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<p>Sobi Forms is a lightweight contact form plugin built for speed and simplicity. Create multiple forms, embed them anywhere with a shortcode or Gutenberg block, and keep your front-end lean.</p>
<p>Learn more on the official site: <a href="https://sobiforms.com" rel="nofollow ugc">sobiforms.com</a> — features, FAQ, and the <a href="https://sobiforms.com/roadmap/" rel="nofollow ugc">public roadmap</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Performance-first front-end</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Vanilla JavaScript on the front-end</li>
<li>~3.7 KB CSS + JS combined (gzipped transfer; ~13.3 KB unminified source on form pages)</li>
<li>Assets enqueue only when a form is rendered on the page – zero impact on other pages</li>
<li>Script loaded in the footer with <code>defer</code> strategy (WordPress 6.3+)</li>
<li>No global front-end CSS frameworks</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Form builder (admin only)</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Redesigned editor for more comfort — form canvas on the left, settings sidebar on the right; save without a full page reload</li>
<li>Lucide icons in the admin builder and submissions inbox (modern, consistent UI)</li>
<li>Document-first drag-and-drop editor (React via WordPress <code>wp-element</code>, loaded only on the form edit screen)</li>
<li>Field types: text, email, link (URL), textarea, phone, number, select, multiple choice (radio tiles), multi-option checkbox, <strong>file upload</strong>; layout blocks: title (section heading), paragraph (instructions)</li>
<li>URL prefill: optional per-field URL parameter to pre-populate scalar fields from query strings (client-side; cache-friendly)</li>
<li>Hidden fields: compact sidebar table to pass invisible data (URL params and/or static defaults); invisible on the front; always submitted; visible in inbox</li>
<li>File upload: one file per field; admin picks allowed types by category (Application, Image, Text) or individual extensions; private storage under <code>uploads/sobiforms/</code>; download from the Submissions inbox (admin only). <strong>Save to database</strong> is required when a form includes a file field</li>
<li>Field settings: number min/max; text min/max characters; show/hide label; textarea resize and max length; file max size (default 5 MB, capped by server)</li>
<li>Radio and multi-checkbox options edited inline in the builder (add option, remove on hover); dropdown options in the field menu</li>
<li>Multiple recipient emails per form</li>
<li>After submit: inline success message or redirect to a published page</li>
<li>Availability: pause a form, auto-close at a date/time, or after a set number of submissions, with a visitor message when closed</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Embedding</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Shortcode: <code>[sobiforms id="3"]</code> or <code>[sobiforms slug="contact"]</code> (ID or slug required; slug is fixed after creation)</li>
<li>Gutenberg block: <strong>Sobi Forms Contact</strong> with form picker</li>
<li>Works with any page builder that supports shortcodes or blocks</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Submissions</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Email notifications via <code>wp_mail()</code> (HTML)</li>
<li>Optional visitor confirmation email — simple thank-you receipt to the submitter (per form, Notifications sidebar)</li>
<li>Per-form delivery — email notifications and/or database storage (new forms default to inbox storage)</li>
<li>Inbox with read/unread, starred, spam queue, admin notes, search and filters; split list + detail layout with resizable columns; <strong>All / Unread / Starred</strong> view tabs and per-form filter in the list header</li>
<li>Submission source page — frozen page title and pathname at submit time in the detail sidebar (no query string; use hidden fields for UTM/campaign params)</li>
<li>Dashboard widget on the WordPress admin home — recent unread submissions at a glance</li>
<li>Optional Akismet spam filtering (when the Akismet plugin is active)</li>
<li>Honeypot, nonce verification, rate limiting (5 submissions/hour per hashed IP)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Security</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Nonce on every submission</li>
<li>Honeypot field</li>
<li>Server-side field validation against a strict JSON schema</li>
<li>Capability checks and nonces on all admin actions</li>
<li>Optional Akismet integration — spam submissions quarantined when the Akismet plugin is active</li>
<li>File uploads — server-side MIME validation; upload directory hardened on Apache (direct HTTP access denied); admin-only download with path verification</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>Sobi Forms processes data submitted through your forms. Per form you choose how submissions are delivered:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Email notifications</strong> – when enabled and recipient addresses are set, field values are sent via <code>wp_mail()</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Visitor confirmation</strong> – when <strong>Visitor email confirmation</strong> is enabled, the submitter may receive a simple thank-you at the address from the selected email field (no submitted field values in that email).</li>
<li><strong>Database storage</strong> – when <strong>Save to database</strong> is enabled (default for new forms in the builder), submissions are saved in custom tables on your site (<code>wp_sobiforms_submissions</code>, <code>wp_sobiforms_forms</code>). Each form has its own retention setting (auto-delete after N days). You can use inbox-only delivery with no email.</li>
<li><strong>Hashed IP</strong> – when storage is enabled, a one-way SHA-256 hash of the visitor IP is stored with each submission for abuse prevention. Raw IP addresses are not stored.</li>
<li><strong>Rate limiting</strong> – a transient keyed by hashed IP limits submissions to 5 per hour. Transients expire automatically.</li>
<li><strong>Admin notes</strong> – internal notes on submissions are stored in your database and never shown on the front-end or included in emails.</li>
<li><strong>No tracking</strong> – Sobi Forms does not connect to third-party analytics or advertising when processing form submissions.</li>
<li><strong>Optional Akismet</strong> – if you enable Akismet spam filtering and the Akismet plugin is active, submission content may be sent to Akismet’s service for spam checks.</li>
<li><strong>No data sent to the plugin author</strong> – form submissions stay on your server and mail server. The <strong>Feedback</strong> settings tab links to the WordPress.org support forum and <a href="https://sobiforms.com/roadmap/" rel="nofollow ugc">sobiforms.com/roadmap</a> only if you choose to open them.</li>
</ul>
<p>Site owners are responsible for their privacy policy and lawful basis for collecting visitor data.</p>
<h3>Licenses for Third-Party Resources</h3>
<p>This plugin bundled resources covered by their own respective licenses:<br />
* Lucide Icons – https://lucide.dev<br />
  License: ISC (https://lucide.dev/license)<br />
  Copyright (c) Lucide Contributors</p>


Sobi Forms

Lightweight form builder with inbox, shortcode, Gutenberg block, and vanilla AJAX.

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Anssi Laitila

<p>File management plugin featuring frontend file upload form, download manager, statistics and download log.</p>
<h3>The best file sharing plugin for WordPress</h3>
<p>Shared Files is a powerful WordPress plugin that allows you to securely share and manage files, documents and downloads directly from your WordPress site.</p>
<p>With features like user permissions, frontend file upload, and download tracking, it’s the perfect solution for businesses, educational institutions, and anyone needing to share files easily and securely.</p>
<p>Install Shared Files today and enhance your WordPress site’s file management capabilities.</p>
<p><em>Get the Shared Files plugin and stay neatly organized and managed with your documents and files.</em></p>
<p>Shared Files provides an interface for uploading and managing a large group of documents and files easily with numerous layout options and shortcodes for inserting downloadable files anywhere on the website.</p>
<ul>
<li>Controlled and isolated files from the media library, making it simple to list shared files on the WordPress website</li>
<li>Frontend uploader and file manager functionality to upload files</li>
<li>View supported files in the browser, including photos, movies, and other types of files (including lightbox view)</li>
<li>Search functionality to easily and quickly find uploaded documents</li>
</ul>
<h3>Download Manager</h3>
<ul>
<li>Top 50 most popular files</li>
<li>Download log of all file downloads</li>
<li>Search log of all searches made in the front end</li>
<li>Download counter for all files</li>
<li>Front end search from all files</li>
<li>Add tags to files</li>
<li>Allow visitors to upload files without logging in</li>
<li>Allow only logged in users to upload files</li>
<li>Enable support for any file type</li>
<li>File manager in the WP admin area</li>
</ul>
<p>These are just some of the highlights offered by the Shared Files plugin.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/shared-files/" rel="nofollow ugc">Shared Files Plugin Demos</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Blog</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Getting started with this file management plugin</h3>
<p>Installing and getting started with organizing your files is super simple when you are using Shared Files plugin. Let’s see how!</p>
<p>Start managing your files right inside WordPress admin with 2 steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Add some files and documents from WP admin > Shared Files > File Manager.</li>
<li>Insert one of these shortcodes to any page or post on your site.
<ul>
<li>[shared_files] (default file list)</li>
<li>[shared_files_simple] (simple file list)</li>
<li>[shared_files file_upload=1] (file list with frontend uploader)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<p>That’s it! The files are now listed for downloading.</p>
<h3>File Management</h3>
<p>Shared Files for WordPress has a file manager that allows adding files by the following actions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Adding file name</li>
<li>Choosing the file</li>
<li>Setting the date for the file</li>
<li>Setting the expiration date for the file</li>
<li>Adding file description</li>
<li>And many more</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin is extremely simple to use while also being scalable for a big number of files all thanks to a bulk of features offered by Shared Files plugin.</p>
<h3>Host local downloads – an alternative solution to Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive</h3>
<p>Use this download manager plugin as an alternative to Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive to list the downloads directly on your WordPress site instead of an external service.</p>
<h3>Media Gallery</h3>
<p>Create a media gallery of images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP and AVIF are supported formats) and allow users to upload their own images.</p>
<h3>File Manager</h3>
<p>Use the file manager at WP admin / Shared Files / File manager to add the files. Then use one of the shortcodes listed at WP admin / Shared Files / Shortcodes to list the downloads anywhere on your site.</p>
<h4>Files of any type</h4>
<p>Shared Files is a file sharing solution for WordPress that allows sharing numerous types of files with ease, including</p>
<ul>
<li>PDF</li>
<li>Word</li>
<li>PowerPoint</li>
<li>XLS</li>
<li>Images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP and AVIF)</li>
<li>YouTube videos</li>
<li>Any file type can be activated from the plugin settings</li>
<li>File folders – this is particularly important for big teams for effective collaboration</li>
</ul>
<h4>File search</h4>
<p>What is the purpose of a file-sharing plugin if not allowing you to easily and quickly find the exact file you’re looking for. This is what Shared Files plugin offers to it’s users.</p>
<p>Powerful and fast file search functionality based on defined file data, such as file name, description, and more makes it super easy for Shared Files plugin users to track and find the exact file/document they’re looking for.</p>
<h4>Previewing files</h4>
<p>This file managing plugin allows a team to upload files onto the WordPress admin, collaborate with each other, and most importantly administrator and users can preview the files on the browser before going live to ensure the accuracy of the uploaded file.</p>
<h4>Download files</h4>
<p>The files you have listed on your site are available for anyone to download by default. It’s also possible to manage, track and limit downloads by various settings.</p>
<h4>Document / file tags</h4>
<p>The best way to stay organized and seated with a bulk of files is to assign them tags. With a couple of tags, you can instantly categorize and label files for hassle-free searches down the road, and then find all of those files again easily.</p>
<p>Shared Files allows adding tags to files, either using the same tags as posts or a custom taxonomy.</p>
<h4>File management</h4>
<p>If your site is continuously growing there is definitely a need to handle the dozens of files and media you have out there. Luckily if you are using the Shared Files plugin, you don’t need any other add-ons.</p>
<p>File managing solution Shared Files not only helps to upload and organize files, but it also performs the task of the media library and file manager allowing to store and categorize files and images without the need for other third-party solutions.</p>
<h4>Lightbox preview</h4>
<p>Shared Files plugin offers the feature of opening YouTube videos or image files in a lightbox preview. Lightbox previews offer a number of benefits including the ability to customize, add content and update it when necessary, flexibility in location placement, and most importantly high visibility.</p>
<h4>File upload</h4>
<p>An exciting feature of the Shared Files WordPress file-sharing plugin is the ability of users or visitors to upload files. So any of the users having access can upload files right from the front end having their own contribution to a vast depository of website files.</p>
<p>It is critical to allow both visitors and users to upload files/documents, particularly allowing to do it from the frontend as it requires the least effort.</p>
<h4>File sharing</h4>
<p>For a team collaboration or a group of developers working on the same website, it’s crucial to be able to constantly share files and be able to preview the files others have shared.</p>
<p>The Shared Files plugin has thought of it. The plugin allows the quick and easy share of uploaded files with various users with access.</p>
<h4>FTP upload</h4>
<p>Using an FTP server is a common solution for businesses that want to keep their data safe. File manager enables the administrators and users to upload files using File Transfer Protocol (FTP). They can do it using a single-file or multi-file uploader.</p>
<h4>Statistics</h4>
<p>What is more important than having a statistics of your uploads! Shared Files plugin allows you to have constant eye on the uploaded files and documents by providing you with accurate file upload statistics and analysis.</p>
<h3>Shared Files FREE – a simple solution for file management and download tracking</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fast search of all files targeting all visible data on the file card, e.g. name and description</li>
<li>Frontend file upload with tag support for logged-in users</li>
<li>Wait for the Countdown page with a counter and automatic download when the counter reaches zero</li>
<li>Any file type upload (audio, video, image, PDF, Word, file folder, etc)</li>
<li>SVG icons of high quality for 25 various file types, plus individual custom icons for various file types</li>
<li>Browser preview of the uploaded files/documents</li>
<li>Lightbox view for images and videos (, YouTube, mp4, webm, ogg, mov)</li>
<li>Functions as a file explorer, download manager, and file manager</li>
<li>WordPress Multisite compatible</li>
<li>A lead generation tool for WordPress</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shared Files PRO – a full featured download manager and file management plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li>Search filters based on categories, tags, and custom field data</li>
<li>Users and roles with different file-opening permissions</li>
<li>Downloads wait countdown page</li>
<li>More features for the frontend file uploader</li>
<li>Visitors/users can upload and add files to new categories</li>
<li>FTP files can be uploaded and activated with a single click</li>
<li>Upload multiple files</li>
<li>Allow any user role to edit files from the front end</li>
<li>Favorite files for both logged-in and non-logged-in users</li>
<li>Activate Media Library files</li>
<li>Sort files into groups</li>
<li>Alternatively, specify an external URL for the file and track its loads</li>
<li>When a file is downloaded or uploaded, you will receive an email notification</li>
<li>Set a file’s expiration date</li>
<li>Limit the number of downloads for each file</li>
<li>Display files in the site search results</li>
<li>Log downloader’s city and country</li>
<li>City and country also in the search log</li>
</ul>
<p>This product includes GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from <a href="https://www.maxmind.com" rel="nofollow ugc">maxmind.com</a></p>
<h3>Demos</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/shared-files/simple-list/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple List</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/shared-files/2-columns/" rel="nofollow ugc">2 columns</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/shared-files/single-file-on-page/" rel="nofollow ugc">Single file on page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/shared-files/list-files-from-a-category/" rel="nofollow ugc">List files from a category</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/shared-files/search-only/" rel="nofollow ugc">Search only</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/shared-files/list-files-by-category/" rel="nofollow ugc">List files by category</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/shared-files/file-upload-1/" rel="nofollow ugc">File upload 1</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/shared-files/file-upload-2/" rel="nofollow ugc">File upload 2</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/shared-files/accordion/" rel="nofollow ugc">Accordion</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/shared-files/favorites/" rel="nofollow ugc">Favorite files</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/shared-files/wait-countdown-page/" rel="nofollow ugc">Wait Countdown Page – an isolated download page for all files</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Additional resources</h3>
<p>You can check more info about us on our website: <a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.sharedfilespro.com/</a></p>
<p>For any support queries or feature requests regarding the free version, please contact us at <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/shared-files/" rel="ugc">the support forum</a>.</p>
<p>Follow the <a href="https://www.sharedfilespro.com/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Shared Files blog</a> to stay informed about the plugin and its advancements.</p>
<p>Do you want to effectively work with a lot of files by managing them quickly and easily? The solution is one – Shared Files!</p>
<h3>How can I report security bugs?</h3>
<p>Please see the <a href="#how%20can%20i%20report%20security%20bugs%3F" rel="nofollow ugc">first FAQ item</a> below.</p>


Shared Files – Frontend File Upload Form & Secure File Sharing

File management plugin featuring frontend file upload form, download manager, statistics and download log.

Sobi Forms vs Shared Files – Frontend File Upload Form & Secure File Sharing