Shortcoder 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.

Shortcoder plugin allows to create a custom shortcodes for HTML, JavaScript, CSS and other code snippets. Now the shortcodes can be used in posts/pages and the snippet will be replaced in place. ✍ Create shortcodes easily Give a name for the shortcode Paste the HTML/JavaScript/CSS as shortcode content Save ! Now insert the shortcode [sc name="my_shortcode"] in your post/page. Voila ! You got the HTML/Javascript/CSS in your post. ✨ Features Create custom shortcodes easily and use them in any place where shortcode is supported. Have any HTML, Javascript, CSS as Shortcode content. Insert: Custom parameters in shortcode Insert: WordPress parameters in shortcode Multiple editors: Code, Visual and text modes. Globally disable the shortcode when not needed. Disable shortcode on desktop, mobile devices. A button in post editor to pick the shortcodes to insert. Execute blocks HTML in shortcode content. Insert shortcodes in Gutenberg/block editor. 🎲 An example usage Create a shortcode named “adsenseAd” in the Shortcoder admin page. Paste the adsense code in the box given and save it. Use [sc name="adsenseAd"] in your posts and pages. Tada !!! the ad code is replaced and it appears in the post. Now you can edit the ad code at one place and the code is updated in all the locations where the shortcode is used. Similarly shortcodes can be created for frequently used snippets. You can also add custom parameters (like %%id%%) inside the snippets, and change it’s value like [sc name="youtube" id="GrlRADfvjII"] when using them. 🧱 Using in block editor Though shortcodes can be used in any place manually, Shortcoder provides below options to select and insert the shortcodes created easily when working with the block editor. Shortcoder block Toolbar button to select and insert shortcodes inline (under “more”) 💎 Upgrade to PRO Shortcoder also provides a PRO version which has additional features to further enhance the experience. Below features are offered in the PRO version. Custom editor – Edit Shortcode content using block editor or page builder plugins like Elementor and WPBakery. (New) Translation with WPML – Translate Shortcode content with WPML. Revisions – Revisions support for Shortcode content. Locate shortcode – Search posts and pages where a shortcode is used. Extra code – Include extra code to the footer when a shortcode is used in a page. Get started with Shortcoder – PRO Links Documentation FAQs Support forum/Report bugs PRO features