Straight up: this is our company account and this is our own plugin. Rule 1 allows one post like this, so this is the one we get.
We build WordPress sites for clients. Every few months the same thing happens. Someone wants a form that hides half its fields until you pick an option. Or one that takes a CV upload. Or one that's twenty questions long and needs splitting into steps, because nobody finishes twenty questions on one screen.
Then you go looking, and you find this. WPForms, on their own plugin page:
> This plugin is the Lite version of WPForms Pro, which comes with email subscription forms, multi-page contact forms, file uploads, conditional logic, and extra payment integrations.
Ninja Forms puts the same three behind paid add-ons. Fluent Forms is the honest exception and credit where it's due: their free version does have conditional logic.
We got tired of the choice being pay per site or write it by hand, so we wrote it once properly and put it in the directory under GPL.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/2ranq-forms/
Conditional logic, multi step forms, file uploads, entries stored in your own database. 23 field types, 45 styles, 29 templates. Gutenberg block and an Elementor widget. There's no pro tier and there isn't going to be one, so none of that is a teaser for something else.
We installed it next to WPForms Lite this morning and measured both.
Ours: 80 files, 1.75 MB on disk. About 14 KB of CSS and JS gzipped on a page with a form, and no jQuery.
WPForms Lite 1.10.0.5: 4,536 files, 29.3 MB on disk. About 31 KB gzipped, plus jQuery. 9.7 MB of that is bundled vendor libraries, and 2,138 of those files are the Square payments SDK, which you get whether or not you ever take a payment.
One thing in their favour before somebody corrects us: WPForms does not load its assets on every page of your site. We went looking for that argument in their code and it isn't there. It loads where a form is.
Ours isn't finished either. No payments. CSV export only, no XLSX. And no Cloudflare Turnstile in this version, because the directory's automated scanner can't tell Turnstile apart from a CDN and flags it either way. That one comes back in the next release. It's also only days old, so there's no track record to point at yet.
Here's what we actually want out of this post. We're an agency, not a plugin business with an upgrade prompt to feed, so building the next feature costs us nothing extra. Tell us what you're paying for right now in a form plugin, or what you gave up on and worked around. If it belongs in there, we'll build it and it ships free. We'll reply either way, with a rough timeline or with why not.
And if you do install it, we'd rather hear where it broke than that it's nice. Odd themes, builders other than Elementor, big entry tables, multisite, RTL.
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