FAQ

The basics

What is Promptless Forms? A free WordPress plugin for forms. You write each form as a short piece of JSON, place it with a shortcode, and get entries, email notifications, webhooks and spam protection. See What Promptless Forms is.

Do I need Promptless WP? No. Forms work on any site. With Promptless WP active they take its colours, fonts and corner radius, and follow dark sections.

Is there a drag-and-drop builder? No. You paste JSON on Form Entries → Forms, or have an AI assistant write it through the connector.

How do I put a form on a page? Paste its shortcode, [pforms_form id="your-form-id"], into a Shortcode block, a Promptless WP section’s Shortcode Content or a modal’s Body. See Your first form.

Features

Can a form have several pages? Yes, with steps and a progress indicator. See Layout and steps.

Can a field appear only for some answers? Yes. See Conditional logic.

Does it send the visitor a confirmation email? No, only the notification to you. A FlowMint Workflows workflow can send one.

Can it take payments or calculate totals? No.

Is there a CAPTCHA? No. A honeypot, a minimum fill-in time and rate limits run on every form. See Spam protection.

Can submissions go to Google Sheets, Zapier or Make? Yes, with a webhook. See Webhooks and Google Sheets.

Data

Where are submissions kept? In your WordPress database, on Form Entries, until you delete them. See Entries.

Where are uploaded files kept? In the site’s uploads folder under random names, as private Media Library items. See Uploaded files.

What happens to entries when I delete a form? They are kept, and marked (deleted) in the list.

Can I answer a request to export or erase someone’s data? Yes, with WordPress’s Tools → Export Personal Data and Erase Personal Data. See Privacy and data retention.

Sites

Does it work with page caching? Yes. The form fetches a fresh security token before it submits, so a cached page does not cause failed submissions.

Does it work on right-to-left languages? Yes. Since 1.9.0, forms and admin screens use mirrored stylesheets on right-to-left sites.

Does it work on multisite? Yes. Network activation sets up every site, and sites added later are set up when they are created.

Related pages

• What Promptless Forms is — What the plugin does, why forms are written as JSON, and how it works with Promptless WP and FlowMint Workflows.
• Troubleshooting — Fixes for forms that do not appear, emails that do not arrive, submissions that seem to vanish, and other common problems.
• Privacy and data retention — The personal data Forms stores, how WordPress's export and erase tools reach it, and how to delete old entries on a schedule.