Hello, I was wondering if you could answer a question about which widget to use or is what I’m looking to do an advance developer issue. I am doing a donation page for a non-profit and I have the page set up 50% 50%. The left side has a photo with copy and will not change and the right side is the donation form. I want to have the form broken into three sections, meaning the first part is collecting amount and how often the amount will be donated. The user will click next once form is complete. Then that part of the form (right side of screen) will disappear and the next part on the form will come up (user information) then they will click next and the next screen will come up.
I’m not even sure this is where I should ask this question.
Here is an example of what I’m talking about. https://donate.everytown.org/donate/support-everytown-t1/?source=etno_HPT1&utm_source=et_n_&utm_medium=_o&utm_campaign=HPT1
Thank you for your time
Hi Christina
Unfortunately, I don’t have any experience this area. You could go with a plugin solution or perhaps a third-party hosted option. Here are some ideas we dug up now:
Hosted
http://donate.ly/
Could integrate into your site using Ninja Forms: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninja-forms/ and tie the two together with Zapier: https://zapier.com/zapbook/donately/ninjaforms/.
Contact Form 7 Plugin
Integrate Contact Form 7 and PayPal and build your own form.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-paypal-extension/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-paypal-add-on/
Gravity Forms Plugin solution
Gravity Forms is a premium plugin. Here is a tutorial on using it to create a donation form:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-create-a-donate-form-for-nonprofit-organization-using-wordpress/
I’m sure there are many other options. Hopefully, the above ideas help start the research process. How you build the page in Page Builder is a separate challenge. First, choose your form/plugin solution, then look at building the page. Let us know what you decide to use :)
Thank you for your response and sorry I haven’t gotten back sooner. I went with the give plugin, it had everything I needed but now when I use the page builder at 50%, put my copy and photo on the left side and the shortcode for the plugin form nothing happens on the actual page. I have saved and published the page. Or sometimes an error 505 appears. What’s going on? Can you help?
Mmm! 505 error, that’s not something we see very often. Any chance you’re seeing a 500 error, that would be more expected in the world of errors.
Does the form work when you insert the shortcode into the Visual tab on a regular page, without using Page Builder?
You are right about the error code. Yes the short code works in Visual and Text. But just now playing with it sometimes nothing is there when I go to preview page? I’m using the Quill theme, Give plugin.
I have used the WordPress widget Text, the SiteEditor Widget Editor and the Give donation form widget. None of these work.
Christina Lee, was looking for an answer to your question. And you might want to put a tab on the right. And use whatever you want.
For this you can use this plugin, turn on the Page Builder SiteOrigin plugins manager and put whatever you want
Tabs Widget for Page Builder
Lucas Tolle
Thank you Lucas for this idea but I’m not looking for tabs. I want to have my page split 50%. On the left side, have an image with copy and on the right side, use the short code for my donation form. When I set it up like this, the back end looks great, but when I go to the front end, there is nothing there. Not even the image and copy.
I also tried to put this widget code
in the builder and it did the same thing…looked good on the backend but nothing showed up on the frontend.
I ended up using tables to get things where I want them but this is not the solution just a fix for now.
Excuse me, Christina!
I did not understand your question.
Anyway, I’m here to help.
Lucas Tolle
Unfortunately, not all shortcodes work in Page Builder. That sounds like it’s the problem here. If you’ve tried the Text, SiteOrigin Editor and Visual Editor widgets and the shortcode doesn’t work in Page Builder in any of them, then, unfortunately, at this stage that plugin’s shortcodes aren’t compatible with Page Builder.