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BBForms – Flexible Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, Poll & Custom Forms Editor, now with AI

Build your [forms] faster and easily just by typing them! AI assistant included!

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version2.0.5
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 4.4 · PHP 7.0
Directory statusactive
Last directory update30 Oct 20262d ago
Active installations20Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 6 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records BBForms – Flexible Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, Poll & Custom Forms Editor, now with AI version 2.0.5 as active, updated 2d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

BBForms is a high-performance, code-based WordPress form builder designed for speed, flexibility, and absolute control.

By using shortcode-style BBCode syntax, BBForms eliminates heavy drag-and-drop bloat while giving complete control to build complex forms, handle custom actions, and generate fully functional forms in seconds with natural language AI.

Whether you need a simple contact form, multi-column survey, or advanced lead capture system, BBForms loads only when needed with an ultra-light footprint.

🚀 Why BBForms?

  • ⚡ Lightning Fast Performance: Loads assets strictly on pages containing forms. Unmatched page load speed with zero frontend bloat.
  • ✨ Built-in AI Assistant: Describe what you need in plain text, and let the AI generate the fields, actions and form configuration automatically.
  • 📋 Text-Based Portability: Easily copy, paste, backup, or share form configurations across client sites via raw code or simple.txt files.
  • 🛠️ Developer & Site Owner Friendly: Total control over layout, column structures, custom messages, and placement without wrestling with restrictive drag-and-drop canvas UIs.

🔥 Features

📋 Flexible Form Creation

  • 20 fields (text, email, file uploads, date/time, quiz, number, range, etc.).
  • 20 BBCodes (columns, table, bold, etc).
  • Responsive multi-column form layout.
  • AI assistant to design forms in seconds.
  • File uploads.
  • Form templates ( live demo ).
  • Live form preview.
  • Categories & tags to organize your forms.

🚀 Powerful Processing & Actions

  • 6 actions (record, email, redirect, etc).
  • Execute multiple actions per submission (send as many email notifications as you wish!).
  • GDPR actions to automate export & deletion requests.
  • Tags to place dynamic content anywhere.

⛔ Access Control & Anti-Spam

  • 14 form options (clear & hide form on success, show required fields notice, etc).
  • Restrict form access to logged-in users only.
  • Prevent duplicate submissions by unique field values.
  • Apply a submissions limit.
  • Anti-bot & anti-spam protection.
  • Honeypot spam protection + Quiz field for custom math/question CAPTCHAs.

📊 Advanced Submissions Management

  • Store, view, filter, edit & delete your submissions easily.
  • Export submissions to CSV.
  • Submissions auto-cleanup.

👑 Extra

  • Role management settings.
  • Export/Import forms by copying & pasting code or using.txt files.
  • Override form & field messages globally.
  • Light & dark mode editor.
  • Mobile ready & designed for accessibility.
  • Optimized for speed (CSS: 4kb & JS:9kb).

✨ AI Assistant included!

Built-in AI Assistant designed to design, create, and manage forms using natural language!

Example Prompts:

Create a job application form, limit submissions to 1 and restrict to logged-in users only

Do a 3-question form about Spanish geography that records the submission & sends a congratulatory email

Important: This assistant uses the WP AI Connectors. Without a configured connector, it won’t be able to perform any tasks.

🙌 The perfect form solution for everyone

BBForms is designed to be accessible to everyone helping you to create your forms easily, whether you build them for yourself or for a client:

🧑‍💻 Site owners: Build your own forms without coding experience! BBForms is shipped with ready-to-use templates and every control provides several examples like an email field auto-filled with the logged-in user email.

🛠️ Developers: Building forms for clients has never been so easy! Create and store your own form templates, then import them into your client websites in seconds.

🌐 Sites network owners: Managing multiple websites? BBForms makes support much easier! txt file.

⭐ Add-ons to extend BBForms

  • Address Autocomplete
  • Calculations
  • Conditional Display
  • Conditional Logic
  • Email Balancer
  • Geolocation
  • Multi-Step Forms
  • Post Submissions
  • Rating Field
  • Repeatable Fields
  • Save Progress
  • Signature Field
  • Users Management

Spam protection add-ons:

  • Google reCAPTCHA v2 & v3
  • hCaptcha
  • Cloudflare Turnstile

⚙️ Integrations

  • AutomatorWP: Trigger no-code automations and pass field values to 300+ plugins and apps.
  • Easy Digital Downloads (EDD): Tags to display customer information and order history anywhere.
  • GamiPress: Award points, achievements, and ranks when users submit forms.
  • WooCommerce: Tags to display customer information and order history anywhere.

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WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • contact form
  • custom form
  • code
  • forms
  • shortcode
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.4 · PHP 7.0
Update activity30 Oct 20262d ago

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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex

Recent tracked changes

Version2.0.42.0.5
WordPress compatibility7.1.37.1.4
WordPress compatibility7.17.1.3
Version2.0.32.0.4
Version2.0.22.0.3
Version2.0.12.0.2
Version2.0.02.0.1
Version1.1.62.0.0
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