Forms

Overview

The Forms module builds anything from a quick contact box to a branching, multi-step intake — and keeps every submission in a searchable inbox.

Build a form by dragging in fields, or switch to Flow mode for a multi-step form that branches on the visitor’s answers. Place it with a shortcode or the Elementor widget, and collect submissions in the Entries inbox and by email.

What you can do

• Build simple forms with a drag-and-drop field list — text, email, phone, dropdowns, files and more
• Build branching flows on a visual canvas of choice and group nodes
• Add conditional logic to show or hide any field based on another answer
• Collect submissions in a searchable Entries inbox with CSV export
• Email a notification to your team and an optional confirmation to the submitter
• Keep spam out with a honeypot, rate limiting and an auto Blocked IPs list

Requirements & compatibility

Forms runs on any modern WordPress host with no external service.

Installation & activation

Forms ships inside WPStack — switch it on per site from the modules panel.

The field builder

Simple forms are a drag-and-drop list of fields. Click a field to edit it in a popover, drag its edge to set the width, and drag the handle to reorder.

Field types

• Text, Email, Phone, Textarea, Number
• Dropdown, Radio, Checkboxes, Single checkbox
• Date, File upload (with allowed extensions), Hidden
• Section break to group and title parts of the form

Editing a field

Click a field to open its editor popover — a floating panel that never resizes the tile or pushes the other fields. Set the Field Name (the visible label), an optional Placeholder (a toggle shown only for text-style fields), the Field Key used in entries and emails, the Width, whether it is Required, and any Conditional logic.

Field widths & layout

Every field has a width from 10% to 100%. Pick one from the Width dropdown, or just drag the blue handle on a field’s right edge — fields tile live, so you see the layout as you build.

• Two 50% fields sit side by side; three 33% share a row
• A 100% field takes its own row
• Snap presets: 10, 20, 25, 33, 40, 50, 60, 66, 75, 80, 90, 100%
• Everything stacks to full width on mobile automatically

Conditional logic

Every field can show or hide based on another field’s answer — no code, enforced on the front end and re-checked on submit.

Open a field, enable Conditional logic, and add rules: this field will show or hide when all or any of your conditions match.

Flow mode (steps & branches)

Flow turns a form into a branching, multi-step experience built on a visual canvas.

• Choice nodes branch the flow — each option leads to a different next node
• Group nodes hold the fields for a step; drag field types from the palette
• The visitor only sees the path their answers lead to
• A progress bar, Back and Next are built in; only the visited path is submitted

Entries inbox

Every submission is stored, searchable and exportable — with source intelligence for each lead.

• Filter by form; read / unread state per entry
• Source intelligence — UTM, referrer, device and IP
• Export CSV of the entries
• Per-row delete

Spam protection & Blocked IPs

Two layers keep junk out with no CAPTCHA: a silent honeypot and per-IP rate limiting.

• A hidden honeypot field silently drops bot submissions
• Rate limiting — an IP that exceeds 15 submissions a minute is blocked
• Blocked addresses appear under Blocked IPs, where you can Unblock them

Notifications & confirmations

Email your team on every submission, and optionally confirm to the person who submitted.

• Notify email and subject for the team notification (a branded HTML table of the entry)
• Confirm to submitter — an optional confirmation email sent to the submitted email address
• Button text and a success message, or a redirect URL after submit

Shortcode & Elementor

Place a form with a shortcode or the native Elementor widget.

[stack_form id="2"]

Settings reference

Each form has its own Notifications and After-submit settings.

Webhooks & integrations

Send every submission straight to Make, Zapier, n8n or your own CRM, the moment it arrives.

With the Connect module enabled, each entry can be posted to any address you give it — a row in a spreadsheet, a Slack message, a contact in your mailing list, a deal in your CRM. Set it up under WPStack → App Connect → Integrations: paste the URL your tool generated, pick Forms from the module list, tick the events, and press Send test so your tool can learn the field structure.

Events you can subscribe to

What a delivery contains

Alongside the answers, every delivery carries the source of the lead — page_url, referrer, device and the full UTM set (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_term, utm_content). That is what lets a CRM attribute where the enquiry actually came from.

The answers arrive twice, in two shapes, because the two are useful in different places:

For developers

Both events are also standard WordPress actions, so you can handle them in a plugin or your theme without Connect — they are fired by the Forms module itself. Note the wpsf_ prefix: it is the module’s own, and predates the wpstack_ naming used by Booking and Events.

add_action( 'wpsf_entry_created', function ( $entry_id, $form_id, $data ) {
    $email = $data['email']['value'] ?? '';
    if ( ! $email ) {
        return;
    }
    // …add to a mailing list, open a ticket, write to your own table…
}, 10, 3 );

FAQ

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