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<p><a href="https://wpmeal.com/formlight" rel="nofollow ugc">FormLight</a>  Lite empowers WordPress users to build professional custom forms without coding. Features include:</p>
<p>✅ <strong>Gutenberg block</strong> for form building with live preview in the editor<br />
✅ <strong>AJAX-powered submissions</strong> for better user experience<br />
✅ <strong>Responsive design</strong> that works on all devices<br />
✅ <strong>Customizable styling</strong> and validation<br />
✅ <strong>Secure data handling</strong> and GDPR compliance<br />
✅ <strong>Admin settings panel</strong> for easy configuration<br />
✅ <strong>Submissions & Entries management</strong> (view, delete, export CSV)</p>
<p>🔥 <a href="https://wpmeal.com/formlight" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Upgrade to FormLight Pro</strong></a> for pre-built templates, email notifications, and integrations with Mailchimp, Google Sheets, PayPal, Stripe, Zapier. FormLight Pro is available with Business and Developer licenses.</p>
<p>Perfect for businesses, bloggers, and developers who need reliable form solutions.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>FormLight Lite communicates with the following external service operated by the plugin author (wpmeal.com):</p>
<p><strong>Pro Upgrade Notice Service</strong><br />
* <strong>URL:</strong> https://wpmeal.com/formlight/wplb.json<br />
* <strong>Purpose:</strong> Displays a dismissible admin notice about FormLight Pro features (shown once per user)<br />
* <strong>Data Sent:</strong> WordPress version, PHP version, plugin version (via standard HTTP headers)<br />
* <strong>Frequency:</strong> One-time display in admin, user can dismiss permanently<br />
* <strong>Privacy Policy:</strong> https://wpmeal.com/formlight/privacy-policy.php<br />
* <strong>Terms of Service:</strong> https://wpmeal.com/formlight/terms-of-use.php</p>
<p><strong>Addons Store Service</strong><br />
* <strong>URL:</strong> https://wpmeal.com/formlight/formlight-addons.json<br />
* <strong>Purpose:</strong> Retrieves list of available premium addons for display in admin<br />
* <strong>Data Sent:</strong> Standard HTTP request headers only<br />
* <strong>Frequency:</strong> When viewing FormLight addons page in WordPress admin<br />
* <strong>Privacy Policy:</strong> https://wpmeal.com/formlight/privacy-policy.php<br />
* <strong>Terms of Service:</strong> https://wpmeal.com/formlight/terms-of-use.php</p>
<p>These services do not collect or store personal information. Only basic server logs (IP address, user agent) are recorded as part of standard web server operations.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>FormLight includes the following third-party libraries:</p>
<ul>
<li>jQuery formBuilder (MIT License) – https://formbuilder.online/ (by Kevin Chappell)</li>
<li>mi18n (MIT License) – https://github.com/Draggable/mi18n (by Kevin Chappell)</li>
<li>Bootstrap CSS (MIT License) – https://getbootstrap.com/</li>
</ul>
<p>All libraries are GPL-compatible and used under their respective licenses.</p>


FormLight – Simple Lightweight Form Builder – Contact, Payment, Registration & More

Clean, easy-to-use form builder with drag-and-drop fields. Pro adds templates & integrates with Mailchimp, Stripe, PayPal, Google Sheets, Zapier.

griffinforms

<p>GriffinForms is a WordPress form builder for multi-step forms, user registration, uploads, payments, and forms that need more than a single message field. It gives you stronger control over how the form looks, behaves, and continues after submission.</p>
<p>It is a better fit for registration forms, applications, requests, uploads, and payment collection than for a simple one-page contact form. If you need forms that do real work, GriffinForms is built for that next step.</p>
<h4>Why teams choose GriffinForms</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Multi-step forms</strong>: break longer forms into pages so users can complete structured flows without feeling overwhelmed.</li>
<li><strong>WordPress user registration</strong>: create WordPress users from form submissions with immediate, pending-activation, or manual-review workflows, plus duplicate-account handling and account-action visibility in the admin area.</li>
<li><strong>File uploads</strong>: support multi-file uploads per field with controls for file types, size limits, file counts, image constraints, and storage behavior.</li>
<li><strong>Stripe payments</strong>: build payment forms with product-style workflows, product images, a cart-style review step, and resume links for pending payments.</li>
<li><strong>Email and notifications</strong>: send notifications and autoresponders through WordPress mail, Custom SMTP, SendGrid, or Mailgun, with reusable messages and merge variables.</li>
<li><strong>Spam protection</strong>: choose from reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, or hCaptcha, and combine them with native rate limiting and backend anti-spam checks.</li>
<li><strong>Conditional logic</strong>: go beyond simple show and hide with rules that can change labels, values, headings, success messages, redirects, and submit behavior.</li>
<li><strong>Templates and theming</strong>: turn forms into reusable templates, then style them with built-in themes or your own custom theme variations.</li>
<li><strong>Submission clarity in WordPress</strong>: review entries in a richer admin view with timelines, logs, metadata, and settings history when troubleshooting production forms.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Best-fit use cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress user registration forms with account creation or admin review</li>
<li>Multi-step request and intake forms</li>
<li>Application forms with file uploads</li>
<li>Support workflows with conditional fields</li>
<li>Payment forms for donations, simple orders, or paid requests</li>
<li>Multi-step forms where incomplete submissions should still stay visible in the admin area</li>
<li>Forms that need stronger styling control, clearer notifications, and better admin visibility</li>
</ul>
<h4>Built for structured form workflows</h4>
<p>GriffinForms treats layout as a core part of form building. The drag-and-drop builder uses pages, rows, columns, sidebar controls, and reusable fields to make complex forms easier to shape and maintain. Then you can layer in conditions, uploads, notifications, and payments where needed. This makes longer forms easier to manage and easier for users to complete.</p>
<p>Reusable fields also help solve a common admin problem: teams should not need to recreate the same Name, Email, Phone, or Address field across every new form. Common fields can be managed from one place, which helps keep repeated workflows faster to build and more consistent over time.</p>
<h4>File uploads with practical control</h4>
<p>File uploads are not limited to a basic attachment field. GriffinForms supports multi-file uploads per field and is designed for workflows where uploads matter, such as applications, support requests, and document collection. For example, an application form can collect resumes, ID documents, certificates, and supporting images in one submission instead of forcing users to send files separately later. You can control allowed file types, per-file and total upload size limits, max file counts, image-specific constraints, and storage behavior, then manage uploaded files from WordPress.</p>
<h4>Stripe payments and product workflows</h4>
<p>If you enable Stripe, GriffinForms can handle payment collection inside the form flow. This is useful for donations, simple product or service requests, paid applications, and other workflows where payment is part of submission instead of a separate checkout. GriffinForms also supports a fuller review-and-pay pattern with product-style selections, product images, and cart-style summaries. For pending payments, resume links can bring users back so they can continue from where they left off.</p>
<h4>Strong conditional logic layer</h4>
<p>Conditional logic in GriffinForms goes beyond a simple show-or-hide toggle. You can use field, row, and form-level rules to change labels and values, control headings and visibility, swap success messages, trigger redirects, and adjust submit-button behavior.</p>
<p>Conditions also go beyond basic text matching. GriffinForms supports checks across field values, counts, password strength, browser time, address parts, and payment-specific conditions such as product, gateway, totals, and counts. That makes it useful for smarter routing, cleaner payment flows, and forms that react as the submission takes shape.</p>
<p>For example, you can show a payment step only when a paid option is selected, then change the success message or redirect users to a different next step after submission.</p>
<h4>Themable forms with deeper styling control</h4>
<p>Forms should not look disconnected from the rest of your site. GriffinForms includes built-in themes, but the theme system goes further than picking a preset. You can create new themes from scratch or modify existing ones with control over typography, layout, inputs, buttons, and states such as hover, focus, and active. Dark themes also look especially strong in GriffinForms, which helps when you want forms to feel more polished and deliberate instead of settling for one generic form look.</p>
<h4>Submissions, logs, and admin visibility</h4>
<p>Submissions are stored in your WordPress database, but the admin experience goes further than a simple entry list. GriffinForms includes a richer submission view with metadata, payment context where applicable, submission-specific logs, and event timelines so you can follow what happened to a submission and where it changed.</p>
<p>Native logging adds another layer of visibility for production sites. Timeline-style logs, searchable categories, job visibility, retention settings, and settings history make it easier to troubleshoot failed steps, trace changes, and understand what happened over time.</p>
<p>GriffinForms also supports partial submissions, which means incomplete multi-step submissions can still remain visible in the admin area when that workflow matters.</p>
<h4>WordPress account registration workflows</h4>
<p>GriffinForms includes a flexible user registration workflow for registration forms that need to create or manage WordPress users after submission. You can build a simple WordPress registration form for one account, or use an iterable email field for multi-user registration from a single form submission. GriffinForms lets you choose whether a registration form should use a mapped password or send the native WordPress password setup link, assign the WordPress user role for the account being created, and map optional profile data such as username, first name, last name, and profile image when the form collects it.</p>
<p>This user registration system is built for real workflows, not just one fixed registration form pattern. You can decide whether user registration happens immediately, waits for admin activation, or stays in manual review, and you can control how duplicate-account cases are handled. GriffinForms also gives registration forms stronger admin visibility through native logging, submission-side account activity, account-action follow-up, and builder checks that help catch missing mappings, risky password choices, and iterable registration-form edge cases before the form goes live.</p>
<p>Helpful docs:<br />
– <a href="https://griffinforms.com/docs/user-docs/user-registrations/overview-and-workflow-modes.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Registration workflow modes</a><br />
– <a href="https://griffinforms.com/docs/user-docs/user-registrations/submission-accounts-accordion.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Submission Accounts Accordion</a><br />
– <a href="https://griffinforms.com/docs/user-docs/user-registrations/password-strategies-and-password-setup.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Password strategies</a></p>
<h4>Spam protection and rate limiting</h4>
<p>GriffinForms supports multiple CAPTCHA providers, including reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, and hCaptcha. It also includes native rate limiting and backend anti-spam checks, so spam protection does not depend on a single layer. That protection applies across the submission flow, including workflows that use file uploads.</p>
<h4>Email delivery and notifications</h4>
<p>GriffinForms can send admin notifications and autoresponders through WordPress mail or configured delivery providers such as Custom SMTP, SendGrid, and Mailgun. That gives you more flexibility when you need more dependable delivery for production forms.</p>
<p>Helpful docs:<br />
– <a href="https://griffinforms.com/docs/user-docs/email-and-notifications/email-settings.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Email settings</a><br />
– <a href="https://griffinforms.com/docs/user-docs/email-and-notifications/managing-messages.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Managing messages</a><br />
– <a href="https://griffinforms.com/docs/user-docs/email-and-notifications/mail-merge-placeholders.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Mail merge placeholders</a></p>
<h4>Reusable messages and merge variables</h4>
<p>GriffinForms includes a reusable message system for admin alerts and autoresponders. You can build messages once, reuse them across forms, and insert merge variables so subjects and message bodies can pull values from the submission at send time. That makes it easier to maintain more personalized and more consistent email workflows without rewriting the same message for every form.</p>
<p>GriffinForms also supports mapping autoresponders to different email fields inside the same form. For example, a staff member can submit a form on behalf of a client, student, or employee, while the correct confirmation message is still sent to the email field for that actual person.</p>
<p>Admin alerts can also be mapped per recipient, so different staff members or teams can receive different messages for the same submission. For example, one alert can go to admissions, another to finance, and another to operations when each team needs different context.</p>
<h4>Easier first-form experience</h4>
<p>GriffinForms includes a guided onboarding flow to help new users create and publish a useful first form more quickly. That makes it easier to start with a working form instead of a blank builder and then expand into more advanced flows later. Starter forms and reusable templates also help teams move faster when they need to repeat similar workflows across forms or sites.</p>
<h4>Gutenberg and advanced workflows</h4>
<p>GriffinForms works with Gutenberg and also includes a stronger technical foundation for advanced evaluators, including a documented REST API surface, capability-aware access control, device management for protected companion routes, and webhook-ready architecture. Multi-step submissions use AJAX handling with server-side validation and anti-spam checks, which helps longer forms feel more responsive while still enforcing validation on the backend. Post-submission actions such as emails and other follow-up work can also be processed in the background, which helps more complex workflows stay smoother after a form is submitted.</p>
<p>These are not the first thing most users need, but they help show GriffinForms is built for more than a simple one-page contact form.</p>
<p>Helpful docs:<br />
– <a href="https://griffinforms.com/docs/user-docs/building-forms/embedding-forms.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Embedding forms</a><br />
– <a href="https://griffinforms.com/docs/user-docs/building-forms/multi-page-forms.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Multi-page forms</a><br />
– <a href="https://griffinforms.com/docs/user-docs/conditional-logic/overview.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Conditional logic</a></p>
<h4>Privacy-conscious by default</h4>
<p>Form submissions stay in WordPress by default. External services are only involved when you enable them, such as payments, CAPTCHA, or email delivery providers. See the External Services section below for details.</p>
<p>GriffinForms also includes early compliance groundwork such as retention settings, WordPress privacy-tool integration, and per-form data-capture controls when those workflows matter.</p>
<h4>External Services</h4>
<p>GriffinForms can connect to these third-party services when enabled:<br />
– <strong>Google reCAPTCHA</strong> (spam protection): <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy</a><br />
– <strong>Stripe</strong> (payments): <a href="https://stripe.com/legal" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms</a> and <a href="https://stripe.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy</a><br />
– <strong>Cloudflare Turnstile</strong> (spam protection): <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms</a> and <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy</a><br />
– <strong>hCaptcha</strong> (spam protection): <a href="https://www.hcaptcha.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms</a> and <a href="https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy</a><br />
– <strong>SendGrid</strong> (email delivery): <a href="https://www.twilio.com/legal/tos" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms</a> and <a href="https://www.twilio.com/legal/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy</a><br />
– <strong>Mailgun</strong> (email delivery): <a href="https://www.mailgun.com/legal/terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms</a> and <a href="https://www.mailgun.com/legal/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy</a></p>
<h4>Learn more</h4>
<ul>
<li>Documentation: <a href="https://griffinforms.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">GriffinForms Docs</a></li>
<li>User docs: <a href="https://griffinforms.com/docs/user-docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">GriffinForms User Docs</a></li>
<li>Templates: <a href="https://griffinforms.com/templates/" rel="nofollow ugc">Form Templates</a></li>
<li>Releases: <a href="https://griffinforms.com/releases/" rel="nofollow ugc">Release Notes</a></li>
<li>Privacy: <a href="https://griffinforms.com/privacy.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>GriffinForms is open source and licensed under GPLv2 or later.</p>


GriffinForms – Form Builder with Multi-Step and Registration Forms

WordPress form builder for multi-step forms, user registration, file uploads, payments, and custom themes.

FormLight – Simple Lightweight Form Builder – Contact, Payment, Registration & More vs GriffinForms – Form Builder with Multi-Step and Registration Forms