I drowned in a sea of e -mail attachments that were buried under the chaos of the organization of client files for my WordPress site.
It felt overwhelming as if I was a misguided file from a total breakdown. Maybe they were there and desperately look for a lifeline to pull them out of digital chaos.
Well, I found mine and today I’m here to share them with them.
Enter Dropbox.
A cloud storage tool that interfered like a trustworthy assistant and cleaned up my chaos in a matter of seconds. It is more than just memory; It’s like a safe and reliable safe for your website.
And here is the kicker: Dropbox and WordPress?
As a WordPress expert, this is a match that was made in heaven. Together they unlocked a world full of possibilities that I didn’t even know that I needed it.
But the true magic happened when I discovered Wpforms.
Let me tell you, it was love for the first click. With the integration of the Dropbox Wpforms, connecting these two power plants offers me endless possibilities for adapting WordPress sites.
Suddenly I was able to create forms, the zap of the ZAP easily upload to Dropbox – no stress, no excitement. It is simple, safe file uploads with all the advantages of the cloud storage that are wrapped in a beginner-friendly package.
If you are just starting with WordPress or Dropbox, don’t worry – I have your back.
This guide was created for you, which you lead through the process step by step so that you can hand over the technical headache and set up a smooth upload form without breaking sweat.
Why I love the Dropbox Wpforms connection
I tested countless WordPress tools and trust myself, Wpforms and Dropbox as my top tips for beginners.
For the beginning, Wpforms makes the creation of shape to play child’s play, while Dropbox keeps everything safe and accessible.
And when we speak of unstoppable speaking, we talk about the integrations that have accumulated me. Image of this trio from WordPress, DropboxAnd Duplicator PerPresent The best WordPress backup plugin.
Duplicator Pro can automatically secure your website to Dropbox and save you according to a website. Then we have the Dropbox cot, with which your media library is linked to seamless file access.
Finally, WPFORMS + Dropbox is automated with a switch film. These are not only tools, but also a game changer, and I can’t imagine doing my website without operating them.
So where does that let you?
At the end of this guide, you have a chic, safe system that saves hours and saves you the headache.
Imagine a smooth workflow, you will ask yourself how you have ever lived without him. Are you ready to transform your work? Let us immerse yourself and make it – together! Step by step!
Further information on this visual form Builder can be found in our updated WPFORMS check here.
How to create a Dropbox Upload form in WordPress
Ready to set up a Dropbox -Upload form on your WordPress site?
It’s super easy and I look forward to getting you through. One of the best parts? The installation of Wpforms on WordPress is a total breeze. I did it myself in just a few minutes.
Whether new in this or an experienced professional, you will be in operation in no time.
Now a short note: Wpforms offers a free version This is ideal for basic forms, but to connect it to Dropbox, you need the Pro plan or higher.
But the Pro version is worth it for what we are building!
Step 1: Install Wpforms
As already mentioned, we will choose the Pro version because we need the integration of Dropbox Wpforms.
Here you can find out how to do it:
First visit the Wpforms website and get a pro plan.
Log in to your account after purchase, visit the Downloads Section and download the Wpforms per plugin -Zip file. You will also receive a “license key”, keep it safe.
In your WordPress dashboard you are now approaching Add plugins »again. Select “Upload the plugin” above, select the downloaded ZIP file and click on “Install now”.
After installation, click on “Activate” and boom WPFORMS in your dashboard menu.
To unlock all functions for Pro version, including the WordPress Dropbox functions Wpforms » Settings.
Then under the Generally Tab, enter your License key And click on “Verify Key”.
Completed! They are all ready to advance.
Step 2: Create a file -upload form
Let us create the form with installed WPFORMS with which users can upload files directly to Dropbox. It is an entertaining process, and Wpforms makes it effortless with many options.
In your WordPress dashboard you go to Wpforms » Re -add.
This opens the template page on which you can find over 2,000 templates. Alternatively, you can create a shape with AI or from scratch.
There is a category list on the left that shows the number of templates in each section – think of contact forms, custom registration forms or whatever you need.
Looking for something specific?
The search function will help you find your form faster. Each template has a preview image so that you can see what it looks like, or you can click on “Show demo” to check it on a separate page.
You can choose any template that attracts your attention.
For this tutorial, however, we will select the “simple contact form”. This is because it is a simple but detailed starting point for our Dropbox Upload setup. Choose Use template continue.
As soon as you select a form template, Wpforms invites you to the Builder form. From here we will optimize it in the next steps to add this file -upload magic!
Step 3: Add file -upload field
After you have set up your form template in Wpforms, it is time to adapt you to make you yours.
My favorite part of Wpforms!
This is because this form builder has a smooth and user-friendly drag-and-drop bubilder with which you can adapt each form in minutes. It’s like playing with digital legos – everything just clicks.
On the left side of your screen you have “field options”, all of which are properly set up. On the right there is a live preview of its shape that is waiting for you to shape it.
Do you want to add something? Simply take a field from the left and drop it into the preview. Do you have to optimize the order? Pull it up or down.
As soon as you are satisfied with the form design, you must add a file -upload field so that users can upload files directly to Dropbox using their form.
So go to this left plate and scroll down until you recognize “chic fields”. Here you will find all extended Wpforms fields.
Find the “File -Upload” field here and pull it on the right for preview. Let it fall wherever, wherever it feels right, maybe according to the name of the name or in the end.
When you’re done, click this “Save” button and you are done.
Step 4: Test the upload form and set up Dropbox
Before we set up Zapier in the next step, I first set it up to send a test form and then set up Dropbox.
Why? Well, Zapier needs some data to set up a ZAP, and there is exactly that.
In addition to the slide switch, setting up Dropbox later means that it is about keeping the river.
Let us send us a test form first.
Since you have saved your form in the previous step, leave the Form Builder page. Then go to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to Wpforms » All forms.
Here you will find all the forms that you have created with Wpforms. Find the upload file form that has just created in draft. As soon as you have it, press the “Preview” button.
This raises a live version of your form, just as your users will see it. Now fill it out like one of your users: name, e -mail and of course the most important part, upload a test file.
Remember that it could be a photo of your cat, a quick PDF, everything you are lying around.
Then click on “Send”.
Let us set up Dropbox now.
To do this, open a new tab and register in your Dropbox account. If you don’t have one, it takes a few minutes to be set up and is completely free.
Create a new folder in your Cloud storage space that can easily remember. I like something like “Form -Uploads of Wpforms”; It’s clear and simple And tell you exactly what is in it.
In this folder, all files from your WPFORMS submissions will run automatically.
Make sure that Dropbox is registered in the same browser as Zapier and WordPress to facilitate the connection.
And there you have it! You have just tested your form and set up Dropbox. Now you have everything perfect to set up the Dropbox Wpforms connection.
Step 5: Integrate Zapier in Wpforms
To get started, you need the Wpforms Zapier Addon, the key that links these two tools. So go to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to Wpforms » AddonsAnd enter “Zapier” in the search bar.
When it appears, click “Install” and “Activate”. And you have this WPFORMS Addon ready.
Next, grab your Wpforms Zapier API key. The code you use to link Wpforms and Zapier.
To get this code, choose to select Wpforms » Settings » Integrations. Then scroll for the Zapier section and copy this API key. Then save it somewhere, you will need it right away.
Let us dive now Zapier.
If you don’t have an account, register. It only takes a few minutes.
As soon as it has registered, select the “Plus+” symbol on the top of the page and then click on the Zapier Button to create your automation.
Then select on the next page Trigger To open a list of over 7000 tools and apps, you can connect to Zapier.
Due to this large number for “Wpforms” as a trigger app.
After the selection “New Form entry”, select the Trigger event. Zapier asks this to take action every time someone submits its form.
In the “Register” tab in the “Register” tab, click “Connect Wpforms” and a window is displayed.
Add your API button here, add your website -Url and choose “Yes, continue to Wpforms”. And that’s it, they are linked and they are cut back to ZAP setup. Beat “continue” to take the next step.
Under “Form”, select the specific form that you have installed in WPFORMS from the dropdown -downart and select.
Then select the field on which Zapier should concentrate in the form. In our case, it is the “file -upload file” section. These allow the form to be monitored in which form Zapier should be monitored.
Then the test comes. Zapier will ask you to check the deduction by selecting “test trigger”.
If you have already submitted a test entry via your form, this will be spent to confirm that everything runs smoothly. If it works, you are clear!
And you go there! They have just connected Wpforms and Zapier.
Step 6: Connect Wpforms with Dropbox via Zapier
At this point you should be in your Zapier account, whereby the WPFORMS trigger is already set up from the previous step. This trigger asks Zapier to take it ‘Action’ Whenever someone submits your form.
Now we have to define what ‘Action’ Zapier should take. Send your upload forms to Dropbox.
You can also see a section with the designation with the designation on the Zapier screen “Action”. Here they say Zapier what to do with these forms.
So choose Choose APP & EventAnd a small search bar will appear. Enter “Dropbox” and choose it when it is displayed. In this way, Zapier finds out that Dropbox is the goal for our files.
If Dropbox is selected, you have to specify exactly what to do. So select the off on the next screen Action event Dropdown and select “Upload the file”.
In this way, Zapier can send a file directly to Dropbox from your WPFORMS submission. As soon as you have this set, press “continue” to continue.
Now Zapier has to connect to her Dropbox account.
You will see one “Account” Tab on the next screen. Here you choose “Register”And a new window is opened and asked for your Dropbox registration data.
Go ahead and enter your e -mail and password. If you are already registered in Dropbox, Zapier only asks you to give authorizations.
After registration you will be brought back to Zapier, where you will choose “Keep on”. This is for the connecting part.
Next you decide where these files should land in Dropbox by selecting “folders”. This simply selects your Dropbox folder.
Remember this folder you used to create, e.g. B. “Form Uploads of Wpforms”? You will choose that. In the “File” Field, select the name of this folder from the dropdown list.
This step ensures that all of your uploaded files in this specific folder are properly organized.
After setting the folder, it is time to link the file from your WPFORMS submission to this Dropbox campaign.
Scroll to the down to “File” Field, and you will see a dropdown with options that have been called up from your test submission.
Select the off here “Upload the file” Field from your Wpforms form.
This gives Zapier exactly which file is to be recorded from the form and sent to Dropbox.
As soon as this is done, select “Keep on.”
Test the setup at the next popup to make sure it works. To do this, select “Test setup”And Zapier uses the previously made test submission to carry out a test version.
After graduation, go to your Dropbox account and check the “Form -Uploads by Wpforms” folder. If your test file is there and waiting for you, congratulations – it works!
Finally, choose “publish”.
And just like that is your zap live!
From now on, Zapier automatically becomes in your Dropbox folder every time someone submits your Wpforms form with a file. Let us get the form on your website live in the next step!
Step 7: Publish the -upload form
I like how Wpforms offers you several simple options for publishing your form.
Regardless of whether you use a WordPress block, a click of the click or prefer the flexibility of shortcodes, there is a method for you.
Let’s go through everyone so that you can bring your shape into the world in no time!
Upload the form with a WordPress block
Let’s first use the Wpforms block. It is perfect if you already have a page or a contribution in mind. But you can also use it on a new page.
To use this method, go to the side or publish where your form should live. Then select the “Plus +” button in the WordPress Block editor to add a new block.
Enter “Wpforms” in the search bar and select the WPFORMS block when it is displayed. Then pull and fall after falling where it is displayed on the page.
As soon as it has been added, see a dropdown menu, select it and select your form from the list.
Everything that is left is to beat “update” or “publish”, and boom – your shape is live!
Add on a new page
Another way to do this is to create a shiny new page for you. This is ideal if a dedicated place where users can upload files into Dropbox.
So go out of your WordPress dashboard Wpforms » All forms. Find your design form and click on “Edit”. Then select the “Set” button in the educational form at the top.
Then a popup is displayed two options: “Select existing page” or “Create new page”.
Click on “Create new page” and then enter on the next screen in a name of the page you want to create, and then choose “Let’s go!”
Wpforms takes you directly to a new page with its existing form. Give a short check and then select “Publish”.
Use a shortcode
If you use a side builder like Seedprod or simply enjoy the precision of shortcodes, this method has its name on it.
It is a super comfortable option to drop your form everywhere on your WordPress website.
Start with the way too Wpforms » All forms. Find your form and in the “Shortcode” column you will be a neckline like – click to copy it.
Now go to the side or post where your Dropbox Upload form should be displayed. Add a “shortcode” block in the block editor and add the code directly.
If you use a side builder, enter it in the shortcode module instead. Finally, click on “Publish” or “Update” and you are done!
Since you go – think about the most convenient method for you and take a moment to celebrate – you have a smooth, automated file collection system from scratch.
If something is not clear, read the frequently asked questions below.
FAQs: How to create a Dropbox Upload form in WordPress
Can I use WPFORMS for free with Dropbox?
No, I wish it would be so easy! The free version is fantastic for basic forms, but you need professional or higher to get this sweet Dropbox connections connection. I saw how the upgrade with a seamless file memory pays off-it is a game channel for WordPress Dropbox fans. Keep for free for the beginning, but professional where the magic happens.
How safe is a WPFORMS Dropbox -Upload form?
Super sure! The encryption of Dropbox is like a fortress, and Wpforms processes uploads with children’s gloves. I have it familiar and sensitive to client files-and it’s rocky. The safe of your data feels fantastic, right? With this combination you can upload files to Dropbox Mory-Free. It is peace of mind in a digital world.
Which file types can I upload to Dropbox via WPFORMS?
Most frequently – PDFs, pictures, word documents – work like a magic. I thrown JPGs and recorded there without a catch. It is so flexible that you wonder why you have been waiting to try it! Do you have to upload files to Dropbox? They covered Wpforms. Simply cut restrictions when you are picky – everything is with you.
Do I need a Dropbox business account for WPFORMS?
No, not at all! A free dropbox account makes the trick – I use it myself and it is smooth sailing. It is not necessary to spray shops unless they long for additional frills.
How do I fix a Wpforms Zapier connection error?
Start with the expression of your API key – you guys too easily. Still stuck? Another test form restart; It started my connection beforehand. I was there – frustrating but fixable! The support of Zapier is a lifeline if you need it. With a quick optimization, your Dropbox Wpforms connection will buzz again. You have that!
Last judgment: Is WPFORMS + Dropbox WordPress connection worth?
After using this setup for a small company page, I can say sure that it is worth every cent!
Due to the convenience of the automatic Dropbox uploads, it feels like a personal assistant who never sleeps.
The drag & drop of emptiness of Wpforms makes the creation of the form a pleasure, no annoying task, and dropboxes of secure memory is certain that your files are safe and solid.
It is a match that was made in heaven for beginners – no technical headache, only smooth sailing.
Sure, you need the Pro plan for this Dropbox Wpforms integration, but the time you save is invaluable.
Imagine you never have to download and sort files – remove bliss manually! If you are looking for a reliable WordPress Dropbox plugin that only works, this is.
I saw that a customer’s website calm down from the chaos and I bet it can do the same for you.
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