Are you an influencer with a growing list of followers? An educator interested in sharing your expertise with the world? Or, perhaps, you’re an entrepreneur ready to transform your customers into loyal brand ambassadors. Creating an exclusive online community space is the best way to connect with your audience.
Sure, you could build your website from scratch, but that takes time and extensive web development skills. There’s a better way — it’s called Buddy Boss.
Keep reading to learn about Buddy Boss and how this plugin works seamlessly with Ninja Forms.
In this article, you’ll learn:
- What is Buddy Boss?
- How to create a contact form for Buddy Boss with Ninja Forms.
- Conclusion – Get started with this dynamic duo today.
What is Buddy Boss?
Buddy Boss is a WordPress plugin designed with creators and leaders in mind. It’s a seamless way to transform your WordPress page into an online community, membership, or course site. Buddy Boss is easy to install and requires very little technical knowledge.
Buddy Boss includes features like member profiles, forums, interactive lessons, direct messages, posts, and news feeds — it’s like your own all-in-one social networking site. Plus, Buddy Boss users own all of their content and customer data.
Buddy Boss platform vs. theme
Buddy Boss is a freemium tool. The basic Buddy Boss platform is free and includes many features you need to get started, like profiles, groups, notifications, and feeds. There’s also a Pro platform ($99/year) with an extended feature set and priority support.
However, you can take your experience to the next level with the Buddy Boss theme, which stylizes the platform into a beautiful and professional site. The theme truly makes all the difference, so it’s worth considering. Pricing starts at $288/year (for one site) and includes all the Buddy Boss Pro features plus more.
Learn more about the differences between the platform and theme in this video.
Buddy Boss and Ninja Forms
WordPress forms are the best way to connect with customers and followers, paving the way for lead generation, subscriptions, online payments, and more. Ninja Forms is a fantastic form solution thanks to its user-friendly drag-and-drop interface, fantastic features, and dedicated support. Ninja Forms also integrates flawlessly with many other WordPress plugins, including Buddy Boss.
Want to allow prospective students to ask you about upcoming courses? Or give your followers a chance to submit feedback? You can quickly create contact forms for your community site by integrating Ninja Forms and Buddy Boss. When you use the Buddy Boss theme, your forms blend perfectly for a cohesive site appearance.
How to create a contact form for Buddy Boss with Ninja Forms
Creating a contact form for your Buddy Boss with Ninja Forms is easy! We’ve outlined the steps below.
Getting Started: Installation.
- Step 1: Once you’ve purchased your Buddy Boss theme license, download the free Ninja Forms plugin for WordPress.
- Step 2: Upload the Ninja Forms plugin. There are two ways you can do this step:
Go to your WordPress plugins folder (yourhostname/wordpress/wp-content/plugins) and extract the Ninja Forms file you previously downloaded (ninja-forms-version.zip).
OR
Go to your WordPress Dashboard and navigate to Plugins > Add New. Click Upload Plugin, find ninja-forms-version.zip in your downloads, and install it.
- Step 3: Activate the Ninja Forms plugin by returning to your WordPress Dashboard, selecting Plugins from the left-hand menu, and clicking Activate under Ninja Forms.
Create a contact form.
Now that you’ve downloaded, installed, and activated the Ninja Forms plugin, it’s time to create your contact form for Buddy Boss.
- Step 1: Since you already activated it, the Ninja Forms plugin should now appear in the left-hand menu in your WordPress Dashboard. Select it and click Add New. From there, you can choose the Contact Us form template or start with the Blank Form to build your own.
Building a custom contact form is simple — choose your preferred form fields from the right-hand menu, then drag and drop them into the form on the left.
- Step 2: Once you’re happy with how the contact form looks, click Publish. Add a Form Title, then click Publish again.
Finishing up: add the contact form to Buddy Boss.
Now, let’s add the newly created form to your Buddy Boss site.
- Step 1: Select Pages on the left side of the WordPress Dashboard, then click Add New.
- Step 2: You’ll see a blank page. Feel free to add a title or any text you’d like to appear above your form.
- Step 3: Click the Add Ninja Forms button. From the drop-down list, choose the name of the form you created in the previous section.
- Step 4: Publish your form on your Buddy Boss site by clicking the Publish button in the top-right corner. Alternatively, you can choose to Preview the form before publishing.
And there you have it — a beautiful contact form from Ninja Forms that blends seamlessly with your Buddy Boss theme.
Get started with this dynamic duo today.
Excellent communication is essential to a thriving online community. Allow your students, followers, and fans to get in touch with you by creating a contact form for Buddy Boss with Ninja Forms. As the steps above demonstrate, it’s a simple process that anyone can follow.
Get started today by downloading the Ninja Forms plugin and purchasing the Buddy Boss theme. Your community will thank you!
