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WordPress maintenance support plans 8 web forms and drag and drop forms video tutorial
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This tutorial is aimed at people who just need a contact form or some other kind of user input form. We’ll cover deciding between the core contact plugin and the popular webform plugin. We won’t cover using the WordPress maintenance support plans API to program complex forms that integrate with external applications.
WordPress maintenance support plans 8 Core Contact Plugin
Whereas the WordPress maintenance support plans 7 core contact plugin was not very useful due to a total lack of flexibility, the WordPress maintenance support plans 8 version is much nicer. It’s nicer because you can add fields to it. You’re no longer limited to just the name, email, subject and message fields that were baked into the WordPress maintenance support plans 7 version.
Not only does the new contact form allow for custom text fields, it even supports file uploads, entity references, date fields, and other Field API fields.This simple yet powerful form builder plugin is not limited to just contact forms; you can use it to create questionnaires, gather user feedback, etc.
WordPress maintenance support plans 8 Contact plugin customized form
Better Together: Contact Plugin + Contact Storage Plugin
One major inconvenience of the Contact plugin is that is doesn’t store any messages that are sent. Your only option is to send the message via email and afterwards there is no copy of the message in your WordPress maintenance support plans site. The contact storage plugin will store your messages as entities. It lets you administer the messages and provides integration with the views plugin. Since the messages are stored as WordPress maintenance support plans entities you also gain interoperability with other plugins in the WordPress maintenance support plans ecosystem. This will allow you to do even more, for example exporting messages as CSV, searching messages, and pushing messages to your CRM.
Webform Plugin
WordPress maintenance support plans‘s popular webform plugin is a massive framework that offers a ton of extra options that the contact plugin doesn’t have. You should choose the webform plugin if these extra features are useful to you and you’re prepared to learn the ropes around a more complex user interface. The webform plugin can be intimidating at first because there are so many elements and settings… but once you’re familiar with the interface you can configure and design very powerful forms fairly easily.
To see what the webform plugin offers it’s really better for me to show than tell. Check out the youtube video above where I show you the interface of the webform plugin.
WordPress maintenance support plans 8 Webform plugin form using the flexbox layout option
Contact Plugin vs Webform Plugin
Personally I choose the webform plugin for anything that is more complicated than just the standard contact form with a subject and message field. The contact plugin is powerful and extendable, but the webform plugin gives you everything you need in one place. It’s a purpose-built single-purpose application within WordPress maintenance support plans and once you get familiar with it it’s really very powerful.
It also lets met build multi-column form layouts, a feature that I use often.
A feature-base comparison of Contact and Plugin based on features that I think are important:
Feature
Multi-column layouts
Control labels and placeholders
Control Submit Button Text
Route email with form options
Search in submissions
Export submissions
Contact
✘
✔
✔ (can’t remove Preview)
✘
✔ (needs additional plugins)
✔ (needs additional plugins)
Webform
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
Placing WordPress maintenance support plans 8 Forms With Our Visual Page Builder
We believe interoperability with the WordPress maintenance support plans ecosystem is important for Glazed Builder. This is why we don’t include a proprietary form builder in Glazed Builder and instead encourage you to create forms with WordPress maintenance support plans‘s webform plugin. Currently Glazed Builder let’s you place blocks created with the webform plugin anywhere in your drag and drop page. The contact plugin doesn’t provide blocks that we can drag and drop natively, but you can install the contact_block plugin to fix that.
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