Using Marketo forms with Wordpress website

[Anonymous]

We are using Wordpress as our CMS for our website and would like to use Marketo forms on landing pages. We found a quick way to update with the form ID but it doesnt allow it to pre-pop data or use progressive profiling. Is anyone doing this today or have any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

[Kevin_Pferdner]

Hey Christina,

I work for HyperX Media and we are a Marketo LaunchPoint Partner. We have actually created a WordPress plugin that may have what you are looking for. You can get it here: Marketo Forms Wordpress Plugin - Free | HyperX Media

On a side note, we also just launched a Chrome Extension that allows you to clear your cookies easily when testing forms. You can grab that here: Clear Marketo Cookies - Chrome Browser Plugin | - HyperX Media

I hope these help!

Kevin

[SanfordWhiteman]

I refer you again to the Nation rules. (Plus, this question doesn't relate to your product, and is already solved.)

[Anonymous]

This plugin enables forms on a Wordpress website to auto-populate and progressively profile. Seems like that relates directly to the original post.

[SanfordWhiteman]

I am talking about Yulya's add-on question from this week, not the old question from a year ago.  (And it doesn't matter, since product links aren't allowed anyway.)

[Anonymous]

The original question is still marketed as "not answered." Seems like links to free tools that directly address a question are not advertising they are just being helpful in the community.

[SanfordWhiteman]

Nope, they're not allowed. Plenty of times, we want to plop links to our own software (even full-featured, non-freemium free services) into threads, but that's not how it works.

It's frustrating, but it must apply to everyone: otherwise you have people doing drive-by plugs as their only Community input, while all the rest of us are here round-the-clock helping people.

And c'mon: any link to a gated software product with offers of consulting constitutes advertising. There's nothing wrong with that in general!  But here it's in violation of the space's policies.

[Anonymous]

So dumb. If you are helping people, you are helping people. You shouldn't have to be on here 24/7 answering every question to provide value to someone.

Do you have a link to this list of rules? I've been hunting for it and cannot seem to find a link anywhere.

[SanfordWhiteman]

Not dumb. It's one of the best things to happen to the Community, since you don't get inferior software + services plugged by people who have never helped a single person for free, ever. (I am certainly not talking about Kevin, but some past offenders).

From Community Guidelines:

I happen to feel that self-promotion should be badgified, so if you achieve a certain number of points you're allowed occasional plugs. But it's not up to me.

[Anonymous]

What Kevin shared was not an ad or promotion. The page he linked to has a free download for the basic version of the software that is not gated. So in my opinion it does not violate the quote you referenced. There is nothing for sale there and no exchange of data is required to access the tool.  There are "no strings attached" to using the suggested tool Kevin shared. It doesn't say you can't link to any content on your site, just that you shouldn't share "links to forms on your site". To me it seems that you have your own personal interpretation of this rule that isn't necessarily law. Maybe a moderator needs to weigh-in.

[SanfordWhiteman]

"Links to forms or your site," it's loud and clear.

[JD_Nelson]

I happen to feel that self-promotion should be badgified...

classic

[Kevin_Pferdner]

Noted.

[Grégoire_Miche2]

Hi Christina,

Whatever way you use to leverage Marketo embedded forms, they are still Marketo embedded forms and therefore won't support prefill. But they should support progressive profiling though.

Are you using a specific Wordpress module for this or are you simply copying/pasting the Marketo embed form code?

-Greg

[Anonymous]

We are not sure about using a plugin for forms or embedding in the page.

Christina Pappas

Director of Marketing

AP & Payment Automation

125 Cambridgepark Drive

Cambridge, MA 02140

christina.pappas@mineraltree.com

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Grégoire Michel <

[SanfordWhiteman]

Anything other than

• embedded Marketo forms (standard form embed code)
• custom forms using the Marketo Forms API to post data (not the REST or SOAP APIs)
• IFRAMEd Marketo LPs w/forms

is not a professional solution.

If your plugin relies on either of the APIs noted above it should not be used as it creates a DoS attack vector against the forms feature and your entire instance.

[Anonymous]

Hi Sanford,

We are using embedded Marketo forms (standard form embed code) but definitely see some display issues. For example, I can't get the hint text in the state field to display. It's just blank.

What in your opinion is a professional way of using Marketo forms on a Wordpress page?

Thanks,

Yulya

[SanfordWhiteman]

You'll have to provide a URL. And also create a Market-hosted LP with the same form on it and tell me the URL, if you're saying the same prob doesn't happen when the form is not embedded.

As I said above, using the standard form embed code on a WP page is fine. I suspect you have some general forms CSS on the WP template that's affecting the hint text.

[Anonymous]

Hi Sanford,

This is the Marketo URL/Form. Where all the fields display and it works properly.

Digital Tools and Part 11 Compliance Webinar

This is the Wordpress page where when I select country Canada the hint text for Province doesn't show. For the US state it shows. I don't know how to adjust my Form in Marketo to fix this issue.

Digital Tools and Part 11 Compliance in Research | Webinar

Thanks so much for looking into this.

Yulya

[SanfordWhiteman]

JD is correct, they do not have the same form descriptor. Make sure you're comparing apples and apples.

You have an extra space after the word "Province" in the Canada Visibility Rule in Form 2207, the form on your website. That's why it doesn't work (it doesn't match the master).

In contrast, the master "Province" and the Canada VR "Province" are spelled identically in Form 2206, the form on your Marketo-hosted LP.

[Anonymous]

Wow! Thank you, Sanford! I removed the extra space and now it works.

Appreciate your help.