on off. Webhooks Send submission data to Zapier, Make, GoHighLevel, or any custom endpoint the moment a form is submitted, with an optional HMAC-SHA256 signing secret. Import & Export Export forms and entries for backup or migration, and import forms onto any WordPress site in seconds — ideal for agencies. Auto Form CRM Integration Capture leads with Auto Form Builder, then manage them with Auto Form CRM. AFB integrates natively with Auto Form CRM, a complete premium WordPress CRM — contact management, deal pipeline, workflow automation, email campaigns, meeting scheduling, and live chat — so your form submissions become managed leads in one place. AI Features (optional) Two optional AI features are available and off by default: AI Assistant — build a form from a plain-English description or an uploaded document, generate conditional logic automatically, get one-click submission summaries and drafted replies, “ask across your submissions,” and use an admin chat assistant that answers questions and even creates forms. AI Conversation — turn any form into a friendly chat that collects answers naturally, with optional appointment booking. These features run on AIDA, our AI service at autoformcrm.com. A free AIDA account includes free trial credits; after those are used, continued AI usage needs one-time credit packs — while every non-AI feature stays free. Your credit balance is always visible in the plugin. See “External Services” for exactly what data is sent, when, and to whom. External Services Auto Form Builder is privacy-first. By default the plugin does not contact any external service. Every service below is off by default and only runs after you actively opt in. AIDA — AI Assistant & AI Conversation (optional AI features, off by default) Service & provider: AIDA, the AI service that powers the optional AI features, by Auto Form Builder / Auto Form CRM (https://autoformcrm.com/). Requests are processed by a third-party AI provider, Anthropic. When contacted: only after an administrator enables an AI feature, connects an AIDA account, and then uses it. Otherwise nothing is ever sent, and the core builder never contacts AIDA. Account & cost: the AI features need a free AIDA account (with free trial credits); continued use afterward requires one-time credit packs from autoformcrm.com. The core plugin and all non-AI features stay free and need no account. Your credit balance is shown in the plugin, and purchases always open autoformcrm.com in a new tab (no payment inside the plugin). Data sent (only for the action you trigger): the form description and any document you upload when building a form; the submission content when you request a summary, a suggested reply, or an “ask across submissions” answer, or when the admin assistant answers about your forms/submissions; the messages you type into the admin assistant; and, only if you enable AI Conversation on a public form, the chat messages visitors type. Your AIDA token is sent server-side only to authenticate, stored encrypted, and never exposed to the browser. Data NOT sent: nothing for any AI feature you do not use, no form/submission content beyond the action you trigger, and never passwords handled by WordPress core. Purpose: to provide AI form building, submission summaries and replies, the admin assistant, and conversational forms. Terms / privacy: https://autoformcrm.com/terms and https://autoformcrm.com/privacy (Auto Form CRM / AIDA); Anthropic — https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms and https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy. Anonymous Deactivation Feedback (opt-in, one-time) Service & provider: Auto Form Builder feedback endpoint, https://autoformbuilder.com/afb-deactivation-feedback.php (https://autoformbuilder.com/). When contacted: only when an administrator clicks “Submit & Deactivate” in the optional dialog shown on deactivation. Skipping, closing, or dismissing it sends nothing. Data sent: the reason you selected, an optional explanation (max 1000 characters), your WordPress, PHP and plugin versions, and your site locale. The exact JSON payload is shown in the dialog before anything is sent. Data NOT sent: site URL, administrator name or email, user ID, IP address, or any form/submission data (the request User-Agent is neutralized so it carries no site URL). Purpose: to understand why users deactivate the plugin and prioritise improvements. Terms / privacy: https://autoformbuilder.com/ Anonymous Usage Data (opt-in, off by default) Service & provider: Auto Form Builder telemetry endpoint, https://autoformbuilder.com/afb-telemetry.php (https://autoformbuilder.com/). When contacted: only if you enable “Help improve Auto Form Builder by sending anonymous usage data” (in onboarding or Settings → General) — then a one-time “install” event on opt-in and an “uninstall” event on deletion. Turning it off stops all further requests. Data sent: a locally generated anonymous site ID (not derived from your URL), the plugin / WordPress / PHP / MySQL versions, the plugin version at install, your site locale, whether the site is multisite, days since install, approximate form and submission counts as ranges (never exact), active modules, and whether onboarding was completed. The full list is shown next to the opt-in checkbox. Data NOT sent: site URL, administrator name or email, user ID, IP address, or any form/submission content. Purpose: to measure the uninstall rate and which environments and usage levels correlate with leaving, so we can prioritise improvements. Terms / privacy: https://autoformbuilder.com/privacy/ Slack Notifications (built-in, off by default) Service & provider: Slack Incoming Webhooks, Slack Technologies, LLC (https://slack.com/). Only hooks.slack.com URLs are accepted; no other host is ever contacted. When contacted: only after you set a webhook URL you created in your own Slack workspace and enable it for a form — then on each submission of that form and when you click “Send Test”. Data sent: the form title and your site name; the values a visitor submitted only if you also enable “Include answers” for that form. Passwords, CAPTCHA values, file contents, and server file paths are never sent; uploaded files appear by filename only. Purpose: to notify your team in Slack about new form submissions in real time. Terms / privacy: https://slack.com/terms-of-service and https://slack.com/trust/privacy/privacy-policy

VigIA (Spanish for “lookout” or “watchman”, incorporating “IA” – Spanish for “AI”) is a complete AI visibility toolkit for WordPress. Monitor 60+ AI crawlers, control access to your content, and optimize how AI systems discover and understand your site. What does VigIA do? Scores your AI visibility with a 100-point analyzer covering 20 checks across 5 categories Tracks AI crawlers visiting your site (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and 60+ others) Provides detailed analytics with advanced filters, server-side pagination, and exportable reports with metadata banner Blocks unwanted crawlers via PHP (403 response) Manages robots.txt rules for AI crawlers with compliance monitoring Sends email alerts about crawler activity (daily, weekly, or monthly) Generates llms.txt files to help AI systems understand your site Serves markdown endpoints for posts, pages, taxonomy archives (categories, tags, WooCommerce product categories, custom taxonomies) and WooCommerce products with schema-like data Generates JSON-LD structured data with Site Identity and AI Discovery signals Exposes abilities for AI agents and automation tools (WordPress 6.9+) Key Features AI Visibility Analyzer * 100-point scoring system with letter grades (A+ to F) * 20 individual checks across 5 categories * Access & AI Discovery (37 pts): robots.txt, AI bot directives, Content Signals, llms.txt, sitemap, RSS feed * Structured Data & Semantic Context (25 pts): JSON-LD schemas, Open Graph, Twitter Cards, meta description, canonical URL * Content Structure & Readability (20 pts): heading hierarchy, semantic HTML5, image alt text, content/HTML ratio * AI Interaction & Distribution (8 pts): markdown delivery, AI share buttons * Access Performance (10 pts): TTFB measurement * Smart recommendations with direct links to VigIA features and plugin suggestions * Analyze any page on your site with URL autocomplete selector * Results cached for 24 hours with manual re-analyze option Analytics Dashboard * Total visits, unique crawlers, and pages crawled statistics * Timeline chart with daily breakdown * Category distribution (AI Training, AI Search, AI Assistant, Data Scraper) * Top crawlers and most crawled pages tables with paginated navigation * Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries integration: see share button clicks per page * Recent activity log with content type and HTTP status columns (color coded by status family) * Advanced filters: multi-select crawler picker, content type, HTTP status code, and configurable date range * Server-side pagination with four-button pager (first, previous, next, last) — operates over the full database, not just the latest 500 rows * Period comparison functionality * CSV export with a metadata banner (site name, site URL, export type, date range, export timestamp, applied filters) * “Export filtered CSV” button that downloads exactly what the active filters return, with vigia-filtered-YYYY-MM-DD.csv filename * Content type detection distinguishes Home, Post, Page, Product, custom CPTs, Category archive, Tag archive, Date/Author archive, Feed, Sitemap, REST API, File, Admin / login attempts (/wp-admin, /wp-login.php), WordPress system (admin-ajax, xmlrpc, wp-cron, wp-comments-post), 404 Not found, and Other Crawler Blocking * Block crawlers via PHP with 403 Forbidden response * Quick block dropdown in analytics dashboard * Manage blocks from Extras page * Works on any server (Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed, etc.) Robots.txt Management * Add Disallow rules for AI crawlers * Visual preview of your robots.txt * Compliance monitoring: see which crawlers ignore your rules * One-click blocking for non-compliant crawlers * Works with both physical and virtual robots.txt Email Alerts * Daily, weekly, or monthly reports * Three detail levels: Minimal, Normal, Complete * Non-compliant crawler warnings * Activity comparison with previous period Markdown for Agents * Serve posts, pages and any public post type as optimized markdown for AI agents * Serve taxonomy archive pages (categories, tags, WooCommerce product categories, custom taxonomies) as markdown — disabled by default, opt in per taxonomy * Dedicated .md URL endpoints (e.g., /your-post.md, /category/news.md, /product-category/electronics.md) * Accept: text/markdown content negotiation on posts and taxonomy archive pages * Discoverability via Link HTTP headers and HTML tags * YAML frontmatter for posts: title, date, modified, author, image, categories, tags, post type, lang * YAML frontmatter for taxonomy terms: title, description, url, type, taxonomy, parent, count, image (term meta), lang * WooCommerce product frontmatter adds schema-like fields: sku, product_type, price, regular_price, sale_price, currency, availability, stock_quantity, rating, rating_count, review_count * Taxonomy term body includes the term description (rendered through the_content), the list of direct child terms in hierarchical taxonomies, and an excerpt of the latest posts/products assigned to the term * Product listings inside product_cat archives include an inline summary with formatted price, “was X” on sale items, star rating and out-of-stock flag * Respects blocking rules (blocked crawlers get 403) and LLMs.txt exclusion filters * Per-term noindex detection from Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO and SEOPress * Analytics integration: tracks markdown requests per crawler * X-Markdown-Tokens response header * Filters: vigia_markdown_post_eligible, vigia_markdown_term_eligible, vigia_markdown_term_posts_limit * Follows the Cloudflare Markdown for Agents standard LLMs.txt Generator * Select content by post type with one click * Filter by taxonomies (categories, tags, custom) * Manual include/exclude with AJAX search * Exclude by URL patterns (wildcards supported) * SEO plugin integration (auto-exclude noindex content) * Auto-regeneration (daily, weekly, monthly) * Robots.txt integration (add llms.txt and llms-full.txt references) * Generate llms.txt and llms-full.txt files * Full content or excerpt mode * Compatible with Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress, The SEO Framework, and Native SEO NoIndexer JSON-LD Structured Data * Generate WebSite and Organization/Person schema for site identity * AI Discovery: ReadAction pointers to llms.txt, llms-full.txt, and Markdown for Agents endpoints * Social profiles and sameAs links for brand identity across the web * SearchAction for Google sitelinks search box * Media library integration for logo selection * SEO plugin conflict detection (Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, SEOPress, The SEO Framework) * Choose output page (front page or any published page) * Live JSON-LD preview with real-time updates * Smart integration with LLMs.txt and Markdown for Agents features Supported AI Crawlers VigIA monitors 60+ AI crawlers including: OpenAI: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, OAI-AdsBot, ChatGPT-User Anthropic: ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, Claude-Code Google: Google-Extended, GoogleOther, Gemini-Deep-Research, Google-NotebookLM Perplexity: PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User Meta: Meta-ExternalAgent, FacebookBot, Meta-WebIndexer Amazon: Amazonbot, Amzn-SearchBot, bedrockbot Mistral: MistralAI-User, MistralAI-Index Microsoft: BingBot ByteDance: Bytespider Apple: Applebot-Extended And many more… Privacy Focused VigIA stores visitor data locally in your WordPress database. No data is sent to external servers. Abilities API VigIA is one of the first WordPress plugins to implement the Abilities API introduced in WordPress 6.9. This API allows AI agents, automation tools, and external systems to discover and interact with VigIA’s functionality in a standardized, secure way. What are Abilities? Abilities are self-contained units of functionality that VigIA exposes through WordPress’s central registry. Each ability has defined inputs, outputs, and permissions, making it easy for automation tools to understand and use them. Available Abilities VigIA registers the following abilities: Analytics vigia/get-crawler-stats – Get statistics about AI crawler visits (total visits, unique crawlers, pages crawled) vigia/get-top-crawlers – Get a ranked list of most active AI crawlers vigia/get-top-pages – Get the most crawled pages on your site Blocking vigia/get-blocked-items – List all blocked crawlers and IP addresses vigia/block-crawler – Block a crawler by User-Agent pattern vigia/unblock-crawler – Remove an existing block Robots.txt vigia/get-robots-rules – Get current AI crawler rules in robots.txt vigia/add-robots-disallow – Add a Disallow directive for a crawler vigia/remove-robots-rule – Remove a robots.txt rule Use Cases Automated monitoring: AI agents can query crawler statistics and alert you to anomalies Reactive blocking: Automation tools can block crawlers that repeatedly ignore robots.txt External dashboards: Aggregate data from multiple WordPress sites with VigIA installed WP-CLI integration: Future command-line access through the Abilities API n8n / Make workflows: Build custom automation flows using VigIA’s abilities Requirements The Abilities API ships with WordPress 6.9 and later. On older WordPress versions, VigIA works normally but abilities and MCP are not available. MCP Server (Model Context Protocol) VigIA exposes its 9 abilities as native MCP tools to any MCP-compatible client (Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Codex CLI, Antigravity, Continue, Cline, Zed and similar) using the official WordPress MCP Adapter. The adapter ships bundled with the plugin, so the MCP endpoint is active right after installation — no Composer step or terminal access required. Requirements WordPress 6.9 or later (provides the Abilities API) Quick connect (recommended) Open VigIA > Extras > MCP and click “Generate password and connection commands”. The plugin creates a dedicated Application Password named VigIA MCP and renders ready-to-paste commands for Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop and a generic block (URL + Authorization header) for any other MCP client. The plain password is shown only once. If you lose it, revoke the entry from the same panel and generate a new one. Endpoint https://your-site.example/wp-json/vigia/v1/mcp The endpoint uses HTTP Basic auth with the WordPress Application Password. The user must have the manage_options capability. Connecting Claude Code Quick Connect builds the full command for you. The shape is: claude mcp add --transport http vigia https://your-site.example/wp-json/vigia/v1/mcp --header "Authorization: Basic BASE64_OF_USER_AND_APP_PASSWORD" Claude Code merges the new entry into its config file automatically — no risk of breaking other servers. Connecting Cursor Save the JSON block from Quick Connect as ~/.cursor/mcp.json. You can also reach this file from inside Cursor at Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP. If the file already exists with other content, see the FAQ. Claude Desktop and other clients Claude Desktop does not speak HTTP MCP, so it needs a small bridge and a config file of its own. Any other client (Codex CLI, Continue, Cline, Antigravity, Zed, or your own) takes the two raw values Quick Connect exposes: the server URL and the Authorization header. Both cases are covered in the FAQ, together with how to merge VigIA into a config file that already exists without losing what is in it. Read-only mode If you only want your AI to consult VigIA (not change anything), enable “Read-only mode” in the MCP tab. While on, write actions (block, unblock, robots changes) return a permission denied error. Read actions (statistics, top crawlers, blocked items, robots rules) keep working. The toggle stores a vigia_mcp_read_only option that hooks into the vigia_can_write_via_abilities filter. Developers can still force read-only from a mu-plugin: add_filter( 'vigia_can_write_via_abilities', '__return_false' ); The mu-plugin filter at the default priority takes precedence over the toggle. Who can reach the endpoint The endpoint requires the capability to manage options, the same one every tool behind it already asked for. The vigia_mcp_transport_capability filter can lower that bar; each tool keeps its own permission check. After connecting Restart your MCP client after adding the server so it picks up the new tools. Then try a few prompts to confirm everything is wired up: “Show me VigIA crawler stats for the last 7 days.” “List the top 5 most crawled pages on this site.” “Add a robots.txt Disallow rule for TestBot and then list the current AI crawler rules.” The third example exercises a read + write + read round-trip, which is the most complete sanity check. Support Need private support or custom development? Do you need one-on-one help, priority troubleshooting, or a custom feature, integration, or tweak built specifically for your site? I offer private support and custom development. Just contact me and tell me what you need. Need help or have suggestions? 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