Picking a WordPress Form Solution

Gravity Forms Formidable Pro Ninja Forms Visual Form Builder

How you pick the right solution has everything to do with you, your needs, and your budget.

In terms of your goals a form on your post or page, they mostly work the same.

Gravity Forms Ninja FormsFormidable ProVisual Form Builder Pro

But hold up a second, these arent your every day contact form plugins.

Create Posts with Form Submissions? Connect Forms to Email Providers? Let users upload files to forms? Collect Money via Forms? Create Users from Posts? Display Form Entries? Integrate with 3rd Party Apps? Style the display of forms easily? Multi-step Forms? Pause/Resume Forms? Gravity Forms Ninja FormsFormidable ProVisual Form Builder Pro MailChimp & Campaign Monitor MailChimp & AWeber AWeber, MailChimp, Campaign Monitor AWeber, MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, Mad Mimi, Mail Poet Yes. Posts. (Pages w/ code). Yes pages, posts & CPTs. Plus Edits. Yes, posts. (CPTs with added free plugin) Yes pages, posts & CPTs. Yes Yes Yes Yes Kind of. (without progress) Yes. (without progress) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes PayPal PayPal PayPal (& Stripe via 3rd Party) PayPal, Stripe Yes Yes. Not so much. Not exactly. No Yes Yes (via 3rd party plugin) Yes Yes Yes Kind of Yes No Tons - Zapier Tons - Zapier Many

So how do you pick, when they all do so much, and are very similar?

Gravity Forms Ninja FormsFormidable ProVisual Form Builder Pro 6 33 115 28 How many extensions, add-ons, and plugins exist to help you with your form?

Another way is price.

Gravity Forms Ninja FormsFormidable ProVisual Form Builder Pro 65 47 199 189 Whats it cost to go all in with these products for a single site? * *

And it comes back to you, and how comfy you are with different things.

Gravity Forms Ninja FormsFormidable ProVisual Form Builder Pro $20 Initial start. No yearly renewals. Bootstrap. CPT support. Conditional Logic. Third party options. Front-end support. Pause/Resume. What do you care most about? Price? A specific Feature? Going with the market leader?

My name is Chris Lema. I blog over at chrislema.com and I put lots of forms on websites. - @chrislema