What is Form Maker used for?
Form Maker is a modern and intuitive free online application form creator plugin developed for WordPress. It lets you build personalized, perfect-looking responsive forms with its elegant drag and drop interface.
You can create custom forms free of additional coding, with just a few clicks. The functionality of Form Maker is excellent for any kind of online questionnaires.
Form Maker can be used for creating multiple types of forms, including contact forms, evaluation form, application forms, quizzes/tests or survey forms, online order forms and etc. Form Maker includes various types of fields which can be modified and/or edited.
Whether you are a WordPress beginner or a web guru, Form Maker is the perfect choice. The dynamic web form builder tool comes with clean visual tools and options, and you do not need to have any web development skills to build a form.
How can I create a contact form with Form Maker?
Navigate to Form Maker > Forms page to build your very first contact form. This contact form creator plugin provides a few sample forms, which you can quickly edit and publish.
Using Form Maker > Forms page, you can manage existing forms, perform Bulk Actions, such as Publish, Unpublish, Duplicate or Delete. Select the necessary form, choose the bulk action, then press Apply. Also, you can search for your contact form by writing its title in the top Search input.
Press Add New button from Forms page, and you will be redirected to Form Editor page. Make sure to write a Title for this contact form, then choose the Theme which sets the appearance of your form. In case you wish to display the contact form with the same style as your website theme, select Inherit From Website Theme option from Theme select box.
To add a new field with this application form creator, drag New Field button to the area where you wish to place the field. The field editor toolbox of Form Maker will be opened automatically. Click on the field set from which you are going to choose the form field, for instance, User Info Fields. Press Name button from this field set to add a Name input to your form. Then click Add and the field will be placed to the area of the form you selected initially.
It is also possible to search among the form builder fields when adding a new field to your form. Use Filter input at the top left corner of fields toolbox. For example, you can search “phone” and all Phone fields will be filtered.
Can I add a custom header with text and image above my contact form?
This dynamic contact form builder lets you have a nice header section on your forms, which can contain additional content, as well as images with animations. Click on Form Header bar of your form to open its toolbox and provide a Title. This is the form heading, which will appear above your form. In addition, you can write a Description to appear right below the Title of your form. This comes handy, in case you need to write an introduction for your form.
You can also have an image on your form header and set it to appear with an animation effect. Press Add Image button to upload and select a picture from WordPress Media Library. Then choose the animation effect using Image Animation option.
In case you don’t want the Header Image of your forms to appear on smartphones and tablets, mark Hide Image on Mobile option as checked.
Make sure to Publish/Update the form to save the change you made.
Does Form Maker support conditional logic and how can I use it?
Yes, another fantastic feature of this custom form creator plugin is its Conditional Fields. This lets you show or hide fields of your form based on certain selections submitter makes.
The structure of conditional fields in this contact form generator form builder is the following: You can specify and/or show/hide a field, when condition is true and provide conditions below, e.g. Show “How many visitors will you have” if “Will you have visitors” is “Yes”.
Go to Form Options of your form, then click Conditional Fields tab to start the setup. Press Add Condition button to configure the first condition of your form.
Show/Hide select box of this form builder plugin represents the action which will be completed, if all or any of the condition statements are fulfilled. Use the second drop-down menu to select the form builder field which will be shown or hidden.
Click the little Plus (+) icon to add the statement of your form condition.
For example, let’s assume there is a Single Choice field on your form titled Inquiry type. And you wish to show Message field in case users choose Support Request as the type of their inquiry. The condition you configure needs to have the following logic:
Show [Message] if [all] of the following match: [Inquiry type] is [Support request]
Make sure to hit Update after setting up Conditional Fields on your Form Maker.
What styling options do the forms include?
This secure form builder plugin comes with 14 customizable themes, which you can use to design your forms. Each theme of Form Maker provides a set of user-friendly options to change font size, alignment of the form, colors, modify paddings and more. You can edit the existing themes, or create your own by clicking Add New button.
To set a initial default theme for your forms, press on the star icon next to the theme you would like to use. You can always change the theme by editing your forms.
Options of Form Maker Themes are divided into the following sections:
- Global Parameters
- Form Header
- Content
- Inputbox
- Choices (Multiple and Single)
- General Buttons
- Pagination
- Form Buttons
- Close (Minimize) Button
- Minimize Text
- Other
- Custom CSS
You can preview the design of each web form theme under Preview block. In case you created forms with multiple pages, you can change its Pagination Type, setting it to Step, Percentage or None.
Custom CSS option in Themes of this offline form builder lets you write additional CSS code and customize your forms further. All CSS rules apply to this editor. Make sure to press Save after modifying the form theme.
Does Form Maker use auto-respondent feature?
You can use Email Options of Form Maker to send a fully customizable letter to the submitter. The entries can be included within the email. Just select the form you want to edit, then navigate to Form Options > Email Options.
This html5 form builder plugin lets you send submitted information to one or multiple email addresses. Furthermore, you can also send a confirmation email to the submitter and let them know you have received their application.
Enable Send E-mail from Form Options > Email Options tab and start configuring mailing settings. Most options require the same configuration for Email to Administrator and Email to User on the forms. However, there are a few settings which are unique.
Email to Administrator
This section of Email Options allows you to set up notifications of form submissions for website owners.
Email to User
Send to. Use this setting to select the email field of your form, to which the submissions will be sent.
Important! In case you do not have an email input created from User Info Fields > Email type on your form, the following error message will appear:
“There is no email field”.
Email Verification. Activate this option, in case you would like the users to verify their email addresses. If it’s enabled, the user email will contain a verification link. Clicking on this link set the user email address as verified.
Verification link expires in. Use this option to specify a time period (hours), during which the user will be able to verify their email address.
Edit Post. Click this link to edit the content of Email Verification post. This is is the page, where users will be redirected after they click on the verification link in user email.
Can I create an online order form with this plugin?
Payment support is available in the Premium version of the plugin.
In order to have a functional payment form, first and foremost, you need to have Payment Fields added to it. This way, Form Maker plugin will turn into an online order form creator quickly and easily. Build compact shopping forms, hotel reservation, online application or ticket sales forms with this feature.
Note: You need to set up Form Options > Payment Options of your form in order to receive payments on your account. Follow the steps described on this section to do that.
Configuring Payment Options, you can use Form Maker as an order form generator and let users make payments through your form. Default payment gateway of Form Maker is PayPal. Select PayPal as Payment Method from Form Options > Payment Options tab and configure corresponding options.
Also, you can easily integrate the forms builder plugin with Stripe using its Stripe Integration extension ( Available in Plugins Bundle ).
Payment Currency. Choose the currency to be used for the payments made through your form. Note, that the selected currency symbol will only display on the front-end of the published form.
Tax (%). Specify the percentage of the tax for your payment form. It will be calculated from the total payment amount of your form, and will be added to the grand total.
Checkout Mode. Select the checkout mode for your form. Testmode will display PayPal Sandbox after submission, which allows you to run payment tests. When you are ready to receive payments, enable Production mode.
Paypal email. Provide the email address of a valid PayPal account. This account will be used as the recipient of payments through your form.
Where can I check the submissions of my forms?
Submissions page of this HTML form generator plugin lets you view the full record of submissions of each web form. Choose your form from Select a form drop-down box to display its submitted information. Furthermore, you are able to view Statistics of Single/Multiple Choice and Select Box fields.
Entries / Conversion Rate / Views. These attributes of Submissions page will help you quickly view the statistics of the selected form.
Export to CSV / Export to XML. You are able to
