This post used to review Ultimate Form Builder by Access Keys. That plugin was closed on WordPress.org in March 2023 for a guideline violation and hasn’t been available since, if you’re running it, it’s not receiving security updates and should be replaced. Rather than leave a review of a dead product up, here’s Fluent Forms, a free drag-and-drop form builder that covers the same ground and is actively maintained.
What Fluent Forms handles
Contact forms, quotation requests, surveys, feedback, file uploads, booking forms, multi-step forms, conditional forms, the same range of form types the old plugin promised, built with a drag-and-drop editor rather than hand-coded fields.
Free version
- Unlimited forms, with a drag-and-drop builder
- Standard field types: text, textarea, email, dropdown, radio, checkbox, number, and more
- Conditional logic for showing and hiding fields based on earlier answers
- Basic payment field support
- Entry storage and management inside WordPress, with export
- Spam protection built in
Pro version
- 55+ input field types, including advanced UI elements (date pickers, sliders, ratings)
- Multi-step forms with progress indicators
- 60+ third-party integrations (email marketing, CRMs, payment gateways)
- Advanced conditional logic across display, email routing, and redirects
- Quiz and survey-specific field types
- Multi-column layouts
700,000+ active installs, updated within the last few days as of this writing, among the more actively developed form builders on WordPress right now.
Using it with BuddyX
The BuddyX theme doesn’t need special integration to work with Fluent Forms, forms display cleanly inside any BuddyX page or post the same way they would with any other well-built theme. If you’re building a community site and want contact, registration-adjacent, or feedback forms that match your site’s design, dropping a Fluent Forms block into a BuddyX page works out of the box. Check out the BuddyX demo to see the theme itself.
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