Pigeon Form

Description

Most form plugins arrive with a page builder’s worth of JavaScript, a dashboard
that calls home, and fonts fetched from someone else’s CDN. Pigeon Form is the
opposite bargain: a working contact form in about a minute, and nothing on your
site that you did not ask for.

What makes it different

• It makes no outbound network requests. None. No licence pings, no usage
  statistics, no fonts from a CDN, no remote assets. Search the source for
  wp_remote_get, wp_remote_post or curl_exec and you will find nothing.
• Nothing loads on pages without a form. The stylesheet and script are
  registered up front but enqueued only when a form actually renders.
• Entries stay in your database. They are yours, on your server, and
  deletable. IP addresses are anonymised unless you turn that off.
• No page builder, no framework, no block library. The editor is the
  WordPress admin, and the front end is plain HTML and one small script.
• Your data is kept until you say otherwise. Deleting the plugin leaves
  your forms and entries in place, so removing it by mistake loses nothing.
  Turn on “Delete all Pigeon Form data when the plugin is deleted” in the
  settings and deleting it removes its tables, options and entries instead.

Building forms

• Unlimited forms and fields
• Drag fields in from the palette and drag them into order
• Text, email, paragraph, dropdown, multiple choice, checkboxes, number, phone,
  URL, consent and hidden fields
• Shortcode and block embedding

Entries and notifications

• Every submission saved to your site, with a searchable Entries screen
• Admin notification emails and an optional autoresponder
• Smart tags — {all_fields}, {form_title}, {site_name} and any field id

Spam, without a CAPTCHA

• A honeypot field, a timing check and a rate limiter, all on by default
• No third-party captcha service, so no visitor data leaves your site and
  nobody has to identify traffic lights to contact you

Accessibility

Real labels tied to their inputs, aria-invalid on fields that fail
validation, focus moved to the first error, and a form you can complete with a
keyboard alone.

Pigeon Form Premium

The free plugin is not a trial and nothing in it is switched off. Premium is a
separate plugin that adds capabilities this one does not contain: a visual
builder with live preview, conditional logic, multi-page forms, file uploads,
advanced field types, captcha integrations, CSV export and third-party
integrations.

Third-party resources

The admin screens use two bundled typefaces. Both are served from this plugin —
nothing is requested from a font host, so no visitor or administrator data
leaves your site.

• Plus Jakarta Sans — SIL Open Font License 1.1, https://github.com/tokotype/PlusJakartaSans
  (assets/fonts/plus-jakarta-sans-*.woff2, licence in assets/fonts/LICENSE-PlusJakartaSans.txt)
• JetBrains Mono — SIL Open Font License 1.1, https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono
  (assets/fonts/jetbrains-mono-*.woff2, licence in assets/fonts/LICENSE-JetBrainsMono.txt)

Licence text for both: https://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Technical details