Creating Online Surveys with Gravity Forms and WordPress Part 2

by Craig Grella August 8^th, 2012 4 Responses

This is the second part of a two-part tutorial on creating online surveys with the Gravity Forms plugin for WordPress. The first part of the tutorial series covered the basics of online survey services, survey planning, field selection and the beginning of field editing inside Gravity Forms.

In this article, we will finish the process, test the form, embed it, and make our survey go live for taking actual respondent data. As a reminder, this is what our survey will look like when we have completed the tutorial.

Editing and Previewing the Survey, and Setting up Admin Notifications

Tutorials

How to Create Online Surveys with Gravity Forms and WordPress Part 1

by Craig Grella August 7^th, 2012 2 Responses

Surveys are a great way to determine the wants and needs of your customers. They’re also a great way to get feedback on your products and services, which can help you improve your product and drive more sales.

You might be asking, why do I need to survey my customers when I can get great information from my analytics program like Google Analytics or Clicky?

Community

A Complete Guide to the WordPress Visual Post Editor

by Craig Grella August 3^rd, 2012 13 Responses

The WordPress post visual editor makes writing a blog more like a traditional word processing experience with the ability to format text, change colors, align text, indent, and check your spelling and grammar. It’s a step above the HTML editor and allows you to write beautifully formatted posts without writing a single line of code.

Some blogging platforms less sophisticated than WordPress require cutting and pasting text from other word processors, but the WordPress visual editor makes it possible to create entire articles mixed with images, forms, and other html elements.

Tutorials

How to Get Perfect Blog Images Every Time with Auto Scale and Crop for WordPress

by Craig Grella August 1^st, 2012 5 Responses

Placing images in your posts has several benefits. For one, posts with images are easier to read – photos break up long blocks of text and give context to the story being told. Images also have search engine mojo; and when labeled correctly they can be an important part of how potential visitors find your article and your site.

Tutorials

Everything You Ever Needed to Know About WordPress Settings

by Craig Grella July 31^st, 2012 3 Responses

The settings panel is one of the most overlooked sections of a WordPress installation, and for good reason – WordPress works so well out of the box that you don’t need too much customization to get up and running quickly with your new site. But, with just a few simple tweaks to your WordPress settings panel, you can enhance your site’s look, make it easier for viewers to leave comments, and even enhance your site’s search engine optimization.

Community, Plugins

Offer Embed Codes for Your Photos with the Embed Code Generator Plugin

by Craig Grella July 30^th, 2012 1 Response

The Embed Code Generator for WordPress is a new plugin that easily and automatically adds embed codes to your site for any images or photos contained on your posts or pages. This is a great tool for advertisers, affiliate marketers, or anyone who wants to provide a logo or button to be used on the websites of other people.

Plugins

Add an Author Box to Your WordPress Site with the Author Box Advanced Plugin

by Craig Grella July 25^th, 2012 10 Responses

A blogger’s about page is often the most visited page on her site, especially a popular and well trafficked site. Curious readers want to know all about the author; her inspiration for starting the blog, what her background might be, and sometimes just to get a glimpse behind the curtain to see if the blog is run by a real person or a team of incognitos. With the About the Author Advanced Plugin, any blog author can have his or her own author badge and display it in any widgetized area on the site, letting readers know the person behind the content.

Freebies

5 Sites with Free Resources for Web Designers and Developers

by Craig Grella July 24^th, 2012 7 Responses

The open source nature of WordPress has inspired many creators to develop sites offering free content to help others on their web journeys. A shining example of this good will can be seen in the web design industry, where some of the most popular WordPress web designers and developers make their work available for you to view, download, modify, and use in your own projects – completely free!

Free resources for web designers and developers from WPMUorg

Multisite, Multisite Plugins, Plugins

9 Plugins To Add Advertising On Your Blog

by Craig Grella July 23^rd, 2012 3 Responses

Advertising can be a great way to monetize your blog, and if done the right way, it can even enhance your design, rather than stick out like a sore thumb. Whether you run a single blog or a multi site with thousands of members; and whether you run Adsense campaigns or sell your own ad space – these plugins will help you create, manage, and place ads anywhere on your site.

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