Sobi 1.6.0 — SMTP, Webhooks, Turnstile & More

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Hey everyone!

Sobi Forms v1.6.0 is officially live. This is a big one: consolidating the strong foundation of Sobi Forms: reliable email delivery, webhook support, advanced spam protection, and a smoother admin experience.

TL;DR

  • SMTP: Send notification and confirmation emails through your own mail server.
  • Webhooks: Push submissions to Zapier, Make, n8n, or your own API as clean JSON.
  • Spam Protection: Configure Cloudflare Turnstile.
  • Inbox refresh: Faster, smoother submissions screen.

1. Reliable email delivery (SMTP)

You shouldn’t have to pay to send and receive emails.

What’s new: Go to Sobi Forms → Settings → SMTP, enter your provider credentials (Gmail, SendGrid, your host, etc.), switch on Activate SMTP routing, and you’re done. You can test connection and send test email right there.

If something still fails, SMTP → Logs shows you exactly what went wrong, and you can even resend.

2. Webhooks: connect Sobi Forms to anything

Sometimes email isn’t enough 🙂 You want submissions in your CRM, Slack, Airtable, or a custom backend.

What’s new: Add a Webhook action under After submit in the form builder. On each real submission, Sobi Forms POSTs a fixed JSON payload.

Settings → Webhooks gives you an overview of which forms are wired up, plus Logs for failed deliveries, with Retry, same idea as SMTP.

3. Spam protection with Cloudflare Turnstile support

What’s new: Sobi Forms → Settings → Spam protection brings site-wide controls into one place:

  • Rate limiting: you can now change the submissions cap per visitor IP (default 10/hour)
  • Akismet: if you already use Akismet on your site, you can now decided to toggle it on or off for Sobi Forms
  • Cloudflare Turnstile: optional, invisible bot protection. Create an Invisible widget in Cloudflare, Turnstile runs in the background.

Spam submissions still land in your inbox when you use Akismet (marked as spam) so you can review them.

5. A faster, smoother Submissions inbox

If you live in Sobi Forms → Submissions, this one’s for you.

I updated the inbox to a React app: open a message, mark read/unread, star, filter, paginate… without full page reloads. Actions give you quick toast feedback instead of clunky admin notices.

6. Smaller but useful bits

  • Date field: birthdays, appointment requests…
  • Onboarding: fresh installs with no forms get nudged toward Create your first form; the dashboard widget does the same.

v1.6.0 is available now in your WordPress dashboard. Update Sobi Forms and head to Settings to explore.

As always, feedback and real-world use cases welcome, they shape what comes next.