RJ App Studio Form Builder

Documentation

RJ App Studio Form Builder docs

Short, practical guides. Most people are publishing their first form within ten minutes of installing.

Getting started

Install the plugin and find your way around the admin.

Creating your first form

Build, style, and publish a contact form with the drag-and-drop builder.

Email notifications

Set up admin alerts and visitor confirmations with template tokens.

Import & export

Move forms between sites as JSON files.

Getting started

RJ App Studio Form Builder installs like any WordPress plugin and adds a single top-level menu to your admin.

Requirements

  • WordPress (current release or the two prior major versions)
  • PHP 8.0 or newer
  • Permission to install plugins on your site

Installation

RJ App Studio Form Builder is free and lives in the WordPress.org plugin directory — no license key, no account required.

  1. In wp-admin, go to Plugins → Add New and search for RJ App Studio Form Builder.
  2. Click Install Now, then Activate.
  3. You're done — the RJ App Studio Form Builder menu appears in your admin sidebar.

Prefer to install by hand? Download the zip from the plugin page, then use Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.

Tip: Once activated, you'll find everything under the RJ App Studio Form Builder menu — forms, entries, the email log, and settings. There are no scattered submenus to hunt for.

Creating your first form

Let's build a standard contact form: name, email, and a message.

Build it

  1. Go to RJ App Studio Form Builder → Add New. The builder opens with an empty canvas and a field palette on the left.
  2. Drag a Text field onto the canvas and label it "Name". Set its width to Half.
  3. Drag an Email field next to it, label it "Email", width Half, and mark it Required. The two fields now sit side by side and stack on mobile.
  4. Drag a Textarea below them and label it "Message".
  5. Optionally, open Button design to match the submit button to your theme — colors, radius, size, and alignment with a live preview.

Publish it

  1. Click Publish. Forms start as drafts, so nothing goes live until you say so.
  2. Copy the form's shortcode and paste it into any page or post — or use the RJ App Studio Form Builder block in the block editor.
  3. Submit a test entry, then check RJ App Studio Form Builder → Entries to see it stored with a full detail view.

Going longer? For registration-style forms, add a Step break anywhere on the canvas to split the form into steps with Back/Next navigation and per-step progress.

Email notifications

Notifications are templates that fill themselves in from each submission using tokens.

Set up an admin alert

  1. Open your form and go to the Notifications tab.
  2. Add a notification, set the recipient to your admin address, and choose HTML or plain text.
  3. Write the subject and body using tokens — for example:

New message from {field:name} — {form_title}

Available tokens

  • {field:xxx} — the value of a specific field
  • {all_fields} — every field and answer, formatted
  • {form_title} — the form's title

Wondering if an email went out? Check RJ App Studio Form Builder → Email log. Every notification is recorded with its recipient, subject, and send time.

Import & export

Forms export as portable JSON files, which makes moving between environments a two-minute job.

Export a form

  1. Go to RJ App Studio Form Builder → Forms and hover over the form you want to move.
  2. Click Export. A .json file downloads containing the form's fields, steps, settings, and notifications.

Import on another site

  1. On the destination site, go to RJ App Studio Form Builder → Import.
  2. Choose the JSON file and click Import. The form arrives as a draft so you can review it before publishing.

Note: Import brings the form definition, not its entries. Entries stay with the site that collected them; use CSV export if you need the data too.