Ninja Forms is a drag-and-drop form builder for WordPress renowned for its user-friendliness, requiring no technical knowledge or coding skills. However, that doesn’t mean it lacks advanced capabilities.
Ninja Forms boasts a suite of features to enhance form design and functionality, including custom layouts and styles, multi-step forms, file uploading, advanced date picking, and popular third-party integrations.
Ninja Forms also offers one of the most popular — and helpful — web form features out there: conditional logic. When you apply conditional logic, form fields appear or disappear in real-time based on user responses, like when credit card information fields appear after you select that payment method.
Notably, all of Ninja Forms’ premium plans include conditional logic, but it’s also accessible as an add-on for those using the free core version of Ninja Forms.
Keep reading if you’re interested in taking advantage of conditional logic on your Ninja Forms but aren’t sure how.
Six Tutorials on Ninja Forms Conditional Logic
Besides announcements and updates, our blog is a treasure trove of Ninja Forms and WordPress tutorials. We even have a selection of Ninja Forms conditional logic how-tos to help you make the most of this incredible feature.
1. How to Use Conditional Logic in WordPress Forms
If you’re brand new to Ninja Forms, form building, or conditional logic, start here!
This tutorial is a comprehensive guide on installing the Ninja Forms conditional logic add-on and implementing it in your WordPress forms.
The article covers how to adapt form fields to user responses, customize list options, set conditional actions (like sending users to different landing pages), add multiple payment methods, plus more. Each step is illustrated with screenshots to help you follow along.
2. How to Create Conditional Fields in WordPress
This how-to dives deep into the core functionality of conditional logic: showing and hiding fields based on user selections. It goes back to the basics, defining conditional form fields before exploring how to include them in your WordPress forms.
The tutorial even touches on more advanced conditional logic use cases, like calculations. And, as a bonus, you’ll learn more about styling conditional logic fields to make your forms more eye-catching and compelling.
3. Six Uses of Conditional Logic in WordPress
There are many creative ways to implement conditional logic in your web forms. This article covers six of the most popular use cases:
- Adapting form fields based on user input
- Sending WordPress conditional emails
- Adding multiple payment options
- Redirecting users to various landing pages
- Offering different lead magnets according to the user
- Signing up users to certain newsletters and CRM lists
Throughout the article, the author links to various tutorials so you can learn how to put these capabilities into action. Overall, this is an excellent primer on the many ways conditional logic takes your forms to new heights.
4. How to Create Conditional Actions in WordPress
Conditional logic doesn’t just refer to adaptive fields within a form. It also lets you choose different actions or results once a user completes your web form. For example, customers may have the option to select “yes” or “no” to various types of communications, like brand news, upcoming sales, and job openings.
Their responses will dictate the kind of emails they’ll receive from you. This how-to walks readers through creating conditional actions, catering emails, landing pages, and success messages to user responses.
5. How to Create A Conditional Multi-Step WordPress Form
Learn how to unite the powers of two incredible add-ons: conditional logic and multi-step forms. Why use multi-step forms? Well, as this tutorial explains, “Splitting your form fields into sections reduces the cognitive load for users by removing irrelevant information.”
The more complex your form appears at first glance, the more likely users will lose interest and navigate away, so multi-step forms are advisable when collecting a lot of data. And by adding conditional logic, your users will only see the steps relevant to them.
6. Send Conditional Email with Ninja Forms
This tutorial goes into more detail about one of the most commonly used conditional actions: conditional email. As your brand grows, it’s essential to be able to target different customers (or potential customers) with unique email communications that speak to their needs.
Or, perhaps, you want to send an email within your organization depending on the needs of the form-filler, like customer service, IT support, and accounting. It’s all possible with conditional logic, and this how-to explores the possibilities.
Use Ninja Forms Conditional Logic Today!
As you can see, conditional logic is a valuable feature in your WordPress forms, and learning how to take advantage of it is easy with the above tutorials.
Enhance brand awareness, build customer relationships, and streamline your business with WordPress forms featuring conditional logic. Get started today!
Carolyn Ratcliff says:
I am interested in setting up forms for various types if surveys.
Thanks.
Shaylee Hansen says:
Hello Carolyn,
We appreciate the feedback. What types of surveys you would like to see articles on? In the meantime I recommend taking a peek at https://ninjaforms.com/blog/build-a-likert-scale-survey-with-wordpress/ and https://ninjaforms.com/blog/form-survey-marketing-strategy/.