AverForm – Contact Form Builder, Drag & Drop WordPress Form Plugin

AverForm is a fast, modern drag and drop WordPress form builder

AverForm is a lightweight contact form plugin for WordPress built around a real drag and drop form builder. Add a field, drop it where you want it, edit it in the side panel, and publish — no shortcode juggling, no page reloads, and no code.

Every form you build comes with submission storage, CSV export, email notifications, spam protection and a visual reporting dashboard out of the box, in the free plugin. Nothing is locked behind an upsell.

Whether you need a simple WordPress contact form, a feedback form, a support request form, a newsletter signup, an NPS survey or a lead generation form, AverForm gives you the fields and the workflow to ship it in minutes.

Everything AverForm Gives You

• Drag and drop form builder with a live canvas
• 30+ ready-to-use form fields
• Ready-made form templates (contact, support, newsletter, blank)
• Multi-column form layouts with adjustable column widths
• Undo / redo and full form edit history in the builder
• Desktop, tablet and mobile responsive preview
• Live form preview on a real frontend page
• Complete entry (submission) management — read, unread, favorite, trash, restore
• Bulk actions and entry search
• Export form entries to CSV
• Export and import forms as JSON, plus one-click form duplication
• Email notifications with dynamic smart codes
• Success message or redirect URL after submit
• Built-in honeypot spam protection on every form
• Reporting dashboard with charts, submission trends and per-field breakdowns
• Per-entry diagnostics — source page, browser, device and user agent
• Global defaults for label placement and validation messages
• GDPR-friendly data cleanup control on uninstall
• Fully translation ready (.pot file included)
• No jQuery, no bloat — assets load only on pages that actually show a form

Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder

The AverForm builder is a modern React application, not a page of settings screens. Drag any field from the palette onto the canvas, reorder it by dragging, and configure it in the inspector on the right.

• Drag to add, drag to reorder, click to configure
• Multi-column containers so fields can sit side by side
• Undo and redo every change, with edit history
• Switch between desktop, tablet and mobile preview while you build
• Per-field label placement, placeholder, help text, description and custom error message
• Separate admin label for each field, used in entries and CSV exports

30+ WordPress Form Fields

General fields

• Name (first, middle, last — each toggleable)
• Email
• Simple Text
• Masked Input
• Text Area
• Number
• Website URL
• Password
• Phone / Mobile Number
• Address (street, city, state, zip, country)
• Country List (with flags, searchable, include or exclude countries)
• Dropdown / Select
• Radio
• Checkbox
• Multiple Choice (multi-select)
• Date & Time
• File Upload
• Image Upload
• Hidden Field

Advanced fields

• Rating
• NPS (Net Promoter Score)
• Range Slider
• Color Picker
• Signature
• Rich Text Editor
• Repeater Field

Layout fields

• Section Break
• Custom HTML
• Column Container (multi-column layout)
• Custom Submit Button

Consent fields

• Terms & Conditions
• GDPR Agreement

Ready-Made Form Templates

Skip the blank page. Start from a template and adjust it:

• Blank Form
• Contact Form
• Support Request
• Newsletter Signup

Every template ships pre-wired with an admin email notification, so a new form is genuinely usable the moment you publish it.

Form Entries & Submission Management

All submissions are stored in your own database — you own your data, and nothing is sent to a third-party service.

• Read / unread status with counts
• Mark entries as favorite
• Trash and restore, or delete permanently
• Bulk actions across selected entries
• Search across submission content
• Full entry detail view with every submitted value
• Submission context: source page URL, browser, operating system, device and raw user agent
• One-click CSV export of a form’s entries

Built-in Reports & Analytics

AverForm ships with a real reporting dashboard, not just a submission counter.

• Total submissions, spam, unread and created forms at a glance
• Period-over-period change indicators
• Submission trend chart over time
• Date ranges: last 7 days, last 30 days, this month, last month, last 90 days, this year
• Top-performing forms
• Per-field answer breakdowns for choice-based fields
• Submission activity heatmap

Email Notifications with Smart Codes

Send an email whenever a form is submitted, and build the content dynamically:

• Multiple notifications per form
• Dynamic recipients, subject and body
• Smart codes for {site.name}, {site.url}, {admin.email}, {date.now}, {form.title} and {all.fields}
• Insert any submitted field value into the email
• Clean, readable HTML email template

Spam Protection

Every AverForm form renders a honeypot field that traps automated bots. It is enabled by default, invisible to real visitors, needs no API keys, no configuration and no third-party service — and it never asks your visitors to solve a puzzle.

Privacy & GDPR Friendly

• Built-in GDPR Agreement and Terms & Conditions consent fields
• Submissions stay in your WordPress database — no external data processing
• Optional Remove All Data on Uninstall setting that drops every AverForm table and option when you delete the plugin

Lightweight & Fast

AverForm’s frontend is deliberately small. There is no jQuery dependency, and the form CSS and JavaScript are registered but only enqueued on pages where a form is actually rendered — so pages without a form load exactly zero AverForm assets.

Developer Friendly

• PSR-4 autoloaded, namespaced codebase following WordPress coding standards
• Clean REST API namespace (averform/v1) for forms, entries, reports and settings
• Extension points such as averform_register_fields and the averform/booted action to register your own field types
• Custom database tables with a versioned schema
• Fully translation ready with an included .pot file

Add a Form to Your Site

Publish a form and paste its shortcode anywhere — a post, a page, or a widget:

[averform id="1"]

The shortcode is shown next to every form in the AverForm → All Forms list, ready to copy.

From your WordPress dashboard

1. Go to Plugins → Add New.
2. Search for AverForm.
3. Click Install Now, then Activate.

Manual installation

1. Upload the averform folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or upload the plugin ZIP through Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen in WordPress.

After activation

1. Go to AverForm → Add New and pick a template, or start from a blank form.
2. Drag fields onto the canvas and configure them in the right-hand panel.
3. Open Settings in the builder to set your email notification and your success message or redirect.
4. Save the form, copy its shortcode from AverForm → All Forms, and paste it into any post or page.
5. Watch submissions arrive under AverForm → Entries and track performance under AverForm → Reports.