📘 FormWatch docs
FormWatch Documentation
Everything you need to set up and use Gaemster FormWatch.
What FormWatch does
FormWatch is a WordPress plugin that watches your site’s email and your contact forms, and alerts you when WordPress reports a failure. It is free, works on any number of sites and needs no account. Everything it records stays in your own WordPress database.
- Counts the email your site hands to its mailer, and records when a handoff fails.
- Recognizes form submissions from Contact Form 7, WPForms, Elementor Forms, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms and Formidable Forms.
- Emails you when a failure is recorded, and shows a notice in your WordPress admin.
- Keeps a flight recorder of recent events, including plugin and WordPress updates.
Start here
- Install FormWatch and run the mail-path test.
- Set where failure alerts should go.
- Submit one of your forms and see it appear in the flight recorder.
Guides
Getting startedInstall, run the test, set up alerts and check your forms are watched.Read →
Mail healthHow email is watched, how alerts work and what the risk status means.Read →
Flight recorderRead the event log, keep it as long as you need, export it or clear it.Read →
TroubleshootingFixes for missing emails, quiet forms, missing alerts and more.Read →
Privacy and dataExactly what is stored, what never is, and how to delete it.Read →
At a glance
| Price | Free. No account, no trial. |
|---|---|
| Release | Beta (0.2 series) |
| Requires | WordPress 5.9 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer |
| Tested with | Contact Form 7, WPForms, Formidable Forms and Fluent Forms |
| Recognized, not tested yet | Gravity Forms and Elementor Forms |
| Network | Makes no outside connections |
Get the plugin and see what is planned on the FormWatch page.
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