Advanced Forms — WordPress Contact Form Plugin
Advanced Forms for ACF
by Phil Kurth · WordPress.org page · Website
Advanced Forms has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 111,254 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on May 11, 2026, tested up to WordPress 6.9.7.
Advanced Forms at a glance
Is Advanced Forms well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Email notifications: Configure an unlimited number of email notifications, including support for dynamic recipients and field includes
- AJAX submissions: Use AJAX for a better user experience with faster submissions and no page reloads
- Entries: Save form submissions as entries with all fields
- Spam protection: Every form is protected against spam using a honeypot. If you need more sophisticated spam protection, Advanced Forms Pro includes support for…
- Restrictions: Place limits on your form using the built-in restrictions or create your own
- User-friendly UI: Create forms either through the admin panel or programmatically for easy integration
- Gutenberg support: Add forms to your site using Gutenberg blocks
- Developer-friendly: Designed for developers with a large variety of hooks and helper functions and comprehensive documentation
Advanced Forms reviews and ratings
41 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
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Great plugin!
Great plugin, and the support is excellent, the developers have done a great job.
zebomfim -
Very good plugin based on the very good ACF
This plugin is a very good addition to the already very good and high-quality ACF. I was a long time user of Caldera Forms, which never was good (very poor quality). As developer, I often had to customize forms… this always was a struggle with Caldera Forms, but worked… And lately a user of its successor Ninja Forms (Pro)… Unfortunately, Ninja Forms doesn't stand to its advertising… support, quality.. Because of the general very high quality of ACF I always wanted to switch to ACF based forms, but hesitated because of ACF itself. (I'm a long term user of ACF pro too and using it in nearly every project). The problem with ACF is its quite "end user unfriendly" and very technical UI… But after another frustrating project using Ninja Forms, I bit the bullet and switched to Advanced Forms (Pro) and Advanced Custom Fields Pro. And I only regret not to have done this earlier. The pros just outweigh the cons multiple times… (To admit: I currently only use it in projects where the end user has not to work with the forms directly. This might be a problem in the future, but maybe not.)
Adrian Mörchen -
AF Pro enabled our advanced intake system
Advanced Forms Pro is an essential component to our patient and animal intake system – a system which integrates Acuity Scheduling, WordPress-ACF, Zapier and Google Workspace apps. AF Pro's API is used to pre-fill ACF form fields with URL query string values initially generated in Acuity. After that, AF Pro's Zapier API passes to Google raw field values, and computed values, which populate placeholders inside a G-Doc template. Then, automatically created Workspace folders receive new intake G-Docs derived from the populated templates. The folders also receive image files passed to Google via AF Pro's Zapier integration. Largely thanks to AF Pro, and Fabian's outstanding tech support, I was able to pull this whole thing off. My client is absolutely over-the-moon at all the functionality and subsequent tremendous time savings the system is providing them. Thank you!
neuromorph -
Excellent addition to ACF ecosystem
This is a really useful set of tools for those of us who rely on ACF. Goes way beyond the basic field and form interface with a whole host of ready to use helper functions. Well documented and clear.
drl -
Great solution for user-submitted content
We've used the pro version of Advanced Forms for a couple of years and could not be happier with the functionality and support. This is a great solution for forms, and it's especially useful when collecting user-submitted content. Can't recommend Advanced Forms and the folks at Hookturn enough. We've used all three of their pro plugins and they are all of excellent quality.
blurFactor New Media, LLC -
Flexible and powerfull
I luckily stumbled upon Advanced Forms when I had a client with many special requirements. The form had to have some different ACF-fields (maps, image upload, ...), mutli-step with a lot of conditional fields, hidden calculated fields and custom validation of some elements. It's used for registered users to submit events (Custom Post Type), which then will be marked as pending and an email is sent to the revisor for approval. I couldn't find any other Form-Plugin plugin that met all of the special requirements, and was about code the form myself. Needles to say, Advanced Forms Pro saved me a lot of headache and development time. Also: Great support PS: The provided filters and actions are very powerfull!
markuschv
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Details
Flexible and developer-friendly forms using the power of Advanced Custom Fields
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Rankings Advanced Forms competes in
Tags
- acf
- acf form
- advanced custom fields
- contact form
- form
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- Version
- 1.9.3.8
- Last updated
- May 11, 2026
- First published
- Nov 13, 2016
- Requires WordPress
- 5.4.0
- Tested up to
- 6.9.7
- Requires PHP
- 7.1
- Pricing
- Free, paid version available
Advanced Forms FAQ
What does Advanced Forms do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Advanced Forms offers Email notifications: Configure an unlimited number of email notifications, including support for dynamic recipients and field includes, AJAX submissions: Use AJAX for a better user experience with faster submissions and no page reloads, Entries: Save form submissions as entries with all fields, Spam protection: Every form is protected against spam using a honeypot. If you need more sophisticated spam protection, Advanced Forms Pro includes support for and Restrictions: Place limits on your form using the built-in restrictions or create your own.
How many active installs does Advanced Forms have?
WordPress.org reports 3,000+ active installs for Advanced Forms as of September 7, 2026.
Is Advanced Forms still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on May 11, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 6.9.7.
Does Advanced Forms have good support?
On the WordPress.org forum, 1 of 1 recent support threads for Advanced Forms are marked resolved. That is the developer's free support; a paid version usually comes with its own channel.
Is Advanced Forms free?
Advanced Forms is free to install from WordPress.org. The developer lists it as commercial, so a paid version or paid add-ons exist.