Form Staging

• Why isn't my Act-On Form loading correctly?

  Your Act-On Form may fail to load on the Act-On Landing Page or external page where it's embedded. If this happens, you might find an error message or blank space where your Form should have loaded. Why isn't your Form loading correctly? There are several potential reasons, including: Your account's custom marketing domain is missing an SSL certificate Your custom marketing domain's existing S...

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• Embedding the Code for an Act-On Form on Your Website

  It's easy to embed Act-On Forms into any of your external web pages. This guide explains how. These steps are for New Forms only. Embedding Classic Forms involves a different process. Once your form is created and ready to publish, you can get the embed code and insert it into your website. You will need access to the web page source code to do this. Instructions Navigate to Content > Forms an...

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• Allow Act-On Forms on External Domains

  You must declare the domains (e.g. https://www.act-on.com) of any external pages where your Form is embedded. You can set domains on each Form individually, and you can also set Form domains as a universal account setting. Instructions Setting Default Form Domain(s) for your Account You can allowlist frequently-used domains for all of your Forms on the Custom Account Settings page. Be sure that...

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• Why does my Act-On Form have a warning that it is not secure?

  When submitting a Form in browsers such as Google Chrome, users may see a warning that states "The information that you're about to submit is not secure". There may be other security warnings that appear in the browser console, or you may not be able to submit or load a Form that was previously working. There are several root causes for this security error: Your Act-On account does not have an...

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• Integrating an Act-On Form External Post with WordPress

  WordPress is a freely available, open-source CMS that is highly popular and extensible. Many plug-ins exist to create web Forms within WordPress, or WordPress developers can develop their own custom solutions. The article Posting External Forms to Act-On is written for all web pages. However, WordPress users may find that articles about the following WordPress plug-ins may suit their needs more...

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• Forms with WordPress: Contact Form 7

  Overview When integrating an Act-On Form external post with WordPress, Contact Form 7 is a popular, free, and easy-to-use form-creation tool. This plug-in works by allowing the user to generate a form using the plug-in's interface, and then integrate the constructed form onto any WordPress page or post using a shortcode such as [contact-form-7 id="1" title="Contact form 1"].  Contact Form 7 uti...

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• Forms with WordPress: Gravity Forms

  Overview When integrating an Act-On Form external post with WordPress, Gravity Forms is a popular and easy-to-use WordPress plug-in for generating forms. It has a number of options and there are numerous possibilities for you to send data to Act-On. However, the following are the integration methods we recommend. All of these methods will properly update the cookie Act-On places on your visitor...

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• Forms with WordPress: WP-Members

  Overview When integrating an Act-On Form external post with WordPress, WP-Members is a popular, free plug-in to create a membership framework for your WordPress site if you hope to restrict content access to registered members only. Please note that these integration steps are intended for web developers, and it involves making edits to the WordPress functions.php file. See Integrating an Act-O...

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