Forms
The craft of the form itself: fields, structure, length and the decisions that change whether people finish it.
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How to Create an Employee Information Form in WordPress
Create a simple employee information form in WordPress with work details, clear required fields, restricted access and a tested submissions inbox.
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Client Onboarding Questionnaire: What to Ask, When, and What to Leave Out
A client onboarding questionnaire for agencies, consultants and service businesses: the 24 questions worth asking after the contract, the ones that belong on the first form instead, and how to send it so it gets filled in.
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Form Design Best Practices for a Business Website: 12 Rules and Why Each One Holds
Form design best practices for a business website: 12 rules on fields, labels, layout, errors, buttons and what happens after submit, each with the reason it holds and the exception where it does not.
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How to Ask Customers for Reviews (and Get a Yes More Often)
How to ask for reviews from customers as a small business: who to ask, the week to ask in, the email that gets a yes, the one-link rule, and the honest way to collect reviews on your own site alongside Google.
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How to Collect Customer Feedback Without Wearing Customers Out
A practical plan for how to collect customer feedback as a small business: where to ask, what to ask, how often, how to read it and how to close the loop so people keep answering.
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Lead Qualification Questions to Ask on a Website Form (and the Ones to Save for the Call)
The lead qualification questions worth asking on a website form: one each for fit, need, timing and authority, written as fields a stranger will answer, with the questions that belong on the first call instead.
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When I prefer HTML to a visual form builder
Choose HTML for direct markup control or the visual editor for field and step organization. Core Forms supports both workflows.
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Core Forms 4.0
The first stable release on the 4.x line: a schema-backed form engine, a visual builder, smart forms, 21 native integrations, analytics and a native block. Released May 1, 2026, with three patch releases in the same week.
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Conditional form fields without drag-and-drop
How to build show/hide field logic in WordPress forms using HTML data attributes. No builder, no logic graph, no plugin upsell.
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Stop the forms-plugin stylesheet bloat
Audit form styles by page and feature, disable optional presentation CSS when appropriate, and keep styles needed for working forms.
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The honest case for AJAX form submission
AJAX submission is the default in every modern forms plugin. But should it be? When it helps, when it hurts, and how to switch modes.
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Load WordPress forms without unnecessary JavaScript
A breakdown of what's in a typical forms plugin's frontend bundle, and how to cut it without losing anything important.
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Stop reading. Ship a form.
All these notes are from running Core Forms on real client sites.
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