How to Publish a Form Built with Formidable (5 Ways)
Did you know that you can publish your Formidable form in several ways? There are 5 major ways to display a Formidable form on your website.
You can use a form block
Use the Formidable shortcode builder
Insert the form shortcode manually
Use the Formidable Form widget
Insert the form using PHP
👉 The form block method: To publish a form using the WordPress block editor, simply insert the Formidable Forms block into your page. Choose a form from the block dropdown. It will open a preview in a moment.
On the right column of the block editor, you’ll find options to enable the form title, description, and minimize HTML. The form shortcode is also displayed here along with the advanced additional CSS field. If you show or hide the form title or description using these toggles, the block preview will adjust live. Update the page and see it on the front-end.
Using the Shortcode block: You can also use the Shortcode block in the WordPress block editor. First, open the settings page of your target form. Scroll down to the Embed Shortcode section. There you’ll see 2 shortcodes. One with just the form ID, and another has two additional parameters. Copy the second one. It will show the form title and description along with the form.
Insert the Shortcode block into your page. Paste the form shortcode. Update the page. It’s that simple!
👉 With the shortcode builder: To use the shortcode builder, first, open your target page in editing mode with the WordPress classic editor. You’ll get a Formidable button above the toolbar. Hit that button. On the next screen, select a form from the dropdown menu.
You’ll get other options like displaying the form title, description, minimizing the form HTML, and more. Mark the options you like. Your selection will dynamically generate a shortcode which is displayed at the bottom of the screen. After choosing the form and options, click the “Insert into Post” button.
It will insert the shortcode into the editor. Update the page. The form will be published with the selected parameters.
👉 Inserting the shortcode manually: To manually insert the shortcode, get the code from the form settings page. Paste the shortcode into your editor. Update the page and view it.
Sometimes, you may or may not want to display the form title or description on the page. You can experiment with it by including or excluding a parameter from the shortcode. The front-end result will adjust accordingly. See our documentation to find more information on these parameters: https://formidableforms.com/knowledge...
👉 With the Formidable Form widget: Besides posts or pages, you can also publish a Formidable form on WordPress widget locations. For example, if you want to display a form on your blog sidebar, you can do it easily from the Customizer.
Open the Customizer, go to Widgets. Choose the widget area. Click the Add a Widget button. Select the Formidable Form widget. It will open in editing mode. On this screen, choose a form from the dropdown menu. You can also add a title for the form widget. There’s a checkbox for showing or hiding the form description on the widget.
Play with all the options. A preview of the form will be displayed on the widget location. Once you are happy with the tweaks, publish changes. Don’t forget to check it out on the front-end!
👉 The PHP method for the advanced users: If you’re an advanced user, you can insert a Formidable form into your page template using PHP. Please see our documentation for more information: https://formidableforms.com/knowledge...
Formidable Forms also has a powerful API with webhook support. Using this, you can insert a form on a page and accept submissions from another site as well.
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00:00 Intro
00:31 Using a form block
01:45 Using the shortcode builder
02:25 Inserting the shortcode manually
03:04 Using the Formidable Form widget
04:00 Using PHP
04:08 API and more