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Install and activate Lifetime Forms, then open Lifetime Forms in the WordPress admin menu.

1. Click Create New, pick a ready-made template or start blank.
2. Drag fields onto the canvas, edit each field's settings, and set the form's options.
3. Save, then copy the shortcode [lifetime_form id="123"] onto any page or post.
4. Submissions arrive in Entries (and your inbox), and sync to any email tool you connect.

The builder has three panels: the field palette (left), the canvas (center, drag to add / reorder / duplicate / delete), and the settings panel (right) with a Field tab and a Form tab.

Field settings

Label, required toggle, placeholder, help text, choice options, and a width (full / half / third) so fields can sit side by side. Fields can also carry conditional-logic rules.

Form settings

Submit button text, confirmation (a message or a redirect), one email notification, spam protection, integrations, save & resume, and privacy options, all in one place.

A full set of value fields plus layout blocks, all free:

• Number / Slider, set min, max and step; out-of-range values are rejected on the server.
• Address, line 1, line 2, city, state/province, ZIP and country subfields.
• File upload, single or multiple files, restricted to a safe extension allowlist (jpg, png, gif, pdf, doc, docx, txt) and handled through the WordPress uploads API.
• Rich text, basic formatting (bold, italic, lists, links), sanitized to a safe HTML allowlist.

Start from 25+ ready-made templates across categories, Contact, Quote, Feedback, Newsletter, Booking, Support, Event Registration, Job Application, Donation, RSVP, Product Order, Bug Report, Testimonial, Real Estate Inquiry, Course Enrollment and more. The chooser appears when you create a new form; pick one and it loads its fields onto the canvas.

Show or hide any field based on other fields' values. On a field, enable conditional logic and add rules: Show / Hide this field when [field] [is / is not / contains / greater than / less than / empty / not empty] [value], matching all (AND) or any (OR) of them.

Add a Page break field to split a long form into steps with Previous / Next buttons and a progress indicator. Validation runs per step, and conditional logic is re-evaluated as you move between steps.

Configure the email that fires on each submission, recipient, subject, from and reply-to, with smart tags like {admin_email} and {field:email}. After submitting, the visitor sees a message or is redirected to a URL you choose.

Every submission is stored in your own database and listed under Entries, filter by Unread / Read / Spam / Trash, open a single entry, mark statuses, and export to CSV (with a spreadsheet formula-injection guard). Contact Form 7 stores nothing by default and WPForms Lite is email-only, here it's free.

Layered protection, all free:

• Honeypot and time-trap, on by default, no configuration, invisible to real visitors.
• CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA v2 & v3, hCaptcha, or Cloudflare Turnstile (add your keys under Settings, then pick one per form).
• Akismet, used automatically when the Akismet plugin is active and keyed.
• Keyword blocklist, reject submissions containing words you list.

Connect once under Integrations, then enable per form (map the email field, choose a list, add tags). Free providers:

Most form plugins sell each integration as a separate yearly add-on, here they're included. Sending respects consent via the lftmf_consent_ok filter, and a failed integration never breaks the submission.

Accept one-time payments with Stripe and PayPal, with a 0% platform fee (you keep everything minus the processor's own fee). Add a Payment field with a fixed amount; on submit the visitor pays on the processor's secure hosted page and returns to your confirmation.

Enable the built-in SMTP mailer under Settings to send notifications through your own mail server or a relay (Brevo, SendGrid, Gmail, any host) so they land in inboxes instead of spam. Set the host, port, encryption, credentials and a From address, and send a test email, no separate SMTP plugin needed.

Turn on Save & resume so visitors can save a long form and finish later from a private link, and Abandonment capture to store partially-filled forms as Partial entries you can follow up on. Each draft is keyed by a private random token, links only ever restore the visitor's own draft.

• Consent field, add a required acceptance/consent checkbox to any form.
• IP storage toggle, store or skip the submitter's IP, per form.
• Retention, auto-delete entries older than a number of days you set.
• Export & erase, integrates with WordPress' Tools → Export / Erase Personal Data.

Everything stays on your own server; nothing is sent anywhere unless you connect an integration and enable it on a form.

Enable GA4 events under Settings to send lftmf_form_view and lftmf_form_submit events to the Google Analytics you already run on your site. The plugin doesn't load any Google script itself, it only pushes events to your existing tag, and only when analytics consent is granted.