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You guys, if you watch my channel, you know that I'm not
a fan of contact form seven and I am, sorry you guys,
but I am a fan of gravity forms
but a lot of you have said you know what, Kori,
I'm on a really small budget and I really need to be
in the budget of free so get happy because I have found
a solution that's gonna make you happy.
It is called HappyForms.
You guys, this is the perfect WordPress builder
for anybody on a budget and for that matter
anybody who just wants a great solution
because this is always, always, always free,
there is no premium upgrade version.
You get every bell and whistle in the free version.
Why are they doing this?
Because they love the WordPress community
and they wanted to give you a solution
in the budget of free, how kind is that?
That's why they named it HappyForms.
I'm gonna show you an example of what these look like
so you can get an idea, I mean even here you can see,
it's a drag and drop environment, it's kind of a hybrid,
it's easier than contact form seven and it goes even further
in allowing you to customize things that gravity forms
doesn't even let you do so here we go,
I'm gonna take you step by step through it
and let's take a look at it,
you're gonna go into your plugins area and click add new.
You're gonna do a search for the keyword HappyForms,
all together, one word, HappyForms.
When you see that, this is the space,
you wanna be sure that it's been updated recently,
that it's compatible with your version of WordPress,
of course, and that it's got great stars to it,
this is a great review so I'm gonna install now
and I'm gonna click activate.
Are you ready?
If I go too quickly, just pause me, rewind,
and you'll be able to do this so easily and quickly.
One of the cool things about HappyForms
is that it actually gives you,
over here on the left side now, it gives you a sample form
that you can tinker with right away.
As you hover over this,
check out this nice little thoughtful feature they gave us,
a little copy to clipboard.
So if you hover over that shortcode and click that button,
it's gonna copy it onto your clipboard
and you can go then and add a page, let's say add new page,
or a post for that matter, right,
And we're just gonna test things here, let's do testing,
and you can either paste from your clipboard
or they've got this nice little handy button right here
that you can choose your form and click insert
and it will write the code for you, right?
So let's preview this and just see
in these moments here what I was able to do.
There's first name, last name,
there's a nice checklist here,
there's a nice dropdown option here,
your message and submit form.
Pretty cool, pretty straightforward,
let's see how they build it though because that's the trick,
how complicated are these to build out?
And how much can you customize?
Let's take a look at it, let's click add new
either here or on the left side, you can click add new.
And it takes us into this pretty cool what you see
is what you get type of environment,
it allows you to see the form being built here
on the right side, these are the available fields
all the way down here that you're able to kind of click on
and implement inside of here and be sure to just look
and read the instructions, don't go blindly past
a section that gives you really great
insightful instructions.
The first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna test the form,
name the form testing, testing form and then we're gonna
go ahead and start just applying some of these fields
so you can see how simple it is to do.
I'm gonna go ahead and just put the usual your name field
and all I did was click on that available field
and it's allowing me to just fill in the blank.
And I'm gonna do this, you can put it on the left side
of the field, you can put it on the right side
of the field below, let's see below it, there you go.
I think if my screen were a little bit bigger,
it would have jumped on that left side.
Let's put it as a display holder here.
I kind of like that because then it kind of goes into
that section and of course it allows you to require
the field, there you go, we'll close that up
and let's go ahead and do an email field, right,
so that's pretty common and we'll say your email
and this is a required field and for consistency,
we're gonna say it's a placeholder, I love it.
You can say we can apply that to all parts if you want to,
that's a nice little cheater feature, I love it.
And for the sake of just this right now,
let's go ahead and add in, oh! I don't know,
let's do, how 'bout, what if we do a phone number,
I think that's kind of important at times, there you go,
placeholder, love it, and then, here we go,
check this out, I'm gonna do the message area,
this is that long text and I'm gonna say your message,
dah dah dah, and put it inside the placeholder.
All right, I feel pretty confident about this.
This is looking pretty good but it's gonna allow us
to go even further and really customize the heck
out of this thing so hold on to your hats,
here we go, I'm gonna click next.
It allows us to immediately address the confirmation message
right here of what's being said
as soon as somebody clicks submit.
The email that goes out to the admin
or whatever email address you put here,
whoever needs to receive the alert that we've had
a form filled out and then it allows you to go ahead
and put in all the information of what goes
to the individual, right?
On the complete redirect, so if you want them
to transition from this form to a landing page
when they're done, you can actually put that URL
here if you wanted to and if you'd like,
you can change what the button even says on this.
So we can say register now.
There you go.
Another really cool feature that I love about this
is you don't have to use a CAPTCHA for anti-spam,
you can actually use a honeypot, which I highly recommend
and it's a cool feature inside of gravity forms.
They operate here, I'm telling you this is a hybrid
on the budget of free, super, super cool solution.
I'm gonna go ahead and click next.
Now this is where you get to have a lot of fun
and customize the heck out of this form.
You guys, this is amazing, look at this,
you can adjust the form width.
You cannot do this with gravity forms unless you add on
another plugin or you know how to do CSS,
add a div class around it and actually write code.
They're allowing you to do this
in a drag and drop environment, aah!, it's so cool.
Here are your primary colors so you can change
all those things around really easily and quickly.
So I've got those set, I'm gonna go back
and I'm gonna do my form title, do I want to show it?
No, I think I'm gonna hide it.
This is another really cool feature
that I've had people ask me how do you do this
for anything to do with how it would sit on the page,
that's how you do it right here.
You can adjust the font size as well.
That's super easy to do.
Keep on goin'.
Here you go, here's the border,
do we not want to have the border in there?
Of course we do, we like the boundaries,
we like it to look like a form field.
You can have 'em be more narrow padding,
I kind of like that idea, kind of zips it up a little bit.
There's your border color if you wanted
to try to match your website or something along those lines.
So a lot of available really cool fields there.
And of course the submit button again.
If you wanna just have a nice big font size, you can.
You can change the background color if you want to with it.
You can change the text color.
There's so much customization inside of this.
You can center it in the middle of the form,
I love that, aah!, it's so cool.
When you're done, we're gonna click save form.
This is incredible, are you excited?
'Cause I'm gonna show you now, we've got it here
on the copy to clipboard, let's go back over here now
to our page, I'm gonna paste in the new HappyForms
shortcode, click preview and go over
to my landing page, there's our new form.
In just these few minutes, you guys.
I'm gonna fill it out here, KoriAshton@gmail.com,
phone number...
8-6-7-5-3, I'm kidding, okay.
This rocks.
Makes me happy, register now, okay,
your message was successfully sent,
we appreciate you contacting us
and we'll be in touch shortly.
Remember, that message we can completely change
if we want to, the color of the outline,
we can completely change if you want to
but I actually just heard my phone go off
that I just received that notification.
All right, here's the icing on the cake.
If that wasn't enough, these guys thought of everything.
They're allowing you to also have the responses
or the entries of every form live here
inside of your website.
So let's say something happens or breaks
with your email address and you're not able
to access your email.
If somebody fills out this form,
they still live here inside of your database.
So you can come here to responses.
Click on that, you see actually we have an alert
that we have one new one.
You come here and you can see which form they filled out.
I can click on edit, go in and see immediately
the message that was sent to me.
Oh! these guys thought of everything,
it makes me so happy and it should make you happy
that it's in the budget of free.
If you guys use HappyForms, will you put that
in the description box below?
And please tweet to them, let them know
that you saw this video and how happy you are
that they have this free solution for you.
I hope you're having a great WordPress Wednesday.
I'll see ya next time.
Bye, y'all.