Forms are an integral part of any website. From a simple contact form to a detailed medical appointment form, it helps the user communicate and stay connected to your business.
WordPress is the go-to tool for almost all kinds of websites; the choice for form plugins is unlimited. The WordPress community has over 1000 feature-packed plugins with extensive form fields and the most advanced options to cater to a variety of users.
Pie Forms by Genetech Solutions is one such recent addition to the WordPress plugin’s directory. This blog will outline the noticeable and extra-ordinary features Pie Forms offers that make it the most apprehended choice in the WordPress world.
What is Pie Forms?
Pie Forms is a WordPress form plugin that lets you create the most robust forms with the easiest Drag and Drop builder. With Pie Forms, you can simplify your form building experience and design unlimited forms for your WordPress websites.
Pie Forms are fast, flexible, and 100% responsive. With its user-friendly interface, various form field options, and built-in ready-to-use templates, you can create advanced forms without writing a single line of code.
Key Features in Pie Forms:
Here is a list of the most prominent features of Pie Forms.
- Standard and Advanced Form Fields
- Ready-to-Use Form Templates
- Smart Tags and ShortCodes
- Fully Optimized
- Anti-Spam Features
- Limit and Schedule
- GDPR Compliant Forms and Data Entry Management
- MailChimp Add-on for Email Marketing
- Conditional Logic
1. Standard and Advanced Form Fields
The Standard and Advanced fields in Pie Forms helps you create professional forms with zero hassle. Be it the First or Last Name or the Address, Checkboxes or the Multi-select Dropdown, Hidden Field or the HTML code block; you have it all! You can collect the maximum user-information to gain the highest leads.
2. Ready-to-Use Form Templates
According to the form type, the Ready-to-Use templates in Pie Forms make your work super fast and convenient as they contain the required form fields. All the templates are fully editable, and you can add or remove the fields as per your requirements.
3. Smart Tags and ShortCodes
Pie Forms has Smart tags that transform your static emails by replacing them with dynamic user data. It helps you add relevant information to the Email settings and Hidden Form field.
What is an advanced form without a progressive feature like Shortcodes? You can embed your form anywhere on the WordPress website using the Shortcodes feature of Pie Forms. The process is as simple as a Pie, literally. 😉
4. Fully Optimized
Pie Forms has been designed in a way that keeps your website efficient and fast. It maximizes your website’s speed and reduces the loading time, ensuring all the CSS and JavaScript Libraries are loaded only when required.
5. Anti-Spam Features
Forms are an entry point for the spammers and bots. Keeping the forms secure does not only protect you but also ensures user-data security. The Anti-spam features in Pie Forms help you fight spam and keep away the bots without much hassle.
- Pie Forms has built-in HoneyPot protection. The HoneyPot adds an invisible field to your form. If the field is not empty on form submission, it is filled by a bot.
- Another anti-spam feature is the Google reCAPTCHA. Pie Forms has two types of reCAPTCHA; v2 and v3. It adds an extra layer of protection against the spam-users.
- The server-side validation feature in Pie Forms ensures that no form is submitted without the mandatory validation even if the JavaScript is blocked on the user’s front-end.
6. Limit and Schedule
Using the Limit and Schedule feature in Pie Forms, you can limit form entries, schedule the submission dates, and display a customizable message when the form submission requirement is over. You can set an expiry date to close your forms and control your responses automatically.
7. GDPR Compliant Forms and Data Entry Management
User-data privacy is essential.
With the GDPR compliance field in Pie Forms, you can collect and use data with the user’s consent.
All the user entries are then stored and displayed under the Entries Tab of Pie Forms Admin Dashboard for quick access. You can view the detailed user data, mark the user read/unread or favorite, view users of the selected form using the filter, and a lot more.
8. MailChimp Add-on for Email Marketing
MailChimp is an all-in-one marketing platform that helps you create and manage your email marketing campaigns like an expert.
The MailChimp Add-on in Pie Forms lets you sync your website’s users with your MailChimp account in just three steps.
- Map and Merge your form fields.
- Take user’s consent using the single opt-in or double opt-in method as per the GDPR laws.
- Add users to the mailing list right on form-submission.
That’s it! Email marketing sorted.
9. Conditional Logic
Long forms with never-ending form fields are lead killers.
With Pie Forms Conditional logic feature, you can create smart, personalized, and dynamic forms by showing or hiding specific fields based on the user’s input. Be it a simple condition or a complex one; Pie Forms gives you complete control to design your required form flow.
There is a lot more to Pie Forms!
What makes Pie Forms stand-out are the features like the Gutenberg editor, Date and Time picker field, custom form field validation, customized email settings, AJAX form submissions, Digital signature, and most importantly, the user-friendly interface.
It is a perfect choice as your WordPress form plugin.
Are you ready to Elevate your form building experience with Pie Forms?
Mehak Nayani is a CodeGirls Graduate and a Technical Content Writer at Genetech Solutions, one of the leading software houses in Pakistan, helping businesses with all their software solution needs, ranging from complex web centric applications, to elegantly designed mobile apps and websites.
