Google Forms is very easy for you to install or embed anywhere. This feature is very useful when you want to share a form on multiple websites.
There are many conveniences that you can get when using Google Forms. You can collect data from customers through newsletters and use it to improve the quality of your business services.
Even for those of you who are still learning the basics of using WordPress, I'm sure you will have no problem using Google Forms in WordPress.
In this article, I will review how to make Google Forms in WordPress as simple as possible. Hopefully this article can be easily understood by you and you can follow it well.
As an opening, I will first explain what Google Forms are and why you need to use Google Forms.
What are Google Forms?
Google Forms is a service from Google that has the function of creating various online forms for free.
You can use Google Forms to create online forms, registration forms, quizzes, surveys, and the like. You can also use Google Forms to collect emails from visitors who want to subscribe to the newsletter. The emails you collect can be used as data to grow your business through the newsletters sent to them.
Google Form services are suitable for those of you who have an online business. This service is very useful to help with various kinds of work. You can conduct surveys about the quality of the products you offer, get feedback from your customers, and collect customer information through the online sites you use.
To make it more useful, you can combine Google Forms with WordPress.
Why Use Google Forms?
WordPress itself already has plugins that work similarly to Google Forms, such as Contact Form7 and WPForm . However, both of these plugins must store visitor data into a database.
Whereas the purpose of using features such as Contact Form7, and WPForm is to collect visitor data which is sometimes quite a lot. If the incoming data is only a little, it has not enough effect on the website server. However, if enough data is entered and stored in the database, in the long term it will definitely affect the performance of the website.
The solution to get a lot of visitor data and information that doesn't affect the server is to use Google Forms.
All data entered into the Google Form is not stored on the website server, but on the Google server (Google Drive). So you don't need to use a website database to store various information from visitors who enter through the form.
Data storage in Google Drive is more secure when something goes wrong with your website. In addition, you can easily use the data entered in Google Drive for other websites without having to retrieve it from the database.
Google Forms not only takes on tasks that should burden the server, you can access Google Forms from anywhere while having an interface that supports the use of mobile devices so you can access it from anywhere.
Tutorial on Creating Google Forms in WordPress
How to create a Google Form in WordPress is almost the same as when you create a regular Google Form. It's just that you need to add the Google Form embed code into WordPress.
You can follow the guide to creating a Google Form below to adding it to WordPress.
1. Create a New Google Form
The first thing you need to do is open the Google Forms website . Or if you are logged in via Google Drive , click “New » More » Google Forms » From a Template”.
You can select the “Blank Form” option if you want to create the form as you wish.
3. Template Selection
In the next section, you are asked to choose a template. On this page, Google has provided various kinds of templates for free. You can customize the template as needed.
3. Fill in the Title and Description
For example, here I chose the “Event Feedback” template. You will be asked to enter a title and description of the form first. Fill in according to the purpose of making Google Forms.
At the bottom, you can enter various options that visitors will later fill in, such as short answers, paragraphs, multiple choice, dropdowns, dates, and so on.
Google Forms gives you various options to change the type of questions and answers.
4. Copy the Embed Code
After you finish creating the form, you click the “Send” button in the upper right corner. You will see the Send Form window.
Click the embed icon (< >), then click “Copy” to copy the HTML code. You can set the form using the Width and Height options available in the Send Form window.
If you see, here are the Facebook and Twitter icons. This is another advantage of Google Forms. You can easily share forms using Facebook and Twitter so that followers of your business accounts on social media can also fill out forms online.
5. Inserting Forms into WordPres
So that your form can appear on WordPress pages, paste the embed code that was copied earlier into the WordPress text editor. If you are using the Classic Editor, there will be a “Text” option there. Just paste it where you want.
However, for Gutenberg users, you can simply click the “+” icon in the text editor, then select Embed. Then enter the line of HTML code that was copied from the Google Form.
At this point you have successfully created a Google Form in WordPress. You can check the results by doing a “Preview” before publishing it. Below is the appearance of the Google Form that has been successfully added in WordPress.
Closing
Google Forms is flexible enough that you combine it with WordPress. How to use it is quite simple. You can simply use a Google Drive account and take the embed code in it and then enter it into WordPress.
Hope this article helped you to easily create a WordPress Google Form. When in practice sometimes you experience unexpected problems, don't hesitate to ask us by leaving a comment on this article. You can also get the latest articles from us by subscribing through the comments column below.
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