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Jradar
Member

i have a very long form, 5 pages with each page being very long itself

is there a best practice for how to handle 'form fatigue' and saving long forms if the user leaves for some reason or their browser crashes?

i do have the data persistence plugin ... but it does not auto save -> which would be ideal

how do people handle this?

i've tried to monkey with the data-persistence plugin, but i'm not skilled enough to write code myself of that level

and now i've grabbed the 'next button' code and put that in html in various places on the site but changed it's name to 'save now' (this seems to submit and save form content, except it jumps the person to the next page, which i'd like to fix)

there must be a better way??

Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday July 3, 2013 | Permalink
Richard Vav
Administrator

Unfortunately there currently isn't a way to save partial form entries while moving between pages, as you have found the closest anyone has come to date is with the data persistence plugin. If this is something you are looking for now, all I can suggest is you would need to discuss it with a WordPress/PHP developer.

Edit: Another plugin you may want to take a look at is the Gravity Forms Saved Forms Add-On, I don't know much about it but it may be worth a look.

Posted 11 years ago on Thursday July 4, 2013 | Permalink
Jradar
Member

thanks for the feedback and link to that other plugin, i hadn't found it ... hard to tell what it does but i'll give it a shot and report back!

Posted 11 years ago on Thursday July 4, 2013 | Permalink
Richard Vav
Administrator

You're welcome, to be honest I only found that plugin after a Google search, it looks like it's still in development which is probably why it isn't in the WordPress plugin repository yet.

Posted 11 years ago on Thursday July 4, 2013 | Permalink

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