Hi,
I made a 3 steps form using this awesome plugin and now I want to do following:
1) After user submits the form, I want to show submitted data of few fields on thank you page
2) and I want to have social media share buttons on thank you page so user can share that data to social media sites e.g. Facebook, Twitter.
Is there any way to do this? I've checked on forums before starting this topic and didn't find any help.
I'd appreciate any help.
Thanks!
You will need to use a confirmation redirect to a page, and on that page you will display some of their inputs and also your social sharing icons. I think I would use the query string to send the information you want to display on the thank you page, and have that be the URL which is submitted to the social media sites. That way, when someone follows the link, the page they see will be populated dynamically with the user's submitted data.
To display the query string values in a WordPress page, you can use this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/url-params/
If you need more specific pointers, let us know. What you want to accomplish is entirely doable.
I'm glad you've responded promptly. Thank you!
I'd appreciate if you can provide brief information about my request so some how it could help me to accomplish my task without any problem. Its something like out-of-box but I really want to do it.
Hope you understand and respond accordingly.
See this test form: http://gravity.chrishajer.com/send-some-query-string-parameters/
After submission you will end up here: http://gravity.chrishajer.com/catch-some-url-parameters/ . Here is the post body: http://pastebin.com/AzJvX7Zr
I installed this plugin to catch the query string parameters: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/url-params/
Here is the XML export of the form:
http://pastebin.com/download.php?i=HLmgUrJg (save that on your hard drive in a file with an XML extension) You can import that into your installation.
You will need to create your own page and use that as the page to be redirected to for confirmation.
Configuring the social sharing icons is beyond the support we can give here. You will need to install a plugin to enable that, then include the shortcode or whatever is required on the confirmation page.
Thank you for the detailed information. I really apprecaite the demo and other info. you provided. But I'm not sure what I doing wrong. I had one form (3 steps) then I created Thank you page for it. Now I've installed "URL Params" plugin and pasted following code to get the user submitted information on Thank you page:
[urlparam param="FirstName, First" default="Friend" /]
So when I submitted the form, its just showing "Freind" instead of first name, which I believe is default value when nothing found.
Do I need to setup the plugin with some specific settings? I don't find its options anywhere in the backend; I checked under every menu. Or what should I do to pass the user submitted information on Thank you page?
What is "Thank You" page? Is that another page on your website? Do you have the URL for the form and the URL for the thank you page?
Form: http://bit.ly/TscpGb
Thank you page (the page where I want show the user data and have social links): http://bit.ly/RxHj3M
I did not see the query string being sent from the form submission to the thank you page. Can you post a screenshot of your confirmation settings for this form? It does not look like something is configured correctly.
Your the best! I was able to pass the data to thank you page. I misconfigured the query strings settings.
Just one last question.. how can I get the link of form submitted entry so I can include that to facebook share dialog so when someone see that entry on facebook and cliick on the link, it takes them to that post on site?
OK, we're almost there. You will need to share the URL with the query string in it, so that the thank you page displays the proper values whenever it is loaded. I'm not sure how you are populating those social sharing links, but that is the URL that needs to be shared, the one that is your confirmation redirect, I think.
