Interface with Form Plugins

Hi, I have a small charity site that has been in situ for a few years that allows those that wish help to complete a form to apply.

This form is based upon Caldera Forms (now bought out by Ninja and sunsetted). The form makes use of the Caldera processor “Save as Post Type” to create a Custom Post Type called “Application / foh_app”.

Then within PODS, I created a POD with fields mapped to the form field names. Additionally, I created a PODS template that allows the data from the form to be displayed.

I then use Post Tables Pro to create a page showing all the applications made and then when you click on the same, the PODS template is used to display the form fields.

Now, because Caldera has gone, I now find out that I can’t continue to use as it is incompatible with PHP8+. So, I need a new Form plugin that can emulate the “Save As Post Type” ability of Caldera. Ideally, I would just need to change the form processor and it would slot in with the same mapping.

So, to my questions:

Does anyone know which of the other Forms plugins offer the same type of functionality, so I can go through them and review – or if anyone has a special favourite that they know works well. Ideally, free but if not I WOULD like to try before I buy as often you buy something that doesn’t work 100% as you want and then you are stuck with it.

Ninja did issue a conversion tool. However, you need to buy their products (including paid add ons) before you can successfully convert the form. I have trialed the conversion and the above point aside, it seems to work.

So, there are many form processor plugins, all with loads of features described differently so if anyone knows some good contenders to look at then I would greatly appreciate a steer in the correct direction.

Many thanks in anticipation

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