LMS Advisor Form Builder

by wpvishavjeet

Description

LMS Advisor Form Builder lets you build any number of forms and place them with a shortcode, a block or an Elementor widget. Submissions are stored in your own database and can be searched, exported and emailed. No account is needed and nothing is sent to another service unless you switch on a CAPTCHA.

It is made for people who run courses on WordPress. A form placed on a course or lesson page can record the course, the lesson and the logged-in learner on its own, so an enquiry or an assignment always arrives with its context.

Build

Visual builder: field palette, live form and field settings side by side
Add fields by click or drag, reorder by drag or keyboard, undo and redo
42 field types: text, paragraph, email, phone, number, URL, password, radio, checkboxes, dropdown, multi-select, toggle, date, time, date and time, file and image upload, hidden, name, address, country, state, city, ZIP, range, color, heading, description, HTML and divider
WordPress and LMS fields filled in on the server: user, user ID, username, email, first and last name, role, course ID, course name, lesson ID, page URL and referrer
Conditional logic: show or hide a field depending on other answers
Starter templates: contact, course enquiry, course feedback and assignment upload
Preview with your theme before publishing

Collect

Submissions list with search, filters, sorting, bulk actions, read and unread, spam and trash
File uploads stored outside public reach and downloaded through a permission check
Export to CSV, CSV for Excel or JSON, by form, status and date range
Notification email to you and a confirmation email to the sender, with placeholders, preview and test send
Show a message or go to a page or web address after sending

Protect

Every submission is checked on the server, whatever the browser sent
Honeypot, minimum fill time, rate limits and optional reCAPTCHA or Turnstile
IP addresses anonymised by default
Retention periods, a delete tool, and support for the WordPress personal data export and erasure tools

Accessible

Labels, error messages and help text are linked to their fields
Errors are announced, and focus moves to the first field that needs attention
Works with a keyboard and a screen reader, in the builder too
Forms work without JavaScript

LMS support

Course and lesson are detected on pages of LifterLMS, LearnDash, Tutor LMS and Sensei LMS. Any other LMS can supply them with the lms_form_lms_context filter.

External services

LMS Advisor Form Builder does not contact any external service by default. Two optional spam checks do, and only after an administrator has chosen one and entered its keys under LMS Advisor Forms > Settings > Security.

Google reCAPTCHA

Used to tell people and bots apart. When it is active, pages that show a form load a script from https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js. The script and the widget run in the visitor’s browser and send Google the data it collects there, such as the IP address, browser details and interaction signals. When a form is sent, your server sends the response token and your secret key to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify. The plugin does not forward the visitor’s IP address in that request.

Service provided by Google: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy.

Cloudflare Turnstile

Used to tell people and bots apart. When it is active, pages that show a form load a script from https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/api.js. The script and the widget run in the visitor’s browser and send Cloudflare the data it collects there, such as the IP address and browser details. When a form is sent, your server sends the response token and your secret key to https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/siteverify. The plugin does not forward the visitor’s IP address in that request.

Service provided by Cloudflare: Terms of Use, Privacy Policy.

Installation

Upload the lmsadvisor-form-builder folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install the plugin from the Plugins screen.
Activate LMS Advisor Form Builder.
Go to LMS Advisor Forms > Add form, choose a template and save.
Place the form with the shortcode shown in the builder, for example [lms_form id="1"], with the LMS Advisor Form block or with the Elementor widget.

Screenshots

Dashboard with submission totals and the last 30 days.
The form builder: field palette, form and field settings.
Conditional logic for a field.
Submissions list with filters and bulk actions.

Faq

How do I put a form on a page?

Copy the shortcode from the builder or the Forms list and paste it into a page, or add the LMS Advisor Form block and choose the form. In a theme template use echo lms_form_render( 12 );.

Where are submissions stored?

In three tables in your WordPress database. Uploaded files go to wp-content/uploads/lms-form/ under random names. Files are downloaded from the Submissions screen after a permission check. The folder refuses direct requests on Apache, LiteSpeed and IIS. nginx ignores that protection; the random names keep the files private there as well, and the Help screen shows a server rule that closes the folder completely.

Who can see submissions?

Administrators. A developer can open individual areas to other roles with the lms_form_capability filter.

Does it work without JavaScript?

Yes. Forms post normally and show errors or the confirmation after the page reloads. The exception is a form protected by a CAPTCHA, because the CAPTCHA services need JavaScript.

Does it work with page caching?

Yes. A form on a cached page fetches a fresh security token before it is sent.

Why is there no “custom JavaScript” setting?

Script stored in the database is a common route for site takeovers. Every form sends lmsFormSuccess and lmsFormError events that your theme or a small plugin can listen to instead.

Can I change how forms look?

Forms use the fonts of your theme. The accent color, columns, label position, field size, spacing and width are settings. For more, add your own CSS with the Additional CSS option of WordPress (Appearance > Customize, or Styles in the Site Editor), or switch the default stylesheet off and style the forms in your theme.

What happens to my data when I delete the plugin?

Nothing, unless you switched on “Delete all plugin data on uninstall” under Settings > General.

A phone number in my CSV export starts with an apostrophe. Why?

Spreadsheet software runs cells that start with =, +, - or @ as formulas. The apostrophe makes them plain text. Excel and LibreOffice hide it.

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Changelog

1.0.0

First release.