Fluent Forms 2025: Faster, Smarter, Stronger

Goodbye 2025, Hello 2026!

2025 was an unforgettable year for Fluent Forms. We stayed true to our mission of being the fastest and most user-friendly WordPress form builder by adding advanced features, deeper integrations, and an enhanced conversational form experience.

A major highlight was surpassing 600,000 active users, a testament to the incredible trust of our community. We are deeply grateful for your support and look forward to delivering even greater innovation in 2026.

Before diving into the specific highlights of the year, I want to share some thoughts on why we built Fluent Forms, the impact we are making, and our role within the WordPress ecosystem.

Why we built Fluent Forms

From the start, WPManageNinja’s mission has been to build high-quality WordPress tools for small to mid-sized businesses, ensuring that powerful technology isn’t reserved solely for enterprise budgets.

We began developing Fluent Forms in 2018 with a commitment to creating the fastest WordPress contact form plugin. We recognize that performance is a core feature, not an afterthought, for the 600,000+ users who trust us today.

Our philosophy is simple: we lead with a “User-First” approach. Whether it’s our AI Form Builder, Numeric Calculations, Conditional Logic, or Advanced Form Styler, we build to eliminate the need for expensive third-party subscriptions. By offering all-in-one solutions directly within WordPress, we save small businesses both time and money.

The impact we are making

By introducing the AI Form Builder, we’ve reduced form creation time from minutes to seconds, allowing business owners to focus on growth rather than technical configuration.

Through our robust payment integrations, we have enabled thousands of small businesses to accept payments without the high overhead of dedicated e-commerce platforms. This year, we made the Stripe payment gateway available to all of our free users; there is no need to buy Fluent Forms Pro if you are just starting out. We also introduced Authorize.net integration, a popular Stripe alternative for small business owners. Financial inclusion for everyone is our top priority!

Gutenberg block editor is currently transforming how WordPress websites are built. To empower our users, we introduced the Gutenberg Block Styler this year, making form styling more accessible to everyone and giving you more creative freedom.

Our focus on form security (including Akismet, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, and Honeypot) has protected millions of entries from spam, ensuring data integrity for the global community. Fluent Forms expanded its security efforts this year by introducing CleanTalk integration and achieving a formal plugin security certification.

Powering over 600,000 websites, our impact is seen in the reliability and speed we bring to every interaction between a brand and its audience.

The ecosystem effect: community & integration

Fluent Forms doesn’t exist in a vacuum; it is designed to strengthen your entire WordPress stack. With over 60 integrations, including Google Sheets, HubSpot, Airtable, and Notion, we act as the central nervous system for a website’s marketing and CRM workflows.

We believe in developer freedom. By providing extensive Developer Documentation and a “no-lock-in” philosophy, we allow developers to extend Fluent Forms to meet any unique business requirement, fostering a vibrant community of creators.

Our Ready-made Templates and Calculators serve as a comprehensive resource library, helping new WordPress users get started without needing to hire a developer. And if you ever get stuck, our team is always here to help!

As part of the WPManageNinja family, Fluent Forms contributes to an ecosystem where millions of websites run on tools that prioritize speed and user experience. If you use our other plugins, you will experience firsthand how they “talk” to each other fluently, ensuring a seamless integration to run your business.

Focusing on that mission we launched FluentCart, an eCommerce plugin that will help sell subscriptions, physical or digital, in one place and FluentAffiliate, to manage your affiliate army with seamless affiliate management.

Now, let’s get into the highlights of 2025.

Fluent Forms 2025 in numbers

The continued success of Fluent Forms is the result of dedicated efforts across our support, marketing, and development teams, who work tirelessly behind the scenes to deliver incredible updates regularly. To give you a better insight into the growth of Fluent Forms, we’ve compiled some key statistics that you may find interesting: 

• Fluent Forms reached over 600,000 active installations as of July 2025. 

• We shipped an outstanding 22 updates through 2025 to match the previous year’s cadence and fulfil user’s feature requests and various suggestions we gather through our user community. These updates brought 8 new features, 2 new integrations and numerous enhancements, including improvements to existing features, new integrations, and fixes for several bugs.

• We updated our logo and look to align with our overall Fluent Ecosystem.

• We started the new Fluent Forms Community Space in our own hosted WPManageNinja community, which crossed ten thousand users in a few months. It is a very active forum with user feedback, new feature suggestions, and improvements. You can also join our sister products discussion spaces to share your feedback there. Fluent Forms Facebook community also now has 7.7K+ members, although we are transferring most of it to our self-hosted community powered by our own solution, FluentCommunity. 

• In 2025, Fluent Forms significantly expanded its social media presence. Like last year, we keep up our posting schedule. We had over 400,000 impressions in 2025, connecting with more than 5,000 followers across all major platforms, including X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, and YouTube.
  
  Throughout the year, we developed and published over 300 unique pieces of social media content, which were strategically redistributed across our profiles based on user engagement and interest. 

• Our social media content strategy centered on three core objectives: attracting new Fluent Forms users, communicating the latest feature updates, and re-engaging existing users with underutilized or older features through relevant use cases. 

• Our support team resolved over 9,800 tickets, providing actionable value to both our free and pro users throughout the year. Our support agents are always active in both the WordPress support forum and our internal support centre. Whether you are a free user or a pro user, our support agents are on standby through live support & support ticket replies.

• Fluent Forms got 100+ five-star reviews in 2026, with a total of 671, and a good 4.8 ratings out of 5.

• Our marketing team successfully published over 122 blog posts this year. These articles focused on product-led content, detailed hands-on tutorials, integration guides, and advanced forms functionalities.
  This effort was driven by our main goal: to provide users with straightforward educational content, empowering them to effectively use the Fluent Forms plugin to meet their needs and solve their problems.

• Every year, the Fluent Forms blog successfully educates over 300,000+ people on essential form functionality, equipping them with the knowledge to solve their business’s lead generation challenges. This educational outreach is considered the most valuable aspect of our work.

• Fluent Forms marketing team published 7 landing pages, including – Showcasing our growing User Reviews, Frequently Asked Questions that serve customers, live preview of Conversational Form Templates, listing all Fluent Forms Input Fields, Preview of our AI Form Builder, highlighting all calculators built by Fluent Forms, A fresh About Us page, 4 new industry pages for Education, Small Business, Health & Wellness and Non Profit Organization, and an updated brand resource page where you’ll easily find our new logo & brand assets.

• We also created 8 new integration landing pages to showcase the power of these integrations with Fluent Forms – CleanTalk, WPML, Authorize.net, Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2 and Bit Flows.

• This year, our marketing team created and published 139 demo form templates and 42 calculator forms entirely built by Fluent Forms. You can view, test, and download the template for personal use free of charge.

• Our dedicated video team published 28 detailed and visually engaging videos throughout the year, providing comprehensive assistance to our users.

• One of our sister products, FluentCart, was a sponsor at the WordCamp Dhaka and WordCamp Malaysia in 2025. Additionally, Fluent Forms team members also attended WordCamp Asia in 2025. 

• Fluent Forms won the Gold Award in the Best Form Plugin category by popular vote in the prestigious WP Awards 2025. This is our 5th consecutive win and this time it’s Gold.

5th consecutive win – and this time it’s Gold.
Fluent Forms is officially the Best Form Plugin at the WP Awards 2025 by @thewpweekly. pic.twitter.com/EOnYpayeA9

— Fluent Forms (@Fluent_Forms) December 8, 2025

Notable features of Fluent Forms shipped in 2025

Fluent Forms had a monumental year in 2025, introducing several features and technical improvements. Based on the 2025 changelog, here are the most notable updates:

Report dashboard

A brand new report dashboard was introduced in Fluent Forms Free 6.1.1 & Pro 6.1.0, designed to give users better visual insights and analytics for their form entries. Check out this video for a visual presentation.

The new Report Module in Fluent Forms offers robust data insights via three sections: Overview, Payment, and Submissions, enabling data-informed decisions.

Free Version (Essential Analytics) includes summaries of submissions/payments, top-performing form rankings (submissions, views, payments), API logs (success/processing/failed), payment overviews, and submission charts.

Pro Version (Advanced Reporting) unlocks advanced features like completion rates, submission analysis by country/timeline, detailed subscription analytics, form-specific payment/submission analysis, and PDF report downloads* for archiving/sharing.

The Report Module empowers users to optimize forms with both basic and granular data. Note that Pro features require an upgrade. *PDF report downloads need the separate free PDF Addon with Fluent Forms Pro.

Checkout our detailed guide on “A Complete Guide to the Fluent Forms Reporting Dashboard.”

AI form builder 

We introduced AI-assisted form building this year, which allows users to create complex forms using prompts, and it even includes Custom CSS/JS support in AI creation.

We are now exploring ways to improve the AI Form Builder with more complex forms and smart validation. Keep an eye on 2026!

Advanced conditionals group

A major logic overhaul introducing “Advanced Conditionals” groups, providing much more granular control over complex form behaviors.

The introduction of new Conditional Logic Groups for input fields allows you to configure multiple logic sets. This enables the showing or hiding of fields dynamically based on user input, resulting in more interactive, user-friendly forms that adapt instantly to your audience. It’s important to note that, in the free version of Fluent Forms, Conditional Logic Groups are exclusively available for input fields.

Accept payments with Stripe (free)

In the Fluent Forms 6.0 update, we introduced payment fields for free users. You can now easily accept payments via Stripe for various purposes like event registrations, donations, or small product sales, enabling you to monetize your forms without purchasing the Pro version.

A 1.9% transaction fee applies to these payments. Notably, the Subscription field is also part of the free version. Upgrading to Fluent Forms Pro removes this 1.9% transaction fee, leaving only Stripe’s standard fee.

Gutenberg block form style customization

Users can now customize the appearance of their forms directly within the Gutenberg editor, offering a more seamless design experience.

Directly within the Gutenberg interface, you can now style your forms, setting form colors, typography, spacing, and borders. This is perfect for maintaining your brand’s consistency without the friction of external styling tools, as you no longer need to switch editors or search for CSS selectors, just style your forms right where you build your pages.

Checkout our detailed guide on “Gutenberg Block Styler in Fluent Forms: Style Forms Like a Pro.”

Accordion & tab input fields

Overwhelmed users often abandon long, complex forms. To combat this, we introduced the new “Accordion/Tab” form input field in the Fluent Forms Free and Pro 6.1.5, offering two sophisticated display options:

• Accordion Mode: Features expandable sections that open individually, directing user focus to the immediate set of questions.
• Tab Mode: Provides horizontal navigation, allowing users to effortlessly switch between different form sections.

These adaptable layouts significantly reduce visual clutter. This, in turn, boosts form completion rates, particularly for applications, multi-step surveys, and detailed registration forms.

Checkout our detailed guide on “How to Add Accordion and Tab Sections in WordPress Forms”.

Authorize.net integration

Expansion of the payment ecosystem with the addition of the Authorize.net payment gateway. This one was our most requested feature from our users, and we are happy to introduce this at last!

Securely process one-time credit card payments using this trusted, PCI-compliant gateway. Authorize.net integration is quick, taking only minutes through your form’s payment settings. This adds another reliable payment solution to your options, which already include Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, Paystack, Paddle, Razorpay, and Square.

Checkout our detailed guide on “Authorize.net Integration in Fluent Forms for WordPress (Full Setup and use case).”

Front-end entry view

A new feature allowing users to view and manage their own previous submissions directly through a frontend page.

Fluent Forms “Front End Entry View” feature offers secure access to form submissions via a unique, hash-based URL. Upon submission, a unique URL is generated, allowing submitters to view their entry without a WordPress login. Administrators retain full control, managing submissions and customizing privacy settings for submitters, admins, or the public. This feature improves security and user experience by providing controlled, direct access to submission data, ideal for event registration, user content, or sensitive data collection, emphasizing simplicity and privacy.

Geolocation & address autocomplete upgrade

Integrated HTML5 geolocation for the address field and improved Google Maps address parsing for precision.

Fluent Forms’ User Map Location in Submission feature allows you to automatically gather geolocation data when visitors fill out your WordPress contact forms. This capability is essential for making data-driven decisions, such as understanding your customer base or streamlining shipping operations, by providing the exact origin of form submissions. To utilize this user map location feature, you must have the Fluent Forms Google Maps integration enabled.

Conversational form enhancements

Significant upgrades introduced including “Other” option support, Signature field support, Net Promoter Score (NPS) fields, and keyboard shortcut improvements. With the 6.0 update, Fluent Forms Pro introduced the highly anticipated Save & Resume button for conversational forms. This valuable feature significantly improves the user experience and drives higher completion rates by allowing users to save their progress and return to their form later. It’s the ideal solution for applications, surveys, and other detailed forms, effectively eliminating form abandonment.

Conversational forms have been enhanced to allow shortcodes in the editor, enabling personalized experiences by pulling user data, IP addresses, or URL parameters directly into questions.

Additionally, Pro users can now utilize Net Promoter Score (NPS) fields in conversational forms. This feature allows for measuring customer loyalty with the standard 0-10 rating scale, including follow-up questions, all within an engaging, chat-like interface.

Repeater container field

Added a highly requested repeater container, allowing users to add multiple sets of fields dynamically.

This method significantly enhances the form-building experience. It is especially useful for capturing details like multiple work experiences or various skills, where several entries are frequently necessary. By streamlining this process, the result is not only a more efficient form for the builder but also a cleaner, more intuitive experience for the users completing the forms.

Enhanced spam protection

Integration of CleanTalk Spam Protection and new token-based spam protection to ensure high-level form security.

2025 technical & performance milestones

• Performance Optimization: Improved database query performance with optimized indexes and better IP detection methods.
• Security Certification: Fluent Forms proudly holds the Plugin Security Certification (PSC-2025-64561) and (PSC-2024-64530) from CleanTalk. This recognition signifies that Fluent Forms has undergone and passed stringent security assessments, guaranteeing comprehensive protection for your forms against vulnerabilities such as SQL Injections, XSS Attacks, and CSRF.
• Accessibility & Translation: Major efforts were made in accessibility, specifically for screen readers (aria-labels), and new translations for Italian and Hungarian were added.
• Library Updates: Upgraded core libraries like OpenSpout for faster exports and intl-tel-input for better phone field responsiveness.
• Security Patches: Proactive fixes for several vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-3615, CVE-2024-13666) to keep 600K+ users safe.

Fueled by our amazing users

This year, we transitioned our community from Facebook to our self-hosted solution WPManageNinja Community powered by FluentCommunity. Like every year, we listened to our users’ feedback and tried to implement new feature suggestions and bug fixes, aligned with our internal feature roadmap. A large number of these suggestions also come from our support portal, where users like you submitted support tickets, our support agents are constantly talking to our customers, mining the feedback data, and forwarding this to the development team for new features and bug fixes.

Customer support portal where we listen to your problems, debug them, and come up with solutions. So f you are facing any problem, please do open a support ticket and we will be helping you right away. 

Our Fluent Forms community remained a crucial focus. We greatly appreciate the many users who engaged in discussions, shared ideas for improvements, and offered valuable suggestions. The majority of Fluent Forms updates throughout the year prioritized enhancements to security, user experience, and features, directly guided by this generous user feedback.

Contribution to the WordPress community

WPManageNinja, the parent company of Fluent Forms, is committed to contributing to WordPress. We have an official policy that encourages our team members to dedicate work time to WordPress contributions, with many employees regularly participating in WordPress releases.

Beyond code contributions, our team is actively involved in the wider WordPress community. Team members regularly help organize local WordCamps and volunteer their time on weekends. WPManageNinja also actively sponsors and attends WordCamps, having recently sponsored WordCamp Dhaka and WordCamp Malaysia in 2025. Our team also attended WordCamp Asia 2025.

We are deeply committed to supporting the open-source ecosystem and WordPress. We firmly believe in their value and actively contribute by maintaining several free plugins. This includes the highly-rated free code snippet plugin, FluentSnippets, and FluentAuth, the ultimate authorization and security solution for WordPress.

You can also find the Fluent Forms free version in the WordPress repository, which offers functionality superior to many premium contact form plugins. Furthermore, our newest eCommerce plugin FluentCart, features free version hosted on the WordPress plugin repository, which you must try!

What’s next for Fluent Forms in 2026

Celebrating 8 years of building better forms. Thanks to our 600K+ users worldwide. pic.twitter.com/n1lV1nLNUY

— Fluent Forms (@Fluent_Forms) December 31, 2025

We sincerely appreciate your continued support and valuable feedback, which have been instrumental to Fluent Forms’ success this year. Looking ahead to 2026, the Fluent Forms team is committed to prioritizing your suggestions, delivering substantial improvements, exciting new features, and enhanced integrations. A key focus will be on collaborations with other plugin products to streamline and enhance user workflows.

At WPManageNinja, our core mission is to empower small businesses with accessible, user-friendly WordPress plugin solutions, with Fluent Forms leading this effort.

We encourage you to join our Fluent Forms community to share your feedback and feature ideas directly with us.

If you are new to our product, please try the free Fluent Forms plugin. Your reviews on WordPress.org are incredibly inspiring to our team!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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