Core Forms Has Its Own Home, and Version 4.7 Is Here

Core Forms is no longer just a plugin page on my personal website. It now has its own home, account system, documentation, release history, and public roadmap at core-forms.com.

That move gives the plugin the infrastructure it needs for the next stage: a faster release cycle, better customer management, and a much broader set of business tools.

Core Forms is becoming its own platform

I have moved the product, documentation, downloads, license management, changelog, roadmap, and customer accounts away from gauravtiwari.org. My personal website remains my publishing home, but Core Forms now has a dedicated product home.

The new site is where customers can follow development and where I can build account, licensing, commerce, support, and documentation features without tying them to my personal publishing stack.

A proper account for every customer

Customers can now manage Core Forms at core-forms.com/account using the same email address used for the purchase. Email matching is case-insensitive, so differently capitalized versions of an address resolve to the same account.

• Use a password as the primary sign-in method

• Fall back to a one-time email link

• Create or reset a password

• See licenses and active sites

• Deactivate an old site

• Download the latest or a previous release

• View orders and receipts

• Manage profile and security settings

If something is missing from an account, email me at gaurav@gauravtiwari.org.

From version 4.0 to 4.7

Core Forms 4.0 established the foundation: a schema-backed form engine, visual builder, more than 25 fields, multi-step forms, conditional logic, calculations, scheduling, save and resume, native integrations, workflows, retries, logs, analytics, and webhooks.

Since then, each release has made the plugin more capable as a complete business tool.

Core Forms 4.1 added Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, Polar, and FluentCart payments, payment templates, headless and cross-origin REST support, and better payment settings.

Core Forms 4.2 added migration tools for Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, WPForms, and Fluent Forms, along with analytics, revisions, recommendations, WhatsApp automation, and a security and admin pass.

Core Forms 4.3 rebuilt polls, added conditional email routing, improved import, form, container, and layout controls, and strengthened Block Editor rendering, accessibility, and performance.

Core Forms 4.4 introduced commerce and software licensing, customer dashboards, license activation management, Stripe Element and Razorpay support, more builder and integration improvements, WP-CLI commands, and WCAG upgrades.

Core Forms 4.5 added standalone form URLs, smarter asset loading, no-JavaScript submissions, and stronger analytics and privacy controls.

Core Forms 4.6 brought the Core Commerce workspace, currency and gateway routing, product, checkout, pricing, buy, and customer blocks, REST and MCP-discoverable abilities, better Block Editor rendering, stronger validation and headless workflows, Emailit support, and more reliable licensing.

Core Forms 4.7 now unifies the admin navigation and adds the Form Theme Customizer with presets, a live preview, accessibility checks, and regenerated CSS. It also adds selective import and export, a combined view of customers, purchases, licenses, active sites, and activity, and better tables, controls, templates, and product publishing.

You can read every release note on the Core Forms changelog.

Why Core Forms works so well with AI tools

I have created hundreds of forms across my own websites with AI tools. Core Forms makes that practical because the development surface is open and predictable: REST APIs, a structured form schema, hooks, WP-CLI commands, and MCP-discoverable abilities through compatible MCP servers.

An AI tool does not need to fake clicks through an interface to make a useful form. It can work with the schema, create or update a form, inspect the result, and use the same structures that the plugin itself understands.

The code quality matters just as much. Core Forms is backed by automated tests, static analysis, security reviews, compatibility checks, and safer data handling. I want it to be easy to extend without becoming fragile.

An integration added by another major WordPress plugin

Independent Analytics recently added native Core Forms form tracking. Independent Analytics is one of the most popular local analytics tools in WordPress and is active on more than 100,000 websites.

This is important because the integration was added outside Core Forms. It is a useful signal that the plugin’s events and developer interfaces are becoming part of the wider WordPress ecosystem.

You can see the integration in the Independent Analytics changelog.

Polls and the Block Editor are much better

Polls now support scheduling, live results, analytics, accessibility improvements, and stronger vote controls. They feel like a real part of Core Forms rather than a separate experiment.

Block Editor rendering has also improved significantly. Form styles inside the editor now match the published result much more closely, including theme tokens generated by the Form Theme Customizer. That removes a lot of unnecessary preview-and-correct work.

A new Core Forms tutorial series

I have started publishing a new series of Core Forms tutorials on YouTube. These cover practical form building, workflows, and features that are easier to understand when you can see the complete process.

Watch the Core Forms tutorial playlist.

The path forward

Development is going faster than ever, and I intend to keep it active and transparent.

The aim is to build the form plugin a business needs to upgrade: forms, workflows, payments, customer operations, digital products, and software licensing without forcing you to assemble and maintain a pile of add-ons.

I am continuing to improve integrations, the visual builder, automation, commerce, and licensing. I am also exploring AI-assisted form creation, multilingual workflows, Salesforce and Pipedrive connections, and PDF generation.

You can follow the work through the changelog and the public roadmap. The documentation and YouTube tutorials are also growing with the product.

If you use Core Forms and have a question, email gaurav@gauravtiwari.org.