A Contact Form is Boring – 5 Creative Ways to Use Forms in WordPress

Session Description

No matter what the purpose of the site you’ve built, it’s likely you’ve included a standard contact form as one of the first (or last) items on your pre-launch task list.

Name, email, reason for contact, submit: BORING!

In this session Adam will look at some creative ways to use forms in WordPress with the goal being to better engage and convert website visitors. Whether convincing potential clients to make first contact, grow an email subscription list, or streamline the guest blogging submission process, website contact form(s) are a key part of the communication process.

Adam will share several different contact form approaches and what plugins and/or services work best for each.

Learning Outcomes

* Use forms in WordPress for more than just contacts
* Better engage visitors using conditional logic
* Turn form submissions into blog posts automatically

User level

This talk will be aimed mostly at new users to show them what’s possible with forms in WordPress, but could also apply to non-developers familiar with using WordPress daily for content creation.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!

Speaker

Adam W. Warner

Speaker