Conversational Forms — Typeform-Style Experience for WordPress

Fillin Forge has a native conversational mode — a one-question-at-a-time experience in the style popularized by Typeform. No embeds. No third-party scripts. No monthly SaaS fee. Any Fillin Forge form can be displayed in conversational mode with a single toggle.

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What conversational mode looks like

Open a Fillin Forge form with conversational mode enabled and you see:

• One question per screennothing else visible, no distractions
• Roomy layoutthe form sits in a tall panel inside your page, with room for one question at a time
• Slide-up animation between questions
• Progress bar at the top showing how far along the user is
• Auto-focuswhen a question appears, its first input is focused, so you can start typing
• Enter to advance (inside a long-answer textarea Enter adds a new line instead), plus Next and Back buttons
• Tab / Shift+TabTab on the last control of a question (the Next and Back buttons are controls too) moves on to the next question, and Shift+Tab on the first control goes back
• Radio answers advance by themselvespicking a radio option moves on to the next question after a short pause
• Large, readable typography optimized for forms with one question on screen

On screens up to 640 px wide the panel has a minimum height of 600 px instead of 720 px (never more than the screen height), and the progress bar and an “n / total” counter show how far the visitor has come.

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Why it matters

What conversational mode does

Conversational mode shows one question at a time, with a progress bar (paid plans). Typeform is built around the same idea and has its own pricing and data handling; see Fillin Forge and Typeform, with sources and dates.

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How Fillin Forge’s conversational mode works

Every Fillin Forge form is just a set of fields in a database. In traditional mode, those fields are rendered as a single form on a page. In conversational mode, they’re rendered one at a time with animations between them.

Both modes share:

• The field types (Page Break and Divider are skipped)
• Conditional logic
• Validation rules (each question checks that its required answers are filled in, and that a required email or URL answer has a valid format, before the visitor can move on; the server checks the answers when the form is submitted)
• Anti-spam
• Integrations (Slack, Mailchimp, Google Sheets, HubSpot, webhooks, etc.)
• Analytics and submission storage

The only difference is the frontend rendering. You don’t build a “conversational form” separately — you build a regular form and toggle conversational mode on.

The conversational mode toggle

In the form builder, tick the Conversational Mode checkbox in the bar under the list of fields (it needs the Pro add-on, and the license has to include conversational mode), then save the form. On the site the form is then shown as a conversational form. Untick it anytime. The fields stay as they are, so there is no form rebuild.

Last step and thank-you message

After the last question the user sees a final step (“All done!”) with the submit button. After submitting, the form shows its usual success message, or redirects, depending on your After submit setting. There is no separate welcome screen: the first question appears right away.

Question types that work best

Conversational mode works with the Fillin Forge field types (Page Break and Divider are skipped), but some shine brighter in this format:

• Short textfeels natural (“What’s your name?”)
• Emailclear and focused
• Single choice (radio)button-based selection is fast
• Ratinga star rating gets a whole question to itself

Long textareas, file uploads, and compound fields also work but feel more utilitarian. Each field gets a screen of its own, including a Heading or an HTML Block. The exceptions are Page Break and Divider fields, which get no screen, and Hidden fields, which share the screen of the question before them (a Hidden field at the very top shares the first screen).

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Conditional logic in conversational mode

Conditional logic works in conversational mode. You set the rules in the Conditional Logic section of the field’s panel, as in a standard form. A field that a rule hides gets no screen: the visitor goes straight on to the next question, and the progress bar and the “n / total” counter count only the screens that are shown (the final “All done!” screen with the submit button is one of them).

Example flow:

1. “Are you an existing customer?”

– If Yes → the question “What’s your account number?” is shown

– If No → that question is left out, and the next screen is “How did you hear about us?”

1. “What are you looking to do today?”

– Sales → show sales questions

– Support → show support questions

– Partnership → show partnership questions

In standard mode, all of these questions sit on one page. In conversational mode, each question appears on its own screen.

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Use cases where conversational mode wins

Lead-gen forms

A lead-gen form in traditional mode looks like work. In conversational mode it looks like a fun questionnaire.

Customer surveys

A 20-question customer satisfaction survey is a long scroll. Conversational mode turns it into one question at a time.

Quizzes and assessments

Personality quizzes, knowledge tests, product recommenders — all perfect for conversational mode. Each question is its own moment.

Onboarding flows

Welcoming a new user to your platform? Use conversational mode to make the setup feel conversational instead of like a configuration screen.

High-value forms

For forms where every submission matters — a $5,000 service quote, a B2B RFP, a healthcare intake — a form that shows one question at a time can feel shorter, and that can help more visitors finish it.

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Performance

Conversational mode is built on the same form engine as standard mode. Extra CSS and JS are loaded only on pages that contain a conversational form, not on every page of your site.

The conversational stylesheet and script make no requests to other sites.

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Fillin Forge and Typeform: price and plans

The comparison page lists the plans of both with the date.

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Ready to try conversational forms?

See pricing →

Conversational mode is included in every paid plan. Any form can be toggled to conversational with a single click.