Integration guide

Connect any WordPress form to a real database

Contact Form 7, Elementor Forms, WPForms, Gravity Forms — if it lets you set a custom form action or use a webhook, it works with FormsToDB. No plugin install required for most setups, and your existing form design doesn't change at all.

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No rebuild needed

Keep your existing WordPress form exactly as it is — change one setting, not the markup.

Spam filtered automatically

Every submission is scored for spam before it ever reaches your inbox.

Instant notifications

Get an email or webhook the second a visitor submits — no polling, no delay.

Setup

WordPress in 3 steps

Create your form endpoint

Sign up free and create a form in your FormsToDB dashboard. You get a unique submission URL tied to that form, along with a live preview of every field it expects.

Point your WordPress form to it

For Contact Form 7 or WPForms with webhook support, paste the URL as the webhook destination in the form's settings tab. For plain HTML forms built with Elementor, a custom theme, or a page builder that exposes the raw markup, set the URL directly as the form's action attribute — no plugin required in that case.

Submit a test entry

Fill out your WordPress form once from the live page, exactly like a visitor would. The submission appears instantly in your FormsToDB dashboard with sender info, IP, referring page, and device — searchable and exportable from day one.

<form action="https://formstodb.com/api/submit/your-form-key" method="POST">

  <input type="text" name="name" required>

  <input type="email" name="email" required>

  <textarea name="message"></textarea>

  <button type="submit">Send</button>

</form>

Questions

Before you get started

Yes — Contact Form 7 supports webhooks via free add-ons like CF7 to Webhook, or you can use a mail-to-webhook bridge plugin pointed at your FormsToDB endpoint. Native HTML forms built with Elementor or a page builder work even more directly, since you can set the action URL yourself without any extra plugin.

Not for form builders that expose a custom action URL or webhook setting — which covers Elementor Forms, WPForms Pro, and most modern page builders. Only some free-tier plugins restrict this option, in which case a small connector plugin bridges the gap without touching your form's design.

No. The submission goes directly from the visitor's browser to FormsToDB the moment the form is submitted — WordPress itself never processes or stores the request, so there's no added database load or plugin overhead on your hosting.

Our infrastructure targets 99.9% uptime, and submissions are acknowledged the instant they're received. If you want an extra safety net, you can keep WordPress's native email notification active in parallel as a backup channel.