HTML Forms Premium automatically adds an easy to reference widget to the WordPress dashboard. This dashboard widget lists your active forms, shows how many submissions are unread, and the total number of submissions.
The dashboard widget is enabled by default. You, or your other admin users, can hide it manually if they choose by using the built-in Screen Options feature on the WordPress dashboard.
HTML Forms Premium includes a visibility feature that lets you only show a form when a user is logged in to your site. This feature lets you have greater control over who can see, and submit data, to your website.
You’ll need to install HTML Forms Premium to begin. With that done, head over to the Settings tab of the form you wish to enable this feature on. Find the Require Users to Log In field and select the “Yes” option.
It’s that simple. Head to the Messages tab if you’d like to define the text that is shown to users who are not logged in. Find the User Log In Required field and put in whatever text you want to display.
HTML Forms Premium includes a feature to provide you with form submission notifications inside the WordPress admin. The notifications show you how many unread, or unseen, submissions you have. These notifications appear in the admin’s menu, on the HTML Forms list, and on each form’s Submissions tab.
A counter, displaying the number of unread submissions, appears in the WordPress admin menu next to the HTML Forms link.
On the main list of forms, inside the HTML Forms plugin, a notification badge with the number of unread submissions appears like so:
On each form, the Submissions tab changes to show you which submissions have not been viewed. The background of each submission’s row is highlighted. An optional “Mark as seen” link is provided to quickly change the submission’s status. Finally, you can use the Bulk Actions menu to quickly mark multiple submissions as seen. Clicking on any individual submission, to view its details, will also mark it as seen.
First, install HTML Forms Premium. Once that’s done, you can turn on submission notifications on a form-by-form basis. Simply go to the Settings tab of your form and find the Enable Notifications field. Select “Yes” to turn on the submission notification features for this particular form.
HTML Forms Premium adds an action to let you connect your form data to an external service using a webhook. This feature helps unlock the base plugin in an incredible number of ways. You can send data from your visitors to third-party applications or your own internal software tools.
First, you’ll have to install HTML Forms Premium. Once that is complete, you’ll find a new button on the Actions tab of your form called Trigger Webhook. Pressing that button will reveal the window to build the webhook connection to your form.
As you can see in the screenshot, there are three fields in the webhook action.
This is the destination URL that your form data will be sent to.
Define what type of content will be sent to the webhook URL. Your choices are JSON or encoded form data.
If your Webhook URL requires additional headers, like authorization, you can include that information here.
All data included in the form is sent to the webhook whenever this is a successful submission. It is sent in the format you chose in the Content Type field, to the address in your Webhook URL field, with any headers you included in Additional Headers. It is the responsibility of the service running at the Webhook URL to handle things from there.
HTML Forms Premium includes a setting, for each form, that lets you define a Submission Limit. This can be found in the Settings tab of your form. By placing a value in the field, you can define how many submissions your form is allowed to accept.
Your form will no longer load when the number of submissions meets the Submission Limit. The message that displays when this situation occurs can be set in the Messages tab. Find the field called Submission Limit Reached and enter in the text you want to show users who visit a form that has met its limit.
HTML Forms Premium adds the ability to export your form submissions to a spreadsheet file on your computer. This is an excellent way to pull data from your site for backup or to send to others. This feature includes a simple feature to offer additional control over the export file format.
Once you have installed HTML Forms Premium, the Submissions tab on your forms will automatically include a button labeled Export Submissions. Pushing this button will trigger a download of a spreadsheet file containing every submission for that form.
Unfortunately, not all spreadsheet programs are created equally. Certain programs open up files expecting different delimiters between data. A delimiter helps determine how data is organized into columns. The HTML Forms Settings screen, with Premium installed, will allow you to set the Export Delimiter of the file with one of four choices: a comma, a semicolon, a tab, or a vertical bar.
HTML Forms Premium adds a File Upload field to the base plugin. You can use this field to let users include files with their form submissions. You won’t have to write any of your own file uploading or processing code. HTML Forms Premium will handle all of that for you.
Once you have installed HTML Forms Premium, the File Upload field will be included in the Fields tab of your forms. This new field asks you to provide a Field Label, a list of Associated File Types, and whether the field is required to submit the form.
Pressing the Add Field to Form button will automatically insert the necessary HTML into your form. The actual processing of the file, as mentioned above, will happen automatically. Of course, you can modify some of that processing. Let’s discuss that next.
On the main Settings screen, for HTML Forms, will be an additional area for File Uploads when HTML Forms Premium is active. There are three different settings you can adjust to modify how file uploads are processed and presented.
You can control how file uploads are linked in your Submissions tab and e-mail notifications. Select Yes to turn on direct links to actual files. Select No to have your file uploads link to the WordPress Media Library.
HTML Forms Premium will let you decide if file uploads are included in the WordPress Media Library. Select Yes to always include uploaded files in the Media Library. Select No to disable this feature. The No option will make all links direct, regardless of your Direct Links setting.
The third setting for File Uploads lets you control the maximum file size of any upload. Leave the setting empty, or place a 0, to let files of any size be uploaded. Set a value, measured in bytes, to set a specific maximum file size to apply to all of your File Upload fields on all forms.
You’ll need to install and activate HTML Forms Premium before you can start using it on your WordPress website. This is a step-by-step guide for anyone who has never installed a premium plugin before. If you still are having issues after reading this guide, please contact us via our support form for more assistance.
You should have received an email after completing your HTML Forms Premium purchase. The subject of the email is “HTML Forms Premium – Purchase Receipt.” In that email is a link to download HTML Forms Premium to your computer.
If you didn’t receive that email for some reason, please check your spam box in your email client. Alternatively, you can download the file directly from the Account area of this website using the login information that was created for you after your purchase.
Click on the link to download the file and save it somewhere on your computer you will remember. We suggest saving the file to your desktop for easy access in the next step.
You will need to upload the HTML Forms Premium file, that you just saved to your computer, to your WordPress site manually. This is a very simple process that you can do with just a few clicks.
First, log in to your WordPress admin and find the Plugins menu on the left-hand side. Click on the menu option called Add New. It should look something like this:
The next screen can be overwhelming, but we are only concerned with one part. At the top is a button that says Upload Plugin. Pressing that button will give you the option to upload the HTML Forms Premium file that you saved on your computer to the server.
Press Choose File, find the HTML Forms Premium file (if you followed our advice above, it should be on your desktop), and then press the Install Now button. You will be taken to a new screen with one last button to click. Press the Activate Plugin button.
If everything went smoothly, you should be back on the Installed Plugins screen. We’re one last step away from finishing the process of installing HTML Forms Premium.
Your purchase receipt email contained a License Key. You’ll need this to complete the installation process and get HTML Forms Premium working on your site.
Find the HTML Forms choice on the left-hand side menu in WordPress. There you will find an option to open up HTML Forms’ Settings. Next, go to the HTML Forms Premium License section, put your License Key in the field marked License Key and then press the Save License Key button. Finally, press the Activate button to complete the process.
Now that HTML Forms Premium is active, all premium features are instantly unlocked.
Let’s walk through how to install the HTML Forms Premium add-on. After registering your account and processing your payment, you immediately have access to the HTML Forms account area.
After logging in to your account, head on over to the plugins page.
Click the Download button to download the latest version of HTML Forms Premium.
Note for Safari for Mac users for which the .zip file automatically extracts after downloading, either go to Preferences > General and uncheck “Open safe files after downloading” or simply re-compress the files to a .zip again.
Log in to your WordPress admin panel, go to Plugins > Add New and locate the Upload Plugin link.
Browse to the location where the downloaded plugin package is located on your computer and select it. WordPress will automatically upload the plugin to your server. After that is done, you can safely click the Activate link to activate the plugin.
Now that HTML Forms Premium is active, all premium features are instantly unlocked.
* Licenses give you access to premium support and plugin updates for one year. Licenses automatically renew annually if not cancelled. All prices are USD. You can change plans or cancel your account at any time.