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Do you want to display a beautiful organizational chart on your WordPress site? Org charts are helpful in showing the company hierarchy and introducing users to the team running the business. In this article, we will show you how to create a company org chart in WordPress.
An organizational chart present a company’s hierarchical structure based on job title and responsibilities, from top management to the executives.
It helps improve your brand’s reputation by showing the human side of your business. At the same time, it also allows users to find who they should contact for various business opportunities, feedback, and suggestions.
That being said, let’s take a look at how to easily create and manage a company organization chart in WordPress.
First thing you need to do is install and activate the Easy Org Chart plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Upon activation, you need to visit Easy Org Chart » Add New from your WordPress admin area to create a new org chart.
First, you need to provide a title for your chart. After that, your need to scroll down to the Build your Org Chart section to start adding team members.
In the first column, you will need to add details of your team members like their name, job title, profile picture, and contact information.
Next, you need to click on Add a person button to add another team member. Go ahead and repeat the process to add all team members that you want to show in your org chart.
You can drag and drop team members to the right or left in the WordPress admin area. You will also need to define the upper hierarchy and row number for each team member according to your company’s hierarchical structure.
After adding team members, you need to scroll down to advanced styling section. From here, you can configure how the chart should appear. You can choose the container size, corners, background color, box template, field styling, and more.
Once you are done with styling, click on the Publish button to save your changes.
To display your org chart on your website, you need to visit the Easy Org Chart page in WordPress admin to copy the shortcode.
You can now paste this shortcode in any WordPress post, page, or sidebar widget to display your organization chart.
It would be a good idea to add a contact form below your org chart in WordPress. We recommend using WPForms because it’s the best contact form plugin in the market. They also allow users to select recipients in WordPress contact form.
We hope this article helped you learn how to create a company org chart in WordPress. You may also want to see our guide on how to create a WordPress intranet for your organization while keeping it private and secure.
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Did you know that you can use your WordPress contact form to grow your email list? Users are most engaged when they are trying to reach out using the contact form on your website. In this article, we will show you how you can use contact forms to grow your email list in WordPress.
Email marketing is the most cost effective way to reach your audience. If you haven’t started it yet, then you need to see our article on why you should start building your email list right away.
You will need to combine different tools and methods for encouraging users to signup. Offering multiple choices to sign up helps you quickly get more subscribers.
Many users focus on adding email signup forms to their websites, which is good start but you need to get more creative. Contact forms, in fact any kind of forms on your website are the perfect place to add an email signup option.
Here is why:
That being said let’s see how to easily integrate your email list to your WordPress forms and use contact forms to boost your email subscribers.
First thing you will need to do is install and activate the WPForms plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
It is a paid plugin, and you will need at least the Plus plan to access email marketing addons.
You can use this WPForms Coupon: WPB10 to get 10% off your purchase on any WPForms plan.
Upon activation, you need to visit WPForms » Settings page to enter your license key. This will enable automatic updates and give you access to respective addons.
Next, head over to WPForms » Addons page to install the addon for your email marketing service.
WPForms comes with integration addons for the top email marketing services including Constant Contact, MailChimp, AWeber, and more.
Once you have installed and activated the Addon, you need to visit WPForms » Settings page and click on the integrations tab. You will see your email service provider listed there.
Click on your email service provider name and enter the required credentials. You can find this information from your email service account.
Now that you have connected WPForms to your email marketing service, you can easily add email optins into your forms and add them anywhere on your website.
First you need to create a simple contact form for your website. See our detailed instructions on how to easily create a contact form in WordPress.
Once you have created your form, the next step is to add an email sign up option into the same form. Click on the checkbox field from the fields column.
You will notice a new field added to your form with three checkboxes. Clicking on the field will open its settings. You need to remove the two checkboxes and change the field label to something appropriate like ‘Signup for our Email List’.
You can check the box next to the choice field. Doing so, your email signup field will be checked by default.
Now your form is ready, we just need to tell it what to do when someone fills up the form.
You can do this by clicking on the ‘Marketing’ tab in the form builder. Here you need to select your email service provider and then click on the ‘Add New Connection’ button.
You will be asked to provide a name for this connection.
Next, WPForms will fetch your email service account. It will show the label you added for the account when you added it in the integrations.
It will also fetch email lists available under your email service account. You need to select the email list where you want to add users.
In the next section, you will be asked to map the form fields to your email service fields. After that you need to click on the checkbox next to ‘Enable conditional logic’ option.
Select ‘Process’ this form if condition and then select your checkbox field and the checked reply.
Your contact form with email signup optin is now ready. You need to click on the Save button at the top bar and then exit form builder.
You can now add this form into any WordPress post or page. Simply click on the Add Form button when editing a post and then select your contact form.
Here is a preview of a contact form on our demo website with email sign up optin.
You can add email subscription checkbox to any form you create with WPForms. Here are a few creative ways to display forms and then you can add email subscription option to all these forms.
We hope this article helped you learn how to use contact forms to build your email list in WordPress. You may also want to see our ultimate guide on how to do lead generation in WordPress like a pro.
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