Here’s an interesting find! I just stumbled across this How I Built It podcast from 2017 where the host is interviewing former nurse and Formidable’s creator, Stephanie Wells. Take a listen… Episode 39: Stephanie Wells & Formidable Forms
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Strategy 11 Releases Survey & Polls Add-on for Formidable Forms
Looking for a survey solution that adds value to your website rather than just being a static form? Formidable Forms, the best free contact form plugin for WordPress, just got an upgrade. It now includes the ability to create Likert Scales, make your checkbox and radio button forms look like actual buttons, and even calculate [Read More…]
Hide Previously Selected Dynamic Checkboxes in Repeaters
Problem I have two forms that have a repeater with a dynamic field (checkbox) inside it. When a checkbox is checked, I want them to be hidden in the future dynamic fields. Basically, I need every checkbox to only be checked once. If it gets unchecked, I want it to reappear. Once all checkboxes are [Read More…]
Change WordPress User Role when Editing Field in a View
Introduction We check several Formidable related community support sites daily, sometimes more than once a day. We’re always looking for opportunities to help others, but once in a while we’ll bypass an opportunity or two because the amount of research required to solve the challenge takes as much time as doing the job itself. With [Read More…]
Format Radio Buttons as Text Blocks
Problem Data Scie posted the following question in the “How To” channel of Formidable’s Slack Community. Anybody able to style FF radio buttons like blurbs: sections with icons and styled text that act like radio buttons instead of the default style ? This image is attached to the question to illustrate Data Scie’s target design. [Read More…]
Strip Non-numeric Characters from Phone Numbers
Whenever you capture a phone number on a form, wouldn’t be nice to also capture a version of the number that can be used in a tel: link on a view? Here’s a jQuery snippet that will do just that and store the value stripped of non-numeric characters in a hidden field with the exception [Read More…]
Add Currency to Formidable’s Global List
Question: I need to use a currency that is not included in the “Formidable -> General Settings -> Currency” settings. Is there a way I can add additional currencies? Albert Opoku—Formidable Slack Community Answer: Formidable Pro provides a frm_currencies filter that allows users to add additional currencies to Formidable’s global currency list. The example in [Read More…]
Update Form Field Values with PHP
Formidable’s knowledge base is a valuable resource with a lot of very good coding examples. One in a while though, you run into a code example that doesn’t quite work as intended. Such is the case with the example for updating a field value with PHP. The problem with the knowledge base code example has [Read More…]