IvyForms Turns One: A Year of Building Better WordPress Forms

One year ago, IvyForms officially started its journey. It began with a simple idea: WordPress forms should be easier to build, customize, and connect with the rest of your website.

Since then, IvyForms has grown into something bigger. It is a product shaped by real users, real website needs, and a strong belief that form building in WordPress can be smarter, simpler, and more connected.

This first birthday is a special milestone for us. It marks a year of building, improving, listening, and learning.

And the most exciting part is that this is still only the beginning.

One Year Since the IvyForms Launch

IvyForms’ first lite version was officially launched in June 2025, and the first Pro version was launched in early November 2025. Like every new product, it started with a lot of ideas, a lot of plans, and a clear direction we wanted to follow.

The first year was about turning that direction into something real. We focused on building a solid form-building experience, improving the basics, listening to feedback, and making IvyForms useful for the people who started using it. During this time, IvyForms also welcomed a growing base of paying customers. That matters to us, not only as a sign of growth, but as a sign of trust.

The first year was not only about launching a plugin. It was about proving that IvyForms has a real place in the WordPress ecosystem.

What Sets IvyForms Apart

The WordPress form builder space is not small. There are many tools that help users create forms, collect entries, and manage submissions.

That is why we knew from the beginning that IvyForms had to be more than another form plugin. It needed a clear place, a clear purpose, and a real reason for users to choose it.

For us, that reason starts with the WordPress-native experience. IvyForms is being built for WordPress users, with the tools, workflows, and expectations of WordPress websites in mind.

It is not only about adding features. It is about how those features come together. We’ve built this plugin to help users create forms that are easy to customize, practical to manage, and useful for real business needs.

That direction shaped the first year and continues to guide what comes next.

What Made the First Year Special

This past year was full of important product steps. We launched our first paid plan and continued building the features users need to create better forms in WordPress.

During this time, IvyForms became stronger in many practical ways. We added conditional logic, more field types, rating fields, form styling options, import and export, and better spam protection with reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, and Cloudflare Turnstile. We also expanded our template library with ready-made forms for different use cases, so users can start faster instead of building every form from scratch.

This year also brought deeper WordPress connections. IvyForms added integrations with Gutenberg, Elementor, Mailchimp, and Webhooks, making it easier to use forms inside the website builders that many users already know. We also introduced Angie AI as part of the wider ecosystem we are building around smarter WordPress workflows.

Looking back, what made this year special was not only the number of things we built. It was the feeling that each new feature, template, and integration helped IvyForms become more useful, more flexible, and more ready for what comes next.

Making form data more useful with wpDataTables

One milestone we are especially proud of is the integration between IvyForms and wpDataTables, another product from our own WordPress ecosystem.

This connection brings two important parts of a website closer together: the forms that collect information and the tables, charts, and reports that help make sense of it.

For users, that means form submissions do not have to stay hidden in a list of entries. They can become organized tables, visual reports, and useful data that is easier to sort, filter, manage, and understand.

This integration also says a lot about the direction of IvyForms. We are not building it as an isolated plugin. We are building it as part of a connected WordPress ecosystem, where our products can work together and give users more value inside the tools they already trust.

And this is only the start. Amelia is already part of what comes next, opening the door to even more connected booking and form workflows inside WordPress.

What’s Coming Next for IvyForms

The first year gave IvyForms a strong foundation. The next chapter is about building on that foundation and making the product ready for even more advanced workflows.

Some of the next steps are already in active development. This includes payment fields, file uploads, calculation fields, multi-page forms, conversational forms, and native Zapier integration. These updates will help users create more flexible forms for more complex needs, without making the form-building process harder.

We are also working toward a smarter and more connected IvyForms experience. The roadmap includes an AI form builder, WooCommerce integration, PDF generation, user registration, repeater fields, form abandonment tracking, Google Sheets, Slack, ActiveCampaign, HubSpot, Stripe, PayPal, and more.

One of the most exciting areas is AI and automation. IvyForms is also moving toward MCP support, which will help connect form data with AI agents, assistants, and automation workflows in a more WordPress-native way.

The future of IvyForms is not only about adding more features. It is about continuing the same work that started one year ago: listening, improving, and building a product that becomes more useful with every step.

Thank You for Being Part of the IvyForms Journey

This product was not built in isolation. It has been shaped by the people who used it, tested it, shared feedback, asked questions, and trusted us from the beginning.

Every customer, user, and supporter helped us see what needed to improve, what deserved more attention, and where the product should go next. Your feedback pushed us to rethink details, improve the experience, and keep building with real WordPress websites in mind.

That is what makes this milestone meaningful. It is not only about celebrating how far we have come, but rather about appreciating everyone who helped shape the product along the way. 

And since no birthday should pass without a little celebration, we have prepared something special for the IvyForms community. Keep an eye out for our birthday offer and join us as we celebrate the first year of IvyForms.

Thank you for being part of this journey. We are grateful for the support, the feedback, and the trust, and we are excited for what comes next.