Slow, limited, naggy

I gave Ninja Forms a fair go after they bought Caldera Forms and shut it down, but it’s just nowhere near as good as Caldera. It’s painfully slow to load (on the same sites where Caldera was fast), artificially limited in functionality, the nag screen constantly nags over and over to share data every time you try to edit something.

It has that jolly ‘for beginners!’ design aesthetic where it hides things and you have to play the ‘guess where they put the tools you need!’ game, which would be one thing if it were deeply technical stuff but ‘I want to make a basic text change to the heading’ is not that.

I need a tool to make shoving up a quick form quicker, and Ninja forms is very definitely not it. I’ve given up on Ninja, and am off to see if Formidable Forms is any better.

I regularly pay for functionality I want from WordPress plugins, but you have to convince me your plugin is going to be reasonably nice to use first. This one did not convince me.