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Give Plugin Series – How to create your first form

After installing your Give donation plugin for WordPress you are now set to create your first form.

First, login to the dashboard and select the Donations option from the left hand sidebar.

Next, click on Add Form.

Name your form. Give it something meaningful as the name will display on the form once it is finished.

Set your different settings. For our example form we simply made it a set donation of $5.00 and left everything else at the default settings.

Publish your form to save it.

Now you can add the form into a post or page. You can either copy the shortcode from the form itself or use the dropdown list by clicking on Add Donation Form.

Once your page has been created, you may need to add it to your menu, depending on the menu settings. Simply edit the menu and add the new page.

Now your donation page will appear on your site! Congratulations on your first form!

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hey everybody Scott Mitchell here with inmotion hosting and welcome to another episode of our give donation plugin series ok guys so in this video for the give donation plugin going to take you through how to make a super basic form kids to be your maybe your first one so we’re going to start at the dashboard and then over on the left-hand sidebar we’re going to go down and click on the donations section which is I shall get plug in and have
all forms which we don’t have any and then add form okay so we’re going to add a form this is going to be a very simple almost kind of default settings here so we’re going to add a new form we going to put a title in here now this title is going to show up on the page so you know give it something meaningful don’t just call it donation one because it’ll look funny on the page when you put at that so well charity donations will call this one I
could may you know be something specific to your your cause your donation whatever you want to name it but it’s just name it something meaningful at least okay so we’re gonna call it charity donation again we’re going to run down basically the default settings here of a donation option we’re gonna have a set donation okay just we’re asking for a specific amount here so we’re going to set that to say five dollars ok this is a set amount okay no
custom amounts no goal here set everything else kind of same you can see the display content payment fields all this stuff’s keep it all exactly as it is okay all the way down okay so you can see everything just like you kind of would make its kind of doing a page or a post or something like that it has an author and stuff like that so just keep everything the way it is you can see up here the permalink is going to pop in and it’s going to be
based on the name that I add the form so charity donations going to make that and then over here keep everything public and there’s the shortcode the short code is the actual code that’s going to insert the form into the page or post or whatever you put it in so you can copy that to clipboard if you like I’ll show you I’d add that in a second ok in this hit publish as you publish it basically saves the form ok so again see this change to update
so it has an existing form now if I go to all forms over here on the left hand side it now exists so I can have a bunch of different ones ok but as itself it doesn’t really do much so what I want to do is create a page or post here’s our normal pages let’s create a new page and we’re going to call it donate okay now remember I had you copy that short code you can either paste it here okay and then publish the page or if you didn’t copy it no no
sweat just go to the add donation form button right here okay and you have a list you can select from a list all the forms you have in this case we have one so we’ll check charity information insert form and you can see it’s the same short code that I had in my clipboard so from here basic form hit publish all right now if you visit my page my slide here again very simple very basic site if i refresh you see nothing happens my donated page isn’t
there right well that’s because i didn’t put in the menu so i have to go back and insert appearing appearance and menus and then pick my menu which is the navigation menu or main menu right then select it all right here i am so i can view all most recent or view all whichever one you want this donate was very recent sites that and add it to menu so now home sample page and donate i saved my menu and now when i go back refresh my page boom i have
my donated page there I’m gonna check it out give it a click alright so donate this name of the page charity donation remove the title there shows five dollars now what payment methods we’ll get into that later I have test payment and offline donation so this is just for testing offline donation gives you know more information pops up you know just like this so if like want to send a check in or something like that but test payment we’re just
using that let’s say go ahead and add your name okay I’ll use stuff here and donation five dollars I had donate oh and there’s a donation confirmation page so that’s how you make a donation that’s how you build a donation form and that’s how you make your first donation or test donation and your website using the give donate plugin thanks for joining us for another episode of our give donation plugin series if you enjoyed the video be sure to
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