HT Contact Form

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HT Contact Form is a simple drag and drop contact form builder from HasThemes. Connect it to Advanced Form Integration (AFI) and each submission is passed on to the tools you already use. You can collect entries in Google Sheets, grow a Mailchimp audience, or push new contacts into a CRM automatically.

What You’ll Need

  • The HT Contact Form plugin installed and active, with at least one form built.
  • Advanced Form Integration, free or Pro. This trigger works fully in the free version.
  • An account on the receiving platform, such as Google Sheets or Mailchimp.

How to Create the Integration

  1. Go to AFI > Add New in your WordPress dashboard.
  2. AFI fills in a default Integration Title. Rename it to something you will recognize, like “HT Contact Form to Mailchimp”.
  3. In the Trigger section, choose HT Contact Form from the Form Provider dropdown. The HT Contact Form plugin must be active or the option will not show.

AFI Trigger section with HT Contact Form selected in the Form Provider dropdown

  1. Select your form in the Form/Task Name dropdown. AFI lists all HT Contact Forms by title, sorted alphabetically.

Form/Task Name dropdown listing HT Contact Forms

  1. Under Action, pick your receiver platform and connect the account.
  2. Map the form fields to the receiver fields using the tag picker.

Field mapping showing HT Contact Form fields matched to receiver fields

  1. Click Save Integration and submit a test entry to confirm everything flows.

Fields You Can Send

AFI reads the field names defined in your form and lists each one for mapping. Field names are normalized, so special characters become underscores. These extra fields are added automatically:

Field Description
Your form fields Every named field in the form, shown as “Field: name”.
form_id The ID of the form.
form_title The title of the form.
form_shortcode The shortcode used to embed the form.
entry_id The ID of the saved entry.
created_at When the entry was created.
user_id The WordPress user ID, if the visitor was logged in.
ip_address The IP address of the visitor.
browser The browser used for the submission.
device The device type used for the submission.
source_url The page URL where the form was submitted.

Array values are sent as a JSON string. General special tags such as user and post data also appear in the dropdown.

Conditional Logic Example

If your form includes a subject dropdown, add a condition so the integration only runs when the subject equals Partnership. Routine questions stay in email, and partnership requests go straight to your CRM. Conditional logic requires AFI Pro.

Troubleshooting

HT Contact Form is not in the Form Provider list

Make sure the HT Contact Form plugin is active. AFI checks for the plugin before listing the provider.

My form is missing from the dropdown

Newly created forms appear after a page reload. If the form still does not show, open it in the HT Contact Form builder and save it again.

The integration is not firing

AFI listens to the HT Contact Form after-submission event. Submit the form on the front end and confirm it succeeds, then open AFI > Log to check whether the trigger fired and what the receiver returned.

Fields arrive blank

Field keys are the normalized versions of your input names. If you renamed fields after saving the integration, edit it, reselect the form, and remap the fields from the dropdown.

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