Developer
documentation

This site is the developer documentation for WCKD Forms. It is written for a developer or technical admin who is deploying the WCKD Forms product for the first time.

Note. Do not edit these docs/*.php files in place if you plan to pull or deploy product updates. New releases can overwrite them. Keep a fork, a separate documentation site, or your own notes outside this directory if you need customized text.

Guides

• Installation
• SMTP setup
• Routing & URLs
• Embedding Forms
• Inbox & Leads
• Forms & Fields
• People & Access Control
• Operations & Settings
• Notifications (staff email, auto-reply, routing)
• Webhooks (HTTPS integrations)
• CRM & External Tools
• Performance & Analytics
• CSV Export
• Troubleshooting

Where to start by role

• First-time deploy: Install, then Routing & URLs, then Embed forms.
• Embed only (content or theme dev): Embed forms and Routing & URLs.
• Daily lead handling: Inbox & leads, Performance.
• Technical owner: all guides above; finish with Notifications, Webhooks, CRM & tools, CSV export, and the root UPGRADE.md for in-app or manual package updates.

Optional package in this repository

wckd-forms-lite/ is a smaller satellite runtime for sites that post into the same intake URL without the full dashboard bundle. Routing and embed ideas match the full product; treat it as a separate surface area from wckd-forms/ (see wckd-forms-lite/ and root htaccess_wordpress.txt for coexistence hints).