ChronoForms8 Basics

Adding a contact form to your Joomla or WordPress website is a game-changer for user engagement and site functionality. Why choose a form over simply sharing your email address? A contact form, built with ChronoForms8, saves time, blocks spam, and gives your site a professional look that builds trust. It lets visitors message you without leaving your site or opening their email app.

Plus, ChronoForms8 can save and read form data to a database for easy tracking, auto-fill details for logged-in users to streamline submissions, and control access so only specific users (e.g., registered members) can use the form, enhancing security and personalization.

In this tutorial we will show the main concepts in ChronoForms v8 in order to show you how the form builder works

In order to display some helpful info about the form actions and data, you need to enable the form debug,

Creating a multi page form could never be easier than how its in Chronoforms8, here is how to do this:

Adding a contact us form in Joomla or WordPress is straightforward with ChronoForms8, a versatile form builder that creates custom forms with email functionality. This step-by-step guide shows you how to build a Joomla contact form that emails form submissions to the site admin, and how to use ChronoForms8 in WordPress too. We’ll also introduce ChronoMails, an extension for advanced email management.

For a detailed overview of ChronoForms8, check this official tutorial.

ChronoForms 8 has a much simpler and easy to use interface than previous ChronoForms versions, in this tutorial we will explain the new ChronoForms v8 interface.

Note: a newer more detailed Visual tutorial of how Chronoforms8 works is here