{"id":11472,"date":"2009-11-02T15:01:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T19:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=11472"},"modified":"2013-04-11T13:54:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T17:54:56","slug":"creating-new-forms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/create-online-forms\/creating-new-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating New Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>To create a form, log in to your WordPress Admin Panel, and click <strong>Forms,<\/strong> then <strong>New Form.<\/strong><\/li>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\"><a href=\"\/tech\/files\/2009\/11\/Picture-16.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11468\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2009\/11\/Picture-16-636x304.png\" alt=\"Form Editor\" width=\"636\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_11468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 646px;\">\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Form Editor<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<li>Edit the form&#8217;s properties by clicking the <strong>Edit<\/strong> button that appears when you hover over the Untitled Form description box.<\/li>\n<div id=\"attachment11471\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/tech\/files\/2009\/11\/Picture-17.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment11471\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11471\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2009\/11\/Picture-17.png\" alt=\"Form Properties\" width=\"502\" height=\"473\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment11471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Form Properties<\/p><\/div>\n<li>On the <strong>Form Properties<\/strong> dialogue box, you can set the form&#8217;s title and description.  Make sure that the title is somewhat descriptive, as this is what you will use to locate your form to view submissions or to make edits.<\/li>\n<li>Click the <strong>Advanced<\/strong> tab to view some additional options that control how your form will appear to your visitors.<\/li>\n<li>Click the <strong>Confirmation<\/strong> tab to choose where you want your visitors to be redirected after they submit the form.  You have three options:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Text: <\/strong>For text, you can choose to display a short bit of text saying thank you for your submission, for example.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Page:<\/strong> The page option allows you to choose an existing page on your site that your visitor will be brought to once they click the &#8220;Submit&#8221; button.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Redirect: <\/strong>The redirect option allows you to input any URL that you want to be displayed once the visitor clicks the &#8220;Submit&#8221; button.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/create-online-forms\/adding-forms-to-a-page\/adding-fields-to-forms\/\">Adding fields to the form &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To create a form, log in to your WordPress Admin Panel, and click Forms, then New Form. Form Editor Edit the form&#8217;s properties by clicking the Edit button that appears when you hover over the Untitled Form description box. On the Form Properties dialogue box, you can set the form&#8217;s title and description. Make sure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"parent":6807,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11472"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64849,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11472\/revisions\/64849"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}