Perfect if you know HTML and want to style on your own

  • It’s the perfect Form Plugin for me. I want to write my own form HTML and style it with my own CSS (using Tailwind CSS). It’s just perfect for my use case and works very well for years now.

    The only downside is that it uses the admin-ajax.php and not a REST API Endpoint, but it works fine this way, too.

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  • Hey @goaroundagain,

    Thank you for the plugin review, much appreciated!

    Can you elaborate on what exactly is the (practical) downside to using admin-ajax.php instead of the REST API? I’m curious to see if there is some practical use for the REST API that I have been missing that might make it worthwhile to switch the plugin over to the REST API.

    Thread Starter Johannes Kinast

    (@goaroundagain)

    For me the admin-ajax.php is a black box and hard to debug if there is a high load or a bug. I always have the feeling, that the admin-ajax.php is a potential security issue.

    If a request hits the WordPress REST API its clear which endpoint it is and the REST API endpoint could be used for user stuff e.g. a headless form on a static site. But it could open the door for spam.

    As I said, at the moment the admin-ajax.php endpoint works fine for me, too.

    Thread Starter Johannes Kinast

    (@goaroundagain)

    One more think: As I really enjoy your plugin I would like to support the development. The easiest think would be to buy a premium licence, but I just use it for 1-2 forms and I don’t really need the premium features. Therefore, $171 a year is a bit pricey. What about offer a sponsorship e.g. via Github?

    @goaroundagain At the very least I’ll add a unqiue URL parameter to the admin-ajax.php endpoint so that requests generated by any HTML Forms can easily be detected from viewing your access logs. I did not realise this was missing, so thank you for bringing it to my attention!

    As for supporting the plugin development; thank you a lot, but it’s really not necessary at this moment if you have no need for any of the premium features. If you must, a donation to any environmental cause of your choice would make us really happy though.

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