@jalter123 No plugin is needed at all, but are you checking in preview mode or when post is published? Preview mode sometimes doesn't show iFrame elements.
@TheSallyCevasco You are welcome and now that Wordpress 3.1.x supports iframe switching between HTML and Visual editor it stays intact when working in both editor modes.
Great video. It's pretty close to what I'm looking for. Can you incorporate Captcha into the form? Also, I like how it allows you to give the user a summary of what they typed in. Is that before or after the form is submitted? If it's after, can you edit that page, as I would like to have a PayPal button on the same page that gives the user a summary of the info they submitted. What would be the best way to go about doing that? Would Contact Form 7 be better for this?
@ianbrowncc No, as it is Google Doc you can't embed captcha or code since Google docs itself doesn't support it. The summary is after the form is submitted and I don't know if you can send the user to a landing page, it has been quite a while and some features may have changed. I should let you know that I switched to contact form 7 and no longer use Google Docs as my contact form, the iframe limitation of Wordpress and the lack of flexibility and captcha were enough for me to stop using it.
@dragonblogger OK. Thanks for the info. I found out that Formidable Pro can do it rather easily...no coding, other than HTML, required. It's worth the price.
@dragonblogger Definitely check it out. It was very easy to use when I used it for the first time on a site that I just built. The form that I'm working on now for another site is a little more involved than the first one. I figured it would be able to handle this, but I was waiting to hear back from the developer. She confirmed that it would be a no brainer, which is great to hear.
@pencap29 There is limitations to what you can add inside the form, you can't add an image or photo inside the Google Form, you have to do it above or below the iframe code of the form.
@pencap29 I only use CFormsII or Contact Form 7 for Wordpress, I don't know what platform you are needing a form on, but those 2 plus Google Docs forms are all I have experience with.
I've been using contact form 7 as well. It's great, but I love the way that google docs will feed the info back into a spreadsheet. Is there a way to get contact form 7 to do that?
@simpletreasuresinfo No, there isn't. Realistically I liked the idea of google doc form, until I started having so many submissions and had to go open the link just to see what people left me. This annoyed me to no end, I would rather have all info in email it turned out.
@simpletreasuresinfo I checked the form extensively, there is no way to insert images into the form itself, html tags just don't work and no way around it that I can find. You probably have to put a form separately from image on your site. Secondly, for the notification you can only customize a confirmation message that is sent when they click submit, there is no way to "echo" the filled out form back to them.
This is one reason why I went back to using Contact Form 7 on my Wordpress blog
Is there a way to insert a hyperlink into a question on a form? Such as sending them to a document that will help them answer the question. Very informative and clear video. Thanks!
@simpletreasuresinfo Only at the very top under the title you can enter a URL and it will auto link to the URL listed. In the form itself you can put a "header" section or list a URL with the form field description but it does not auto link, though I haven't tried HTML code.
@dragonblogger my website teamwenguh com needs a contact us form and a join form. We're trying to get people to sponsor us possibly and it would help if they could contact us.
@ButterBallsXe This is because you keep switching to visual mode, IFRAME code only works in Wordpress HTML EDITOR mode, if you switch to visual mode to preview you will break the code.
@dragonblogger Yeah I tried it in HTML editor first and it keeps changing the code to "...Loading" If it makes a difference I'm using wordpress com and not wordpress org.
@dragonblogger so what's the point of this tutorial again then? I've been following your directions exactly, but when I paste the code then update the wordpress page, it shows a different code (with no IFRAME like you say) and there is absolutely zero evidence on the actual live webpage that I even tried, not even the annoying "Loading...". So... It seems like wordpress wants us to use their inferior forms that don't dump all the data nicely into the same spreadsheet :-/
@crheinga A) this youtube video is over a year old now, I have switched to much better forms since then and my personal favorite is FormidablePro for wordpress right now, B) it still works if and only if you use the HTML editor and don't click on visual editor. The exception is if you are a non-admin account in Wordpress, wordpress strips iframe and other javascript code for non-admin accounts when you click submit for review or publish it seems.
@dragonblogger thank you for your response. I'm an admin for my site and haven't been touching the visual tab :-/ I guess I'll have to bail on google forms and try FormidablePro. Thanks for the suggestion!
@crheinga I still know several bloggers who still use Google Docs forms, even though I don't anymore. It still works if you use HTML only mode in the editor and are an admin account in Wordpress.
@ButterBallsXe Does Wordpress com allow you to install wordpress org plugins? If so I recommend "Contact Form 7" it is the easiest and best plugin for an instant Wordpress contact form, I actually use it on my blog in addition to the Google Docs.
I tried this and literally nothing shows up on my page. I'm definitely in HTML and I'm admin?? Do I need to install a plugin?
jalter123 1 month ago
@jalter123 No plugin is needed at all, but are you checking in preview mode or when post is published? Preview mode sometimes doesn't show iFrame elements.
dragonblogger 1 month ago
@dragonblogger thanks!
jalter123 1 month ago
This is great! Thanks very much. I'm going to put it to use immediately.
TheSallyCevasco 5 months ago
@TheSallyCevasco You are welcome and now that Wordpress 3.1.x supports iframe switching between HTML and Visual editor it stays intact when working in both editor modes.
dragonblogger 5 months ago
Great video. It's pretty close to what I'm looking for. Can you incorporate Captcha into the form? Also, I like how it allows you to give the user a summary of what they typed in. Is that before or after the form is submitted? If it's after, can you edit that page, as I would like to have a PayPal button on the same page that gives the user a summary of the info they submitted. What would be the best way to go about doing that? Would Contact Form 7 be better for this?
ianbrowncc 10 months ago
@ianbrowncc No, as it is Google Doc you can't embed captcha or code since Google docs itself doesn't support it. The summary is after the form is submitted and I don't know if you can send the user to a landing page, it has been quite a while and some features may have changed. I should let you know that I switched to contact form 7 and no longer use Google Docs as my contact form, the iframe limitation of Wordpress and the lack of flexibility and captcha were enough for me to stop using it.
dragonblogger 10 months ago
@dragonblogger OK. Thanks for the info. I found out that Formidable Pro can do it rather easily...no coding, other than HTML, required. It's worth the price.
ianbrowncc 10 months ago
@ianbrowncc I am going to review Formidable pro if I can now that you have made me curious about it.
dragonblogger 10 months ago
@dragonblogger Definitely check it out. It was very easy to use when I used it for the first time on a site that I just built. The form that I'm working on now for another site is a little more involved than the first one. I figured it would be able to handle this, but I was waiting to hear back from the developer. She confirmed that it would be a no brainer, which is great to hear.
ianbrowncc 10 months ago
How can you add a photo to the top of the code provided by Google?
pencap29 1 year ago
@pencap29 There is limitations to what you can add inside the form, you can't add an image or photo inside the Google Form, you have to do it above or below the iframe code of the form.
dragonblogger 1 year ago
@dragonblogger Does that mean that you can't remove the border as well? Can you maybe recommend a more editable free form?
pencap29 1 year ago
@pencap29 I only use CFormsII or Contact Form 7 for Wordpress, I don't know what platform you are needing a form on, but those 2 plus Google Docs forms are all I have experience with.
dragonblogger 1 year ago
I've been using contact form 7 as well. It's great, but I love the way that google docs will feed the info back into a spreadsheet. Is there a way to get contact form 7 to do that?
simpletreasuresinfo 1 year ago
@simpletreasuresinfo No, there isn't. Realistically I liked the idea of google doc form, until I started having so many submissions and had to go open the link just to see what people left me. This annoyed me to no end, I would rather have all info in email it turned out.
dragonblogger 1 year ago
Thanks dragonblogger. I got the url to work. I have a couple more issues in forms if you have a minute.
*I want to be able to have them attach photos inside the form.
*I also want to give the submitter a copy of their own form, possibly through the confirmation email?
simpletreasuresinfo 1 year ago
@simpletreasuresinfo I checked the form extensively, there is no way to insert images into the form itself, html tags just don't work and no way around it that I can find. You probably have to put a form separately from image on your site. Secondly, for the notification you can only customize a confirmation message that is sent when they click submit, there is no way to "echo" the filled out form back to them.
This is one reason why I went back to using Contact Form 7 on my Wordpress blog
dragonblogger 1 year ago
I tried putting the url in the section below the title on the form and it wouldn't hyperlink. Any other ideas?
Thanks so much
simpletreasuresinfo 1 year ago
@simpletreasuresinfo I just went into a Google Doc form and added the full URL including the part and it showed link when I saved and hit it.
dragonblogger 1 year ago
@dragonblogger send me email via my blog and I can help you easier, or twitter @dragonblogger
dragonblogger 1 year ago
Is there a way to insert a hyperlink into a question on a form? Such as sending them to a document that will help them answer the question. Very informative and clear video. Thanks!
simpletreasuresinfo 1 year ago
@simpletreasuresinfo Only at the very top under the title you can enter a URL and it will auto link to the URL listed. In the form itself you can put a "header" section or list a URL with the form field description but it does not auto link, though I haven't tried HTML code.
dragonblogger 1 year ago
that was a nice ending to your video
DavidGlenstone 1 year ago
@dragonblogger my website teamwenguh com needs a contact us form and a join form. We're trying to get people to sponsor us possibly and it would help if they could contact us.
ButterBallsXe 1 year ago
It keep changing my code to "...Loading" and that's it. It wont integrate it.
ButterBallsXe 1 year ago
@ButterBallsXe This is because you keep switching to visual mode, IFRAME code only works in Wordpress HTML EDITOR mode, if you switch to visual mode to preview you will break the code.
dragonblogger 1 year ago
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ButterBallsXe 1 year ago
@dragonblogger Yeah I tried it in HTML editor first and it keeps changing the code to "...Loading" If it makes a difference I'm using wordpress com and not wordpress org.
ButterBallsXe 1 year ago
@ButterBallsXe Wordpress com site forbids IFRAME tags inside posts, they remove them. There is nothing you can do to get it to work.
dragonblogger 1 year ago
@dragonblogger yeah I remember reading something like that just a bit ago. Is there any other form builder that you know of that will let me do it?
ButterBallsXe 1 year ago
@dragonblogger so what's the point of this tutorial again then? I've been following your directions exactly, but when I paste the code then update the wordpress page, it shows a different code (with no IFRAME like you say) and there is absolutely zero evidence on the actual live webpage that I even tried, not even the annoying "Loading...". So... It seems like wordpress wants us to use their inferior forms that don't dump all the data nicely into the same spreadsheet :-/
crheinga 9 months ago
@crheinga A) this youtube video is over a year old now, I have switched to much better forms since then and my personal favorite is FormidablePro for wordpress right now, B) it still works if and only if you use the HTML editor and don't click on visual editor. The exception is if you are a non-admin account in Wordpress, wordpress strips iframe and other javascript code for non-admin accounts when you click submit for review or publish it seems.
dragonblogger 9 months ago
@dragonblogger thank you for your response. I'm an admin for my site and haven't been touching the visual tab :-/ I guess I'll have to bail on google forms and try FormidablePro. Thanks for the suggestion!
crheinga 9 months ago
@crheinga I still know several bloggers who still use Google Docs forms, even though I don't anymore. It still works if you use HTML only mode in the editor and are an admin account in Wordpress.
dragonblogger 9 months ago
@ButterBallsXe Does Wordpress com allow you to install wordpress org plugins? If so I recommend "Contact Form 7" it is the easiest and best plugin for an instant Wordpress contact form, I actually use it on my blog in addition to the Google Docs.
dragonblogger 1 year ago
Glad to help
dragonblogger 1 year ago
Excellent tutorial
PSfelix08 1 year ago
Excellent tutorial
PSfelix08 1 year ago
Thanks a ton! Great tutorial! :)
sidharthvijayan 2 years ago
Great! Solved my google form problem with scrolling bars!
Garabateando 2 years ago