David Vogelpohl of WPEngine interviewed Victor Font of Formidable Masterminds for the Press This podcast. The link below is on iHeart, but you can find this podcast just about anywhere including Apple Podcasts. Press This. The WordPress Community Podcast features exclusive content and interviews with leaders in the WordPress community…. covering everything from development to [Read More…]
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Create Interactive Graphs with Chart.js and Formidable
Requirement A client submitted a Project Application that requested: the creation of an interactive bar chart to calculate and display future values in real time when a “Risk” dropdown is changed on a form the Risk dropdown’s selected option changes color and the interactive chart uses the same color as the Risk option interactive colors [Read More…]
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…]
Passing an Option in Query String and Setting Select Value
Overview Formidable provides a built-in method for setting a default value on fields by passing a query string parameter. To do this, simply pass the name of the parameter and its value in the query string, like this: /page-name/?color=blue If you want to capture the value of “blue” as the default value in a field, [Read More…]
Writing Transportable Code: Keys vs. IDs
When you drag and drop a field onto a form, two pieces of data to identify the field in code are created. The first, the field’s ID is created by MySQL using an auto increment field. This is a standard methodology used throughout WordPress. WordPress creates an ID for every single data element added to [Read More…]
Happy 10th Birthday Formidable Forms!
On February 6th, Formidable Forms turns 10-years old. To celebrate this milestone event, the Strategy Eleven team is giving away a MacBook Pro, 10 Elite Formidable Forms licenses, and 40% OFF any license for this week only. No purchase necessary to enter the giveaways. To get all the details and and enter for your chance [Read More…]