How do I use Ninja Forms's Create Form ability with AI?

Install the Easy MCP AI WordPress plugin alongside Ninja Forms, connect your AI client, then ask in natural language — for example: "Create an 'Event RSVP' form with a First Name, Last Name, Email (required), and a Yes/No/Maybe radio field for attendance, and set the success message to thank the guest by name."

Create Form is a WordPress ability from Ninja Forms — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.

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Create a new Ninja Forms form, optionally with fields, actions, and calculations, in a single call.

Requires the Ninja Forms plugin on WordPress 6.9+ for the Abilities API (all 32 abilities are registered only when the wp_register_ability() function exists, via NF_Abilities_Integration::load_abilities_api() running on plugins_loaded). Every ability is gated by the same ninja_forms_ability_can_manage_forms() permission callback, requiring the caller to hold WordPress's manage_options capability or Ninja Forms' own nf_edit_forms capability.

What it does

This ability creates a brand-new Ninja Forms form from a title plus an optional array of field definitions, custom actions, and calculator formulas. If no actions are supplied, Ninja Forms automatically attaches its three default actions — Success Message, Admin Email, and Record Submission — so submissions are saved to the database without any extra setup. The form comes back with a form_id that ninjaforms/add-field can then use to keep adding fields, and a submit button is always appended automatically. This lets an AI assistant scaffold an entire form — including calculator logic and merge-tag-driven success messages — from a single natural-language request instead of the user clicking through the drag-and-drop builder field by field.

See it in action

You ask your AI assistant

"Create an 'Event RSVP' form with a First Name, Last Name, Email (required), and a Yes/No/Maybe radio field for attendance, and set the success message to thank the guest by name."

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
title	string	Yes	Form title.
fields	array	No	Field definitions to add during creation (type, label, required, placeholder, default_value, help_text, admin_label, key, options).
actions	array	No	Custom actions to attach; if omitted, default Success Message/Admin Email/Record Submission actions are added automatically.
show_title	boolean	No	Show the form title. Defaults to true.
form_title_heading_level	string	No	Heading level for the form title (1-6). Defaults to '3'.
default_label_pos	string	No	Default field label position: above, below, left, right, or hidden. Defaults to 'above'.
clear_complete	boolean	No	Clear the form after a successful submission. Defaults to true.
hide_complete	boolean	No	Hide the form after a successful submission. Defaults to true.
ajax_submit	boolean	No	Enable AJAX form submission. Defaults to true.
logged_in	boolean	No	Require the submitter to be logged in. Defaults to false.
not_logged_in_msg	string	No	Message shown when a logged-out user tries to submit a login-required form.
allow_public_link	boolean	No	Allow anonymous access via a public link. Defaults to false.
sub_limit_number	integer	No	Maximum number of submissions allowed.
sub_limit_msg	string	No	Message shown once the submission limit is reached.
wrapper_class	string	No	Custom CSS class for the form wrapper.
element_class	string	No	Custom CSS class for the form element.
calculations	array	No	Calculator formulas, each with a name and an eq equation using {field:key}/{calc:name} references.
currency	string	No	Currency code for payment/calculator forms.
conditions	array	No	Form-level conditional logic.
admin_email_to	string	No	Admin notification recipient (only used with default actions). Defaults to '{wp:admin_email}'.
admin_email_subject	string	No	Admin notification subject (only used with default actions).
success_message	string	No	Success message text (only used with default actions).
submit_label	string	No	Submit button label. Defaults to 'Submit'.
honeypot_enabled	boolean	No	Enable honeypot spam protection.

Returns

An object with a 'success' boolean, the new form's 'form_id', a 'field_count' of how many fields were created, and a human-readable 'message'.

Permission

The current user must have WordPress's 'manage_options' capability or Ninja Forms' own 'nf_edit_forms' capability (checked via the shared ninja_forms_ability_can_manage_forms() permission callback).