About Form Plant Pro
Form Plant Pro is an add-on plugin that extends the free Form Plant plugin. It does not replace the free version: you keep Form Plant active and install Pro alongside it, which adds Pro options to the form editor.
Your existing forms, submissions, shortcodes and design settings keep working as they are. If you deactivate Pro later, your forms fall back to what the free version can do.
You can purchase a license from the Form Plant Pro store.
Form Plant Pro is preparing for launch, and the store does not accept purchases yet. Form Plant Pro 1.0.0-beta.1 is available only to invited participants. Beta license keys are delivered by email with the subject "【Form Plant Pro】ライセンスキーのご案内" (Your license key). See Installation and License Activation for the setup steps.
The five features Pro adds
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Conditional Logic | Show or hide fields based on what was entered. Also switches whether notification emails are sent, who receives them, and what happens after submission |
| Field Groups | Combine several fields into one set that is displayed and stored together |
| Repeaters | Repeat a set of fields as rows that visitors can add and remove |
| Multi-step Forms | Split a long form into pages with a progress indicator |
| Reception Control | Limit submissions by open period, submission limit, or logged-in users only |
Requirements
| Item | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Form Plant (free) | 1.5.2 or higher, active |
| WordPress | 6.0 or higher |
| PHP | 8.0 or higher |
Pro builds on the free plugin, so it cannot run on its own. If Form Plant is inactive or older than 1.5.2, Pro does not start its features and shows an admin message telling you which version is required.
About the license
To use the Pro features, register the license key issued at purchase on your site. See Installation and License Activation for the steps.
- The license is annual. Plans differ only in how many sites you can activate; the features are identical
- Pro features keep working after the license expires. Only updates and support stop
- When the number of activated sites reaches the plan limit, no further sites can be activated. You can detach sites you no longer use from your account page on the store
When Pro is deactivated or the license is removed
Deactivating the license or deactivating the Pro plugin only turns off the Pro features — your form settings are not deleted. Activate it again and everything works as before. The front end, however, changes as follows.
| Feature | How the form behaves while Pro is off |
|---|---|
| Conditional Logic | Conditions are not evaluated and all fields are shown |
| Field Groups / Repeaters | The fields are not rendered (no row inputs appear) |
| Multi-step Forms | The form is not split into pages and is shown as one long page |
| Reception Control | The limits are lifted and the form accepts submissions again |
Removing the license or deactivating the Pro plugin makes forms that were closed by an open period, a submission limit or the logged-in-users-only setting start accepting submissions again. If a form must stay closed, unpublish it using the free plugin's form settings.
An expired license does not do this. After expiry the Pro features keep working, and Reception Control stays in effect.
Reception Control messages accept HTML, but if you save a form while the Pro plugin is deactivated, the HTML tags in those messages are stripped. Keep Pro active while editing messages that contain HTML (an unactivated license is fine, as long as the plugin itself is active).
Relationship with the free plugin
Pro does not replace anything in the free plugin. Confirmation screens, stored submissions, CSV export, email notifications, spam protection and external embedding all keep working exactly as before, and the Pro features sit on top of them.
This means the free documentation (Building Forms / Advanced) still applies after you install Pro.
Not supported in Form Plant Pro 1.0.0
The main limitations of the current version. Some may be addressed in future releases.
All features
- JavaScript embedding (the snippet for external sites). Pro features work inside your WordPress site and in iframe embeds
Conditional Logic
- Using address, file, HTML or custom mail tag fields as the trigger of a condition
Field Groups / Repeaters
- Nesting (placing a group or repeater inside another one)
- Conditions on individual fields inside a set, or using a field inside a set as a condition trigger
- Postal code address auto-fill inside a set
- Reordering rows by dragging (the up / down buttons are available)
- Placing an acceptance or password field inside a set
Multi-step Forms
- Skipping a whole page with conditional logic
- Saving and resuming a partially filled form
- Moving back with the browser's Back button, or by clicking the progress indicator
Reception Control
- Automatically switching an already-open page to the closed message at the closing time, or a countdown display
- Waiting lists and lotteries
- Detecting logged-in users in forms embedded on external sites (they are always treated as logged out)
- Admin emails announcing that reception has opened or closed