FormsBridge

Bridge WordPress forms without code, add custom fields, use field mappers, set up a workflow and make your data flow seamlessly to your backend.

Use WordPress as what it is, a CMS and integrate it with bridges to an infinite stack of possibilities.

What is a bridge?

A bridge is a pipeline that looks like this:

Form

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Custom fields

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Mappers

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Workflow

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Backend

User data will enter as form responses, populated with custom fields, mutated with field mappers, automatically preprocessed on the workflow and then, will fly to your backend or service.

With bridges you can connect your WordPress forms to any kind of backend, it doesn’t matter if it is a CRM, an ERP, a booking system or an email marketing platform, the only requirement is an HTTP API. If it has an API it can be bridged!

Form builders

Form builders are well known plugins that add forms to WordPress. We do bridges, let them do the forms and then work together to make your business work with ease.

Addons

Forms Bridge comes with free addons. Each addon adds to the plugin new bridges to work with specific APIs, new workflow jobs and bridge templates.

Templates

Forms Bridge is for developers¹ and let you define pipelines of data processing and API connections from the settings page without limitations.

At the same time, don’t repeat yourself is our mantra, it isn’t? Forms Bridge offers a bunch of bridge templates and a wizard that will simplify the process of bridge creation to a couple of field filling in a small stepper.

_{1. The lazy ones that don’t want to code.}

Custom fields

Custom fields are data that will be added the bridge payload. Use them to store private data you don’t want to place on your public forms, like user emails, or config values, like product IDs or lead tags.

You can use meta tags to place some metadata on your submissions.

Field mappers

Field mappers are mutations with which you can rename your form submission fields and transform its values. Use them to make your form submissions to fit your backend API endpoint interface.

Json fingers

In both, custom fields and field mappers, you can use json fingers as field names.

A json finger is a hierarchical pointer to data structures like children[0].name.rendered. For example, if your backend waits for a payload like this:

{
  "name": "Bob",
  "company": "Example Coop",
  "address": {
    "street": "Carrer de Balmes, 250",
	"city": "Barcelona"
  }
}

Then you can use two mappers to rename the street and city fields from your form submissions with address.street and address.city fingers as the destination name.

With this setup, your form submission will enter the bridge as a plain map of key value pairs and get out as a hierarchical data structure.

Workflows

Make your form submissions flow through a chain of jobs that pre-process the data before it was sent over the wire. Think of workflow as a system to set up automations to run on each form submission.

A workflow can perform payload mutations that go beyond the limitations of the custom fields and field mappers systems, or perform API calls to trigger some actions before the bridge payload is sent to the backend.

This is too much abstract, so let use explain it with an example

This workflow is an example from a bridge template of the Odoo addon. You can us it out of the box, or take it as a starter point to build your own workflows. With the jobs editor, you can define custom workflow jobs, check out the documentation!

Backends

A backend can be your open software ERP, or maybe that email marketing platform your team works with. There is where the journey comes to end, where your data should be. To allow Forms Bridge to get to your backend, it needs a URL an array of HTP headers, and, if required, an HTTP authentication credential.

Screenshots

Settings page screenshot — Settings page

Backend settings screenshot with two registered backends, ntfy and Odoo — Settings page

Support us 🧡

Forms Bridge is open source software. This means it’s free and open. We don’t charge with any fee the use of this piece of software, feel free to use it and to share with your friends.

Behind Forms Bridge plugin is Còdec, a web development cooperative studio based on Barcelona. We work with WordPress and the CoopPress stack, our own toolset and methodology inspired and oriented to the cooperative market of Catalonia. If you want to know more or want to work with us, get in touch!

Donate

If you only wants to support the project and make it a little bit more sustainable, you can donate to Forms Bridge via Buy Me a Coffee ☕.

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