The Innovative Form Builder – IvyForms vs wpDataTables integration for Forminator Forms

The Innovative WordPress Form Builder Plugin IvyForms is an innovative drag-and-drop form builder for WordPress that turns form creation into minutes of work instead of hours. Build contact forms, order forms, registration forms, surveys and any custom form you need – on a single screen, with no code and no developer. One-screen form creation, drag-and-drop fields, a real-time preview and ready-made templates mean less setup frustration, a faster launch, and more time to focus on the results your forms bring in. Why Build Your Forms with IvyForms Launch faster – Go from idea to published form in minutes with one-screen creation and ready-made templates, so your campaigns never wait on your forms. No code, no developer – Reorder fields and set labels, placeholders, colors and layout with simple visual controls – keeping your budget and your timeline intact. Grows with your skills – Beginners get a clear, welcoming interface, while advanced users get the flexibility to fine-tune every element. Never get stuck – Email support, detailed documentation with screenshots and videos, and onboarding tutorials mean faster answers and less downtime. From simple to complex – Whether it’s a basic contact form or a multi-step form, you get the same smooth, enjoyable building experience. IvyForms Lite | Free Features & Integrations Drag & Drop Form Builder Build professional forms in minutes – drag, drop and customize fields to get exactly what you need, without writing a single line of code. Gutenberg Block Drop any form straight into the WordPress block editor, so publishing a form is as easy as adding a paragraph. Elementor Integration Add and manage your forms natively inside Elementor and keep your entire page-building workflow in one place. Angie AI Let the Elementor AI agent build and edit forms for you, turning a plain description into a ready-to-use form. MCP Support Connect AI agents through the Model Context Protocol (WordPress 6.9+) so forms can be created and managed automatically – no manual clicking. Dozens of Ready-to-Use Templates Skip the blank page. Start from proven templates for contact, order, registration, booking, and feedback forms and publish in minutes. 20+ Form Fields Capture exactly the data you need – from names and emails to file uploads and product orders (full list below). Permissions Give the right people the right access with role- and user-based permissions, keeping your forms and data under control. File Upload Field Let users attach documents, images and files to their submissions – perfect for applications, support and job forms. Undo & Redo Experiment freely and step backward or forward at any time, so you never lose your work while building. Import / Export with Styles Move complete forms – styling included – between sites in seconds and save hours of rebuilding. Amelia Integration + Amelia Theme Connect IvyForms with Amelia bookings and apply the matching Amelia theme for a consistent booking experience. Google Sheets Integration Send every entry straight to Google Sheets for real-time collaboration, reporting and sharing – with no manual export. Embedded Forms Place any form anywhere on your site with a simple shortcode for maximum reach and flexibility. Submission Confirmations Guide users after they submit with a custom success message or a redirect to your thank-you page. Email Notifications Get instant email alerts on every submission so you can follow up on leads and never miss an entry. Spam Protection Keep submissions clean and trustworthy with built-in Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile. Entry Management View, filter, and manage every submission from your dashboard, so your data stays organized and actionable. Mobile-Friendly Forms Deliver a flawless, professional experience on mobile, tablet, and desktop and capture more submissions everywhere. Dark / Light Mode Match your admin style with sleek, dark and light options for a modern, comfortable workspace. Live Form Preview See your form exactly as users will as you build it, so you catch issues before you publish. Customization & Styles Adjust layouts, colors, spacing and appearance to match your brand – no CSS required. wpDataTables Integration Turn raw submissions into sortable, filterable tables and charts to spot trends and share insights fast. Slack Integration Get an instant Slack notification the moment someone submits a form, so your team can act on new leads, feedback and responses without leaving Slack. Form Fields in IvyForms Lite Text – Collect open-ended answers like names, messages or feedback. Number – Capture numeric data such as quantities, ages or amounts. Email – Validated email capture for leads and signups. Phone – Structured phone input with country-code selection. Website/URL – Accept and validate links or web addresses. Name – First/last name fields to personalize submissions. Address – Full address capture for shipping, events or bookings. Radio Button – Let users pick one option from a clear list. Checkbox – Allow multiple selections or consent opt-ins. Dropdown – Clean, organized menus for single or multi-select. Date – Easy date picking for bookings and scheduling. Time – Quick, accurate time selection. Rating – Star-style ratings for feedback and reviews. Slider – Pick a value along a range with a simple slider. GDPR Agreement – Add a consent checkbox for compliant data collection. HTML – Insert custom HTML content anywhere in the form. File Upload – Let users attach documents, images or files. Product – Add purchasable items for order and payment forms. Quantity – Let users set how many of an item they want. Total – Automatically calculate and display the order total. IvyForms Pro | Form Builder Features & Integrations Take your form building to the next level with IvyForms Pro – built for professionals who want smarter, more dynamic forms and deeper integrations. Multi-Step Forms Make long forms easy to complete by breaking them into logical steps. Multi-step forms improve the user journey, reduce drop-offs and increase submission rates – ideal for applications, onboarding and detailed registrations. Conversational Forms Turn any form into a friendly, one-question-at-a-time experience. Conversational forms keep users focused and engaged, lifting completion rates on surveys, quizzes and lead-generation forms. Multiple Confirmations with Conditional Logic Show the right follow-up to the right person. Based on how users answer, display a different success message or redirect them to a different thank-you page – so every submission ends with a relevant, personal response. Multiple Notifications with Conditional Logic Route every submission to the right inbox. Send different email notifications to different team members based on how users answer – so sales, support, and billing each get only the entries that matter to them. Smart, Conditional Forms Show or hide fields based on what users choose, so every visitor sees a shorter, more relevant form and completes it more often. Backend Entry Management Add and edit entries directly from your dashboard. Fix a typo, log a submission that came in by phone or update records without ever touching the database – full control over your data in one place. Integrations: Webhooks & REST API Connect IvyForms to the rest of your stack and automate the busywork. Push submissions to any system in real time with Webhooks, link thousands of apps through Zapier, or build fully custom workflows with the REST API. Multisheets Integration Go beyond a single spreadsheet. Sync entries across multiple Google Sheets for advanced reporting, team collaboration and cleaner data organization. Form Themes Apply polished, predefined style themes in a single click and give every form a professional, on-brand look – with no design work required. Pro Form Fields Unlock advanced fields built for richer data collection: Rich Text, Section, DateTime, Likert Scale, Net Promoter Score (NPS) and Multi-file upload – perfect for surveys, feedback, agreements and detailed submissions. If you want to use these advanced features, check our lifetime and annual plans and choose the one that suits your needs. You’ll get everything in Lite, all Pro features, and every future Lite feature we release. How to Use IvyForms Pro Using IvyForms Pro is simple, but one thing is worth clarifying up front: the Pro version works as an add-on to the free (Lite) plugin. That means you always need the Lite version installed and active – it’s the core engine. The Pro add-on then unlocks all premium features on top of it. Once both are active, the Pro tools appear right inside your form builder. From there you can create advanced forms, enable premium fields, use conditional logic, and access all the extra customization options that come with Pro – without changing your existing workflow. Coming Soon Square payments (Lite), Slack integration (Lite), Calculation field (Pro), Zapier (Pro), Repeater field (Pro), Save & continue later (Pro), Surveys (Pro), and email integrations. USEFUL LINKS FOR OUR FORMS Official Page || Documentation || Youtube || Instagram || Facebook || Blog || Pro Versions External services This plugin connects to the ipwho.is API to obtain country code information for phone number field localization. This feature helps improve user experience by auto-selecting the appropriate country code for phone input fields. What data is sent: – The plugin sends an IP address lookup request to ipwho.is when a form with a phone number field is loaded – No personal identifying information is explicitly sent, but the user’s IP address is implicitly transmitted as part of the request When data is sent: – Only when forms with phone number functionality are loaded and used This service is provided by “https://ipwhois.io”: – Terms of service: https://ipwhois.io/terms – Privacy policy: https://ipwhois.io/privacy

wpDataTables integration for Forminator Forms is an add-on that connects the best WordPress table plugin wpDataTables and easy-to-use WordPress form builder Forminator. A powerful tool that adds “Forminator Form” as a new table type in wpDataTables and allows you to create responsive, sortable tables & charts based on Forminator Forms submissions from your site frontend using intuitive wpDataTables table and chart wizard. You will need to install wpDataTables and Forminator plugins to be able to use this integration. This great integration is compatible with wpDataTables Premium version and Forminator PRO and their advanced features. You can use any combination of these two plugins. Isn’t that awesome? When the form/quiz/poll is created and entries are ready, you can begin creating a wpDataTable based on it. First, go to wpDataTables -> Create a Table, choose “Create a table linked to an existing data source” option, and click “Next”. Then choose “Forminator Form” as the Input data source type. After you choose “Forminator Form” as a table type, a new select-box “Choose a Forminator Form” will appear. With this select-box, you can choose a form, quiz or poll, that will provide entries as data for your new table. After this step you will see a select-box “Choose fields to show as columns” that allows you to choose the form/quiz/poll fields that you will use as columns. Using this select-box, you can choose form fields that will be used in the table. Furthermore, you can choose which form fields will be shown in the table. Here is the list of the supported form fields: NEW! Slider Field (Single and Range) NEW! Group Field Name (Single and Multiple) Email Phone Address Website Input Textarea Number Radio Checkbox Calculations Select (Single and Multiple) Datepicker (Calendar, Dropdowns, and Text input) Timepicker ( Dropdowns and Number input) File Upload (Single and Multiple) Post Data Hidden Field Currency PayPal Stripe E-Signature (only available in Forminator PRO) Please note that fields like reCaptcha, HTML, Page break, Section, and GDPR Approval are excluded from tables. Important: For all form types that you want to create tables (form, quiz, or poll) you will need to have submission data for those form types in the database. That means that you need to turn off the option “Disable store submissions in my database” on Data Storage settings in the Forminator plugin. You will be able to save submissions in the database and then create a table in wpDataTables. Forms When you create a table from Regular form, in table column headers will be used names of your fields, and each row will be shown as a separate submission. Common fields such as Entry data, Entry ID, and User IP are available for each form. Fields like “Name (Multiple)” and “Address” will be formatted like on the Forminator forms Submissions page. If you want to show those data in one line with space between without formatting, you can use hooks for “Name(Multiple)” like in the following example: // Remove formatting from Name (Multiple) fields // $removeForminatorFormatting- false by default - bool // $formID - Id of the form - int function remove_style_from_name_multiply_fields($removeForminatorFormatting, $formID){ // Example for the form with id 1 if ($formID == 1){ // Provide true to remove formatting $removeForminatorFormatting= true; } return $removeForminatorFormatting; } add_filter('wdt_forminator_remove_style_from_name_multiply_fields', 'remove_style_from_name_multiply_fields', 10, 2); and for the “Address” fields as well you can show the data in one line separated with a comma using this hook: // Remove formatting from the Address fields // $removeForminatorFormatting- it is false by default - bool // $formID - Id of the form - int function remove_style_form_address_fields($removeForminatorFormatting, $formID){ // Example for form with id 1 if ($formID == 1){ // Provide true to remove formatting $removeForminatorFormatting= true; } return $removeForminatorFormatting; } add_filter('wdt_forminator_remove_style_form_address_fields','remove_style_form_address_fields', 10, 2); For the upload fields, there are some formatting rules applied depending on file extension. For image extensions (jpg, jpeg, png, gif, webp) the output will be formatted like image links. Files with the ‘mp3’ and ‘wav’ extensions will be formatted as audio HTML tags, and the files with ‘mp4’ and ‘webm’ extensions will be formatted as video HTML tags. If you need some different formatting rules for those upload fields you can use the following hook: // Filter formatted file URL // $fileURLOutput - Already formatted file URL - string // $fileURLExtension - File URL Extension (png,csv,pdf,mp4...) - string // $file - Original file URL - string function filter_file_upload_output($fileURLOutput, $fileURLExtension, $file, $formID){ // Example for form with id 1 if ($formID == 1){ // Example only for the jpg extension if ($fileURLExtension == 'jpg'){ // Set a custom image HTML tag with width of 400px $fileURLOutput = ' '; } } return $fileURLOutput; } add_filter('wdt_forminator_filter_file_upload_output', 'filter_file_upload_output', 10, 4); All other uploaded files will be formatted as HTML links. For the Website and email fields, there is no formatting rules applied from Forminator. If you need formatting rules from Formiantor for those fields (to be shown as links) you can use the following hook for Email field: // Add formatting from Formiantor for Email field // $removeForminatorFormatting- it is true by default - bool // $formID - Id of the form - int function remove_style_form_email_fields($removeForminatorFormatting, $formID){ // Example for form with id 1 if ($formID == 1){ // Provide false to add Forminator formatting as link $removeForminatorFormatting = false; } return $removeForminatorFormatting; } add_filter('wdt_forminator_remove_style_form_email_fields','remove_style_form_email_fields', 10, 2); and for Website field: // Add formatting from Formiantor for Website (URL) field // $removeForminatorFormatting- it is true by default - bool // $formID - Id of the form - int function remove_style_form_url_fields($removeForminatorFormatting, $formID){ // Example for form with id 1 if ($formID == 1){ // Provide false to add Forminator formatting as link $removeForminatorFormatting = false; } return $removeForminatorFormatting; } add_filter('wdt_forminator_remove_style_form_url_fields','remove_style_form_url_fields', 10, 2); New field support – Group field Now, support for Group fields is avalible with our integration as well. Every Group field in form will be shown as separate column and all fields that are in group will be parsed as table layout (in each cell you will have separate table as is shown on Formiantor submissions). Each field in group will be represent in the head of that table and entries from those fileds will be in the body of that table. If Repeater is enabled then those entries will be populated in table body as well. Additionally, there is a hook available for filtering all the formatted entries (only for forms and quizzes) // Filter all the formatted entries // $formattedEntry - Already formatted entry - string // $field - Forminator_Form_Field_Model - object // $entry - Forminator_Form_Entry_Model - object function filter_formatted_entry($formattedEntry, $field, $entry){ // Example for form with id 1 if ($entry->form_id == 1){ // Example only for custom forms if ($entry->entry_type == 'custom-forms'){ // Check is set meta data for current field if (isset($entry->meta_data[$field->slug])) { $entryValue = $entry->meta_data[$field->slug]['value']; // Check is field type 'name' and that is not array if ($field->raw['type']== 'name' && !is_array($entryValue)) { // if $entryValue is John return null - it will not be shown in the table if ($entryValue == 'John') $formattedEntry = null; } } } } return $formattedEntry; } add_filter('wdt_forminator_filter_formatted_entry','filter_formatted_entry', 10, 3); Quizzes You can create a table from the Personality and Knowledge quizzes. For quizzes, common fields like Entry Date and Entry ID are available. If lead generation feature is enabled, it will be available two more fields like Email and Name generated by this feature. When you create a table from a Knowledge quiz, in the table, questions will appear as column headers, and each row will be populated with the separate submission answers. For this type of quiz, three more fields are available like Correct answers, Incorrect answers and Score (Correct answers/Total answers). In that table, the answers will be formatted the same way as on the Forminator Submissions page. (correct answers have a green background and the wrong ones have a red background). When you create a table from the Personality quiz, questions will appear as column headers in that table. Also, the “Quiz result” will show up in the columns (if you choose it in the option “Choose fields to show as columns”), and each row will be shown as a separate submission answer. If you want to show answers from Knowledge quiz without their formatting, you can use the following hook: // Remove formatting from answers in Knowledge quiz // $removeForminatorFormatting - it is false by default - bool // $formID - Id of the form - int function remove_quiz_iscorrect_style($removeForminatorFormatting, $formID){ // Example for form with id 1 if ($formID == 1){ // Provide true to remove formatting $removeForminatorFormatting = true; } return $removeForminatorFormatting; } add_filter('wdt_forminator_remove_quiz_iscorrect_style','remove_quiz_iscorrect_style', 10, 2); Polls Polls entries in the Forminator submissions are shown as grouped values based on the answers. The same data can be displayed in a chart (Bar or Pie chart depending on your settings). In accordance with that, you can create tables based on the Forminator poll submissions either for the Bar chart or for the Pie chart structure, no matter what was chosen in the Forminator settings for the poll chart type. Polls do not have common fields like forms and quizzes. In the first case, if you select the Poll for Bar chart option, you can choose the columns to be created from the Poll question and Answers of that poll in the table. Only one row of data will be shown, since the data is grouped. After creating a table you are able to create a Google Bar chart and to show it on the front-end. In the second case, if you select the Poll for Pie chart option, you can choose only the columns to be created from the Poll answers and Total votes of that poll in the table. Then, the first column will list all the possible answers (Poll answers), and the second one (Total votes), will display grouped data for each answer. After creating a table, you can create a Google Pie chart and add it on the website page as well. If you need, you can show both charts (Pie and Bar) on the front-end for the same Poll. Integration settings Each Forminator form-based wpDataTable receives an extra Forminator settings tab on the table configuration page, together with several additional table settings. Using this tab, you can define which form entries will appear in the wpDataTable based on the range of entry IDs, entry date by choosing one of the two possible filtering logic options in the Filter by date select box. You can select between Filter by date range and Filter by the last X time period; or, you can leave this block empty if you don’t wish to filter form entries displayed in the table. Filter by entry ID range – Two input fields (“From” and “To”) are shown in this section. If you define some values in these number input fields, wpDataTable rows will be updated according to the selected range. Filter by date range – If you select this option, two input fields (“From” and “To”) will be displayed right to the Filter by date select box. By defining some date values in these datetimepicker input fields, wpDataTable rows will be narrowed down according to the provided date range. Filter by last X time period – When this option is selected, the Filter by date select box will display two input fields. In the first one, you can define a number (e.g., 30), and in the second one, you can choose between (Day(s), Week(s), Month(s), and Year(s)). By selecting, e.g., “30 Day(s)” you will filter and display in the wpDataTable only the entries added in the last 30 days in the Forminator Form used as a data source for this wpDataTable. In those tables, you can use all features that are included in wpDataTables: NEW! Create 9 different Chart.js charts types, NEW! Responsive datatables NEW! Integration with Avada Website builder NEW! Integration with DIVI Website builder NEW! Caching data NEW! Auto update cache data NEW! FULL Frontend WCAG compatibility NEW! Responsive Charts – now each chart (both Google and Chartjs) can be responsive NEW! Grouping Charts – rows with same labels would be treated as a single entry, summing up all the values in other cells Global search, Sorting, Column visibility, Pagination, Show rows per page, Row grouping, Table layout, Scrollable, Export data (in Excel, CSV, PDF, Copy or Print), Create 14 different Google charts types, Global and , Column customization If, apart from creating tables based on the Forminator forms data, you would also like to create tables from scratch or from other data sources, wpDataTables provides more options for you: NEW! Create tables from Nested JSON – Text and video documentation Create Simple tables from scratch – Text and video documentation Create tables from Excel – Text and video documentation Create tables from CSV – Text and video documentation Create tables from JSON – Text and video documentation Create tables from XML – Text and video documentation Create tables from Serialized PHP array – Text and video documentation To check out the table on the front-end you can insert wpDataTables shortcode in your page or post (for example [wpdatatable id=1]) or with page widgets/blocks if you are using some of the page builders like WP Bakery, Elementor or Gutenberg. Limitation Those tables do not have a server-side option (this means that these tables can’t contain a large amount of data (no exact limit, but 2.000 – 3.000 rows is a good example)), and that they cannot be editable.