EP024 – What are the best #WordPress forms in 2016? – #WPblab

This week on WPblab Jason Tucker, Bridget Willard speak with James Laws and Josh Pollock about their WordPress Form Plugins. They share a brief history about each and compare and contrast on the features each provides. We spend some time discussing the other players in this space and breakdown the pricing models and what lead them to go with the fremium model (Free core plugin, paid addons).

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Weekly Watercooler Discussions about WordPress and it’s community.

308 responses to “EP024 – What are the best #WordPress forms in 2016? – #WPblab”

  1. Bridget Willard Avatar

    WordPress.org needs a +1 (vote up) for people who leave reviews a la Amazon.com to validate the reviewer.

  2. Kevin Hoffman Avatar

    @kstover Ah yeah that is a bummer. We use tags to sort of make up for that.

  3. Josh Pollock Avatar

    We went Help Scout last week. FTW!

  4. Kevin Hoffman Avatar

    I’m sure you’re dealing with larger quantities than us though 🙂

  5. Kevin Stover Avatar

    Among other things.

  6. Adam Silver Avatar

    active installs is better.

  7. Kevin Stover Avatar

    @kevinwhoffman Yeah. Desk has automatic priority bumping. So, we can track how long a user has been waiting on an answer.

  8. Adam Silver Avatar

    but active on a site isnt the same as really using!

  9. Bridget Willard Avatar

    @heyadamsilver It’s not?

  10. Emanuel Costa Avatar

    wp.org plugins should also have a “response time” from devs.

  11. Adam Silver Avatar

    nope.. i’ve seen sites with form plugins installed.. with no actual forms in use.

  12. Jason Tucker Avatar
  13. Adam Silver Avatar

    they’ve tried it.. left it installed.. but not in actual use

  14. Kevin Hoffman Avatar

    @emanweb But that would depend on a .org support system, which most devs want to get away from

  15. Adam Silver Avatar

    I read those pinned posts!

  16. Adam Silver Avatar

    I’m an outlier !

  17. Adam Silver Avatar
  18. Emanuel Costa Avatar

    for that they could have: response time = see dev forum.

  19. Adam Silver Avatar

    @jameslaws say it aint so!

  20. Kevin Hoffman Avatar

    ultimate first world problem – the GUI is too pretty.

  21. Adam Silver Avatar
  22. Adam Silver Avatar

    It “WAS” easy.. and is .. on a scale of 1-10…. to a “3” .. then its a learning curve.. and INVESTMENT

  23. Bridget Willard Avatar

    @heyadamsilver It is an investment.

  24. Kevin Stover Avatar

    These WordPress.org reporting/data issues have given rise to products aimed at developers like Freemius

  25. Adam Silver Avatar

    yep. better mindset vs expense

  26. Adam Silver Avatar

    props to me. 🙂

  27. Kevin Stover Avatar

    @Josh412 Pipedream!

  28. Kevin Hoffman Avatar

    @jameslaws Is that really why though or is it to hide their otherwise GPL code behind a wall?

  29. Adam Silver Avatar

    @jameslaws did you just call people -inassas?

  30. Kevin Stover Avatar

    It’s also not as cute as Ninja Forms Three. 🙂

  31. Adam Silver Avatar

    i’m as cute as toejam

  32. Kevin Stover Avatar

    @kevinwhoffman I don’t think it’s because it helps hide the code.

  33. Kevin Stover Avatar

    @heyadamsilver – You mean like Toejam and Earl?

  34. Kevin Hoffman Avatar

    @kstover It can certainly be a benefit though. You’re not at risk of a knockoff being thrown up on github.

  35. Adam Silver Avatar

    @kstover nice pull.. but was referencing actual toe jam!

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