Cognito Forms
Cognito Forms
Description
Cognito Forms is an easy-to-use online form builder that enables you to create everything from simple surveys to complex registration forms – no code required. Whether you’re using a pre-made template or starting from scratch, you can create forms to help your organization in just a matter of minutes.
New to Cognito Forms? Watch a quick tutorial to get acquainted with the form builder, and learn how to create your first form!
Features
Format numbers for calculations, dates and times, add values to dropdowns and checkboxes, capture electronic signatures, and collect file uploads using our drag-and-drop form builder.
Creating your form and sharing it with your customers is just step one – what happens to all that data after it gets submitted? In Cognito Forms, you can sort through and filter down your entries, create customized data sets, and perform multiple tasks at once.
Use Zapier, Microsoft Power Automate or Make to exchange data with thousands of applications. Create workflows and automatically trigger tasks directly from your form entries. And quickly set it all up using either no-code visual interfaces or JSON.
Set form behaviors and automate tasks using our visual conditional logic. Easily add text piping to make your forms more conversational. Or, enable actions that conditionally send notifications, include file attachments, perform calculations, or set limits in quantities and dates – all using our no-code/low-code visual interface.
Quickly create additional protections for fields and forms. Set organizational controls by the individual form or folder. Manage access and account permissions. And stay compliant with HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA and other security regulations.
Accept online payments directly through your forms – using Square, Stripe or PayPal. Whether you’re collecting a simple online donation or processing complex multi-variable transactions, you can do so easily on any of our plan levels.
Installation
- Upload
cognitoforms.zipfrom the Upload section of the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Screenshots

With Cognito Forms's easy-to-use form builder, create responsive contact forms, order forms, registration forms and more in minutes.

Add a block to the post or page where you'd like to embed your form.

Select the Cognito Forms block.

Choose "Select Form".

Select the form you would like to embed.

Your form is now embedded on the post/page.

Preview or publish to see your form in action!
Faq
Cognito Forms is a subscription-based service and we host all of the forms and data collected securely on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, which is PCI (DSS) Level 1 and HIPAA compliant.
Getting started with Cognito Forms is easy. Just sign up for a free account, then choose “New Form” to create your first form.
Once you’re done designing your form, you can embed it onto a post or a page using the Cognito Forms block. Just add a “Cognito Forms” block to your post or page, select the form you’d like to embed, and publish your changes to see your form in action.
Need more help? Check out our getting started guide.
Yes – in fact, our forms default to sending an email notification to the email address belonging to the owner of the account.
You can further customize that email notification to be sent on behalf of your website domain, contain custom content, show details from the entry, or go to multiple email addresses.
Reviews
Cognito Forms Are Awesome; WP Plugin Is Not
By reimajined on May 21, 2024
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.)
So far, 1-star is too much.
By Das Capitolin on April 20, 2023
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.
Excellent plugin and support
By petebm on January 19, 2021
Why is this plugin not downloaded that much?
By mwage on January 18, 2021
REALLY considering switching from Jotform to Cognito but..
By victoriamar on June 23, 2020
Customer service is very poor
By MrKoshka on May 20, 2020
One of the most solid, full featured form plugins
By thebigbadbill on October 18, 2019
Very easy, beautiful design, one of the few good forms
By mindfulnessbijkanker on May 8, 2017
It's an awesome product with great support
By tracythomps0n on December 9, 2016
Great Plugin
By WPpress (pikachuchu) on June 30, 2017