Pirate Forms was created by ThemeIsle, the company behind popular WordPress themes Zerif and Hestia. They built the plugin in 2015 to add a simple contact form solution to their fast-growing themes. At the time, most WordPress form plugins were not beginner-friendly.
That’s why in 2016, we launched WPForms with a single mission: create the most beginner friendly WordPress form plugin in the market.
Since then, WPForms has passed over 1 million active installs and has an average rating of 4.9 out of 5 (with over 2400 five-star ratings).
I have met Ionut (ThemeIsle founder) at numerous business conferences, and we always talked about increasing collaboration between our two companies. We both put user experience as our #1 priority and have a lot of similar philosophies regarding the WordPress product ecosystem. In his recent visit to United States and Awesome Motive HQ, we furthered our discussion on ways to work together and shared our respective growth plans for our companies.
During our conversations, we both agreed that WPForms offers a more powerful and user-friendly WordPress form builder experience, and it meets all the requirements for ThemeIsle themes.
The more we talked, the more it made sense for WPForms to acquire Pirate Forms, and for our two companies to work together in bringing the best user experience to the WordPress community at large.
This brings us up to date with today’s announcement. WPForms has officially acquired the Pirate Forms plugin in an all-cash deal.
