Welcome to WPBeginner and thanks for
tuning in. In this video I'll walk you
through how to create a great looking
contact form for your WordPress website.
We'll cover it step by step and we'll do
it all without writing any code. To get
started let's go ahead and head over to
our website we want to log into the
WordPress dashboard so add admin to the
end of your website that will bring you
to your login screen where you can login
Alright, now that
we've logged into our site we need to
install and activate a plug-in so let's
go head over to our plugins area and
click add new from the repository of all
the plugins available for wordpress
we're looking for WPForms and this is
the one we want so we'll install that
now we're going to activate that as well
alright now that it's activated you see
this area over here for WPForms. We're
going to create a new form I'm going to
go to add new and here's the WPForm's
dashboard. Most of stuff we need is
right here we can select a template you
can start from scratch and add the
fields as you want you even have a
suggestion form we're going to use a
simple contact form and if you wanted to
upgrade you see down here you can also
create donation form request a quote you can
do some billing or order forms that gets
more into e-commerce the newsletter
signup form that will tie into your
email subscriptions software but for us
we'll just do a simple contact form and
we can click on the name to name it can
add a description if you need that's
mainly for you. You can even add some
specific CSS for the form, change the
submit button text down here you want to
make sure that that is enabled to keep
spam from getting into your inbox so we'll
go with the general settings we'll get
back to notifications and confirmation
in a minute I'm going to get back to the
fields area or on the right this is what
it looks like right now. Over here if you
needed to add more fields you can just
click on that and it'll bring it down
here under the last box and then you can
click to drag them wherever you want it
to go just like that I'm going to remove
that. From here you can adjust the form
fields you can adjust the
format of each field and you can choose
whether or not to make them required. I'm
going to go through an adjust mine how I
want it to look and you can do the same
for yours. So the next thing we want to
make sure is let's look at the settings
and under notification we definitely want
the notifications on because we do want
to get an email when somebody emails us
and by default it'll bring in your admin
email of your website but you can
actually put in something specific right
there. This is what every email that
comes from this contact form will say in
the email subject line when it comes to
and then this is pulling in from the
field on the form this is also pulling
in from the field on their form and then
this brings in all their data as well. So
the notifications look good now let's go
to confirmation and this is the
confirmation message that they'll
receive on the page once they submit it.
If you want to be more specific you can
choose to send them to a particular page
say your thank you page on your site
you can choose that here or if you want
to send them to another web address
choose the URL enter the web address
that you want to send them to and then
once they click Submit then they'll be
taken to those different pages alright now
our contact form is set up how we want
it to look so I'm going to save
everything and now we need to actually
put it on our website I'm going to use a
page. So I'm going to go to my all my pages
and we have a contact us page so I'm gonna
edit that because that's where I want to
put the form. Under my information up
there was going to get on a new line and
you see here we now have an ad form
button so I'm going to click on that and
if you have multiple forms you can
choose from them here we only have this
one so we'll do that you can choose to
show the form title or the form
description since we have the page name
right there we don't need any of that
when it inserts it you'll see this
shortcode that's just an easy way for
WordPress to share the form for you so
you don't want to mess with that.
Once we're done let's click update or if
it's a new page that you're creating
click publish and now let's see what it
looks like.
Now some people like to add the form on
their sidebar area and I'll show you
really quickly how you can do that as
well with WPForms you can go into your
Appearance, Widgets area the sidebar
usually has a widget area like you see
here and we'll scroll down because we're
actually looking for the WPForms widget.
So we'll left click drag that up to the
top and now release that and you can
choose again here what all to show and
we'll click save and now if somebody's
scrolling through your blog and you have
your sidebar area then that will show
on the sidebar for you. Did you learn
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