We see here how to install a form on your site in a single click and use it to collect messages for your Kneaver space. Kneaver spaces are closed bubbles where we can foster our half baked reflective thinking. There could be times where we wish to run questions and gain feedback from friends or automate forwarding of information collected automatically. This all now possible using the Kneaver Cloud Hooks. Don’t be put back by the term “hook” as in webhook. It’s really user level stuff ala IFTTT, Zapier, GoogleDoc, OpenBadges and alike. Among the multiple possibilities: Install a form on your WordPress site and use it to collect messages. This is our topic here.

How To

1. Install the wp-kneaver plugin on your site. It has no effect unless you start using the shortcodes. it’s free and open source. Find it here: https://kneaver.com/pdownload/wp-kneaver.zip 2. Activate the plugin. A simple but critical step. 3. Create a post and add the shortcode. Either with the menus or directly by pasting it: [ ExtraUserInviteToForm ] In it’s simplest form, it’s just collecting names and emails. Nothing fancy.

Adding zones

You can use the shortcode to embed more details and more input fields as in

[ ExtraUserInviteToForm ] tell us your life here [ / ExtraUserInviteToForm ]

Details

The shortcode can also take attributes like in msg=“Enter your name and email address above” Here are all the attributes of the shortcode. name: The label before the email field. It defaults to “Name”. nameplaceholder: What will appear in the email field before starting to type. It defaults to “Name here”. email: The label before the email field. It defaults to “Email”. emailplaceholder: What will appear in the email field before starting to type. It defaults to “Email here”. invite: What will appear on the button. It defaults to “Invite this guest”. Messages: msgdefault: Message that appears before validating the form. It defaults to “Join us”. msgok: Message that appears after the form was successfully posted. It defaults to “All done, Thank you!’, msgfailed: Message that appears upon failure. It defaults to “Something went wrong, try again or contact site administrator’, Note that messages must be in one line, no paragraphs, no quotes, no html. Something like msg=“Thank you very much” is OK It could be in any language or use emoticons msg=“谢谢” is OK Something like msg=“Thank you have a nice day come again you are so welcome ” is Not OK Specific details for invitations: token: A value you can set to remember how your guests registered. It defaults to “NA”, non-applicable. Since those fields are not secured it’s really just indicators that must be verified. shareablesecret: One of your shareable secrets for posted forms. This is what will authenticate the form when it is posted. It serves as a kind of encrypted address key to redirect what is posted to your inbox. It’s not based on any of your persona details or registration information. It’s totally random and you can have several of them. The best is to associate one shareable secrets with each dedicated activity.

Examples

[/ExtraUserInviteToForm]

Conclusion

We have now an easy way to collect feedback from your blog directly to your Kneaver space. Optional actions can be taken like inviting or sharing knowledge with dedicated people. PS1: This could be done as well using a Google Form and a web hook behind it. The benefit of wp-kneaver short code is to be embedded in your site and hosted within firewalls for example. PS2: “Kneaver Cloud Hooks” include also mail hooks, also known as SMTP hooks to processs automatically input via mail. PS3: Should you set action to “Invite” and the workflow will be redirected to add respondents as guests to your space. PS4: The feature is not to be able to make forms in HTML:) or in Wordpress but to send the result in Kneaver.