In this session, we will explore the incredible capabilities of the Forminator plugin, a user-friendly yet powerful tool for creating a variety of forms for your WordPress website. Whether you're looking to gather simple feedback, register attendees for an event, accept payments, or create engaging quizzes and polls, Forminator offers a robust and free solution. We will walk through the entire process, from installation and basic setup to advanced features and integrations. This is a great opportunity to learn from fellow WordPress enthusiasts, ask questions, and elevate your website's functionality.
What You’ll Learn:
- Getting Started: How to install and activate the Forminator plugin on your WordPress site.
- Building Your First Form: A step-by-step guide to creating a standard contact form with essential fields.
- Exploring Form Fields: An overview of the various field types available in Forminator, including text fields, email, phone numbers, file uploads, and more.
- Multiple Page Forms: Learn how to break long forms into user-friendly, multi-step pages with progress bars to improve user experience.
- Advanced Functionality: Learn how to implement conditional logic to create dynamic forms that show or hide fields based on user input.
- Conditional Email Notifications: Configure your forms to send customized email notifications to different team members or users based on their submissions.
- Taking Payments: Discover how to integrate Stripe and PayPal to accept payments directly through your forms.
- Creating Popups with the Form: Discover how to integrate Forminator with popup builder plugins to capture leads and display forms effectively.
- Engaging Your Audience: Get hands-on experience with creating interactive quizzes and polls to boost user engagement.
- Integrations: Learn how to connect Forminator with popular third-party services like Google Sheets and email marketing platforms.
- Styling and Customization: Tips and tricks for customizing the look and feel of your forms to match your website's branding.
- Spam Protection: Best practices for protecting your forms from spam submissions.
This meetup is ideal for:
- WordPress Beginners: New to WordPress and want to learn how to add functional forms to your site.
- Small Business Owners: Looking to create contact forms, lead generation forms, or simple order forms.
- Bloggers and Content Creators: Interested in adding interactive elements like quizzes and polls to their content.
- Freelancers and Developers: Wanting to explore a powerful and free form builder for client projects.
- Anyone who wants to learn more about the capabilities of WordPress and connect with the local community.