Contact Forms, Post Forms for User Generated Content and Registration Forms easily build in minutes. Step by step with an easy to use Form Wizard. Ideal for User Submitted Posts. Extendable with Addons! Best WordPress form builder for frontend-publishing – no coding required. A simple yet powerful Form Builder. Contact, Register and POST FORMS. Ideal for User Submitted Content. A Form Builder for beginners with drag and drop, ready-to-use form templates and full control over user submitted content (receive, collect, process and publish it). For developers & advanced level, benefit from filters and fully customizable forms that enables you to do whatever you need. BuddyForms has proven to be an invaluable plugin for communities and networks. With simple forms it is very easy to encourage members, users and community to contribute and engage with your site. This makes the plugin priceless valuable as it supports organic traffic to your site. GDPR compliant WordPress form builder BuddyForms comes out of the box GDPR compliant plugin. We’ve used the time, to improve our data protection even more. What we’ve done so far: Consent Checkbox – a new form element has been added to give you an easy option to collect the consent for your user-generated form. Right to access & to be forgotten – if your users want to get access to...
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Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is more than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB
Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found PHP error/s while activating this plugin on our server
No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
Latest PHP 7.4.8 compatible The latest version of the plugin is not compatible with the latest PHP version
Latest WordPress 5.9.2 compatible The latest version of the plugin is not compatible with the latest PHP version
Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
No activation errors WP Hive automated test found no activation error while activating this plugin on our server
No resource errors WP Hive automated test found no resource error/s while trying this plugin on our server
Frequently updated The plugin was updated at least once in the last 90 days
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All the scripts run on a VPS with 8 CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM.
The test sites are hosted on Google Cloud VM instances, one site/plugin per instance. The machine type is n1-standard-1. The server is a 8 core CPU with 8GB of RAM.
The test sites are hosted on Apache/2 server and they are tested on PHP 7.4.8 & WordPress 5.9.2.
The database server is MySQL 8.0.21 and the default PHP memory limit is 256M.
Contact Forms, Post Forms for User Generated Content and Registration Forms easily build in minutes. Step by step with an easy to use Form Wizard. Ideal for User Submitted Posts. Extendable with Addons! Best WordPress form builder for frontend-publishing – no coding required. A simple yet powerful Form Builder. Contact, Register and POST FORMS. Ideal for User Submitted Content. A....
Contact Forms, Post Forms for User Generated Content and Registration Forms easily build in minutes. Step by step with an easy to use Form Wizard. Ideal for User Submitted Posts. Extendable with Addons!
Best WordPress form builder for frontend-publishing – no coding required.
A simple yet powerful Form Builder. Contact, Register and POST FORMS. Ideal for User Submitted Content. A Form Builder for beginners with drag and drop, ready-to-use form templates and full control over user submitted content (receive, collect, process and publish it). For developers & advanced level, benefit from filters and fully customizable forms that enables you to do whatever you need.
BuddyForms has proven to be an invaluable plugin for communities and networks. With simple forms it is very easy to encourage members, users and community to contribute and engage with your site. This makes the plugin priceless valuable as it supports organic traffic to your site.
GDPR compliant WordPress form builder
BuddyForms comes out of the box GDPR compliant plugin. We’ve used the time, to improve our data protection even more. What we’ve done so far:
Consent Checkbox – a new form element has been added to give you an easy option to collect the consent for your user-generated form.
Right to access & to be forgotten – if your users want to get access to their data, you can easily show it with BuddyForms on the front-end. They even have the opportunity to change or delete their data from the front-end.
Privacy by Design – With BuddyForms our goal is it to make you the boss of your data. From the beginning, we’ve made it a major priority, that you store your data on your own server.
In other words, BuddyForms is 100% approved to be GDPR compliant. The content is saved in on your WordPress hoster either as a post (post & post_meta table) or user data (user & user_meta table).
Customize your custom forms via Drag and Drop or benefit from our pre-configured forms
Choose between over 20 field types (text, numbers, check boxes, buttons, comments, media files, post status, taxonomies, CAPTCHA, …)
Set custom validation rules to prevent users from submitting false data
Full moderation control of the submitted content by predefining the status: pending, draft, published
Define what happens after a user submits content (display a submission message, displaying the page content, redirecting to a specific URL)
Submit your form by reloading the page or asynchronously with AJAX
Select which kind of content is submitted: page, post, attachment or no specific
Easily embed forms anywhere on your site via shortcodes or create a new form straight from your admin bar
Enable/Disable comments related to the submitted content
Enable/Disable Frontend Revision for users
Choose if unregistered users are able to see and submit content via forms or not
Control who can create, edit and delete content that is created from a form and even prevent 404 error messages when a published post is set back to draft mode
Set-up email notifications to notify admins when content is submitted
Set-up email notifications to notify users when their content gets published or changes status (published, awaiting review, draft, scheduled, privately published, deleted, editing draft, awaiting moderation)
Featured Image Upload for Unregistered Users
Drop Zone File Upload of any file Type for Unregistered Users
Overwrite the WordPress default Registration Form and Page
Create registation funnels and ask to create a password after click on the activation link.
User registration & user profile. Front-end login, user registration and edit profile.
Create author profiles and list all author posts.
Create forms for any kind of user generated content
Typical Use-Cases that our users create with BuddyForms
Post Forms for Blog Posts – Follow your editorial schedule and keep your blog up-to-date by collecting content from different authors
Online Directories – Crowdsource categorized data from your community
Showcase – Present your recent work or let clients showcase their use-cases built with your product or tool
News Magazines – Create single articles through collaborative writing among a team of editors
How-to’s – Gather a learning community around you, let users share their knowledge and engage discussions on your site
Marketplace – Sell and purchase products from different vendors and list all the product features
Content Forms for any kind of user generated content, user submitted posts
Other more basic use Cases with our Form Builder
Most of the time you just want a simple form to collect leads or other data. This is also really simple with BuddyForms. You can create: * Contact Forms – Collect leads and customer support data * Registration Forms – Sign-up users to your webpage * Profile Forms – Let your user update there profile information. * Login Forms – Grant users access to restricted content
1. Contact Forms
Create Custom Contact Forms for your Brand and Business in Minutes
Prevent users from submitting false data by setting custom validation rules on your forms
2. Registration Forms
Overwrite the WordPress Registration Form.
Redirect to a Custom Registration Page
Redirect your users to a custom location page or form if they click the activation link.
Combine Registration and Post forms and redirect your user to the Post Form after Registration.
Form Wizard for any Form Type with easy to follow Steps.
CONTACT FORM TEMPLATES
Contact Full Name First Name, Last Name, Email, Subject, Message
Contact Simple Your Name, Your Email, Your Message
User Support First Name, Last Name, Support Type, Subject, Email, Message
REGISTRATION FORM TEMPLATES
Become a Vendor Username, eMail, Password, Shop Name, PayPal E-mail (required), Seller Info, Shop description
Registration Full Name Username, First Name, Last Name, eMail, Password
Registration Profile Username, First Name, Last Name, Bio, Website, eMail, Password Preview
Registration Simple Username, eMail, Password
POST FORM TEMPLATES
Post Form All Fields Title, Content, Categories, Tags, Featured Image
BuddyForm works great with other Plug-Ins. Enhance its capabilities with the following * BuddyPress – Enable all publishing features of BuddyForms in BuddyPress * Ultimate Member – Submit and manage posts from your Ultimate Member profile * WooCommerce – Build your own marketplace with user-submitted products * WooCommerce Simple Auctions – Create and manage auctions via front end * Advanced Custom Fields – Integrate Advanced Custom Fields in your forms like native BuddyForms form elements * Posts 2 Posts – Efficient many-to-many connections between posts, pages, custom post types, users. * WC Vendors – BuddyPress WooCommerce Vendors integrates WC Vendors with BuddyPress and enables your vendors to use BuddyForms to create and manage their Products
Videos about BuddyForms
Why BuddyForms is the best Frontend-Publishing Plugin – BuddyForms Trailer
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Find our Getting Started, How-to and Developer Docs on docs.buddyforms.com or watch one of our Video Tutorials Videos If you still get stuck somewhere, our support gets you back on the right track. You can find all help buttons in your BuddyForms Settings Panel in your WP Dashboard and the Help Center!
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Performance
Memory Usage
Average memory usage is 1172.94 KB
This is more than 88% plugins
Page Speed
Average page loading time is increased by 0.08 s
This is faster than 99% plugins
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+ 0.08s
/(front page)
- 0.32s
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
+ 0.07s
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
+ 0.06s
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 0.05s
/wp-admin/index.php
+ 0.01s
/wp-admin/media-new.php
+ 0.02s
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
+ 0.12s
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
- 0.1s
/wp-admin/post-new.php
+ 0.59s
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
+ 0.23s
/wp-admin/upload.php
+ 0.14s
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[17-Mar-2022 20:12:37 UTC] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp-content/plugins/buddyforms/includes/admin/form-builder/meta-boxes/metabox-layout.php on line 444
[17-Mar-2022 20:12:43 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined index: terms in /wp-content/plugins/buddyforms/includes/admin/settings.php on line 424
[17-Mar-2022 20:12:43 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined index: terms in /wp-content/plugins/buddyforms/includes/admin/settings.php on line 424
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