Supple Forms – Quick Start Guide
by Byron Bennett / February 14th, 2009
This is a quick start guide to get you up and running with Supple Forms as fast as humanly possible. Supple Forms is a CMS plugin for WordPress that lets you add custom data to posts and pages. It is both powerful and simple to use. If you need something like this, it might just be what you’re looking for.
Please check out the overview on the Supple Forms Home Page if you have not already done so.
Without further ado, here’s Part 1 to the Quick Start for Supple Forms:
We are now ready to add fields to our form…here’s how in Part 2:
Written Guide for Supple Forms to Come
I hope these videos have been helpful. I will be adding a written guide for Supple Forms in the near future. There are lots of capabilities with shortcodes that aren’t covered here.
Cheers!
Byron
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February 14th, 2009 at 1:49 am
[...] Update: I have created a 2 part video guide (15 minutes total) to quickly get you started with the basics of Supple Forms. Check out both videos here. [...]
February 28th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Hi. Not sure if its just me, but video #1 is pausing at 43 second mark — player says “buffering” but the video’s already downloaded so not sure what’s going on. Tried on both IE7 and Firefox with same issue.
February 28th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Thanks for the tip…I’ll have to rerecord.
BB
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Hello.
Will you fix the first video that stops after 44 seconds soon?
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Hi Erik,
Yes. I’ll get that fixed this weekend.
BB
May 1st, 2009 at 7:41 am
Hi Erik!
I’m so excited to use this! Will you please re-post the video. It’s not working and I’d sure love to see it! Thanks.
May 29th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
looks great Byron, in fact very splendid – but the video tuts don’t! will persevere anyhow.
hey – i use vimeo for my wordpress videos…why not try them?
tx for the plugin. obviously a lot of work here.
May 29th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Guv,
Thanks!
And I hear you on the videos. I really need to fix that one.
Byron
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:11 am
July 2, video still dies at 43 second mark…
August 18th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Is there any way to get this plugin to work with WordPress 2.8? I currently can’t find a way to actually generate the fields.
October 14th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
The video is still not working. It would be great if I could do more with the custom tables. Use existing tables, for example.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
hello– can’t wait to try this plugin! please fix video if possible. thanks!
November 26th, 2009 at 4:56 am
Hi,
cant understand if this plugin also integrates with sending a form, i mean:
i’d thought to use this plugin to create an order form where people can write how many pieces of the article would like to receive (a sort of cart but i dont want to use a cart)
at the end of it all, this plug in can send an e-mail with the collected data?
moreover: can it calculate? e.g. 10 * 10 = 100
thank you in advance,
barbara
February 4th, 2010 at 7:55 am
Video please….
February 12th, 2010 at 9:51 am
hi i think it’s really useful
thanks!!!
Anyway, I really hope the auto add to post works soon and I hope to see more added in fields:
allowing user to Insert/Upload image function to the form
maybe description, subheadings and tables too
just like a survey form
there’s a bug though, when I edit, and save, and then I click on the drop down list to add a field, the order number doesn’t get update automatically
and whenever I trash the post, the database viewer doesn’t get updated or the post entry isn’t deleted
February 25th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
“May 29th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
And I hear you on the videos. I really need to fix that one.
Byron”
Yup….almost a year later and ‘still need to fix’. Sigh. Looks like I’ll have to find some other solution…..
March 30th, 2010 at 8:04 am
Terrific Plugin! Our 11 yr old birder has been on to me for some time to figure out a way he could log his bird counts on his blog. Your plugin was easy to install and use!
Now I just have to figure out enough php or CSS or to total his counts from the db for his “Log” page…. at least he will be happily plugging in data for awhile (while I learn).
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!
June 2nd, 2010 at 3:24 pm
I want to create an order form that tallies up a total based on mostly radio button selections. Is there a way to make that happen so we get not only the submitted options but the final price? Thanks,
Dave Bricker
June 7th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
Dave,
I’m not sure that Supple Forms can handle that. You might have a look at Gravity Forms or Flutter.
BB
July 10th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
Hi Bryan.
Great plugin, thank you. Just a quick note about the auto insert into the post. Do you have a version somewhere that is enabled? Ha… I am doing an auto classified for members, and it may be asking too much for car dealers to include the snippet at the end of their postings.
But again, really appreciate your work. Will definately look into donation once the site is running.
Cheers.