Features

Small on the page. Long on the feature list.

Everything below ships in a plugin that adds no jQuery to your front end and loads nothing on pages without a form. We counted.

01 · Build

A builder that feels like the rest of WordPress.

We matched the admin’s type, spacing and controls, so the builder feels like a native screen rather than a separate app with its own opinions.

Editing a field’s choices in the SubtleForms builder

Live canvas

What you see while editing is what visitors get: real colors, radius, spacing and input styles. Select a field and its settings appear beside it.

Side-by-side fields

Full, three-quarter, two-thirds, half, third or quarter width. Drop fields next to each other and the row sorts itself out, then stacks politely on phones.

50+ templates

Contact, booking, survey, order, application, newsletter… Start from something that already works, then make it yours.

Styling presets

Filled, outlined or underlined inputs. Your theme’s fonts and colors by default, with overrides when a form needs to stand out.

Block and shortcode

Insert forms with the SubtleForms block, or drop the shortcode into a classic theme or page builder. Same form, wherever you put it.

Drafts and publishing

Edit a live form without breaking it. Changes stay in draft until you publish them, so nobody fills in a half-built question.

02 · Fields

A drawer with the right thing in it.

Fifty-odd field types, sorted the way you think about them. Advanced fields arrive with any Pro license.

Everyday

Short text

Paragraph

Email

Phone

Number

Website

Password

Hidden

Choices

Dropdown

Radio

Checkboxes

Multiple choice

Toggle

Checkbox grid

Chained select

Country

Dates, numbers & feelings

Date

Time

Date & time

Range slider

Rating

Scale

Net Promoter Score

Color picker

Structure

Name group

Address group

Repeater

Group container

Section break

Form step

Rich text

Disclaimer

Consent

Uploads & extras

File upload

Image upload

Post selection

Dynamic field

Save and resume

reCAPTCHA

hCaptcha

Turnstile

Advanced

PRO

Picture choice

Signature

Calculation

Payment product

Payment choice

Payment amount

Coupon

Payment summary

Card payment

03 · Form types

One builder, four temperaments.

The same fields and logic, presented four different ways. Switch types without rebuilding the form.

Regular

Everything on one page. Still the right answer for most contact forms.

Multi-step

Long forms broken into calm chapters, with a progress bar so people know how far the finish line is.

Sectioned

Group related questions under clear headings, so a long form reads like a document instead of a wall.

Conversational

One question at a time, in a friendly back-and-forth. Surveys stop feeling like tax returns.

04 · Logic & workflow

What happens after someone presses submit.

Every submission runs through a small, dependable pipeline. You decide who hears about it and where the data goes next.

A SubtleForms contact form as visitors see it

Conditional logic

Show, hide or require fields based on earlier answers. Pro adds advanced rules for the forms that need them.

Email notifications

Notify your team, confirm to the visitor, or both, with the answers neatly laid out instead of dumped.

Webhooks

Send each entry to Zapier, Make, n8n or your own endpoint, with retries, timeouts and custom headers. (Pro)

Retries and delays

If a destination hiccups, the pipeline tries again. Schedule actions to run a little later when timing matters. (Pro)

CRM & email marketing

Hand new contacts to your CRM and subscribers to your email list as they arrive. (Pro and Agency)

Save and resume

Long application? Visitors can save their progress and finish later, without starting over.

05 · Protection & insight

Keep the spam out. Keep the useful bits.

Spam protection, on by default

Honeypot fields, minimum-time checks and rate limiting work quietly in the background from the first submission.

Your choice of CAPTCHA

Google reCAPTCHA v2 or v3, hCaptcha, or Cloudflare Turnstile. Only when you want one, and only on the forms that need it.

Privacy that holds up

Retention controls, IP logging you can reason about, and hooks into WordPress’s personal-data export and erasure tools.

Submissions inbox

Read, search and filter entries without leaving wp-admin. Unread counts, so nothing slips through on a busy Monday.

Form analytics (Pro)

Watch how each form performs over time, so you know which ones are pulling their weight and which need a rewrite.

PDFs and CSV export (Pro)

Turn an entry into a tidy PDF, or export a form’s submissions to CSV for the spreadsheet people.

Free vs Pro

A generous free plugin. A Pro that pays for itself.

Pro features unlock per plan: every license includes payments, advanced fields and export; integrations arrive with Pro and Agency.

FeatureFreePro
Visual builder with live canvas✓✓
Regular, multi-step, sectioned & conversational forms✓✓
Everyday, choice, date and structure fields✓✓
Spam protection and CAPTCHA providers✓✓
Email notifications✓✓
Submissions inbox✓✓
Block, shortcode and REST API✓✓
Conditional logicStandardAdvanced
Picture choice, signature and calculation fields✕✓
Stripe payments, coupons and payment summary✕✓
Pro templates✕✓
Form analytics and PDF entries✕✓
CSV export✕✓
Webhooks, CRM and email-marketing integrations✕Pro & Agency plans
White label and multilingual tools✕Agency plan
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The free plugin installs in under a minute, and you can build your first form before your coffee cools.