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Using Google Forms and WordPress

The Tualatin Chamber of Commerce has an annual event called Celebrate Tualatin where there are awards given to members within multiple categories. There are two ways to nominate a person:

  • Print out a PDF form and FAX it in
  • Online form

For the online form task we decided to use Google Forms, because of how easy it is to visually create a Form and it collects all of the responses made by people nominating. Here’s what the finished form looks like:

Google Form

To create the form you login to Google Docs and add a new Form, then start to fill in the details:

Initial Google Form

 

I gave our form a Title, and the first question was a Multiple Choice with six options, and it’s a required question:

Form title

 

All of the remaining questions were Text fields, and there are many other choices for the type of field that you can have:

Field types

 

It’s easy to rearrange questions by just moving your cursor over the question, then dragging and dropping to a new location:

Question hover

 

We wanted to be notified by email whenever a new nomination was made with this form, so we installed an Add-on called “Form Notifications”:

Form notifications

 

When a form is filled out, then our recipients get an email notification and a Google spreadsheet is updated with the new info:

Google response spreadsheet

 

To get this form into a WordPress page or post, while in Google Docs we choose: File> Embed

Google file embed

I just Copy this HTML code, then in WordPress I edit my Post, view in Text mode, then Paste:

Paste Google form into WordPress

 

There you have it, how to make a Google Form and embed it inside of your WordPress page or post. Enjoy building your forms and analyzing the results in Google Docs.

 

 

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