THE BEST WORDPRESS timeline PLUGIN

Turn Form Entries Into Beautiful Timelines

Display entries in clean visual timelines
Highlight events, steps, or progress

Organize content chronologically
Build timelines for any use case

Build Powerful Timeline Views for Clear Storytelling

Timeline Views help you turn form submissions into organized, attractive visual timelines. Show progress, milestones, historical sequences, or step by step journeys. With complete control over layout and formatting, you can build timelines that fit education, project tracking, storytelling, or business operations.

Chronological Sorting

Order entries by date automatically so your timeline stays accurate and easy to follow.

Custom Timeline Formats

Start with clean layouts or design your own format for any type of milestone or event.

Front End Submission Support

Let users submit entries and update timelines from the front end.

Expandable Event Details

Show short summaries or reveal full details with lightboxes or modal expansions.

Visual Formatting Options

Control spacing, images, icons, and content structure to match your design.

Unlimited Timelines

Build as many timelines as you need for projects, lessons, history, or workflows.

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Tell a Clear Story With Every Entry

Timelines help audiences understand how things unfold. Use Formidable to present events with clarity, give context to progress, or show how a process evolves over time. Whether you are tracking growth, teaching history, or documenting a project, Timeline Views turn raw data into meaningful narrative.

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Start Collecting Entries in WordPress for Free

The free plugin lets you collect entries with forms and view them in your WordPress dashboard.

Upgrade to the Business plan to unlock Timeline Views. Create visual timelines, apply custom layouts, organize events by category, and build front facing displays that update automatically. Present your information in a format that visitors can understand at a glance.

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Works Seamlessly with the Tools You Already Use

Connect Formidable to your CRM, automation tools, and marketing platforms. Sync transactions to ActiveCampaign, HubSpot, Mailchimp, and more, or trigger zaps in Zapier automatically after payment.

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Advanced Controls That Make Your Timelines Clear and Engaging

Timeline Views comes with powerful tools that help you shape exactly how your chronological data appears. From layout to spacing to interaction, every detail can be refined so your timeline feels polished and easy to follow.

Flexible Layout and Theme Options

Choose from multiple horizontal layouts and four beautifully designed themes. Adjust the structure, style, and overall look of your timeline to match your site’s design with just a few clicks.

Custom Event Markers and Color Controls

Select marker styles like numbers, dots, or images, then fine tune colors for lines, markers, backgrounds, and text. These controls help you match your branding and create visual clarity throughout your timeline.

Smart Spacing and Navigation Features

Enable Natural Timeline spacing so events reflect real differences in time, or add automatic dividers for long timelines. Visitors can browse years or months with ease, keeping even extensive timelines simple to understand.

More Than Just a WordPress Timeline Plugin

Formidable helps you turn information into organized visual stories that guide users through milestones, progress, and key moments.

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Trusted by over 300K+ users

The people have spoken. Their approval has us seeing stars - and we couldn't be prouder. With validation like this, Formidable Forms is one of the highest-rated WordPress plugins out there.

The plugin works perfectly. It offers you many configuration options and is very well structured. But the best thing about Formidable is the technical support. I needed a really special feature, and thanks to them I achieved it. They have gained a customer for life.

raulolivella

I've been using Formidable Forms and Views and have been delighted with the many ways I've been able to utilize them. Using Views to display form submission data on the front-end has been huge for me. And, the few times I've gotten stuck, I've reached out to support and have received actual, helpful responses.

pmterp

FF has transformed the way I approach form creation and management on my website. The visual editing capabilities give me intuitive and seamless design processes that save me time and effort. Next to that, the ease of creating multi-step forms that have better conversion rates makes setup a breeze. The overall flexibility and efficiency of Formidable Forms have significantly improved my workflow and site user experience.

zufo

I have been using the pro plugin of Formidable Forms for many years now. I can’t think of anything else that comes close to the quality and intuitiveness of this plugin for WordPress!

Tilasmi

I’ve been using formidable for almost ten years, on over a hundred websites. It’s the most refined form builder with the most flexibility than any other I’ve used. Plus, it’s just beautiful and just works.
The support framework our this plugin is top notch!

ddpweb

I have been using formidable forms for many years now and have built both small and large scale web applications with it. I have nothing but good to say about all my experiences with both the product and support.

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Frequently Asked Questions & Resources

Do you have a question about Formidable Forms? See the list below for our most frequently asked questions. If your question is not listed here, please contact us.

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General FAQs

How does WordPress display form data with Views?

Many form builders can collect data for things like guest posts, but Formidable Views takes it one big step further. It’s a simple process: create a form, collect data, then use our low-code Views platform to display that data however you want.

Is Formidable Views a WordPress database application builder?

It sure is. Use online forms or import your data, then build relationships easily using our low-code solution. Once you’ve got the data loaded, building web applications with WordPress is easy.

Learn more: How to Save Form Data in Databases in WordPress

Can Views help easily build data-driven web applications with WordPress?

The keyword there is "easily" - and the answer is yes! Formidable Views can speed up web development immensely. For example, there’s no need to do any database work at all. We’ve built Views for easy app development, whether you’re a developer or not.

What kind of layouts can I build using Views?

Still wondering what Views will look like on your WordPress site? That’s entirely up to you. You can build a WordPress membership directory, a WordPress calendar, image galleries - you name it! Create entire web pages or modules using data tables, images, text, listings, and advanced conditional forms.

Can I build WordPress members-only pages?

Yes, definitely. First, create a registration form to register new users. This could be a multi-step form to make collecting membership data even easier. After that, use Formidable Views to automatically show member profiles.

Learn more: How to create a WordPress user directory

What types of websites can I make with Views?

With Views, there are endless ways to display your form data. Tweak every possible option with Formidable's View settings. For developers, we also have advanced view concepts that will blow your clients away. You can even create forms where either the admin or users manage submissions.

Use Formidable Views and WordPress to make custom page templates, whatever they might be! We’ve written a lot about different Views use cases on our blog:

Can I create a searchable database in a WordPress site?

You sure can! Formidable Views can cover your WordPress searchable database plugin needs. Creating your database online is easy. Start by sending data from WordPress forms to the database on your WordPress site.

After that, use Formidable Views to display database data in a WordPress page, post, or custom post type. You can make datatables, lists, or whatever you want. And of course, Views allow you to create filters and use advanced search. Instant custom database!

Learn more: How to Create a Searchable Database in WordPress

Can Views use WordPress to add search to a page?

Wondering how to add a WordPress search box on a page? While you can use the default WordPress search bar, there's potential to do so much more. If you are looking for advanced options, this is yet another job for Formidable Views.

Tweak every option you can imagine to create powerful WordPress search forms with custom management systems & dynamic results pages.

Learn more: How to Create a Searchable Database in WordPress

Can Views create one-to-many relationships?

Yes! Use Formidable Views to create one-to-many relationships between form data and the frontend of your website.

Here’s one quick example. You can create a vehicle maintenance log that helps the internal team keep track of progress in a dashboard, while also updating the customer with email notifications or a dedicated customer portal.

What are Formidable Views

Views are a way to transform and revolutionize what you do with collected form data in WordPress. With Views, you have a tool to build something truly unique and memorable.

Views allow you to build an application or display for your form data to feed into. Any data that is submitted through a Formidable form can be displayed beautifully, searched for, or filtered on the front end of your site.

What does low-code mean?

Low-code refers to a user interface (UI) platform that provides a development environment used to create web applications. So, instead of writing many lines of code, most options and settings are built-in to allow users the freedom to build web apps easily.

Does the Formidable team offer customer support?

We've been training WordPress warriors for 11+ years with our vast amount of support articles.

You'll find helpful tutorials on how to create a view, how to publish a view, and dozens more help docs devoted to displaying your form data with style.

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Is Formidable Views a WordPress 'form to post' plugin?

Wondering if Formidable includes post submission form tools? Sure does. Collect user-submitted content with our WordPress custom fields. These include fields to collect all kinds of post content.

Image upload fields for featured images, text fields for text, hidden fields for tracking, and much more. Formidable even has 100+ form templates to help you collect data quickly and easily.

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Turn Form Entries Into Beautiful Timelines

Build Powerful Timeline Views for Clear Storytelling

Chronological Sorting

Custom Timeline Formats

Front End Submission Support

Expandable Event Details

Visual Formatting Options

Unlimited Timelines

Tell a Clear Story With Every Entry

Start Collecting Entries in WordPress for Free

Works Seamlessly with the Tools You Already Use

Advanced Controls That Make Your Timelines Clear and Engaging

Flexible Layout and Theme Options

Custom Event Markers and Color Controls

Smart Spacing and Navigation Features

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