Creating and Adding Forms: The Basics

Forms allow your visitors to submit information to you via your website. To add a form to your website:

  1. From the Dashboard click Forms
  2. Click on New Form
  3. The following New Form screen will open:

form

 

 

4. Hover over the field named Untitled Form and the form area will show the word Edit.

Form Beginnings

 

5. Click on Edit to start the form editing process, changing the title and description to fit your needs. Select “Save Form” when complete.

Form Editing area

 

 

Add Form Fields

Adding Form FieldsThe next steps are to begin adding fields to your form:

To add Form Fields just click on the field you want from the right and watch it appear in the body of your form on the left. Select and re-order the form elements you want (drag and drop) until are satisfied with their settings then Save the Form.

 

 

Notifications

form notificationAfter you save your form you will be prompted with the ability to customize the ‘notification’ settings for your form. From here you can decide whether your form entries will simply be stored inside your website Dashboard, or if they will also be sent out in email.

 

 

Adding a Form to a Post/Page

Having saved your form you are now ready to insert it into a post or page:

1. While editing a post or page use the Upload/Insert area to insert a form on a page.  Click on the icon to  Add Gravity Form

 

 

 

Insert A Form on a Page2. Select the name of your form from the dropdown box and select “Insert Form”