WordPress forms are one of the best strategies for lead generation, customer acquisition, and other business goals. You may use forms for payment processing, member enrollment, event sign-ups, newsletter subscriptions, or something else entirely.
No matter your needs, Ninja Forms is your greatest tool.
We make it easy to design beautiful forms with high click-through ratios. Of course, you probably want to customize your forms to reflect your brand.
With our Ninja Forms styling tutorials, you don’t have to be a design expert to do just that.
First Things First: Layout & Styles Add-on
One of the best things about Ninja Forms is that you don’t have to learn to code to create and customize WordPress forms. The Ninja Forms styling tutorials below will walk you through some of the most common customizations.
But first, you’ll want to install our Layout & Styles add-on.
With this extension, there’s no need to navigate CSS, troubleshoot style sheets, or get very technical at all. Once it’s up and running, you can dive into the tutorials below.
7 Essential Ninja Forms Styling Tutorials
Interested in changing the font color, button gradient, or radio fields in your WordPress forms? Our thorough tutorials cover these topics and more! Read on to explore the many ways you can put your brand’s stamp on forms.
1. Form Styling Basics
This tutorial is a helpful catch-all and the ideal place to start your styling journey.
In it, we’ve written several simple how-tos that address the most common styling concerns like mobile responsiveness, call-to-action buttons, and changing the font family in your forms. We even include best practices for form styling, plus a handy glossary of terms to help you navigate the Layout & Styles add-on.
2. Font Styling Tutorial
Font styling is one of the most significant aspects of form design — after all, the text is how you translate vital information to your customers, including field labels, calls to action, and confirmations. This beginner-friendly tutorial covers all things font, from size and color to font family.
We also explore how to make global changes — which affect all existing and future forms — versus customizing a single form only. You’ll even learn how to implement Font Awesome icons to make your forms extra attractive.
3. Checkbox and Radio Fields Tutorial
It’s the little things that make your form designs really pop, so don’t forget to customize your checkbox and radio fields. This tutorial introduces the accent-color CSS property and explores how to implement it into your WordPress forms.
This property allows you to change the background color of your checkbox and radio fields, which spruces up otherwise generic-looking forms. Like all of our other styling tutorials, we incorporate our Layout & Styles add-on.
4. Rounded Corners Tutorial
Don’t be a square! Instead, add rounded corners to your Ninja Forms’ fields for a more polished, professional design. Our tutorial teaches you how to do so with the help of our Layout & Styles add-on (no need to spend hours toiling over style sheets).
As with our font tutorial, this one covers global style customizations versus individual form styling.
5. Submit Button Tutorial
The “submit” button on your WordPress form is more powerful than you may realize. Choosing the right words and design can have a major influence on your customers, ultimately determining whether they’ll click or navigate away. That’s why we wrote this article on button styling.
Learn how to change the color, shape, size, border, and more on your form buttons — and garner more leads.
6. Gradient Submit Button Tutorial
As mentioned, you can’t understate the importance of an attention-grabbing “submit” button. Gradients are one way to make your buttons more tempting, and we show you how to add them in our tutorial. In the true Ninja Forms style, we don’t ask you to learn any code.
In fact, we’ve included pre-written code for several gradient styles. All you have to do is copy and paste!
7. Repeater Fields Tutorial
Repeatable fieldsets are handy if your customers need to submit multiple sets of data in a single form. For example, an event RSVP form that allows the invitee to add a guest would use repeater fields. Like other aspects of styling, customizing repeater fields make your forms more unique and compelling.
Learn how to change the background color, wrap color, font size, padding, border, and more on your repeater fields by reading this tutorial.
Take Advantage of Ninja Forms Styling Tutorials Today
Whether you’re following certain brand guidelines or you simply want to create more visually appealing forms, Ninja Forms’ Layout & Styles add-on makes it fast and easy to style your WordPress forms.
You don’t have to be a tech genius, either. Simply follow the above tutorials, which include step-by-step instructions and visual aids for your benefit. Our goal is to meet — and exceed— all your WordPress form expectations, so be sure to follow our blog for more tutorials, guides, and helpful hints.
If you want to take your form building to the next level with Layout and Styles, we recommend our Plus membership. Not only does it include Layout and Styles, but it also comes with Conditional Logic, Multi-Step Forms, and File Uploads; with a 14-day no-risk money-back guarantee, it’s a no-brainer.
