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We covered setting up a basic contact form so if you want to catch up and install the plugin and set u a basic form you may want to go back and do that first.

You will want to go into the Cforms II area on the admin panel, so from the wordpress backend choose CformsII from the main option.

The Setup

You will see the form you created before layed out in front of you and the first thing you want to do is click ‘Add Another Field’ under’Form Input Fields’ a new field will appear at the bottom of the ones you already have.

Change the type to select box and put a tick under the ‘Is Required’ part.

Now onto the slightly tricky part, to get the drop down box you need to set ‘field name’ ‘Option’ and ‘Value’

Something like the following

field name # field name | # option1|value1 # option2|value2

Which Would Produce a dropdown box that shows ‘field name’ to start with but on clicking it will present you with 2 more options (option1,option2) . When the email is sent to you ‘value1′ will show in the email if that is what they selected. You can just not bother with the value part as the email sent will show the option value instead.

For my form I am going to have the line of input code set as follows

Subject # Subject | # Question|Question # Advertising|Advertising # Problem|Problem # Link Exchange|Link Exchange

I take that code and put it under the ‘Field Name’ then save, you may want to write the input code in notepad or word so that you can easily change and copy it.

Head to the front of your site and check your contact form, if you did the same as I did you should see a new field with Subject written in it, when you click it a dropdown box will appear with the options (Question,Advertising,Problem,Link Exchange)

Thats all there is to adding a dropdown list, if you want someone who is contacting you to be able to select multiple options just choose the type as ‘Multiple Select Box’.

With what we just did you can add anything you want like a dropdown box for someones age by simply changing ‘Subject’ to ‘Whats Your Age’ and change the options to ‘# 11-15|Young # 16-21 | Older …….’

Have fun and come back for more on the contact form and what you can do with it.

For the purpose of this blog I am going to setup a dropdown list for the Subject that the person contacting me wants to talk about

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