Flex Forms

Flex Forms is a modular and flexible form builder plugin for WordPress, designed to be lightweight yet feature-rich. It allows you to quickly build forms with various field types, manage submissions, and integrate with your theme and workflow easily.

Key Features:

• Easy form creation via WordPress admin
• Drag-and-drop field ordering
• Email notifications on submission
• Submission storage in database
• Google reCAPTCHA v2/v3 support
• Custom shortcode per form
• SMTP email sending support with test email
• Force “From” email override (site-wide)
• Full integration with Flex Fields
• Developer-friendly hooks and filters

External Services

Flex Forms may interact with third-party services depending on your configuration:

Email Sending

Flex Forms supports custom SMTP configuration for reliable email delivery.

• What data is sent: Form submission content (user input).
• When data is sent: When a user submits a form or when a notification is triggered.
• Where data is sent: To the configured email recipient(s) via your selected email service provider.
• Privacy & Terms: Email service providers’ policies apply (e.g., SendGrid, Mailgun, custom SMTP).
  • Example terms:
  • SendGrid: https://sendgrid.com/policies/tos/
  • Mailgun: https://www.mailgun.com/legal/

Google reCAPTCHA

Used to prevent spam form submissions.

• What the service is and what it is used for:
  Verifies that a user is human when submitting a form.
• What data is sent and when:
  The user’s IP address and browser information are sent to Google when the user interacts with a reCAPTCHA-enabled form.
• Where data is sent:
  Google servers.
• Privacy & Terms:
  • https://policies.google.com/terms
  • https://policies.google.com/privacy

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/flex-forms directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugin screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
3. Navigate to Flex Forms > Add New to create your first form.
4. Use the generated shortcode to embed the form into any page or post.

2.1.6

• Added global SMTP configuration option.
• Added “Force From Email” and “From Email” override.
• Improved PHPMailer integration and compatibility.
• Improved test email feature.
• Minor fixes and improvements.