GlobalDev Contact Forms

GlobalDev Contact Forms is a self-contained visual form builder for WordPress. It stores every valid submission in your WordPress database before attempting email delivery, making lead counts easier to verify against Google Ads, GA4, Meta, TikTok, or another analytics platform.

There is no Pro edition and no paid-feature wall. All included features are available immediately.

Visual form builder

• Professional drag-and-drop administration interface
• Per-form Language & Messages controls for multilingual websites
• One-click language presets for English, Romanian, German, French, Spanish, and Italian
• JSON field export/import directly in the Build tab
• Unlimited forms and fields
• Field duplication and reordering
• Conditional show/hide rules with multiple conditions and ALL/ANY matching
• Chained conditions for multi-step branches
• Radio and checkbox layouts: stacked, inline, buttons, and tab-style choices
• Conditional HTML messages displayed inline or in a modal popup
• Success messages displayed below the form or in a modal popup
• Information-only endpoints that suppress and reject online submission
• Standard and conversational form experiences
• In-dashboard preview
• Responsive field widths
• Per-form input styles: outlined, filled, and underline
• Full field color controls for labels, text, placeholders, backgrounds, borders, and focus states
• Per-form field-label font-size control
• Input height, border width, corner radius, and field spacing controls
• Submit button styles: solid, outline, and gradient
• Submit button colors, width, alignment, and independent corner radius
• Per-form JavaScript that runs only after a successful non-spam submission

Included field types

• Single-line text
• Email
• Phone
• Number
• Date
• Paragraph text
• Dropdown
• Radio buttons
• Checkboxes
• Consent checkbox
• HTML content
• Conditional submit button
• Hidden field

Lead management

• Every valid submission is stored locally before email is attempted
• Unread/read entry status
• Entry detail screen
• CSV export for all entries or the active form/status filters, with Excel-safe values
• Notification status showing whether WordPress accepted or rejected the email request
• Visitor IP address, browser, source page, landing page, and attribution details in stored entries

Email notifications

• Administrator notifications
• Multiple recipients
• Reply-To mapped to a submitted email field
• Automatic submitter confirmation emails
• Optional submission-copy emails containing the visitor’s answers, with a configurable recipient field, subject, and intro
• Merge tags for form and field values
• Test-email tool
• Administrator emails include entry metadata: IP address, browser, source page, landing page, and attribution values

Conversion and advertising tools

After an entry is stored, the plugin dispatches:

gdcf_submission_success

It also pushes this event to window.dataLayer:

gdcf_form_submission_success

The event includes the form ID, entry ID, and captured attribution parameters. This can be used as a Google Tag Manager Custom Event trigger for Google Ads, GA4, Meta Pixel, TikTok Pixel, or other tags.

Each form can also run an optional custom JavaScript snippet immediately after a successful non-spam submission. This supports direct conversion calls such as gtag('event', 'conversion', { 'send_to': 'AW-XXXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' }); without editing theme files.

The plugin captures supported attribution values from the landing URL and keeps them for the browser session:

• utm_source
• utm_medium
• utm_campaign
• utm_term
• utm_content
• gclid
• gbraid
• wbraid
• fbclid
• ttclid

Built-in and Google anti-spam protection

• WordPress nonce verification
• Honeypot field
• Minimum form-completion time
• Per-form rate limiting using a privacy-preserving IP hash
• Server-side field validation
• Google Cloud reCAPTCHA checkbox
• Google Cloud reCAPTCHA invisible score
• Compatibility with existing legacy reCAPTCHA v2 checkbox, v2 invisible, and v3 keys
• Server-side token, hostname, action, and score verification where applicable

Google reCAPTCHA is disabled by default. Google scripts are loaded only on pages containing a GlobalDev form after a complete configuration is enabled.

External services

Google reCAPTCHA is an optional external service and is disabled by default. When enabled, the plugin loads a Google reCAPTCHA JavaScript file on pages containing a GlobalDev form. The browser communicates with Google to obtain a verification token. The website backend then sends the token, configured site key, and expected form action where applicable to Google’s verification or assessment endpoint. The plugin does not include submitted contact-form field values in that request.

For Google Cloud reCAPTCHA modes, the website owner supplies a Google Cloud project ID and API key. For legacy compatibility modes, the website owner supplies an existing classic secret key.

Service information and policies:

• Google reCAPTCHA: https://cloud.google.com/security/products/recaptcha
• Google Cloud Terms: https://cloud.google.com/terms/
• Google Cloud Data Processing Addendum: https://cloud.google.com/terms/data-processing-addendum/
• Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Privacy

GlobalDev Contact Forms stores submitted form data in the local WordPress database. It also stores the visitor IP address reported by the web server, a one-way IP hash used for rate limiting, the source page, browser user-agent, and supported advertising attribution parameters when available. Administrator notification emails include these entry details.

The plugin never sends form entries to GlobalDev. Email notifications are passed to the website’s WordPress mail system. If Google reCAPTCHA is enabled, Google processes browser telemetry and verification data as described in the External services section. Site owners are responsible for appropriate privacy notices, consent configuration, retention policies, and lawful processing terms for their jurisdiction.