Freemius

Mike Challis

Uncomplicated Forms is a high-performance, meticulously engineered form builder designed for developers and site owners who prioritize speed, security, and clean data handling. Built from the ground up to meet modern coding standards, it provides a logical, “zero-bloat” solution for managing multiple contact forms with precision.
The engine features native Cloudflare Turnstile integration and Akismet AI telemetry to provide robust, multi-layered defense against automated spam submissions without frustrating puzzles.
<h4>Engineered for Modern Environments</h4>
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<li>PHP Optimization: Leverages modern code structures like Constructor Property Promotion and Enums for clean execution speed.</li>
<li>Instance Isolation: Safely deploy multiple different forms on a single page with zero ID collisions, CSS overlaps, or script conflicts.</li>
<li>W3C Compliant Markup: Renders valid HTML5 and semantic ARIA labels for maximum accessibility and SEO performance.</li>
<li>Context-Aware Validation: Intelligent error reporting that identifies specific fields (e.g., “Address is required”) rather than generic system codes.</li>
<li>Privacy by Design: Native IP Anonymization (GDPR/CCPA compliant) and secure attachment handling.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Productivity & Portability</h4>
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<li>Settings Cloner: Instantly duplicate configurations or styles from one form ID to another. Perfect for rapid testing or creating variations.</li>
<li>Diagnostic Suite: Built-in SMTP test tool with real-time server-side debugging information to resolve mail delivery blocks fast.</li>
<li>Field Templates (Pro): Export and import specific field structures as portable templates. Migrate layouts between sites without exposing private email or redirect settings.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Free Features</h4>
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<li>Drag-and-Drop Builder: Effortlessly reorder fields with native UI sorting.</li>
<li>Tri-Layer Spam Shield: Simultaneously enable Cloudflare Turnstile, Honeypot, and Akismet AI protection.</li>
<li>Flexible Fields: Text, Textarea, Checkbox, Radio, Select, Email, URL, Number, Phone (US), Date/Time, File Attachments, Password, and Consent.</li>
<li>Smart Address Blocks: Pre-engineered US and International compound address fields that handle multi-line data automatically.</li>
<li>Custom Routing: Sophisticated notification emails and autoresponders with dynamic field tags.</li>
<li>DMARC Ready: Explicit Return-Path controls and “Enable DMARC” protocol to ensure inbox delivery.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro Features (Upgrade to Pro)</h4>
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<li>Field Templates: High-fidelity export/import of field configurations for fast deployment.</li>
<li>Multi-Step Wizards: Create high-conversion multi-page forms with native pagination.</li>
<li>AJAX Background Submission: Instant, refresh-free submissions for a seamless user experience.</li>
<li>Marketing Data Bridge: Automatically append form data to success page URLs for CRM and tracking scripts—no extra plugins needed.</li>
<li>Professional Lead Storage: Log submissions to an included, high-concurrency form entries database table with a dedicated “Export to CSV” button.</li>
<li>Silent CRM Connectivity: Push data to external APIs/CRM endpoints (GET/POST) silently in the background.</li>
<li>Lead Magnets: Attach PDFs or documents to automated visitor confirmation emails.</li>
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Conditional Logic: Dynamically show or hide fields based on user input.
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<a href="https://uncomplicatedforms.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">UncomplicatedForms.com</a>
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<li><a href="https://uncomplicatedforms.com/support" rel="nofollow ugc">Support</a></li>
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<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin is designed to process and store form data locally on your server by default. It only connects to the following third-party external services if explicitly enabled or opted-in by the site administrator:
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<li>Cloudflare Turnstile API (Optional – Disabled by Default)</li>
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* Purpose: Used to verify form submissions and distinguish human visitors from automated malicious spam bots. It is only active if the administrator checks the “Enable Cloudflare Turnstile” box in settings and inputs their API keys. 
* Data Transmitted: The user’s browser challenge token and remote IP address are securely sent to Cloudflare to process the validation request. 
* Links: <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare Privacy Policy</a>
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<li>Akismet API (Optional – Disabled by Default)</li>
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* Purpose: Provides cloud-based behavioral analysis to detect and block malicious form submissions. It is only active if the administrator checks the “Enable Akismet spam protection” box in settings. 
* Data Transmitted: The submitter’s name, email address, IP address, user agent, and form message content are securely sent to the Akismet API (operated by Automattic) to analyze the submission’s spam status. 
* Links: <a href="https://akismet.com/tos/" rel="nofollow ugc">Akismet Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://automattic.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Akismet Privacy Policy</a>
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<li>Freemius SDK (Optional – Opt-In upon Activation)</li>
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* Purpose: Handles optional opt-in developer connection diagnostics, premium software license activation, secure monetization checkouts, and premium version update notifications. 
* Data Transmitted: Only if explicitly opted-in by the administrator during activation, it securely transmits public WordPress environment metrics (WordPress version, active theme, active plugins list) and administrative profile details. For Pro upgrades, it processes secure API license key lookups. 
* Links: <a href="https://freemius.com/terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">Freemius Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://freemius.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Freemius Privacy Policy</a>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Mike Challis – Plugin Author / Lead Architect</li>
</ul>

Uncomplicated Forms

Fast, secure WordPress form builder engineered for speed. Uncomplicated, lightweight, and structured to capture leads with maximum code efficiency.

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<a href="https://wphowto.net/gmail-smtp-plugin-for-wordpress-1341" rel="nofollow ugc">Gmail SMTP</a> plugin allows you to authenticate with your Gmail account to send email via Gmail SMTP server.
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Most shared hosting servers have restrictions when it comes to email. Usually email will get blocked or missing for no reason. Sometimes it will get blocked when your website reaches the daily limit of outgoing email. This plugin can bypass this issue by routing the email through Gmail’s SMTP server.
<h3>Gmail SMTP Add-ons</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wphowto.net/how-to-add-a-reply-to-address-in-the-gmail-smtp-wordpress-plugin-6756" rel="nofollow ugc">Reply-To</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wphowto.net/gmail-smtp-plugin-cc-configuration-6770" rel="nofollow ugc">Cc</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wphowto.net/gmail-smtp-email-logger-7336" rel="nofollow ugc">Email Logger</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Gmail SMTP Benefits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Gmail SMTP plugin is not like most SMTP plugins. It uses the OAuth 2.0 protocol to authorize access to the Gmail API – which means a more secure login system and users won’t have to enter any username or password.</li>
<li>Gmail SMTP plugin uses PHPMailer – a very popular library used for sending email through PHP’s mail function. This libary is also used in the core WordPress to send email.</li>
<li>Gmail SMTP plugin utilizes “wp_mail” (A function used by WordPress to send email) instead of completely overriding it. This way you still get all the benefits of the default mail function. </li>
<li>You no longer need to enable Allow less secure apps on your gmail account to fix SMTP connection issue. This issue became prominent from December 2014, when Google started imposing XOAUTH2 authentication (based on OAuth2) to access their apps. This issue still affects almost all the SMTP plugins because they authenticate via username and password.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How OAuth 2.0 Authorization Works</h3>
<ul>
<li>You register an application in the Google Developers Console.</li>
<li>The application is launched and it requests that you give it access to data in your Google account.</li>
<li>If you consent, the application receives credentials to access the Gmail API.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Gmail SMTP Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Configure your website to send email using Gmail SMTP server</li>
<li>Authenticate using OAuth 2.0 protocol</li>
<li>Authenticate with encryption when sending an email (TLS/SSL)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Gmail SMTP Basic Setup</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create a new project in Google Developers Console.</li>
<li>Enable Gmail API in it.</li>
<li>Create credentials (OAuth client ID) to access this API.</li>
<li>Configure the consent screen for the web application.</li>
<li>Enter a Product Name and a Privacy policy URL.</li>
<li>Once the consent screen is configured, create a web application.</li>
<li>Go to the plugin settings (<code>Settings->Gmail SMTP</code>).</li>
<li>Set the Authorized Redirect URL of the application as the one shown in the settings.</li>
<li>Finish creating the web app.</li>
<li>Copy the newly created Client ID and Client secret and paste into the settings area.</li>
<li>Enter your OAuth Email, From Email and From name.</li>
<li>Select an encryption.</li>
<li>Enter a port number.</li>
<li>Save the settings.</li>
<li>Now you can authorize your application to access the Gmail API by clicking on the Grant Permission button.</li>
<li>Once the application has been authorized Gmail SMTP plugin will be able to take control of all outgoing email.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Gmail SMTP Settings</h3>
<ul>
<li>Authorized Redirect URI: Authorized redirect URL for your website. You need to copy this URL into your web application.</li>
<li>Client ID: The client ID of your web application.</li>
<li>Client secret: The client secret of your web application.</li>
<li>OAuth Email Address: The email address that you will use for SMTP authentication. This should be the same email used in the Google Developers Console.</li>
<li>From Email Address: The email address which will be used as the From Address when sending an email.</li>
<li>From Name: The name which will be used as the From Name when sending an email.</li>
<li>Type of Encryption: The encryption which will be used when sending an email (TLS/SSL. TLS is recommended).</li>
<li>SMTP Port: The port which will be used when sending an email. If you choose TLS it should be set to 587. For SSL use port 465 instead.</li>
<li>Disable SSL Certificate Verification: As of PHP 5.6 a warning/error will be displayed if the SSL certificate on the server is not properly configured. You can check this option to disable that default behaviour.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Gmail SMTP Test Email</h3>
Once you have configured the settings you can send a test email to check the functionality of the plugin.
<ul>
<li>To: Email address of the recipient.</li>
<li>Subject: Subject of the email.</li>
<li>Message: Email body.</li>
</ul>
For detailed setup instructions please visit the <a href="https://wphowto.net/gmail-smtp-plugin-for-wordpress-1341" rel="nofollow ugc">Gmail SMTP</a> plugin page.

Gmail SMTP


Only the necessary settings, simple and clean, good description. Thanks!


All is good!


The plugin is great when it works.



The plugin suddenly stopped working. I contacted support, they checked the site, and stopped answering. They did not say yes, no, we can or cannot fix it. They stopped answering.My finding are that the plugin only works on small wordpress website installs, on the root directory.



The plugin is not capable to handle large sites or sites installed on directories other than the root.That means, if you grow, you will start encountering problems with this plugin. Same as I did.



I am now using Fluent SMTP, it works out of the box with no sweat.



Thanks 


Good when it works, only for small sites installed at root

Connect to Gmail SMTP server to automatically send email from your WordPress site. Configure wp_mail() to use SMTP with OAuth 2.0 authentication.

Uncomplicated Forms vs Gmail SMTP