Tonight I'm presenting a comparison of four premium form builders for WordPress - Ninja Forms, Gravity Forms, Formidable Pro, and Visual Form Builder.

1. Picking a WordPress Form Solution

2. Gravity Forms Formidable Pro Ninja Forms Visual Form Builder

3. How you pick the right
solution has everything
to do with you, your
needs, and your budget.

4. In terms of your goals –
a form on your post or
page, they mostly work
the same.

5. Gravity Forms Ninja FormsFormidable ProVisual Form Builder Pro

6. But hold up a second,
these aren’t your every
day “contact form”
plugins.

7. Create Posts with Form Submissions?
Connect Forms to Email Providers?
Let users upload files to forms?
Collect Money via Forms?
Create Users from Posts?
Display Form Entries?
Integrate with 3rd Party Apps?
Style the display of forms easily?
Multi-step Forms?
Pause/Resume Forms?
Gravity Forms Ninja FormsFormidable ProVisual Form Builder Pro
MailChimp
&
Campaign
Monitor
MailChimp
&
AWeber
AWeber,
MailChimp,
Campaign
Monitor
AWeber,
MailChimp,
Campaign
Monitor,
Mad
Mimi,
Mail
Poet
Yes.
Posts.
(Pages
w/
code).
Yes
–
pages,
posts
&
CPTs.
Plus
Edits.
Yes,
posts.
(CPTs
with
added
free
plugin)
Yes
–
pages,
posts
&
CPTs.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Kind
of.
(without
progress)
Yes.
(without
progress)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PayPal
PayPal
PayPal
(&
Stripe
via
3rd
Party)
PayPal,
Stripe
Yes
Yes.
Not
so
much.
Not
exactly.
No
Yes
Yes
(via
3rd
party
plugin)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Kind
of
Yes
No
Tons
-­‐
Zapier
Tons
-­‐
Zapier
Many

8. So how do you pick, when
they all do so much, and
are very similar?

9. Gravity Forms Ninja FormsFormidable ProVisual Form Builder Pro
6 33 115 28
How many extensions, add-ons, and plugins exist
to help you with your form?

10. Another way is price.

11. Gravity Forms Ninja FormsFormidable ProVisual Form Builder Pro
65 47 199 189
What’s it cost to go “all in” with these products
for a single site?
*
*

12. And it comes back to you,
and how comfy you are
with different things.

13. Gravity Forms Ninja FormsFormidable ProVisual Form Builder Pro
$20 Initial start.
No yearly renewals.
Bootstrap.
CPT support.
Conditional Logic.
Third party options.
Front-end support.
Pause/Resume.
What do you care most about? Price? A specific
Feature? Going with the “market leader”?

14. My name is Chris Lema. I blog over at chrislema.com and
I put lots of forms on websites. - @chrislema