Your Elementor Pro forms already sit on the pages you designed. With FlowMattic, each entry can do real work on the same WordPress site: create a draft listing with its photo, open a member account, update a profile field or file a privacy request. Nothing leaves your server, and no extra form plugin is needed.
33 triggers 71 actions 7 example workflows 2 ready-made templates Unlimited runs
When this happens in Elementor1 trigger
Do this in WordPress71 actions
1. TriggerNew Form Submission2. ActionNew PostWhen Elementor fires New Form Submission, FlowMattic runs New Post in WordPress with the data from that event.
You build this in the FlowMattic workflow builder on your own site. See the setup steps
Each one uses only triggers and actions the two integrations ship today, plus FlowMattic's own tools. Where the library has a ready-made template, import it instead of building from scratch.
Directories, job boards and event sites collect listings on an Elementor form. Each entry becomes a draft post with the title and description filled in, waiting for an editor to publish.
New Form SubmissionNew Post
The form's upload field gives a file URL. The workflow adds it to the media library and sets it as the new post's thumbnail, so the draft is ready to preview.
New Form SubmissionNew PostNew MediaSet Post Thumbnail
An access request form creates the account only if the email is new, then sends WordPress's own password reset email, so you never type or send a password yourself.
New Form SubmissionCreate User if Not ExistsSend Password Reset
A preferences form on a members page looks the person up by email and saves answers such as company or interests to their user meta, where membership and theme code can read them.
New Form SubmissionGet User by EmailFilterUpdate User Meta
A privacy page form starts WordPress's export or erase request for the email given. A Router picks the request type, and WordPress sends its usual confirmation email.
New Form SubmissionRouterGDPR Request Export Personal Data
A dropdown for region or type is turned into a category on the new draft, so approved listings appear on the right archive page without editing them.
New Form SubmissionNew PostAdd Category to Post
A Human in the Loop step asks an editor to approve the entry. Approved posts are set to published, and rejected ones stay as drafts for later.
New Form SubmissionNew PostHuman in the LoopSet Post Status
At the end, every entry on your Elementor listing form is saved as a draft post on your site.
The trigger reads forms built with the Elementor Pro Form widget, so make sure Elementor Pro is active and the form is published on a page.
Create a workflow with the Elementor New Form Submission trigger and submit the form once so FlowMattic captures its field IDs.
Add WordPress New Post, set the status to draft, and map the listing title and description fields from the form.
Test the step, open the draft in wp-admin to check it looks right, then switch the workflow on.
1. Trigger in Elementor
New Form Submission
2. Action in WordPress
New Post
Fields mapped from the earlier steps (a typical setup)
| From Elementor | To WordPress |
|---|---|
| Listing title | Post title |
| Description | Post content |
| Contact email | Custom field |
| Region | Category |
A trigger starts a workflow. An action is something FlowMattic does in the app as a step.
Elementor and WordPress connect through FlowMattic on your own site, with no separate automation account in the middle and no charge per run.
Entries become posts, users and meta on the same site, so an Elementor form can run a directory or member signup with no extra plugin.
The form, the workflow and the new content all live on your server, which matters for member data and privacy requests.
Runs are unlimited on every FlowMattic plan, so a popular form costs no more to automate than a quiet one.
Yes. Start with the Elementor New Form Submission trigger and add WordPress New Post. Map the form's title and content fields, choose draft or published, and add Set Post Thumbnail or Add Category to Post if you need them.
No. The trigger reads submissions from the Form widget, which is part of Elementor Pro. The rest of the workflow uses WordPress itself and needs nothing else.
Use Create User if Not Exists instead of New User. It checks the email first and only creates an account for someone new, so repeat submissions pass without an error.
Yes. GDPR Request Export Personal Data and GDPR Request Erase Personal Data start the same requests WordPress offers under its privacy tools. WordPress then emails the person to confirm before anything is exported or erased.
Yes. Create the post as a draft and add a Human in the Loop step. The editor approves or rejects it, and Set Post Status publishes only the approved ones.
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Reviewed 27 Oct 2026. The example workflows are written with AI from the real triggers and actions of both integrations and checked against them. Elementor integration 1.0, WordPress integration 7.3.0.
