WPForms review with some new tricks

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May 282019
 

Just finished setting up a WPForms created Contact page to test out. It looks good and I like better how I can lay out my checkboxes inline instead of just in a column as I had to do with using the Formidable forms plugin. I also prefer the shortened Name, Email and Subject field text boxes. I also really like the user interface for setting up the form. Intuitive and friendly. The form submission works well and I like the way the confirmation message appears afterwards, especially after I turned off the scroll to message option which was on by default.

On the down side with WPForms is that it does not provide the submitter’s IP Address and User-Agent (Browser/OS) info like Formidable Forms does. I also like the formatting of the email message by Formidable much better. I had to resort to changing my messages to plain text in WPForms and it still doesn’t even compare, oh well. It would be simple enough to improve though.

There is a bug with WPForms as well. If you enable the cc email option and add an address there AND put two or more comma separated addresses  in the primary field slot then the cc’d address gets multiple mailings per each address in the primary field slot… It seems the form sends each message separately per each address listed. That’s poor form I’d say, lol.

As for the tricks, well that’s for the bots to find out 🙂