Manage form submissions with Form Block (Pro)

I’m happy to be able to announce the availability of Form Block 1.6.0 and Form Block Pro 1.4.0 with months in the making and some really cool new features. And it’s just the base for many more possibilities in the future.

Managing submissions in WordPress

Starting today, form submissions can be stored inside WordPress with Form Block and even responded to in Form Block Pro. By default, all forms now store any data submitted via a form in WordPress and can be viewed in Tools > Form Submissions. If you defined a label for the form (you should for improved accessibility) you can easily distinguish between those forms in the form submissions. Additionally, you can see in the overview the source of the submission, meaning the page where the form is being integrated. All data transferred by the user is accessible by clicking on the “View submitted data” button.

List of form submissions in the WordPress backend, each with a row of data, source, date and delete action

Respond to form submissions

Form Block Pro takes this even further and allows you to directly answer any form submission right within your WordPress (if it can determine a valid email address to use as recipient), allowing you to being fully able to manage form submissions without the need to open your email program or web app.

An open overlay in the form submission list with an editor to respond to a submission directly within WordPress

And don’t worry about your storage: by default, submissions will be deleted automatically after 30 days. A setting allows you to even adjust this value or disable the auto-deletion entirely. All settings, by the way, have been moved to a dedicated settings page in Settings > Form Block. That is also true for the license data in Form Block Pro.

Field improvements

Additional improvements regardings fields now allow you to set the columns and rows (in Form Block, the latter was previously available in Form Block Pro) as well as the wrap attribute for textareas.

For fields where the label does not match the value of the name attribute, there is now a warning indicator, since this may lead to issues, e.g. missing form fields, if used incorrectly (while it explicitly is allowed to set different values here).

Performance improvements

Registering multiple blocks can take some time, and since both Form Block and Form Block Pro load some of them, they now make use of new functions from WordPress Core to improve registering blocks. If you do use WordPress 6.7 or WordPress 6.8 (you should), then you can benefit from faster block registering.

The Pro version now loads assets for the optional drop-zone and dependency functionality only if required, i.e. if a form on a page actually uses these functionalities.

Composer support

Similarily to Impressum Plus, you can now use Composer to manage Form Block and Form Block Pro within your own projects. You can find a guide on how to add them as Composer package in the documentation.

All changes in the changelogs

That were the biggest changes for Form Block 1.6.0 and Form Block Pro 1.4.0. For all changes, please visit the changelog for Form Block and the changelog for Form Block Pro in the documentation.