Code Engine – PHP Snippets, AI Functions & Automation for WordPress vs BBForms – Flexible Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, Poll & Custom Forms Editor

BBForms is a code form plugin designed to help you build multipurpose forms in seconds! Build your forms in a few lines, configure their actions & change their options using the BBCodes syntax (the same as WordPress Shortcodes syntax). How does it works? Code the form fields: [email* name="your_email" label="Email" desc="Enter your email."] [submit value="Send"] Code the form actions: [record] [email to="{field.your_email}" subject="Submission received!"] Here is the data entered: {fields_table} [/email] [redirect to="https://wp.org/"]Redirecting...[/redirect] Change the form options: require_login=yes require_login_message=You must be logged in. unique_field=your_email unique_field_message=A submission with {field.your_email} already exists. submissions_limit=10 submissions_limit_message=Sorry, only the first 10 submissions can join the giveaway :) Place the shortcode to show your form anywhere: [bbforms id="123"] Features Forms: Form editor designed to build faster. 20 fields. 20 BBCodes (columns, table, bold, etc). Responsive multi-column form layout. File uploads. Quiz field to act as custom captcha. Form templates (live demo). Export/Import forms by copying & pasting code or TXT file. Live form preview. Categories & tags to organize your forms. Actions: 6 actions (record, email, redirect, etc). Unlimited form actions (send as many email notifications as you wish!). GDPR actions to automate export & deletion requests. Tags to place dynamic content anywhere. Form options: 14 form options (clear & hide form on success, show required fields notice, etc). Restrict form access to logged in users only. Limit by a unique field value. Apply a submissions limit. Anti-bot & anti-spam protection. Submissions: Advanced submissions view. Store, view, filter, edit & delete your submissions. Export submissions to CSV. Submissions auto-cleanup. Extra: Role management settings. Override form & field messages globally. Light & dark mode editor. Mobile ready & designed for accessibility. Optimized for speed (CSS: 4kb & JS:9kb). The perfect form solution for everyone BBForms is designed to be accessible to everyone helping you to create your forms easily, whether you build them for yourself or for a client: Site owners Build your own forms without coding experience! BBForms is shipped with several form templates as sample forms and our form editor includes controls to help you code your form. Each control includes a list of examples of common configurations like an email field auto-filled with the logged in user email or a URL field that only accepts https URLs. Developers Building forms for your customers has never been so easy! You can store your own form templates and import them in your customer website in no time. All documentation can be found inside the form editor, so you can access them without abandon the form editor screen. Sites network owners Do you manage a large amount of sites? BBForms makes super easy to bring support! Your customers can send you an entire form configuration by copy & pasting their code or as a TXT file. Also, you are able to provide them the code required for any configuration or provide TXT files in your site to let them import a form designed by yourself. Powerful add-ons to extend BBForms Address Autocomplete Calculations Conditional Display Conditional Logic Email Balancer Geolocation Multi-Step Forms Post Submissions Rating Field Repeatable Fields Save Progress Signature Field Users Management Spam protection add-ons: Google reCAPTCHA v2 & v3 hCaptcha Cloudflare Turnstile Integrations WooCommerce Tags: {woocommerce.is_customer} – Shows “yes” or “no” based if user or an email address is a registered customer. {woocommerce.order_history_table} – Shows an HTML table with the customer order history. Useful for email resumes. {woocommerce.admin_order_history_table} – Shows an HTML table with the customer order history with direct links to the admin area. Useful to have direct links to the customer information & orders. Easy Digital Downloads Tags: {edd.is_customer} – Shows “yes” or “no” based if user or an email address is a registered customer. {edd.order_history_table} – Shows an HTML table with the customer order history. Useful for email resumes. {edd.admin_order_history_table} – Shows an HTML table with the customer order history with direct links to the admin area. Useful to have direct links to the customer information & orders. GamiPress In GamiPress plugin you will find new events to let you configure rewards based on BBForms interactions. Events: Submit a form. Submit a form of a category. Submit a form of a tag. Submit a field value. AutomatorWP In AutomatorWP plugin you will find new triggers and tags to let you configure automations based on BBForms interactions. Triggers: Submit a form. Submit a form of a category. Submit a form of a tag. Submit a field value. Tags: Tags to use any field submitted value on AutomatorWP actions. More plugins from the BBForms team If you like BBForms, you will love our other plugins! GamiPress – Flexible gamification plugin to reward your users with points, achievements, badges & ranks based on their activity in your WordPress. AutomatorWP – Powerful no-code automator plugin that lets you connect +200 plugins together or with apps, platforms with webhooks plus other WordPress sites. ShortLinks Pro – Complete link management plugin that not only powers WordPress websites with shortened URLs, also empowers site owners to create clean, branded and unique affiliate links easily.

Code Engine is a snippets manager that doesn’t stop at snippets. Yes, it runs your PHP and JavaScript exactly where and when you want: frontend, backend, on a schedule, or inside your content. But its real magic is what happens after you write a function: the same little piece of code instantly becomes a tool your AI chatbots can call, a step you can drag into a visual workflow, and an endpoint the outside world can trigger. One function, three superpowers. Most “code snippets” plugins stop at a textarea and a toggle. Code Engine treats your functions as first-class building blocks for the whole Meow Apps ecosystem, and for anything that can speak REST. Think out of the box, let your creativity flow, because the possibilities really are endless! ✨ For more, check the official website and come say hi on the Discord. Quick Intro Hello! ☀️ I built Code Engine because I was tired of pasting mystery snippets into functions.php and praying. I wanted a place where small bits of code are organized, safe, AI-assisted, and reusable everywhere. Here’s the idea. You write a function (or let the AI write it for you from a plain-English description). That function immediately shows up in three places: AI Engine: your chatbots and MCP clients (Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code) can call it as a tool, with real arguments. Ask “how many orders shipped today?” and your chatbot runs your function to answer. Workflow Engine: your function appears in the step picker as its very own block. Drag it onto the canvas, wire it between an AI step and a Slack step, done. No glue code. REST / External tools: give it a secure endpoint and a token, then trigger it from Make.com, n8n, Zapier, a cron job, or a webhook. You never wrote an “integration.” You just wrote a function. Code Engine did the rest. 🤝 Core Modules 🧩 Snippets Manager Backend, Frontend, Persistent, Scheduled, Functions, and in-content (PHP/JS) snippets, all in one clean dashboard with tags, search, scope filters, and priorities. 🪄 AI-Assisted Coding Describe what you want in plain English and let AI Engine write the snippet: code, name, arguments, and scope included. Refine existing code or implement it straight from your comments. 🤖 Functions as AI Tools Every Function snippet becomes a function-calling tool and an MCP tool, so your AI Engine chatbots (and external AI agents) can actually do things on your site, not just talk. 🔀 Functions as Workflow Steps Workflow Engine surfaces each of your functions as its own draggable step. Your custom logic becomes a first-class citizen on the automation canvas. 🌐 External Access (REST) Expose any runnable snippet through a secured REST endpoint with a bearer token. Perfect for Make.com, n8n, webhooks, and scheduled external jobs. 🛡️ Safe Mode A snippet that throws a fatal error is automatically caught and disabled before it can take your site down. Code with confidence. ⏰ Scheduling Run a snippet daily at a chosen time via WP-Cron (reports, cleanups, syncs) without touching the server crontab. 🧱 Code Blocks & Shortcodes (Pro) Drop PHP or JS straight into a post or page with a Gutenberg block or the [code-engine] shortcode, with safety guards. 🧩 Snippets, the way they should be Code Engine organizes your code by scope, so each snippet runs exactly where it belongs: Persistent: runs everywhere (frontend and backend). Your everyday “add this to functions.php” code, but managed. Frontend: runs only on the public site. Backend: runs only in the admin. Function: a named, callable function with typed arguments and defaults. This is the reusable building block (see below). Scheduled: runs on a WP-Cron schedule, at the hour and minute you pick. Content (PHP / JS): runs inside a specific post or page, via a Gutenberg Code Block or the [code-engine] shortcode (Pro). Everything is searchable, taggable, sortable by priority, and importable/exportable. The CodeMirror editor gives you proper syntax highlighting and keyboard shortcuts (Cmd+S to save, Cmd+Enter to run). A nikic/php-parser pass validates your PHP before it ever runs. 🪄 Let AI write it for you Don’t feel like writing the boilerplate? Describe the snippet in plain language and Code Engine, powered by AI Engine, generates the whole thing: the code, a sensible name, a description, the right scope, and, for functions, the argument list with names, types, and defaults. Already have code? Ask the AI to modify it from a prompt, or write a few comments describing what you want and let it fill in the implementation. It’s pair programming, right inside your dashboard. ✨ The big idea: write once, use everywhere This is what makes Code Engine different. A Function snippet is not just code you call from other code. It’s a reusable capability that the rest of your stack can plug into. The moment you save it, the same function is available in three places at once: 1. As an AI tool, for chatbots and AI agents With AI Engine active, your functions are exposed through function calling and over MCP (Model Context Protocol). Your on-site chatbot can run them mid-conversation, and external AI agents (Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, OpenClaw) can call them too. Want a chatbot that checks stock, looks up a booking, or kicks off a process? Write the function; the chatbot gains the skill. 2. As a workflow step, for automation With Workflow Engine, every active function shows up in the Add-step picker as its own block, named after your snippet, with one input per argument. Drag it onto the canvas and wire it between other steps: an AI step that summarizes, your function that saves, a Social Engine step that posts. There’s also a generic “Execute snippet (by ID / by name)” step when you want to call one dynamically. You never write integration code; your function is the integration. 3. As a REST endpoint, for the outside world Give a snippet a custom endpoint name and a bearer token, and it’s instantly callable from anywhere: POST /wp-json/code-engine/v1/snippets-endpoint/your-endpoint Pass arguments as JSON in the body, secure it with a token, and trigger it from Make.com, n8n, Zapier, GitHub Actions, or a humble cron job. Automation without a middleware bill. 🛡️ Safe by default Running arbitrary code is powerful, so Code Engine takes safety seriously: Safe Mode catches fatal errors and auto-disables the offending snippet, so a typo never white-screens your site. REST whitelisting means global snippets only run on trusted REST routes by default, so you choose what to open up. Per-snippet tokens secure your external endpoints. Validation with a real PHP parser before code is saved. For developers who want fewer guardrails, there’s a “Bypass REST Security” option and filters (mwcode_rest_authorized, mwcode_rest_whitelist) to tailor exactly what’s allowed. Works beautifully with the Meow Apps family Code Engine is one engine in a connected set, each one useful alone, magical together: AI Engine: chatbots, content generation, and MCP. Turns your functions into AI tools. Workflow Engine: visual automation. Turns your functions into draggable steps. SEO Engine: smart, lightweight AI SEO. Social Engine: schedule and automate social posts. Why Code Engine? Reusable, not throwaway Other snippet plugins give you a place to paste code. Code Engine gives you a place to build capabilities that your AI, your workflows, and your external tools can all use. Native to WordPress Clean, fast, and built the WordPress way. No clunky external dashboards, no bloat. AI-native Write snippets with AI, expose them to AI. The whole loop lives in your wp-admin. Developer friendly REST API, MCP tools, function calling, scheduling, import/export, and plenty of filters to hook into. Cared for Part of the Meow Apps family, with regular updates and a real human behind it. 💕