How to Add A Contact Form to Your Membership Website

A contact form is an integral part of every website. When it comes to websites that are interactive like membership websites, a contact form is essential. Furthermore, if your goal is to generate revenue from your site contact forms are more important.

In this tutorial, we'll demonstrate how you can quickly and easily add a contact form to your WordPress site for membership at no cost. If you follow these steps, your website users will be able to get in touch with questions and concerns about your membership website or even write you emails regarding any topic that they are interested in. These channels of communication can offer you the chance to address any pre-sales queries from potential members and turn more of your users into members who pay.

We'll also provide you with a few tips on ways you can help your visitors help themselves in order to lessen the volume of email messages that you receive, as well as some advice for managing the messages of visitors as well as members more effectively.

How to add a contact form using WPForms

One of the top solutions for adding contact forms onto WordPress websites, as well as websites that are membership-based can be found in WPForms. This free version of the popular plugin provides you with everything you need to quickly and easily create a fully functioning contact form on a WordPress website.

If you have more advanced needs, or your requirements grow with time you can avail premium upgrades that are available that unlock features which make WPForms one of the most powerful forms builder plugins available for WordPress. So whatever your need for online forms is, WPForms comes highly recommended due to its range of functions and easy usage.

While WPForms is one of the most simple form plugins for WordPress Our guide will now go through all procedures to make sure you're ready to add a contact form on your website. If you follow the steps and follow the steps, you'll be able to have a working online contact form in your site within a matter of minutes

Installation of WPForms Online Form Builder, the Free WPForms Online Form Builder Plugin

The free version of WPForms is accessible through the official WordPress Plugin Directory, it is able to be added to your site in a few clicks. Simply log into your WordPress dashboard, navigate through the Add New Plugins page and look for WPForms.

After clicking at the Install Now and Activate buttons, WPForms will be running on your WordPress website.

Making an online contact form with WPForms

To help you get started to get started, the Welcome page displayed with a video tutorial that will walk through the steps of making your first online form. If you're able to spare the time to watch the tutorial, it's a great resource that will get you up to speed on WPForms. If not, just move down the page before clicking on the Create Your First Form button.

Although there are a few different WPForms online form templates however, this Simple Contact Form template is the best option to use today.

After you've selected the right template, you'll be able to modify it with the WPForms drag-and-drop form editor.

As you can see, the Simple Contact Form template includes name, email as well as message field. However, thanks to the simple interface of the form builder of WPForms it is possible to add more fields to the form. Although most of the form fields are available only for premium versions of WPForms, you can still include a variety of helpful fields to your form, such as single line Text, Paragraph text, dropdowns, checkboxes and other choice fields, and other fields. Since WPForms is a custom drag-and drop user interface it is easy to drag a field onto the form layout and drop it into place.

Editing fields on the form is very straightforward too. Just select the field that you'd like to modify and then access the control panel displayed to the left of the page.

By default, form submissions are sent out to the email address associated with your WordPress administrator account. You can alter this via the Notifications settings on the form. With these settings, users may enter an alternative email address in the"Send To Email Address" field.

Then when you've finished editing the form, click the save button, follow by clicking the large X at the lower right-hand corner, to get back to your WordPress Dashboard.

Create the WPForms Contact Form to your website

Forms designed with WPForms are able to be integrated into WordPress posts and pages in just a few clicks. You can either make a new post or page or open one you already have to edit. It is worth noting that a new Add Form button is added to The WordPress Editor.

Clicking this button will open an dialog box that lets you to choose which forms you wish to add to your page.

In addition to choosing the form to insert as well as choosing which form to insert, you can also choose the option of displaying the form title and description along with the forms. For a basic contact form it is unlikely that you will have to include or display the title or description since your users will be able to discern why the form is being used. However, for different types of forms, the additional information could be beneficial and could be included through the builder interface.

When you've chosen your option after which you click on the Add Form button, a shortcode will be placed in your article or webpage. Now, when your post or page goes live it will be replaced with the form you designed.

One of the best things about WordPress shortcodes is that if you edit the form, every instance of it appearing on your site will be updated to reflect these changes with no additional work on your part.

It is possible to test the submission form by clicking the Preview button on your Edit Page or the Post screen. If everything looks like it ought to, you're able to publish your article or page when you're ready to make it available to the world.

Make sure to test your form by completing it and hitting the Submit button. If everything is functioning correctly and the form is completed, this form should be sent to an email address that you have specified.

Alternatives to WPForms

If WPForms and its drag-and-drop form constructor interface with its extensive range of options isn't right option for your membership website, there are many other great WordPress forms plugins you can select from. For example, Contact Form 7 is a very popular free option that's quick and easy to install.

Simply install and then activate the plugin the WordPress Dashboard. Then navigate to the Contact Forms area on your WordPress Dashboard. Now copy the shortcode for Contact Forms.

Make a post and/or page. You can also even open an existing page for editing, and paste in the shortcode you copied.

By default, the submittals to the form will be sent to the email address associated to your WordPress administrator profile on your website. However, you can change this via editing the form and entering your updated email address into the Mail settings.

Final thoughts

If you've followed the instructions above and you have now got the contact form working on the WordPress website. WPForms has lots of other tools and options that can help you create more online forms on your website and include the capability to store form entries in the WordPress Dashboard, collect payments and track user registrations.

However, as this guide mentions, WPForms isn't the only premium WordPress forms plugin available and there's many other options to consider. But if you're looking for the quickest and easier way to incorporate forms into your site, and with the capacity to add more with forms in the future, WPForms is hard to outdo.

 What plugin do you intend to use for adding an online form on your WordPress website for membership? Let us know in the comments section below.