I built a free WordPress contact form plugin with REST API — here's what I learned

I just published my first WordPress plugin to the official directory.
Here's what I built and what I learned along the way.

What the plugin does

Pavel Silinskii Contact Forms is a contact form builder with:

• Drag-and-drop form editor
• 7 field types (text, email, phone, textarea, select, checkbox, radio)
• All submissions stored in the WordPress database
• Email notifications on every submission
• REST API with 4 endpoints
• CSV export of submissions
• Honeypot spam protection

What I learned from the review process

WordPress.org has a volunteer review team that checks every plugin
before approval. They caught two issues in my submission:

1. My namespace was ACF\ which conflicted with Advanced Custom Fields
   (6M+ installs). Always use unique prefixes.

2. Plugin name was too generic — "Contact Forms" alone isn't distinctive
   enough. Author name must be at the beginning.

Both issues were fixed and the plugin was approved.

Try it

Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/pavel-silinskii-contact-forms/
GitHub: https://github.com/pavelsilinskiiwork/advanced-contact-forms

Would love feedback from the community.