Cognito Forms

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1. ★★★★★ reimajined

   2.3y ago

   I love Cognito Forms. But I don’t even see anywhere within my WordPress admin area to create/view/manage forms. Is it tied to Gutenberg blocks? Cuz Gutenberg is the plague and I avoid that. Would be nice if it showed up in other builders (i.e. Beaver Builder.)

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2. ★★★★★ Das Capitolin

   3.4y ago

   I have a Cognito Forms account. I have a WordPress website I would like to embed my forms onto. So I install this plugin, activate it, and from the Classic Editor I click on the Cognito Forms gear icon, and… nothing. Only a small, empty window opens. EDIT: Manually adding the seamless Publish Code snippet worked fine, whereas this plugin did not. You keep your 1-star. This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by Das Capitolin.

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3. ★★★★★ petebm

   5.6y ago

   The range of options and facilities offered by Cognito Forms is outstanding; powerful forms based on conditional logic, good design options and payment taking all make for a presuasive package. Support is speedy and helpful. Thank you!

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4. ★★★★★ mwage

   5.6y ago

   I am really wondering why this plugin is not downloaded that much. It is really a very powerfull and full featured plug. Even in the free version you can create wonderful forms. It is very simple to create them and there are a lot of parameters you can play with. And no, I am not working for this company and no I don’t get paid for this review 🙂 I hope you guys keep up the good work with this amazing plugin!

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5. ★★★★★ victoriamar

   6.2y ago

   Being considering switching to Cognito forms for all our [Moderated: Link redacted] Orlando SEO lead pages. Currently we use calendly, but it has decreased our conversion rate. I am a little hesitant now after reading the reviews, but will give it a shot. This topic was modified 6 years ago by victoriamar. This topic was modified 6 years ago by t-p.

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6. ★★★★★ MrKoshka

   6.3y ago

   Do not expect award-winning customer service from Cognito. Expect it to be slow and repetitive with no desire to help you or find a solution. Possibly the worst service ever from a SaaS product.

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7. ★★★★★ thebigbadbill

   6.9y ago

   First, the reading challenged chook clearly never used the plugin. SMH I used Cognito Forms before looking at it as a plugin. As a non-programer, I was able to do things with them that I have not seen any other form creator do with the ease that they have at a great price. I can take CC payments from my site without using some complicated shopping cart. I never played with CSS to do more formating but have seen some examples that others have done and I will be having my developer make some changes to add some extra spice.

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8. ★★★★★ mindfulnessbijkanker

   9.3y ago

   While I had to stop with other plugins because of the allowed maximum entries, with Cognito I could make my form exactly as desired. And so much more user friendly than the other complicated form plugins. And this with the FREE plugin. Also the support forum is good. It is strange the WordPress did not show Cognito while searching for form plugins; I found this through Google when – frustrated with other plugins – I looked for ‘WordPress Form Plugin Limitless Entries’. So, I spread the word: thanks for this great tool!

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 6.4 Cognito Forms <= 2.0.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via id Parameter ↗
   2024-12-11 CVE-2024-10182 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.0.7 Patched in 2.0.8

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2023-05-18 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2023-05-17 2K+ → 3K+ up after 27 days in tier
3. 2023-04-20 3K+ → 2K+ down after 23 days in tier
4. 2023-03-28 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2023-03-27 3K+ → 2K+ down after 12 days in tier
6. 2023-03-15 2K+ → 3K+ up after 2 days in tier
7. 2023-03-13 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
8. 2023-03-12 2K+ → 3K+ up after 14 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• Visual Form Builder 20K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
• E2Pdf – Export Pdf Tool for WordPress 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Contact Form 7 Signature Addon 6K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags D
• Smart Forms – when you need more than just a contact form 5K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• G Gravity Forms CSS Ready Class Selector 4K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D

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Cognito Forms: 2K+ active installs, 4.0★ (19 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-25. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/cognito-forms