Fluent Forms 2024: Half a Million Users & Growing Stronger

Another year went by a blip.

2024 is an outstanding year for Fluent Forms as well. We shipped 22 updates this year, with lots of new features, improvements, and bug fixes. We are focused on building Fluent Forms as the most user-friendly WordPress forms plugin based on user feedback and feature innovation. We also crossed 500,000+ users in 2024, a huge milestone for the Fluent Forms team.

We could not be more grateful to you, our users, for supporting Fluent Forms and tagging along in our journey. Let’s recap this year, to reevaluate and get stronger next year with a bang!

Reaching 500,000+ milestone

Over 500K businesses use Fluent Forms now! It’s a great achievement for us because the journey was not that smooth when we started building Fluent Forms. I wrote about Fluent Forms journey in my X post.

FluentForms is now powering 500,000+ Sites
Yap! Half Million!

Let's take a look back at how far we've come. 👇👇👇

– It all started in January 2018 when we launched Fluent Forms, but after only getting 700+ active installs in the first year, we felt discouraged. (we almost… pic.twitter.com/SaSArVFFGG

— Md Shahjahan (Jewel) ⓦ (@techjewel) September 27, 2024

By the end of 2020, we reached 50,000+ users. And then it’s climbing up – 100,000+ (2021) to 400K (2023), which seems like an eye blink. We are so grateful to you, our users who showed tremendous love for Fluent Forms. Your adoption gave us hope that we are on the right track.

Fluent Forms: behind the scene

There are lots of things that get done behind the scenes by multiple teams like support, marketing and devs of Fluent Forms to ship amazing updates to you every month. Here are some stats you might find interesting behind the growth of Fluent Forms – 

• Fluent Forms reached 500,000+ active installations last September 2024
• We shipped an outstanding 22 updates through 2024 (compared to 16 updates last year) to meet user suggestions and upgrade Fluent Forms to the next level
• These updates include multiple bug fixes with features, improvements, and integrations
• Fluent Forms Facebook community now has 7300+ members and buzzing with user feedback, new feature suggestions, and improvements
• Fluent Forms social media now reaches 130,000+ people every month, connected to 5,000+ followers overall on X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, TikTok, and YouTube. We published unique 400+ social media content and redistributed them based on user interest in overall social profiles.
  
  One of our main focuses for social content was to attract new users for Fluent Forms, send out new feature updates to users and reintroduce old features with use cases to users who might miss them.
• The mother company, WP Manage Ninja sponsored and attended both WordCamp Sylhet and Malaysia 2024 and also attended WordCamp Europe & WordCamp Asia 2024. 
• Our marketing team published over 105+ blog content from Fluent Forms blog focused on product-led content, hands-on tutorials, integrations, and advanced forms functionality.
  
  Our main goal was to give users effortless education to empower them to use Fluent Forms plugin for what they intended to use and solve their problems.
• The best part is Fluent Forms blog reaches 300,000+ people every year educating them on form functionality and helping them with their lead generation problems for their business
• 13+ engaging and details videos published by our video team with detailed visual presentations to help users with assistance
• Crossed 4 million downloads this year on WordPress.org.

Notable features of Fluent Forms shipped in 2024

Fluent Forms developers worked hard this year on some awesome features. Here are some notable features and integrations Fluent Forms released in 2024 – 

Form creation using AI (ChatGPT) & submission confirmation message using AI (ChatGPT)

This was one of the features most requested by our users this year. Our team has been working on this for a long time.

Using Fluent Forms integration with OpenAI’s chatGPT you can create forms using just prompts. The accuracy of the result depends on how thoughtfully you write the prompt. Write the prompt and it will create a new form with the required input fields. 

You can also use the chatGPT integration to show confirmation messages based on your submitted inputs. Check this blog to learn more about the chatGPT integration with Fluent Forms.

Paddle payment method

Fluent Forms has lots of payment integration such as PayPal, Square, Stripe, Mollie, RazorPay, and Paystack. Check our Fluent Forms payment feature page to learn more. Paddle is the new addition to that list.

Paddle has been gaining traction in the business world recently. Now you can use paddle with Fluent Forms.

Form edit history (Beta)

What if you can see your forms history just like you access your Google Docs history and restore it? We introduced this directly into the forms editor. Now you can see every version of your form’s history in a cool sidebar. You can select and restore the version you want anytime.

JetEngine CPT & Metabox compatibility

Previously Fluent Forms worked fine with ACF. Now it’s compatible with JetEngine CPT and Metabox too. Create your custom forms with any of these plugins as you like.

Import entries & print entries

Fluent Forms has the capability of importing forms. You can export forms and entries too.

This year we introduced a way to import entries and the ability to print entries.

Contact Form 7 migration

Fluent Forms has migration features that help you migrate from WPForms, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms & Caldera Forms.

Contact Form 7 migration is the new addition to that list. Long overdue, we know!

Global Inventory

Fluent Forms has a nice feature called Inventory Manager to manage product listing in forms. However, it missed the functionality to add multiple products in a form and sync them all together. We introduced Global Inventory to tackle this problem.

This feature allows you to sync multiple products from a single location and add them to multiple forms. Product availability will be synced across all forms if orders are placed through a single product form. Additionally, the forms will display messages when products are out of stock and show the quantity of products remaining in stock.

Admin Approval

We introduced Admin Approval in Fluent Forms update 5.1.7, to give power to the admin to approve or reject new form entries in a list manually without using the automatic listing.

The new admin approval system allows you to manually approve entries from any form. This is useful when you’re running multiple automations or integrations, and you don’t want them to run immediately after a form is submitted.

You can customize the email and send it to the site admin or any other email address. Unapproved and declined entries can be automatically deleted if they are not confirmed within a certain number of days. This helps to reduce spam.

Dynamic Field & dynamic default values for dynamic fields

We introduced Dynamic fields in the Fluent Forms 5.2.0 update. It was a most requested feature. This helps you populate form fields such as radio buttons, checkboxes, select menus, and multi-select menus from various sources such as Fluent Forms submissions, taxonomy terms, posts, and remote CSV files.

And after some user feedback, we also added dynamic values option in the dynamic field in Fluent Forms 5.2.3 update. Values can now be automatically assigned to fields and displayed to users.

Square inline payment integration

Fluent Forms previously had Square payment integration but lacked inline payment integration. This has been addressed in the 5.2.3 release, which now allows Square inline payments to be used with Fluent Forms.

Form-specific permissions in the permission manager

Fluent Forms’ permission manager previously allowed Admin to grant access to all forms or customize access per person.

The upgraded permission manager introduced in Fluent Forms 5.2.3 now allows Admin to grant specific access to specific forms. Admin can grant someone access to one or multiple forms, and grant view access, entry access, or full access to all forms. This upgrade allows for flexible forms management among team members.

Form editor undo/redo functionality (Beta)

The forms editor now supports undo and redo functionality using keyboard shortcuts introduced in Fluent Forms 5.2.5 update, similar to the WordPress post editor.

Check out all of our 2024 updates here in the changelog.

Working on user feedback

This year’s most of the update focused on user feedback. We tried to listen to our user – that’s you! Most of the bug fixes and improvements we shipped came from user suggestions. A huge chunk of that user suggestion came from our customer support portal.

We also kept an eye on our Fluent Forms Facebook community. Many users shared and discussed new improvements, and gave us suggestions in the community. Thank you to those who took the time to give feedback and suggest new features. Fluent Forms 5.2.5 prioritizes enhancements to security, user experience, and features, based on user feedback.

Plugin Security

This year we worked with Cleantalk and got Plugin Security Certification (PSC) through various tests, improvements, and security developments. Fluent Forms team takes security very seriously. Our team solved all previous security concerns within the reporting time. Anyone can report security issues here. 

Contribution to the WordPress community

Fluent Forms parent company, WP Manage Ninja always open to WordPress contributions. It’s our official policy to encourage our team members to contribute to WordPress even if it on office time. Many of the employees regularly contribute to WordPress releases.

Our team members also regularly participate in organizing WordCamps, give time to the local WordPress community on the weekend and WP Manage Ninja actively tries to sponsor or attend WordCamps.

Recently we sponsored WordCamp Sylhet & WordCamp Malaysia 2024. Our team also attended WordCamp Europe & WordCamp Asia 2024.

We will continue to support open source and WordPress all the way we can. We are a big believer in WordPress and the open-source ecosystem. We regularly maintain various free plugins like FluentSnippets – the best free code snippet plugin, and FluentAuth – The Ultimate Authorization & Security Plugin for WordPress.

Even you can use the Fluent Forms free version from WordPress resipotory which is far superior then many premium WordPress contact forms plugins out there. Our latest community plugin FluentCommunity has a free version also hosted in the WordPress plugin repository, try it!

What’s Next for Fluent Forms in 2024

We are grateful for your continued support and feedback that has fueled Fluent Forms success this year. We, Fluent Forms team promise to prioritize user suggestions and deliver more improvements, exciting new features and integrations in 2025, with a focus on collaborations with other plugin products to enhance user workflows.

WPManageNinja‘s mission remains to empower small businesses with user-friendly WordPress plugin solutions, with Fluent Forms at the heart of this endeavor. We invite you to our Fluent Forms community to share feedback and feature suggestions. Please try the free Fluent Forms plugin if you are a new user and share your review here, it inspires us a lot! 

Merry Christmas & an Advance Happy New Year to you!