Giraforms – Contact Form, Booking Form, Survey & Custom Form Builder for Block Editor vs UpdraftPlus

Giraforms is a Gutenberg-native form builder for people who want full control inside WordPress. Build and manage forms directly in the block editor, using real blocks instead of shortcode builders. You can create contact forms, booking forms, surveys, registrations, quote requests and more while keeping all data on your own server. Try Demo | Upgrade to Pro | Documentation Why Giraforms? Truly native Gutenberg workflow — Build forms where you already build pages Performance-focused — Frontend assets load only on pages that contain a form Privacy-first by default — Submissions stay in your WordPress database Built-in anti-spam stack — Honeypot, timestamp checks, Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha Flexible layouts — Use Columns, Groups, Headings and core blocks inside forms Ready in minutes — Start from 10 pre-built templates or create from scratch Free Features 18 form field blocks 10 pre-built templates (contact, booking, survey, job application and more) AJAX form submission (with graceful non-JS fallback) Client-side and server-side validation Honeypot + timestamp anti-spam Captcha providers: Cloudflare Turnstile, reCAPTCHA v2/v3, hCaptcha Submissions dashboard in WordPress admin CSV export Admin email notifications + user confirmation emails Custom success message or redirect GDPR consent field Privacy options (disable IP and user-agent collection) Mobile-friendly and translation-ready Free vs Pro (quick overview) Free is ideal if you need: – Contact/lead forms built in Gutenberg – Local entry storage in WordPress – CSV export and email notifications – Strong anti-spam and GDPR-friendly options Pro is ideal if you need: – Payments with Stripe – Advanced booking workflows and calendar export – File uploads, signatures, ratings, geolocation, advanced phone – Conditional logic and multi-step forms – Webhooks, Brevo & Mailchimp sync, statistics and custom email templates Available Form Fields (Free) Text — Single line text input Number — Numeric input with min/max Email — With built-in validation Phone — Phone number input URL — Website URL input Textarea — Multi-line text area Select — Dropdown with custom options Checkbox — Multiple selections Radio — Single selection Date — Date picker Time — Time selection Password — Secure input Hidden — Hidden data field Range Slider — Visual numeric slider Color Picker — Color selection Consent — GDPR checkbox Submit Button — Customizable button Pro Features Unlock advanced capabilities with Giraforms Pro: File Upload — Accept file attachments in your forms Star Rating — Collect ratings with a star field Calendar — Inline calendar date picker Booking — Booking fields with time slots, admin calendar view and calendar export Phone (Advanced) — International phone input with country flags Signature — Digital signature pad Currency — Formatted currency input Geolocation — Location-aware field Stripe Payments — Collect payments directly inside your forms Conditional Logic — Show/hide fields based on user input Multi-step Forms — Split long forms into guided steps with progress bar Custom Styles — Control fonts, colors, borders and label position per form Access Restrictions — Limit forms to logged-in or logged-out users Form Scheduling — Open and close forms on specific dates Unique Entry Validation — Prevent duplicate submissions by email Submission Statuses — Track and update entry status from the admin Statistics Dashboard — View form performance and submission trends Custom Email Templates — Branded notification emails Webhooks — Send form data to external services via HTTP requests Brevo — Sync form submissions with your Brevo contact lists Use Cases Giraforms is ideal for: Contact forms Booking and reservation forms Survey and feedback forms Job application forms Event registration forms Quote and order request forms Newsletter subscription forms Support ticket forms Who is it for? Freelancers and agencies building Gutenberg websites Local businesses that need booking and lead forms Teams that want data ownership and privacy-first form handling Site owners who want to avoid bulky shortcode-based form builders Pre-built Templates Get started in seconds with 10 ready-to-use templates: Contact Form Registration Form Newsletter Subscription Feedback Form Support Request Quote Request (multi-column) Event Registration (multi-column) Job Application (multi-column) Survey Form Booking Form (multi-column)

The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world. Backup with UpdraftPlus UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks. Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email. The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus. Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly or fortnightly. Restore with UpdraftPlus Your WordPress website is vulnerable. Your site may get hacked. Something could go wrong with an update or your server could crash. You might need to reverse a change made or a mistake caused by human error. Whatever the reason, you can restore your WordPress website in just a few clicks with UpdraftPlus. Choose which components to restore (e.g. plugins, themes, database etc.), click again to restore, then click again to return to the main screen. Migrate with UpdraftPlus It’s easy to migrate your WordPress website to another web host, server or domain with this free version of UpdraftPlus. To migrate, simply download your database, plugins, themes etc. from the source site, then upload them into your destination site. When migrating, a built-in search-and-replace engine identifies old strings and replaces these to reflect the new location. UpdraftPlus saves you time and reduces the risk of broken links or missing files associated with manual migrations. Why UpdraftPlus? Writing a reliable backup and migration plugin that ‘just works’ consistently across millions of different WordPress deployments is hard. UpdraftPlus is relied upon to do exactly that. We’re trusted and actively deployed on more websites around the world than any other WordPress backup and migration plugin. UpdraftPlus: Backs up, migrates and restores Offers a huge number of remote storage locations Allows you to schedule backups, so you can ‘set and forget’ Is comprehensive and easy to use Is proven to work on over 3 million sites. UpdraftPlus Premium The free version of UpdraftPlus will back up and migrate your website perfectly well. However if you need more features and options you can purchase our Premium version. Backup and Migrate with UpdraftPlus Premium, and: Get automatic backups before updates. Restore the very latest version if a WordPress or plugin update breaks your site. Backup Incrementally. Changes are added to the master, saving server resources vs repeatedly backing up in full. Get more remote storage options including Microsoft OneDrive, SFTP, Microsoft Azure, WebDAV, Google Cloud, SCP, Backblaze and pCloud. Get 1GB of integrated storage with UpdraftVault for 99.999% reliability, redundancy and scalability. Get more control over how many backups are stored in a specified interval. Restore from other backup plugins including BackWPup, BackupWordPress, Simple Backups and more. Run backups at set times e.g. during periods of low traffic. Backup to more than one location for added protection. Get detailed reports. Includes cryptographic checksums so you can verify the integrity of the backup files and more. Get Premium migration. Migrating to the destination site is more direct and can be done from the source site. Get Multisite / multi-network compatibility. Backup non-WP files and databases e.g. tables belonging to your e-commerce store or customisations to WordPress core. Get database encryption. Manage your backups and migrations from the WP-CLI. Get Premium Support. Find out more on our comparison page. UpdraftPlus Premium is available for purchase here. Managing multiple websites? UpdraftCentral is a powerful remote control dashboard for WordPress that allows you to manage your backups, as well as updates, users, pages, posts, plugins and themes from one central location. Choose between: UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Premium (paid-for, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Cloud (paid-for, fully-hosted) Optimize your sites centrally by combining the power of WP-Optimize and UpdraftCentral or manage your backups centrally by combining the power of UpdraftPlus with UpdraftCentral. Need to create a temporary clone of your site? UpdraftClone makes it quick and easy to create a temporary sandbox for changes you want to try out. Simply select the versions of WordPress and PHP that you want, and we’ll do the rest. More about UpdraftClone The full suite of plugins from Team Updraft and friends UpdraftPlus. Backup, migrate and restore. Rated 5* on the plugin directory and trusted by more than 3 million WordPress website owner WP-Optimize. Clean the database, compress images and caching. Optimize your WordPress website. 5* user rating. 1 million + active installs. All-In-One Security (AIOS). Secure your WordPress website. Comprehensive, feature rich and easy to use. 5* user rating and 1 million + active installs. WP Overnight. Quality Extensions for your WooCommerce store. 5* rated invoicing, order and product management, customer management solutions and more. Easy Updates Manager. Take control of updates. Lots of features for free, and a Premium version with even more – over 300,000 users. Internal Link Juicer.Boost your SEO. Automate internal links within your WordPress website. Save time and rank higher in the search engines. For other useful, free plugins see our lead developer’s profile, here. Are you multilingual? Can you translate? Do you want to help people that speak your language to backup, migrate and restore their WordPress websites? The UpdraftPlus backup, migration and restoration plugin is ready and waiting. The translation process is easy, and web-based – please go here for instructions: https://updraftplus.com/translate/. Or, if you’re already an expert WordPress translator, just pick out the .pot file from the wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/languages/ directory – if you scan for translatable strings manually, then you need to get these functions: _x(), __(), _e(), _ex(), log_e(). Many thanks to our existing translators. 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