How to Create a Form (Legacy)

Log in to the WordPress Dashboard and go to the JetEngine > JetEngine Dashboard.

In the Modules tab, enable the Forms toggle. Click the “Save” button in order to save progress.

WordPress settings

Proceed to the JetEngine > Forms tab and click the “Add New” button.

Form fields

Come up with the title for your form and start adding fields to set the area that should be filled out by your customers.

Types of the fields

There are specific field types you can add, let’s figure out some of them:

• Text — Name, Surname, etc.
• Textarea — for users to add some comments within the form.
• Select — Checkbox — Radio — to add the choosing option.
• Number — for example, the number of people.
• Date/Time.
• Media — to let the users add some documents, pictures, etc.

Learn more about the types from our Forms field types overview.

Page Break and pre-set forms fields value

Page break divides your form into several steps. The user can access the next part after filling in the previous one and clicking the “Next” button.

The “Add Page Break” button is placed next to the “Add Field” and “Add Submit Button” buttons.

The Page Break will be added as a separate field. If you would like to edit it, here’s what you can do:

• change the Label if you want the button to have a different name
• type in the Disabled message, that will be shown to the user if the button is disabled (for example, the user didn’t fill all the required fields)
• add some Custom CSS coding to style the button up

The Pre-set form field value is an option to add the autofill according to the settings you apply.

You should select:

• Text — Source (Post, User, URL Query Variables).
• ID — Get post ID from (Current user or post ID, URL Query Variables).
• Property for each field.

In this example, the Email field is auto-filled:

Fields order

When all your fields are set, you can change the order and length.

Notification settings

Below the Fields Settings block, you will find the Notifications Settings section, where you can specify the type and the number of notifications. Depending on the type, you will get different areas to fill up.

Check out our full Notification Settings overview to learn more about this topic.

Messages settings

In the Messages Settings block, there are sample messages that the user will receive whether the form is filled successfully or not.

Don’t forget to click the “Apply Changes” button every time you make changes in order to save progress. After you finish the setting process, click on the “Publish”/”Update” button.

Afterward, you can go to the page where you want to add a newly created form and open the page with the Elementor editor.

Drag and drop the Form widget to the canvas of the page and select the form you have just created from the Content > Select form directory.

Feel free to use different settings to customize the appearance of the order form according to your needs.

Click the “Update” button.

The form you created can be also edited in the Gutenberg Editor. Open the editing screen of the necessary page and find the Form block in the block menu.

Click on it to drop the Form block to the canvas of the page and select the form you have just created in the Select form drop-down menu.

Feel free to use different settings to customize the appearance of the order form according to your needs. more details about design customization you will find in this overview. Don’t forget to press the “Update” button when you are finished.