WordPress Wednesday - How to Embed a Form

There are probably as many ways to do this as there are products but I’m going to show you the way I do it because it is by far the simplest way I’ve ever seen.

Step #1 – Navigate to Google Docs

Head to Google’s free document center, Google Docs.  If you don’t already have a Google account you will need to start one.

 

 

Step #2 – Create a new form

Go to the “Create New” dropdown button and scroll down to “Form”.

 

 

 

 

Step # 3 – Fill out the form

This is where you ask your questions.  What do you want to know?  You can also make the answers multiple choice or allow long-form text responses.

 

 

Step #4 – Embed the form

This is where Google Docs really shine because they make this so simple.  Simply go to the “More actions” button and drill down to “Embed”.  It will provide you a short line of code that just needs to be copied and pasted into your post.  If you are using something like “Windows Live Writer” make sure this code gets posted in the “Source” or “HTML” tab.  In this case it turns “iframe src="https://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?formkey=dHFFak9ZRVdfYkFKanNuNTFibW9CZnc6MQ" width="760" height="671" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading...</iframe>

into this:

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Step #5 – Read the results

Once the form is embedded and you start receiving answers, all the data will sent automatically to a Google Spreadsheet that will be available in your list of documents.  Go there and start learning what answers people gave to your questions!

Did you find this helpful?  Leave a comment to let me know.

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