{"id":74899,"date":"2018-06-25T12:33:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T10:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wplift.com\/?p=74899"},"modified":"2023-11-30T14:12:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T13:12:29","slug":"arforms-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wplift.com\/arforms-review\/","title":{"rendered":"ARForms WordPress Form Builder Plugin: The Ultimate Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARForms WordPress form builder<\/a> plugin is a popular solution for building a range of fully responsive forms: a basic WordPress contact form, a workshop registration form, surveys, a job application form, and many more plain and complex types of forms.<\/p>\n

ARForms plugin has been around successfully for more than 4 years now. During this time, it garnered positive feedback from WordPress users; a 5-star rating<\/a> is a sound proof of this fact. Reputeinfosystems, the plugin creators, pushed out some nice updates within the latest version 3 making the plugin markedly more holistic and feature-rich. Now, this plugin is a kind of a Swiss knife toolkit among WordPress form plugins as it comes with loads of built-in features like pop-up functionality, advanced spam protection, email marketing services integration and more.<\/p>\n

Having several good alternatives on the market, can we consider a refined ARForms plugin one of the best WordPress form builders? Let\u2019s go into the review essentials and see.<\/p>\n

<\/span>A Working Area – the UX and UI<\/span><\/h2>\n

ARForms comes with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll feel that it\u2019s made with not tech-savvy people in mind right when you start creating your first form and meet the builder face-to-face. You see all your settings on a single screen and don\u2019t need to go back and forth to make a simple edit.<\/p>\n

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The new UI is extremely well thought-out and polished; you have quick access to everything: all the form elements are at hand from the left (this bar can be hidden for destruction-free form building), style builder from right, and all additional tools are on top.<\/p>\n

Out-of-the-box responsive layouts<\/strong><\/p>\n

You won\u2019t need to make any tweaks to get your forms delivered to any viewport with a proper responsive layout. \u00a0 For example, you can set the needed form width in clicks or use handy built-in device emulators to quickly check out your form on viewports of different sizes: PC, mobile, and tablet.<\/p>\n

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I decided to go an extra mile and checked my test form on a live website using external web emulators (snobby, I know). The result was the same; I got a perfectly aligned contact form on a mobile device:<\/p>\n

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Even more sensitive pop-up forms are fully responsive and look great on all devices.<\/p>\n

With such a cool plugin UI, you\u2019ll unlikely need a lot of time to figure out which button to click. Moreover, you edit the form in real time, drag the form elements around, so all your changes are instantly visible – it significantly speeds up the customization process. You learn how to use the plugin in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Pre-made Form Templates<\/span><\/h2>\n

When you start, the plugin offers you a range of most commonly used pre-designed form templates. Want to build a relatively simple WordPress contact form<\/a> or a survey? No need to start from scratch, choose a pre-made template and customize it much quicker.<\/p>\n

For now, you may choose from a job application form template, a subscription form, a member login form and many more. Take a look:<\/p>\n

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For example, if you provide design or SEO services and need to create an order service form, you may start with a template and then only add extra fields\/customize pre-designed ones. The templates will do you a tremendous time-saving favor.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Form Elements<\/span><\/h2>\n

You are offered up to 25 various form elements (customizable fields), including checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns, file upload buttons, image URLs, a star rating, etc.<\/p>\n

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You add them quickly with a click or drag & drop. Then you may proceed with individual element settings, which are applied in a live editor: update labels, choose column layout, mark a field as mandatory, duplicate it for further usage, drag over to a different position, and apply custom field settings.<\/p>\n

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ARForms also offers a great way to deal with one of the biggest \u201cheadaches\u201d of forms – columns. With the latest plugin version, you can resize field columns using draggable borders and get perfect alignment with your custom proportions. It works wonders, look:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s as simple as editing a page with a drag-and-drop WordPress page builder.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a closer look at individual settings of any of the form elements.<\/p>\n

For example, editing a standard \u201cemail\u201d option, you can add a field description, tooltip message (which is perfect for improving user experience), set a field size or add a placeholder text, specify a default value and configure a couple of validation settings:<\/p>\n

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One of the most useful elements I\u2019d like to highlight is the \u201cPage Break\u201d element. It lets you design multi-step forms by breaking up long forms over multiple steps. This will ensure your long forms don\u2019t scare people away, providing them with a right \u201ccomfort zone\u201d and significantly increasing your submission rate.<\/p>\n

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For example, if you\u2019re a marketer and need a long \/ mid-long form to collect lead emails, multi-page one will help you boost the conversion rate. I can\u2019t look at the endless form fields without sarcasm, do you? So I\u2019m sure this is a really useful functionality (and marketing feature) of this WordPress form builder plugin.<\/p>\n

Another cool option of the updated plugin is the ability to use images instead of text for radio buttons and checkboxes. It can be perfect for creating different quizzes, workshop registration or whatever. I know people often ask for this feature.<\/p>\n

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For more customization options, let\u2019s head over to styling.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Styling the Forms<\/span><\/h2>\n

I think I won\u2019t exaggerate saying that ARFroms comes with one of the most full-blown form style builders I\u2019ve seen. Very often such functionality in similar plugins is either too complex and requires you to be comfortable with CSS or, on the contrary, too limited. But in the case with ARForms, every piece of your form is under your styling control.<\/p>\n

Okay, let\u2019s back my claim and see what styling options you can use to smarten up your forms:<\/p>\n