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Lavender Form

A fast, WPForms-style drag-and-drop form builder with real email notifications, entry management, and one-click page builder embedding.

Active installs<10New
Downloads Β· 30d72β–Ό -40.5% vs prev. 30d
Ratingβ€”0 reviews
Health score60/100Fair
All-time downloads161Since Sep 2026
Support resolvedβ€”No recent threads
RequiresWP 6.0PHP 8.0+
Downloads Β· 7d14β–Ό -26.3% week over week
Our verdict

Use with caution

Lavender Form works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. Was last updated 2 months ago, and scores 60/100 on our health check.

  • Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
  • Small user base (<10 active installs)
  • Very few reviews so far

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

81725Sep 1Sep 23Oct 15
Yesterday3
Daily average (1y)4
Peak day34Sep 1, 2026
Last 12 months161

Download spikes usually follow a new release β€” each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where Lavender Form stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
contact form >100 8,814 Best contact form plugins β†’
custom forms >100 10,000 Best custom forms plugins β†’
drag-and-drop >100 4,492 Best drag-and-drop plugins β†’
form >100 10,000 Best form plugins β†’
form builder >100 4,936 Best form builder plugins β†’

About Lavender Form

From the official readme Β· v0.1.15

Description

Lavender Form is a drag-and-drop form builder for WordPress. Build a form visually, embed it anywhere with a shortcode or your favorite page builder, and see every submission land in your dashboard — no coding required.

Build forms visually

A real drag-and-drop editor: drag fields onto your form, reorder them, and configure each one’s label, name, and required status from a live settings panel. Nine field types are included free — Single Line Text, Email, Phone, Number, Paragraph Text, Dropdown, Checkboxes, Multiple Choice, and Hidden — with more advanced field types (Signature, Date/Time, Address, Number Slider, File Upload, and more) visible in the builder as a preview of what Lavender Form Pro unlocks.

Real email notifications

Modeled on the notification pattern millions of WordPress users already know from Contact Form 7: an admin notification and an optional auto-reply to whoever filled out the form, both using {tag} placeholders ({full_name}, {email}, {all_fields}, and any of your own field names) to pull submitted values into the subject and message. Insert a tag by dragging it straight into the field, or click it — no memorizing tag syntax.

Embed anywhere

Every form gets a [lavender_form id="123"] shortcode. If you build pages with Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, or WPBakery, Lavender Form adds a native widget/module/element to each one — pick your form from a dropdown, no shortcodes needed. Every embed method renders through the exact same code path, so a form looks and behaves identically no matter how it’s placed.

Track your submissions

The Entries screen shows every submission in a clean inbox-style list — unread ones stand out, click one to see every field that was submitted, mark it read or unread, or delete it. Two built-in charts show submissions over time and a breakdown of answers for your Dropdown/Checkboxes/Multiple Choice fields, so you can see response patterns at a glance without exporting anything.

Accessible by default

Every rendered form uses proper labels (including <fieldset>/<legend> grouping for Multiple Choice and Checkboxes fields), announces validation errors to screen readers, and moves keyboard focus to the first invalid field on a failed submission. The admin builder is fully keyboard-operable, not just mouse/drag-driven.

Free vs. Pro

Lavender Form’s core — everything described above — is free, forever, on WordPress.org, including unlimited entry storage with no retention window. Lavender Form Pro (sold separately, not on WordPress.org) adds advanced charts with date-range filtering and period comparison, CSV/PDF export, premium field types (Signature, Date & Time picker, Address autocomplete, Number Slider, File Upload, Payment/UPI QR), conditional logic, and marketing integrations. Every Pro field type is visible in the free builder with a clearly-marked “Pro” badge — nothing is hidden, and nothing free ever stops working if you don’t upgrade.

Installation

  1. Upload the lavender-form folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install directly from the WordPress.org plugin directory.
  2. Activate Lavender Form through the “Plugins” screen in WordPress.
  3. Go to Lavender Form β†’ Add New Form in your admin sidebar to build your first form.
  4. Copy the shortcode shown at the top of the builder, or use the Elementor/Divi/Beaver Builder/WPBakery widget if you use one of those page builders.
  5. (Optional) Install Lavender Form Pro for premium fields, advanced charts, export, and more.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need Lavender Form Pro to use this plugin?

No. Every feature described above works fully in the free version. Pro only adds the items listed in β€œFree vs. Pro.”

How many form submissions can I store?

There’s no limit β€” every submission to every form is kept indefinitely in the free version.

Which page builders does this work with?

Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, and WPBakery each get a native widget/module/element. Every other page builder and every classic theme can use the [lavender_form id="123"] shortcode, which works anywhere shortcodes are supported.

Is spam protection included?

A honeypot field and per-IP rate limiting are built in and active by default. reCAPTCHA/hCaptcha support requires your own site key from Google or hCaptcha and is planned for a future release.

Can I get email notifications when someone submits my form?

Yes β€” every form has a built-in β€œNotify me” notification (to your admin email by default, customizable) and an optional auto-reply to the person who submitted the form.

I’m not receiving notification emails at all β€” what’s wrong?

By far the most common cause is not the plugin itself but how your WordPress host sends mail. WordPress’ built-in wp_mail() function falls back to PHP’s raw mail() when no SMTP plugin is configured, and a lot of hosts either don’t wire that up to a real outgoing mail server at all, or send it in a way that Gmail/Outlook flag as spam or reject outright (no SPF/DKIM alignment with your sending domain). If notifications aren’t arriving, first check your Settings -> Notifications β€œSend to” address is correct and current, then install a free SMTP plugin (such as WP Mail SMTP) and connect it to a…

Is this plugin accessible?

Rendered forms use semantic labels and fieldsets, announce errors to screen readers, and support full keyboard navigation. The admin form builder is also fully keyboard-operable. See the plugin’s changelog for ongoing accessibility work.

Changelog

The free version no longer caps stored submissions at 10 entries/7 days -- every submission is now kept indefinitely. Recommended for everyone.

0.1.15

  • Removed the free version’s 10-entry/7-day cap on stored form submissions — every submission is now kept indefinitely, with no restriction tied to Lavender Form Pro. Also removed the now-unneeded load_plugin_textdomain() call, since WordPress.org loads this plugin’s translations automatically.

0.1.14

  • A Signature, Drawing/Sketch Canvas, or Photo Capture field now shows as an actual image in notification emails, instead of the “[Large value omitted…]” placeholder text — the image is attached as a real inline (Content-ID) attachment, since most inboxes (Gmail included) strip a data: URI placed directly in an <img> tag. Larger files (over ~2MB decoded) still fall back to the placeholder rather than bloating the email.

0.1.13

  • Notification emails now render the submitted fields as a real table (label / value rows) instead of a plain text dump, for a genuinely clearer, more attractive layout in the inbox.
  • If you’re not receiving notification emails at all, that’s almost always a hosting/mail-transport issue (WordPress’ default mail() sending), not something the plugin’s own code controls — see the FAQ entry “I’m not receiving notification emails at all” for the fix (an SMTP plugin).

0.1.12

  • Notification emails (the admin “Notify me” alert and the optional auto-reply) are now sent as clean, branded HTML instead of a raw plain-text dump — a readable title bar, padded body, and light footer instead of a wall of “Label: value” lines.
  • A Signature, Drawing/Sketch Canvas, or File Upload field’s value (a long data: URI) is no longer dumped into the email verbatim — it’s replaced with a short note pointing to the Entries screen, where the full value is still there untouched.
  • Fixed: an unused {tag} in a notification’s subject or message (for example {full_name} on a form with no field literally named full_name) no longer shows up as literal text in the email a customer receives — it’s silently removed instead.

0.1.11

  • Builder fix: the “Add Fields” panel and the live form preview now scroll independently of each other and of the page. Previously, scrolling down through the (now 77-type) field catalog carried the form preview off screen with it, making it hard to browse fields and edit the form at the same time.

0.1.10

  • The final 22 Pro catalog entries are now real — Age/DOB Verification, Two-Factor OTP (email-based), Email Verification, Geolocation Auto-Detect, Map Location Picker, Photo Capture, Video/Audio Recording, QR/Barcode Scanner, Voice-to-Text, Drawing/Sketch Canvas, Image Annotation, Appointment Booking, Delivery/Pickup Time Slot, Fundraising Progress Bar, Seat/Room Selection Map, Product/Item Selector, Save & Resume Later, and Multi-Signer Approval Chain, plus CAPTCHA, ID Document Scan + OCR, Autocomplete Lookup, and Resume/CV Parser. The Pro field catalog no longer has any “Soon” entries.
  • The 4 field types that need a third-party account (CAPTCHA, ID Document Scan + OCR, Autocomplete Lookup, Resume/CV Parser) now have their own “Connect API” setting right inside that field’s own options in the Builder, so a site owner can paste their own key without a separate settings screen. Until a key is entered, only the site owner sees a “Required to Connect API” notice in that field’s place — visitors see the rest of the form normally.
  • Added a new database helper (Lavender_Form_DB::get_all_field_values()) so Appointment Booking, Delivery/Pickup Time Slot, and Seat/Room Selection Map can check for already-taken slots/seats across a form’s full submission history, not just the free tier’s usual 10-entry/7-day window.

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FAQ

Lavender Form: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org Β· checked Oct 16, 2026

Is Lavender Form free?

Yes. Lavender Form is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is Lavender Form safe to use in 2026?

Lavender Form works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. Was last updated 2 months ago, and scores 60/100 on our health check.

How many websites use Lavender Form?

Lavender Form is active on <10 WordPress websites and has been downloaded 161 times since it launched in September 2026. It was downloaded 72 times in the last 30 days.

Does Lavender Form work with WordPress 7.1?

Yes. The developer has tested Lavender Form up to WordPress 7.1.3, the latest release. It requires WordPress 6.0 or newer.

What PHP version does Lavender Form need?

Lavender Form requires PHP 8.0 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.

When was Lavender Form last updated?

The latest version, 0.1.15, was released on September 1, 2026 (2 months ago).

Who makes Lavender Form?

Lavender Form is developed and maintained by lavenex.

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