Online Forms for WordPress Blogs
Many small businesses and nonprofit organizations have turned to blogging as a way to connect with their customers, and as a relatively cheap way to do a bit of online marketing. One of the more popular blogging platforms is WordPress. Many people don’t know that creating a form that works in your WordPress blog is easy with FormSpring. You can create any type of form, a simple online contact form or even an event registration form, and embed that form right within your blog post.
In this example we will build an event registration form, but again, you can create any type of web form and embed it within your blog. We first create an event registration form for networking event that we are blogging about – you can do this quickly with one of our pre-built forms or you can create your own from scratch.
After you have created your form go to the “Use” page for your form and click on the “Embed” tab. You will see three lines of JavaScript that you can simply copy.
Next you will want to go into your blog post in which you want to embed your form, if you are in the “Visual” tab you will want to click on the “HTML” tab. Find the place in your post where you want the form to be and paste the JavaScript code you copied. Make sure to save a draft of your post.
If you go to the preview of your blog post you will see your form embedded.
This is a much more effective way of collecting data because you can use the same form in mutliple places, i.e. your website, blog, and email newsletter, and keep all the information in one database. You can also use all of the features like Smart Routing, Conditional Logic, and Payment integrations, and utilize all the power of FormSpring.
3 Responses to “Online Forms for WordPress Blogs”
Alan J Castonguay
Note that the form will submit to a handler at formspring.com, so you’re dependent on them being up and functional. This is not a standalone solution, nor is it free of privacy considerations.
chris
Alan, thanks for the comment, you can read all about our privacy policy and uptime here: http://www.formspring.com/about.html and here http://www.formspring.com/privacy.html We take both very seriously.
We have a wide variety of clients that range from large corporations to small businesses all of whom trust us with their important business functions.
Santiago Sanz
When are you guys going to expand to easy newsletters?? If you could implement a system like Constant Contact, or anything less complicated, I would assure (having the client perspective) that FormSpring would be the #1 stop for all those people that want all-in-one solutions (95%). Just imagine, being able to have this fabulous form system implemented with optional newsletter capabilities, and having the ability to not just receive, but interact through monthly information!? I mean, that’s definitely HAVE to be on the next implementation project! A genius investment for instant success; that is what FormSpring is missing.
That’s what we want, to be able to have everything at hand in the same place. I suggest you take this recommendation to management for consideration.
By the way, the new website looks 10 times better than the old one.
Cheers,
- SRS
FormSpring client.