News, Updates & Community
Facing Reality: Changing The Way We Approach Version 3.0
Last weekend, I spoke at WordCamp Manchester. My presentation revolved around some of the many mistakes I’ve made while creating Ninja Forms and Ninja Demo. I discussed taking too long to release code, support, plugin updates, and managing a development …
Compounding Errors
I am extremely frustrated at the moment. More importantly many of our users on this website are frustrated and rightfully so. An isolated subset of our users got emails from our site that were not intended for them, but in fact were …
File Uploads Gets Cloud Storage Integration
We have recently released a great new update to our popular File Uploads extension that introduces the integration with various cloud storage systems. Previously when users submitted file uploads through Ninja Forms, the file would be saved to the site …
Ninja Forms now offers Extension Bundles
Two bundles to be exact. WP Ninjas Developer Bundle – 66% off WP Ninjas User Bundles – 47% off Both of these bundles include all of the extensions developed by the creators of Ninja Forms with the User Bundle providing …
Ninja Forms – A Case Study of the Freemium Plugin Model
I’m not sure case studies are terribly interesting, but for those who are considering similar endeavours, they can be helpful. What we are about to present are the challenges we faced selling a WordPress plugin and the solutions that have …
Version 2.5 Released – Limit All The Things
We are working extremely hard to release version 3.0 of Ninja Forms. It’s such a huge release that set’s us up to do some really awesome stuff in the very near future. The issue is that there are still support …
Version 2.4.2 Released
Back when we released 2.3, we decided to become more deliberate about our larger releases. We still plan on releasing bug fixes frequently, but we want our larger releases to be focused on adding new features or addressing a very …
Ninja Forms – 2013 year in review
To say that 2013 was anything less than astonishing would be an understatement. There are plenty of WordPress business that fared much better than we did, but if you had asked us at the beginning of the year if we …
Why we don’t use public support forums
Occasionally we get asked if we have a public forum where one could search previous support requests for answers. It’s a reasonable request since many plugin developers provide such forums. In fact, up until a few months ago so did …
Version 2.3 Released
Anyone who uses Ninja Forms, and there are apparently a very large number of you, knows that Ninja Forms get’s updated very frequently. This isn’t because we don’t have anything better to do. Ninja Forms is gaining in popularity very …
Wysija for Ninja Forms is now Available!
We are excited to announce the next extension in the Ninja Forms arsenal of Email Marketing and newsletter integration. There isn’t a whole lot that needs to be said about this fantastic extension. It does exactly what you would expect …
PayPal comes to Ninja Forms
Ninja Forms has been gaining popularity by leaps and bounds. Over the past 8 months Ninja Forms has been downloaded over one hundred thousand times. Many of these users are learning just how flexible Ninja Forms truly is and how …
Ninja Forms is a Framework
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Especially with some of the larger extensions we have available or in development. Building forms with Ninja Forms is super easy Yes, you can use Ninja Forms to create and power your …
Ninja Forms Extension Pricing Changes
On Thursday, August 1st, 2013 we will be making a small change in the way Ninja Forms Extensions are priced. This is in response to Ninja Forms rapidly growing popularity, increased support volume, and the many new developers who have …
Teaser: Calculation Fields for Ninja Forms
Here is a first look at the soon to be released calculation fields for Ninja Forms. There is just a little spit and polish that’s needed before we can make these available to all Ninja Forms users next week. Watch …
Why do we update Ninja Forms so often?
Some might call releasing three updates, and sometimes more, every week overkill. We like to think that updating “too often” is really subjective, but hopefully this post will explain our reasoning behind the frequent updates. Ninja Forms is under extremely …