Franer

Franer is a secure environment to publish AI-generated forms. The name is a backronym for Framework for Running AI-geNerated Embedded foRms.

Franer lets an administrator paste self-contained, AI-generated HTML activities, renders them inside a sandboxed iframe, and collects users' JSON submissions safely on the server. There is no dependency on Formidable Forms or any third-party form engine.

Demo

Try Franer instantly in your browser with WordPress Playground. The demo includes sample data so you can explore the features. All changes are discarded when you close the tab, because everything runs locally in your browser.

Purpose

AI assistants are great at producing rich, interactive single-file HTML activities (quizzes, self-assessments, calculators, surveys). The hard part is publishing them safely and collecting the data they generate. Franer solves both problems:

• It treats the AI-generated HTML as untrusted and never executes it in the context of your site. The markup only ever runs inside a locked-down iframe.
• It collects each user's structured JSON answer through a nonced, authenticated REST call made by the parent page, never by the iframe itself.
• It stores submissions server-side, keeping only hashes of the IP address and user agent.

How it works

1. Author: an admin pastes an AI-generated, self-contained HTML activity into a Franer site (the franer_site custom post type).
2. Render: the activity is rendered inside an `