I received an email from Happy Forms stating that as of the 1.8.11 update, the following features are removed from the free version:

• Scale, Rating, Story, Website Link, Table, Phone, Date & Time, Address, Title, Legal, Placeholder and Text Editor form parts

• Redirect on submit setting

• Fade submit button until valid setting

• Google ReCaptcha integration

• Response previews setting

All current sites will have these functionalities removed if the plugin is updated, which is awful and will cripple any site that relied on Happy Forms.

I certainly understand the push to get more users to upgrade to the paid plugin, but the way to do this is to add more features people expect to be “extra” such as payment integration, conditional logic, etc. A phone number field is such a basic feature that it should be an automatic include. There is no excuse for removing such an integral feature. Congratulations on having the only free form plugin for WordPress that puts a phone number field behind a paywall.

I was already on the fence about dropping this plugin because of the unorthodox way it handles dropdown fields (come on, use a SELECT field like every form has used since like 1995, don’t reinvent the wheel) and this made my decision easier. I’m going back and removing Happy Forms from dozens of sites.

• This topic was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by  Paskadox.