Build and operate POM Forms

POM Forms is the theme’s visual system for validated forms, conditional questions, multi-step journeys, email routing, retained submissions, uploads, webhooks, and supported WordPress post creation.

An administrator enables it under Settings → POM Theme → Forms → General → Enable forms system. The new Forms menu then provides All Forms, Add New, and Submissions.

Recommended learning path

1. Tour the builder.
2. Understand the form structure and action pipeline.
3. Complete the minimal test form.
4. Follow the detailed first contact-form tutorial.
5. Use the field reference.
6. Configure validation and conditional fields.
7. Add email routes, then decide on storage.
8. Configure privacy, accessibility, and spam protection.
9. Add uploads or external actions only after normal submission works.

Choose the correct delivery feature

An AJAX success message confirms that POM Forms accepted the request. Verify required email, webhook, Drive, or post-creation outcomes separately.

Build order for a production form

1. Define the minimum data, lawful purpose, recipients, retention, and success behavior.
2. Create steps, rows, columns, and fields.
3. Give every field a visible label and unique stable Name.
4. Test required, typed, and conditional validation.
5. Configure notifications and data destinations.
6. Review feedback, privacy clause, progress, redirect, and reCAPTCHA.
7. Keep the form as Draft while testing.
8. Enable Publish to make it Active.
9. Add it to a draft page with POM Form.
10. Test valid, invalid, conditional, upload, and repeat-click paths while signed out.

Use a saved form when editors should manage it in WordPress. Developers who need code-owned forms can use Programmatic forms, whose supported action set is intentionally different.

Chapter contents

1. Build common form workflows
2. Build an accessible form
3. Show, hide, or require fields conditionally
4. Configure success, error, and validation feedback
5. Create your first form
6. Send conditional email notifications
7. Form field reference
8. Fields, layout, and conditional logic
9. Accept local file and audio uploads
10. Build a minimal test form
11. Tour the POM Forms builder
12. Understand form structure and actions
13. Diagnose a failing form from the outside in
14. Send POM Forms uploads to Google Drive
15. Forms integrations and automation
16. Insert submitted values with merge tags
17. Multi-step forms and submission behavior
18. Build a multi-step form
19. Notifications, submissions, and retention
20. Build privacy-aware forms
21. Configure required fields and validation
22. Protect a public form with reCAPTCHA
23. Store and review form submissions
24. Resolve common POM Forms problems
25. Send form data to a webhook