Forming Forms – Form Builder for Block Editor

Forming Forms – Form Builder for Block Editor is a lightweight contact form and form builder plugin built entirely on the WordPress block editor. A form is a block: add the Form block to any post or page, nest the field blocks you need, and publish. No shortcodes, no embeds, no separate form builder screen to learn.

Every field — text, email, phone, select, checkbox — is a real WordPress block. That means you build your contact form the same way you build the rest of your page, with the same drag-and-drop, the same undo, and the same design controls you already use every day.

Submissions are validated on the server, checked for spam, emailed to you, and saved as entries in your WordPress admin.

Build forms without shortcodes

Most form builder plugins ask you to compose a form in a separate admin screen and then paste a shortcode into your page. Forming Forms skips that entirely. The form is built where it lives, and what you see in the editor is what your visitors get.

• Add the Form block anywhere — posts, pages, block themes, template parts, widgets.
• Nest field blocks inside it, reorder them by dragging.
• Style with the block editor’s own spacing, typography, color and border controls.
• Reuse the same contact form across your site with a core synced pattern.

Included form fields

• Text — single-line input for names and short answers
• Email — with email format validation
• Textarea — multi-line messages
• Number — with optional min, max and step
• Phone — telephone input
• URL — website addresses
• Select — dropdown menu
• Radio — single choice from a list
• Checkbox — single consent box or multiple choices
• Date — date picker
• Hidden — pass a fixed value with the submission
• Submit — the send button

Features

• Native block styling — fields use the block editor’s own spacing, typography, color and border controls. Nothing hand-rolled to relearn, and it inherits your theme.
• Server-side validation — the server rebuilds the form’s field schema from the source post and validates every submission against it. The browser’s field list is never trusted, so a tampered form cannot inject fields.
• Spam protection, no CAPTCHA — a honeypot field and a submission time-trap, both enabled by default. Your visitors never see a puzzle.
• Email notifications — send each submission to one or more recipients with a configurable subject, from name and from address.
• Entry storage — submissions are saved as a forming_entry custom post type, one meta value per field, so your form data stays in your own database.
• Success behavior — show an inline thank-you message or redirect to a URL after submit.
• Accessible markup — real labels, required-field indicators, and an ARIA live region for the response message.
• Lightweight — no jQuery, no page builder dependency, no external service. Assets load only on pages that contain a form.
• Translation ready — fully internationalized and ready for translation.
• Developer friendly — extend the field allowlist through the forming_field_blocks filter and hook forming_submission_saved to react to new entries.

Typical uses

A contact form, a quote request form, a support or feedback form, a newsletter signup, a job application, an RSVP or event registration form, a simple survey — anything you would otherwise build with a shortcode-based form builder.

For developers

Register your own block in the forming category and append its name to the allowlist:

add_filter( 'forming_field_blocks', function ( $blocks ) {
    $blocks[] = 'my-plugin/field-rating';
    return $blocks;
} );

React to a new submission:

add_action( 'forming_submission_saved', function ( $entry_id, $data, $form_id ) {
    // $data is a name => value map of the validated submission.
}, 10, 3 );

License

Forming Forms – Form Builder for Block Editor is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 or later. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html for more details.