How to Create WPForms Conditional Logic

WPForms is great- the best WordPress drag-and-drop contact forms builder. This tutorial will show you how to use WPForms’ conditional logic features to create smart WordPress forms that adapt to users’ input or form field selections.

This feature is useful for online marketers such as bloggers, affiliates, agencies, business websites, and email marketing professionals. And anyone who leverages email marketing to build and grow their online business.

When you create a contact form, especially for business websites and e-commerce stores, you might have different personas in mind or a few options for users to choose from.

Right?

The big question is: how do you create forms that let users make choices, select the most relevant item, hide or show form fields, and perform multiple tasks?

While it may look tricky with a WordPress form builder conditional logic, there’s a simple solution to it.

What is Conditional Logic in WPForms?

The smart conditional logic WPForms add-ons allow you to preset the form field outputs based on users’ selected items or form field inputs.

It is a marketing feature that lets you create smart WPForms dynamic fields to help you collect the most relevant information from users.

With WordPress’s conditional logic form, users will find it more interactive, engaging, and relevant to their requests.

This helpful marketing feature lets you create highly super-targeted web forms that convert better.

So how do you create smart, dynamic contact forms that lead users through the web form journey?

Let’s get started…

Creating Basic Conditional Logic Rules in WPForms

First, install and activate the Premium WPForms Pro Plugin on your blog.

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To show you how it works with WPForms conditional logic. I’m setting up a web form that uses WPForms conditions based on user input or form field selections.

This is a basic or simple WPForms setup guide for smart forms, so the rule is straightforward.

Here is a typical scenario I want us to use for our WPForms conditional logic tutorial…

In this example, I will create new forms with conditional logic to collect user experience on the website.

So, we’re going to set up a field that hides/shows based on the user’s rating star. I’m setting up the condition rule: “If the user experience is less than 3 stars, this field should show.

If the user experience exceeds three stars, then the field remains hidden; no need for the extra field to show.

Setting up Your Contact Forms Conditions

Now, open the contact form you want to edit to set up conditions (assuming you’ve already created one).

For more instructions on creating an online contact form with WPForms, read my complete review of WPForms.

WPForms offers pre-built contact form templates for almost any type of contact form you need. So you don’t have to worry about the design process.

Open the WPForms form builder panel, and click on the form field you want to show or hide. This action will auto-open the form field panel.

In the form panel field, check the box labeled “Enable Conditional Logic.”

You should see the dropdown menu option field once you enable the WPForms Conditional Logic box.

And a few dropdown options fields to set your conditions from. This field contains the:

The comparison field includes these options: is, is not, empty, not empty, contains, does not contain, starts with, ends with, greater than, and less than.

Do you need to select the field’s value for the condition to apply in the select field option?

This field will deactivate if you choose the “empty or not empty” option in the comparison dropdown menu. So be careful when making your selection.

In our typical user experience form example, let’s see how all this works together.

Remember, we set the condition to “if the user experience rating is less than 3 stars, then this field should show”.

So, let’s see in the GIF image below how our contact form works with the condition set.

Can you see how the form field labels “How Can We Improve?” Hide/Show as the user rating changes.

This is an example of a simple or basic WPForms conditional logic setup.

Setting up Complex WPForms Conditional Logic

The situation above is intended for a single conditional logic rule. In WPForms, it’s possible to set up complex or multiple condition rules.

Let’s see how to define multiple condition rules in the WPForms conditional logic feature.

For example, we want to ask users for their phone numbers using the web form we created.

But we want to do this only if the rating is less than 3 and the “How Can We Improve” form field is not empty.

We’re setting up 2 conditional rules for our Phone number form field. The phone number contact form field will not show if the two rules are not met.

So first, we need to add the phone field to our form. Next, we need to click on it to reveal the settings page.

Next, we need to enable conditional logic, as we did in the previous step. Then we need to set the value or rules for this condition to either show/hide.

After completing all processes, we’ve set the phone field to show only if the “How Can We Improve” field is not empty.

Now, here is an example of a conditional logic form. Let’s see how it works for the user on the site’s front end.

As you can see from the WordPress forms with the conditional logic GIF image above. Once the user starts typing words into the empty form area, the phone option field appears after selecting the star rating.

Also, the content area is immediately empty, and the Phone number field disappears.

You can also set the conditional logic field to be a required field. Once all the conditions are met, the field becomes required.

This means the user must complete the steps once it begins.

Conclusion…

Depending on your business needs, there are many ways to use WPForms conditional logic to create smart, engaging forms.

This tutorial is meant to give you a starting point for understanding conditional logic in WordPress forms.

You can do a lot more than this tutorial can cover.

I hope this article has helped you learn more about using conditional logic to grow your business and build a responsive email list.