In this video I’m going to tell You what
online form You should be using on a Wordpress
site, why You should be using that form and
how to use it.
Any website needs online form. At least simple
contact form. When it comes to Wordpress sites
there are hundreds of options. But in reality,
there are only 2 options. Contact Form 7 or
WP forms.
I made many Wordpress sites and all of them
use one of these 2 forms. Contact form 7 has
been around since begging of time so I used
that more in the past. But, for the past few
years I’ve been using WP forms much more
and it is much better. Just take a look at
this ratings, sheer number of them, they update
very regularly, and number of options You
have and what can You do with WP form is unbelievable.
Beside that, it’s easy to use.
As far as I now, Contact form 7 has only free
version, while WP forms have free version
and 4 paid options.
Free version of WP forms is much better then
Contact form 7 and most of my WP forms are
free version. If You need something more advanced,
like credit card payment, user registrations,
mailing list integration, go with one of the
paid options. In this video I will show You
free and pro version of WPforms.
A little pro tip here, probably the most important
thing I will tell You in the video: When in
doubt what plugin or software to use, regardless
what it is, all free software or the one who
has free and paid versions, ALWAYS and I mean
always, go with the 2nd. option.
You want, You need a software that is regularly
taken care of and since they make money from
paid versions they will make sure the free
version works flawlessly. After all, most
of us start with free option and then upgrade
if needed. Remember that.
Let’s install WPForm. Now when is installed,
I will activate it. Let’s create our 1st
form.
You can also close this and You will find
WPForms at the left side menu.
Up here I will name my form. I can choose
from 4 of these option. Paid versions have
much more templates.
Let’s start with the simple contact form.
This is what my form looks like so far. These
standard fields come with the free version.
To edit the form, just drag and drop. Let’s
say I want this checkboxes here. Just drag
and drop.
To edit that field, or any other for that
matter, just click on it and make any changes
You need. It is in real time. You can move
the field where ever You want and if You don’t
like it just click on a trash can.
Let me tell You about Google reCAPTCHA. It
is very important and You should use it. Just
type Google reCAPTCHA into Google and 1st
result will take to reCaptcha admin console
where You will add Your site and get the secret
keys. I use reCAPTCHA version 3.
To use that keys, You need to go WPForms settings
and then reCAPTCHA tab.
Here I will choose version 3 and paste site
key and secret key. Then save settings.
Now we can return to our form, click Google
reCaptcha and our form is spam protected.
Now, let’s go to settings and notifications.
By default, submitted form comes to admin
email address. To add more addresses, just
type comma and enter another email address.
All this things You can change how You want
them, but our form is functional it should
be working and before I upgrade to a pro version
to show it to You, let’s install this free
one and see it on a page.
In general, I use Elementor page bulider to
make websites, but You can use any page builder
or none at all.
You can use what Wordpress gives You.
In Elementor, up here just type WP in search
box and drag WPForms field into page, choose
the contact form and You are done.
Without page builder, using just Wordpress,
click this + sign then widgets. Now click
WPForms and select the form.
It’s done. Let’s see it live.
Here it is. This page doesn’t look very
good because I generally use Elementor with
headers and footers, down here You see that
our form is protected by Google.
Let’s test it. And the form is submitted.
The emails have arrived.
Now, let’s upgrade our free WPForm to Pro
version. If You decide that You need any paid
version, there is an affiliate link in the
description that will get You great deal and
give me little kickback.
When You click that link in the description,
that will bring You to WPForms website where
You can choose from 4 of these options. When
You make Your selection and purchase the form
You will be brought to Your admin area where
You need to copy the License key.
When You have copied the key, go to Wordpress
site and under WPForms menu choose settings.
Here paste the license key and click connect.
Now Connect and Install WPForms Pro. Wait
a little. And that is it.
Now I have paid, in my case Pro version.
When I go back to my form which was free version,
now I see all these fields available.
You must have noticed by now that I skipped
lot of options even in the free version. Pro
version is extremely powerful tool and it
would take me an hour more to go through all
these options.
In this video I will not go into it. If You
guys think I did OK job with this tutorial
and You would like to see more of the WPForms
capabilities, please tell me below and I can
make more videos about it.
In any case, let me know what You think, like
share this video if You think it’s good,
maybe even subscribe to my small channel and
I’ll see you in the next one.
Bye.
