Is there a free form plugin that works with pods?

@berttervoert – depending on your use case you might take a look the very basic simple forms pods itself offers – https://youtu.be/vQQ01ATsOZ8?t=400

Never used it but maybe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSfC1iQczR4 works for you?

The buddyforms you suggest in your second link isn’t a free option ($ 79,99 per year). I had already looked at that but the price is too much for the project I’m working on.

so this question isn’t resolved as far as I’m concerned.

Hi @berttervoert

We only have a Gravity Forms addon. Other than that there isn’t a free solution that is able to create posts etc. through Pods that I know of.
I know Caldera Forms has made addons for Pods but I’m not sure if these are up to date.

Of course there are numerous ways to build this with custom code but it will require more experience with PHP or you’ll need to hire a developer.

Cheers, Jory

@berttervoert first the buddyforms has a free version too – maybe that works for you – second did you try the built in solution that pods offers? See the Video linked above and the shortcode documentation -> https://pods.io/docs/learn/shortcodes/pods/

Also many Form Plugins offer one way or another to save data to a custom field – e.g https://wpfluentforms.com/docs/submission-lifecycle/ + https://wpfluentforms.com/docs/fluentform_submission_inserted/ + https://pods.io/docs/code/pods/save/

or https://wpmanageninja.com/docs/fluent-form/advanced-features-functionalities-in-wp-fluent-form/post-creation-with-form-submission/ (think that’s in free too)

and others…

Sorry that there is no “easy” answer but pods is free and we do our best to help our users but there a limits…

Hello, berttervoert.

Please, try with BuddyForms Pods and let us know if you could do what you have in mind.

Any doubt about the plugin, you can write us at [email protected], and maybe we can discuss a discount ;).

Thanks, Bernhard and Jory for suggesting our products, very appreciated.

Have a good one, bye!

Thanks for your response. Bernhard, you are absolutely right that there is a free version of buddyforms, but the plugin that makes it work with pods is a paid plugin.

I do understand that not everything can be for free. I just didn’t want to spend a whole lot of time searching for something that doesn’t exist and I figured you guys would know if there was a free solution. So thank you for your answers, I know what to try next now.

Bert.