About this plugin
ALPEG Forms makes forms as simple as they should be:
- Ready in under a minute: insert the block, pick a template, publish.
- Zero nags: no banners, no pop-ups, no ads in your dashboard.
- Fast: CSS and JavaScript only load on pages that actually contain a form. No jQuery.
- Multi-step forms: split long forms into steps with a progress bar – without JavaScript, all steps are simply shown one below the other.
- File uploads: documents and images with size and type limits, real content checks, protected storage, download for administrators and optional email attachments.
- Conditional fields: show a field only if another field has a certain value.
- Privacy controls: consent field, automatic retention periods (including uploaded files), shortened IP addresses, export and erasure via the WordPress privacy tools, suggested privacy policy text. No external services.
- Spam protection without captcha puzzles: honeypot, timing check and rate limit.
- Clear error messages directly at the field – no browser bubbles.
- All submissions in the dashboard: overview with search and filter, detail view, CSV export (opens directly in Excel).
- Emails you can rely on: notification and optional confirmation with placeholders such as {name}, delivery status per submission, test mail and SMTP detection.
- Reusable templates: save any form as a template and use it on other pages.
- Switch in one click: import your forms from Contact Form 7, WPForms, Ninja Forms, Gravity Forms, Formidable Forms and Fluent Forms – and take over old submissions stored by Flamingo (Contact Form 7) or WPForms.
- Accessibility check in the editor: missing labels, duplicate labels, placeholder-only hints, empty choices or a too-light accent colour are pointed out while you build the form.
- Share templates: export your saved templates as a file and import them on another website.
- Upload protection check: a Site Health test verifies that uploaded files cannot be opened directly from the web and tells you how to fix it if they can (e.g. on nginx).
Templates: contact, callback request, appointment request, feedback, quote request, job application (3 steps with CV upload).
Field types: text line, email, phone, text area, dropdown, single and multiple choice, date, number, website, file upload, consent, step break.
Translation-ready: English source strings. Available community translations are delivered through WordPress language packs; regional German translation sources are maintained separately.
Privacy and external services
ALPEG Forms does not connect to any external service. There is no tracking, no telemetry and no “phone home”. The only request the plugin makes is to your own website: the upload protection check requests a harmless test file from your own upload directory (Tools → Site Health and the settings page).
Submissions, uploaded files and settings stay in your own WordPress database and uploads folder. Emails are sent through WordPress (wp_mail) – or through your SMTP plugin, if you use one.
Data is only removed automatically if you set a retention period, and only deleted on uninstall if you explicitly enable “Also remove all submissions, uploaded files and settings when deleting the plugin” in the settings.
Accessibility
2 AA: every field has a label, choice groups are announced correctly, error messages are linked to their field and announced to screen readers, focus moves to the first error and to the next step, and everything works with the keyboard.