{"id":6153,"date":"2025-09-10T09:52:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/?page_id=6153"},"modified":"2025-09-13T17:31:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:31:02","slug":"contact-forms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/contact-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are several ways to add a form to a Glow Blogs site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jetpack<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Jetpack has a contact form module that is very full featured. In Glow Blogs it only works in pages or posts edited with the <strong>classic editor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To add a contact form you need to have activated the Contact Form module in Jetpack, then just click on the&nbsp;<strong>Add Contact Form<\/strong>&nbsp;Button, remember to set an email to&nbsp;receive the information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jetpack form has lots of features, different fields radio button &amp; checkboxes. It also will email the results to addresses set in the editor &amp; keep them in your dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are using the block editor to edit pages &amp; posts you need to edit a page or posts in the classic editor to add and edit a jetpack form. You can allow users to switch editors in the Dashboard-&gt; Settings -&gt; Writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Form Block<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are using a block theme you can also use the contact form block plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You need to activate the plugin first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a very simple form. It will e-mail the Administration Email Address as set in the Settings-&gt; General section of the dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The form allows visitors to send a message with a name &amp; email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is an example form and more information on the Blocks blog:<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/blocks\/2025\/09\/10\/contact-form-2\/\"> Contact Form Block<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This form does not work with a classic theme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other way of gathering feedback. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can embed <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/embeds\/2020\/12\/11\/google-form\/\">Google Forms<\/a>, links to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/embeds\/2020\/12\/11\/o365-forms\/\">O365 forms <\/a> or even use comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several ways to add a form to a Glow Blogs site. Jetpack Jetpack has a contact form module that is very full featured. In Glow Blogs it only works in pages or posts edited with the classic editor. To add a contact form you need to have activated the Contact Form module in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/contact-forms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Contact Forms<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6153","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6170,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6153\/revisions\/6170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}