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Create Professional, Mobile-Friendly, Accessible Forms for WordPress – For Free! WS Form LITE is a powerful, feature-rich form builder that lets you create fully styled, responsive, and accessible forms. Unlike other plugins, WS Form LITE includes premium-quality features at no cost, such as unlimited forms, customizable styling, submission exporting, and robust anti-spam protection. Perfect for websites of all sizes, WS Form LITE empowers you to build smarter forms with ease. Choose from single-click templates or build your own form for WordPress using the unique drag and drop form editor. Create Beautiful Forms with Ease WS Form LITE includes an incredibly powerful and intuitive form styler, enabling you to design stunning forms directly within WordPress. Whether you’re matching your site’s branding or building custom layouts from scratch, WS Form’s Styler gives you full control over the appearance of your forms, no coding required. Included Features Unlimited Forms Unlimited Submissions Unlimited Styles Accessibility Friendly CaptchaFox Clean HTML 5 Code Cloudflare Turnstile Captcha Data Sources Drag and Drop Layout Editor Elementor Angie Integration Framework Friendly (Bootstrap, Foundation) GDPR Ready Google reCAPTCHA hCaptcha MCP Server Mobile Friendly Multiple Tab Forms Responsive Forms Section Library Send Unlimited Emails Single Click Templates Styler Translation Variables How to Create a Form in WordPress Go to WS Form > Add New. Choose a template or start from a blank form. Use the drag-and-drop editor to add fields. Click “Publish” and embed the form using your preferred page builder. Page Builders Add forms to your website using your favorite WordPress page builder: Beaver Builder Block Editor (Gutenberg) Breakdance Bricks Classic Editor Divi 4 Divi 5 Elementor Etch Oxygen For other builders simply use the WS Form shortcode! Spam Protection WS Form includes a powerful, multi-layer spam protection system to block unwanted submissions automatically. You get both built-in defenses and integrations with leading anti-spam services. Built-in Defenses Honeypot to silently trap bots WordPress NONCE validation Field validation (client-side and server-side) Duplicate submission detection and blocking IP rate limiting and throttling Keyword, domain, user agent, and IP blocking rules Optional server-side custom validation hooks Anti-Spam Fields and Integrations AbuseIPDB Akismet CaptchaFox Clearout Cloudflare Turnstile Google reCAPTCHA hCaptcha Works alongside third-party services such as CleanTalk and OOPSpam Multilingual Forms and Translation Translate your forms using your favorite multilingual plugin, or create different forms per language: Polylang TranslatePress Weglot WPML Manual translation Upgrade to PRO This plugin is the free LITE edition of WS Form PRO. The PRO edition comes with unrivaled additional features: 65+ Feature Rich Field Types Calculated Fields Cascading Select, Checkbox and Radio Fields Conditional Logic Conversational Forms Data Encryption Debug Console E-Commerce Repeatable Sections Save Progress Signatures Statistics Track Visitors … and more! Upgrade to WS Form PRO. PRO Integrations Airtable Akismet Amazon S3 AutomatorWP ActiveCampaign Authorize.Net Accept AWeber Bento Brevo (Sendinblue) Campaign Monitor Clearout Constant Contact ConvertKit dotdigital Drip Dropbox Fluent CRM Freshdesk GetResponse Google Address Google Drive Google Map Google Sheets Groundhogg HighLevel HubSpot iContact InstaWP Klaviyo Laposta LeadConnector Mailchimp MailerLite MailPoet Mailster Make Modula Mollie Moosend Notion OpenAI PayPal Checkout PDF Pipedrive Post Management Salesforce Slack Stripe Elements Twilio User Management Webex WooCommerce WP Fusion Zapier Zendesk Zoho CRM …. or use the Webhook action to integrate with your own custom APIs or external systems. PRO Custom Field Plugin Compatibility ACF ACPT JetEngine Meta Box Pods Toolset Theme / Framework Support WS Form is compatible with all WordPress themes, and also outputs native HTML for the following front-end frameworks: Bootstrap 5+ Bootstrap 4.1-4.5.x Bootstrap 4.0 Bootstrap 3.x Foundation 6.4+ Foundation 6.0-6.3.1 Foundation 5.x Performance WS Form was built with enterprise level performance in mind. WS Form does not interfere with the loading of other page or post content on your website and isolates submission records to ensure as your website grows your page load speed is not affected. All form code is HTML 5 compliant and if your website theme uses a framework such as Bootstrap or Foundation WS Form automatically outputs code to suit that framework. This means your form loads as fast as possible without any unnecessary overhead typically found in other form plugins for WordPress. Click here to learn more about the WSForm performance features. Extensive Field Types WS Form comes complete with all the field types you need to build a contact form. Upgrade to WS Form PRO to take advantage of all the form field types available, including: Color Picker Date / Time File Upload Google Address Google Map Google Routing hCaptcha HTML Legal Media Capture (Includes QR code reader) Message Previous Tab / Next Tab Price Progress Bar Range Slider Rating reCAPTCHA Save Signature Validation … and more! For Developers WS Form PRO comes with a unique debug console that provides you with rapid, form population capabilities (perfect for form testing!), as well as comprehensive event and error logging. 3rd Party Use WS Form includes the following third party components: Date Format by Jacob Wright – Used for formatting server and post dates on the public JavaScript interface. Intl-Tel-Input – Used for international telephone input Select2 – Used for AJAX select dropdowns CanIUse.com – Used for linking to field and field attribute compatibility pages Coloris – Used for the color picker in the styler External Services WS Form uses the following API endpoints to provide services within the plugin: AbuseIPDB https://api.abuseipdb.com/api/v2/ This endpoint is called when AbuseIPDB spam protection is enabled to check the submitter IP address, and optionally to report an IP when a submission is marked as spam. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy CaptchaFox https://api.captchafox.com/siteverify This endpoint is called when a form is submitted to validate a CaptchaFox field. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy Google reCaptcha https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify This endpoint is called when a form is submitted to validate a reCaptcha field. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy hCaptcha https://hcaptcha.com/siteverify This endpoint is called when a form is submitted to validate an hCaptcha field. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy Turnstile https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/siteverify This endpoint is called when a form is submitted to validate a Turnstile field. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy WS Form – Knowledge base popular articles https://wsform.com/plugin-support/knowledgebase_content.php This endpoint is called when the support sidebar is opened to show popular knowledge base articles. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy WS Form – Knowledge base search https://wsform.com/plugin-support/knowledgebase_search.php This endpoint is called when a knowledge base search is performed in the support sidebar to return knowledge article results. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy WS Form – Support ticket requests https://wsform.com/plugin-support/contact.php This endpoint is called when a support ticket request is submitted in the support sidebar to create the support ticket and return the ticket ID. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy WS Form – Deactivation feedback requests https://wsform.com/plugin-support/deactivate_feedback.php This endpoint is called when deactivation feedback is submitted to provide your feedback to WS Form. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy WS Form – Select, checkbox and radio presets https://cdn.wsform.com/plugin-support/preset.json This endpoint is called when the preset option is selected for a select, checkbox or radio field to return the available presets and preset data (e.g. List of countries). Terms of Use / Privacy Policy Support Need help? Check out our extensive knowledge base. For support, please visit the WS Form LITE support forum.

Xtreme Forms is a modern, drag-and-drop contact form and lead capture plugin for WordPress. Build any form you need — contact forms, quote requests, event registrations, newsletter signups, multi-step lead qualification — then capture every submission into a built-in lead inbox, route email notifications to the right person, fire webhooks to your CRM, and track conversions on a clean analytics dashboard. No upsells. No “Pro-only” features hidden inside the free download. Every feature listed below ships in the free plugin and is fully functional out of the box. The optional Pro add-on (sold separately at xtremeplugins.com) only adds advanced routing rules, retry queues, and extended analytics — it never gates or limits any feature you see on this page. Useful Links Plugin homepage: https://xtremeplugins.com/plugins/xtreme-forms — overview, screenshots, live demo Features: https://xtremeplugins.com/plugins/xtreme-forms#features — full feature breakdown with comparison vs other form plugins Pricing: https://xtremeplugins.com/plugins/xtreme-forms/pricing — Pro add-on plans (free plugin stays free forever) Support: the WordPress.org support forum for free-version questions; Pro subscribers get priority support at xtremeplugins.com Source / issues: GitHub Why Xtreme Forms? If you’ve used the other popular form plugins (WPForms, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, Formidable Forms) you already know the trade-offs: free versions lock the features you actually need behind a Pro upgrade, the lighter ones don’t manage your leads after the email is sent, and the heavier ones drag down page speed with bloated assets. Xtreme Forms is built differently: Real lead management, not just form-to-email. Every submission lands in a searchable, filterable inbox with a full status workflow (new → read → contacted → converted), per-lead notes, tags, assignment to team members, and an append-only audit log. Treat your leads like a pipeline, not like inbox clutter. Everything in the free download is actually free. Drag-and-drop builder, conditional logic, webhooks, analytics, GDPR tools, multisite, audit log, JSON import/export — no popup nag screens, no “upgrade to Pro” overlay on settings pages. Lightweight on the page. No jQuery dependency on the frontend, no third-party font request, no external service call unless you explicitly enable and configure one. Modern WordPress stack. Tested up to WordPress 7.0, requires PHP 8.1+, ships a native Gutenberg block alongside the classic shortcode, and works inside any block-theme template / Elementor / Bricks / Beaver Builder widget that accepts shortcodes. WordPress.org-compliant. Fully GPL, no obfuscated code, no telemetry, no auto-update side-channels, and every external-service touchpoint is disclosed below. A solid free alternative to WPForms for site owners who want lead management built in, not an afterthought. Built-in Form Templates Skip the blank canvas. Xtreme Forms ships ready-to-go templates for the forms you actually need: Simple Contact Form — name, email, message — the classic WordPress contact form Quote Request Form — name, email, phone, project description, budget range Event Registration Form — full name, email, phone, company, attendee count, date picker Newsletter Signup Form — name, email, GDPR consent Multi-step Lead Qualification Form — built using the conditional-logic engine Booking / appointment request form — fully customizable in the drag-and-drop form builder Works With Your Page Builder The [xtreme_forms id="X"] shortcode and the native Gutenberg block work inside every WordPress page builder and block theme: Elementor — drop the shortcode in the Shortcode widget, or use the Gutenberg block in Elementor Pro’s container element Bricks Builder — works via shortcode element Beaver Builder — works via the Text/HTML or Shortcode module Divi — works in any Text or Code module via shortcode Oxygen Builder — works via shortcode element WPBakery Page Builder — works via the Raw HTML / Shortcode element Block-based themes (Twenty Twenty-Four, Twenty Twenty-Five, Frost, Blockbase) — native Gutenberg block with live preview Classic editor — paste the shortcode anywhere Switching From Another WordPress Form Plugin? If you’re moving away from a heavier or upsell-driven WordPress contact form plugin — WPForms, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, Formidable Forms, Forminator, Fluent Forms, Everest Forms, or Happyforms — Xtreme Forms makes the transition straightforward: Rebuild forms in minutes using the drag-and-drop builder + the six ready-made templates above Bring existing leads with you via the JSON import endpoint — map your old plugin’s CSV/JSON export to the Xtreme Forms lead schema Keep your email recipients and routing rules — Xtreme Forms’s email-routing engine accepts the same rule structure most form plugins use (field value → recipient address) Shortcode parity — the [xtreme_forms id="X"] shortcode drops into any page that was using [wpforms id="X"], [contact-form-7], [gravityform id="X"], etc., so you don’t have to touch every theme template No vendor lock-in — your leads, forms, and audit log live in your own WordPress database, exportable as JSON at any time Core Features (Free) Drag-and-drop Form Builder — text, email, phone, select, checkbox, radio, textarea, date, file, hidden fields with per-field conditional logic Lead Inbox — searchable, filterable lead list with status management (new, read, contacted, converted, archived, spam) Email Notifications — route notifications to different recipients based on form field values Auto-Responder — send a branded confirmation email to the lead on submission Email Templates — reusable templates with merge tags ({{first_name}}, {{form_name}}, etc.) Webhooks — fire HTTP POST payloads to external URLs on lead capture with delivery logging Analytics Dashboard — submission trends, conversion rates, top forms, lead source breakdown UTM Tracking — automatically capture and store UTM parameters with each lead Duplicate Detection — configurable duplicate suppression by email/phone within a time window Spam Protection — honeypot, time-gate, reCAPTCHA v3, and keyword blocklist GDPR Tools — consent checkbox, right-to-erasure helper, configurable data retention (tools to support your own GDPR workflow; the plugin does not guarantee legal compliance) Activity Timeline — per-lead event history (submitted, emailed, status changes, notes) Notes — add internal notes to any lead Tags — tag and filter leads with custom labels Audit Log — append-only log of all admin actions Import / Export — full JSON round-trip export and import Multisite Support — per-site tables, network-aware activation Gutenberg Block — embed any form with the Xtreme Forms block (live editor preview) Shortcode — [xtreme_forms id="X"] works everywhere Optional Pro Add-On An optional paid add-on is sold separately by the author. It is not required for any feature listed above and is not bundled with this plugin. Plugin page (overview + demo): xtremeplugins.com/plugins/xtreme-forms Full feature list: xtremeplugins.com/plugins/xtreme-forms#features Pricing & plans: xtremeplugins.com/plugins/xtreme-forms/pricing What the Pro add-on adds on top of the free download: Priority routing rules with complex AND/OR conditions Webhook retry queue with exponential backoff Advanced analytics: cohort analysis, lead value tracking Priority email support from the developer External services Xtreme Forms is fully self-hosted by default. It only contacts third-party services when a site administrator explicitly enables and configures the corresponding feature. Each service below is opt-in: nothing is sent until you turn it on and provide credentials. Google reCAPTCHA v3 (optional spam protection) If you enable reCAPTCHA v3 in Xtreme Forms → Settings → Spam Protection and enter your site/secret keys, the public-facing form page loads the reCAPTCHA JavaScript from https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js, which executes in the visitor’s browser to generate a token. On submit, the plugin then sends a server-to-server request from your site to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify containing the token, your secret key, and the visitor’s IP address so Google can return a spam score. Service provider: Google LLC. Terms of service: https://policies.google.com/terms Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy reCAPTCHA-specific terms: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/about/ Cloudflare Turnstile (optional spam protection) If you enable Cloudflare Turnstile in Xtreme Forms → Settings → Spam Protection and enter your site/secret keys, the public-facing form page loads the Turnstile widget from https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/api.js. On submit, the plugin sends a server-to-server request from your site to https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/siteverify containing the widget token, your secret key, and the visitor’s IP address so Cloudflare can validate the challenge. Service provider: Cloudflare, Inc. Terms of service: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/ Privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/ Zoho CRM (optional integration) If you enable the Zoho integration in Xtreme Forms → Automations → Integrations and enter your OAuth client ID, client secret, refresh token, and data-center region, then for every new lead capture the plugin makes two server-to-server requests from your site to Zoho: A token exchange request to https://accounts.zoho. /oauth/v2/token (where is com, eu, in, au, or jp based on the region you select) containing your refresh token, client ID, and client secret. A lead-create request to https://www.zohoapis. /crm/v2/Leads containing the lead’s name, email address, phone number, and company name (only the fields that were submitted in the form). Service provider: Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd. Terms of service: https://www.zoho.com/terms.html Privacy policy: https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html HubSpot CRM (optional integration) If you enable the HubSpot integration in Xtreme Forms → Automations → Integrations and enter a Private App access token, then for every new lead capture the plugin makes a server-to-server request from your site to https://api.hubapi.com/crm/v3/objects/contacts containing the lead’s email, first/last name, phone number, and company name (only the fields that were submitted in the form). When you click the Test button on the integrations page, the plugin also sends a single GET request to the same host to verify the token. Service provider: HubSpot, Inc. Terms of service: https://legal.hubspot.com/terms-of-service Privacy policy: https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy Salesforce (optional integration) If you enable the Salesforce integration in Xtreme Forms → Automations → Integrations and enter your consumer key, consumer secret, instance URL, and access token, then for every new lead capture the plugin makes a server-to-server request from your site to /services/data/v57.0/sobjects/Lead/ containing the lead’s last name, email, phone number, and company name (only the fields that were submitted in the form). Service provider: Salesforce, Inc. Terms of service: https://www.salesforce.com/company/legal/agreements/ Privacy policy: https://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/ Pipedrive (optional integration) If you enable the Pipedrive integration in Xtreme Forms → Automations → Integrations and enter an API token, then for every new lead capture the plugin makes two server-to-server requests from your site to https://api.pipedrive.com/v1/persons and https://api.pipedrive.com/v1/leads containing the lead’s name, email, and phone number (only the fields that were submitted in the form). The Test button sends one GET request to https://api.pipedrive.com/v1/users/me to verify the token. Service provider: Pipedrive OÜ. Terms of service: https://www.pipedrive.com/en/terms-of-service Privacy policy: https://www.pipedrive.com/en/privacy LeadPerfection (optional integration) If you enable the LeadPerfection integration in Xtreme Forms → Automations → Integrations and enter your LeadPerfection webhook URL (a https:// .leadperfection.com/batch/addleads.asp address), Sender name and Source Sub ID, then for every new lead capture the plugin makes one server-to-server URL-encoded POST from your site to that URL containing the lead’s name, phone, email, address, city, state, ZIP and a notes summary of the submitted fields. The Test button sends one sample lead (marked “TEST”) to the same URL to verify connectivity. The webhook URL is your own LeadPerfection account endpoint; no data is sent unless you enable and configure the integration. Service provider: RJR Technology, LLC (LeadPerfection). Website: https://www.leadperfection.com/ Privacy policy: https://www.leadperfection.com/privacy-policy/ Webhooks (optional, user-defined destination) If you create one or more webhooks in Xtreme Forms → Automations → Webhooks, the plugin will send the captured lead’s data as a JSON POST request to the URL(s) you configure for every new lead. These URLs are arbitrary endpoints that you (the site administrator) choose; the plugin itself is not affiliated with any particular webhook destination. Review the terms/privacy policy of whichever service you point your webhooks to. Xtreme Plugins licensing API (optional, only for the paid Pro add-on) The free Xtreme Forms plugin on WordPress.org is fully functional with no license required. A separately-sold Pro add-on is available from xtremeplugins.com; if (and only if) a site administrator chooses to buy it, the free plugin includes a “License” tab under Xtreme Forms → Settings → License that activates the Pro key. The licensing API is only contacted when the administrator actively clicks a button on that tab: Clicking Activate sends a server-to-server POST from your site to https://xtremeplugins.com/api/v1/license/activate containing the license key the admin entered and your site URL (home_url()), so the licensing server can validate the key and bind a seat to this site. Clicking Deactivate sends a server-to-server POST from your site to https://xtremeplugins.com/api/v1/license/deactivate containing the same two values, so the licensing server can release the seat. No request is ever made on form submissions, page loads, or in the background — the endpoints are only hit on the two explicit button clicks above, and only after an administrator has typed in a license key. If you never use the License tab, the plugin never contacts xtremeplugins.com. The endpoint URLs can be overridden (for example to point at a self-hosted licensing server or a staging environment) via the xtremeforms_license_activate_url and xtremeforms_license_deactivate_url filters. Service provider: XtremePlugins (xtremeplugins.com). Terms of service: https://xtremeplugins.com/terms Privacy policy: https://xtremeplugins.com/privacy