Do you want to create a WordPress form to high conversion rate. So, you’ll have to make a smart form. Once you decide this, then you have to work with conditional logic as smart feature.
Creating smart forms using conditional logic is easier than ever. Just you have to proceed with the right process.
Till now, you must have seen that conditional logic was being used only by experienced website owners. But now it is not, now anyone can use conditional logic to create smart form.
Let’s start to create smart form using conditional logic.
What is Conditional Logic
You can choose show or hide field based on the selection of visitors.
For example, you can allow provide payment choices options and subscribe to newsletter based on user selection under this features.
In other word, In relation to forms, it is a way of creating forms that change based on the input. You can configure fields to be displayed or hidden based on user’s response to other fields. Which allow you help to tailor your form to the specific needs of your user.
WPForms conditional logic allows you to create smart dynamic forms, which help you to collect your user’s most relevant information.
It makes your forms smaller, which reduces your abandonment rate. It’s especially important for mobile users, because every mobile user wants to avoid long and cumbersome forms.
Some Specific Benefits of Using its
There are many possible use-cases for its, but below are some of the most common ones.
- Under this, you can add checkbox to subscribe to email list option in your contact form. So that only those users are sent to the email list who checked the box to subscribe.
- If the customer doesn’t select the specific option then you can hide next questions.
- If users buy at a higher price, you show a box to fill them coupon code to special offers.
- To streamline user’s workflow, hide information irrelevant to the current task.
Obviously, you’ve known the advantages of conditional logic, so let’s try it in simple contact form.
How to Create Simple Contact Form
The first thing you’ll need to do is install and activate the WPForms Plugin. For more details, see our step-step guide on how to install WordPress plugin.
Once you successfully install and activate the wpforms, So you’ll need to create a new form.
For example, we create a simple contact form, for more details see our step-step guide on how to create contact form in WordPress.
When you create your form, conditional logic option has to be added to your form to make it smart.
So let’s configure the conditional logic for your form:
Configure Basic Conditional Logic to Your Form
The most common use of it is to show and hide the field based on the user’s selection.
Next, you open the WPForms form builder, from there, click on the field you want to show or hide. Now for this field on the left hand side (which you want to hide or show) the field options panel will open.
Now, scroll down in the field options panel, you will see the conditional section at the bottom. Click this to open it, then check the box enable conditional logic.
After this, you will see some dropdown option to determine your condition rule. You need to fill these options carefully. So let’s understand these dropdown in detail.
- Show/Hide: Here, you can decide whether the field to show or hide.
- Select Field: It depends which field you would want to like.
- Comparison: In this field, you can select which comparative word you want to use. These options include the following words such as: is, is not, empty, not empty, contains, does not contain, starts with, end with, greater than and less than.
- Select: Which value would you like to field to order for this condition to apply. This field is deactivated, if you select empty or not empty from comparison dropdown.
This option must be completed in order to apply conditional logic to your web form. For example, we’ll apply logic for other business type field. show this field, if the Business Type dropdown is set to Other.
Now, you’ve done.
Note: You’ve to buy at least WPForms Basic Plan to access this feature. Because the free version of WPForms doesn’t provide the feature you are looking for.
Final Thoughts
It is obvious that now you can easily create smart form with conditional logic option with WPForms. However, it was difficult until you were away from the wpforms.
Remember, don’t create conditional fields if your forms don’t require it. Although we think the technology is very good too, but it’s best to leave your form as simple as possible.
I hope that this article will help you how to create smart form with conditional logic. You may also read related the post on how to create multi page form.
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