Comments on: Avoid These 3 Pitfalls When Embedding Forms https://www.wufoo.com/blog/avoid-these-3-pitfalls-when-embedding-forms/ Making forms easy + fast + fun. Wed, 07 Jan 2015 21:05:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Tangerine Orange Key https://www.wufoo.com/blog/avoid-these-3-pitfalls-when-embedding-forms/#comment-2824 Wed, 07 Jan 2015 21:05:47 +0000 http://www.wufoo.com/?p=11691#comment-2824 Thanks for the detailed info.Helped me a Lot !

]]> By: Doctor Psionic https://www.wufoo.com/blog/avoid-these-3-pitfalls-when-embedding-forms/#comment-2823 Sat, 25 Oct 2014 07:05:21 +0000 http://www.wufoo.com/?p=11691#comment-2823 Can you let us create a cool “Add a Reply” field to stuff like this ?? 😀 That would be rad.

]]> By: Johan Lieu https://www.wufoo.com/blog/avoid-these-3-pitfalls-when-embedding-forms/#comment-2822 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:52:28 +0000 http://www.wufoo.com/?p=11691#comment-2822 @Todd: Great tips on how to embed MailChimp tags into your wufoo form link.

]]> By: Johan Lieu https://www.wufoo.com/blog/avoid-these-3-pitfalls-when-embedding-forms/#comment-2821 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:51:53 +0000 http://www.wufoo.com/?p=11691#comment-2821 @Bob: We’re looking into blog RSS feed at the moment, but in the mean time the best way to keep tabs on the blog is via our Twitter account: https://twitter.com/wufoo

]]> By: Bob https://www.wufoo.com/blog/avoid-these-3-pitfalls-when-embedding-forms/#comment-2820 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:50:08 +0000 http://www.wufoo.com/?p=11691#comment-2820 First, thanks for the info! I think another thing to be alert to is when embedding a longer form into a Joomla content management system, specifically when viewed with Chrome and scrolling, the NEXT and PREVIOUS buttons usually don’t function correctly to move between form pages.

Also, it would be appreciated if you could get the wufoo Blog RSS feed working again so I could keep on top of these entries!

Thanks!

]]> By: Todd Heslin https://www.wufoo.com/blog/avoid-these-3-pitfalls-when-embedding-forms/#comment-2819 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:35:58 +0000 http://www.wufoo.com/?p=11691#comment-2819 Oh just realised that the HTML of the anchor tag actually rendered. Let me try again:

[Open first anchor tag]
href=”[somewufooFormUrl]/def/field1=|fname|&field2=|lname|”
[close first anchor tag]

]]> By: Todd Heslin https://www.wufoo.com/blog/avoid-these-3-pitfalls-when-embedding-forms/#comment-2818 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:33:53 +0000 http://www.wufoo.com/?p=11691#comment-2818 Sure Simon. Mailchimp has a bunch of predefined tags that are used commonly for your lists, eg:
|fname|
|lname|
|email|

When you create any email template (regardless of the HTML) you will likely add links, whether it’s through the mailchimp interface or through anchor tags in your html. If you render the link like this:

[Open first anchor tag] href=”[somewufooFormUrl]/def/field1=|fname|&field2=|lname|” [close first anchor tag]

Then when the email is sent to each person on your list, they will all get slightly different parameters in the URL which are used to identify them when they hit the wufoo form. This could be a field to make it easier, eg first name and last name OR it could be hidden field that you use for tracking purposes.

This can get super powerful. I built a referral system based on this technique.

Resources (to Google):
– wufoo URL modification
– Mailchimp merge tags

Good luck!

]]> By: Simon https://www.wufoo.com/blog/avoid-these-3-pitfalls-when-embedding-forms/#comment-2817 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:32:50 +0000 http://www.wufoo.com/?p=11691#comment-2817 Hi, I’d like to know more about embedding mailchimp tags in a wufoo form. Can you give an example of the html structure?

]]> By: Todd Heslin https://www.wufoo.com/blog/avoid-these-3-pitfalls-when-embedding-forms/#comment-2816 Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:53:02 +0000 http://www.wufoo.com/?p=11691#comment-2816 @Cammie, you probably don’t want to do that. The primary reason is that many mail clients don’t support fillable forms in email. Even worse, some email clients may think you’re trying to do something nasty and put your message in spam. I guess it is possible with Google forms. Best scenario is you let Mailchimp work its magic for email templates and use a nice big exciting button to go to your wufoo template hosted on the web.

Maybe you know this, but for anyone else reading…I’d recommend checking our wufoo URL templating. Using mailchimp you could add a link to your form and prefil fields using the Mailchimp merge tags like |fname|.

]]> By: Cammie https://www.wufoo.com/blog/avoid-these-3-pitfalls-when-embedding-forms/#comment-2815 Mon, 13 Oct 2014 18:03:58 +0000 http://www.wufoo.com/?p=11691#comment-2815 How the heck do we get a wufoo form embedded into a Mailchimp template ? wah wah wah wah wah

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