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How to Print Your WordPress Form Submissions to PDF
Last updated on Oct 26, 2017 by Shahzad Saeed
Do you want to save or print a WordPress form entry in PDF? WPForms allows you to natively export a form entry as PDF for better ability to print it. In this article, we’ll show you how to export a WordPress form entry as PDF and print it.
Why Print a WordPress Form Entry?
For many users exporting their form entries as a PDF file is greatly helpful for better ability to print it. If you export an entry as PDF, you can even easily attach it within an email as a proof of the users’ interaction with your website.
With WPForms, you can print a WordPress form entry in just a click. Let’s walk you through a step-by-step guide on printing a WordPress form entry.
Create a WordPress Form
The first thing you need to do is to install and activate the WPForms plugin on your site. To get started, you can read how to install a WordPress plugin.
Then, you’ll have to get a form created. You can see our tutorial on how to create a simple contact form.
Print a Form Entry
To print a form entry, go to WPForms » Entries. To see a list of form entries, make sure to select the right contact form. Click View to choose a form entry that you want to print as PDF.
Now click Print in the Actions section at the right-hand side of your page.
Clicking on it will direct you to a new cleaner page where you can view the form entry without any distraction. Then, click Print again.
In Chrome, if your device is connected to a printer, you can print it or you’ll be asked to save the form as PDF. Just click the blue Save button to continue.
If you’re using another browser, you can use a tool like PDFCreator to print directly to PDF.
That’s it!
We hope this article helped you print your WordPress form submissions into PDF.
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It would be good to have the ability to map form fields to places in pdf file. This way we could create a form that would fulfill contracts that user could download, print and send to our company.
Hi José,
I’m familiar with the type of option you’re describing, and I’ve noted that on our feature request list. Thanks for the suggestion! 🙂
How to iclude section devider in print preview?
Hi Tomo,
Fields with extra text (Section Dividers, Page Breaks, HTML fields) are not stored with the entry and so will not be included when an entry is printed. I agree this would be a helpful option, though, and have noted it on our feature request list for consideration down the road 🙂
Is there a way to setup wpforms to automatically print out new form entries as they come in?
Hi Nick – We don’t currently have a way to automatically print form entries. In case it helps, though, you can automatically send out emails with the entry contents included or periodically create a CSV export (which could be opened in a spreadsheet program and printed from there).
Hope that helps! 🙂
i want when we submit the form i want display all the record and print it indiviual
Hi nrj,
I apologize, but I’m not sure I understand what you’re looking for. When you get a chance, could you please contact our team with some extra details about what you’d like to be able to do?
Thanks! 🙂
Is there a way to print multiple form entries in one batch?
Hi G,
Right now, the best way to print a bunch of entries at once is with a CSV export (you can open the CSV in any spreadsheet program and print from there).
If you have any additional questions, please get in touch and we’d be happy to assist! 🙂
Ok thanks. I need to be able to print the individual sheet. There’s no way to do a batch print of all entries though? We have to go one by one?
Hi G,
Yes, that’s correct — we don’t currently have a way to print a bunch of entries all at once. I can definitely see how this could be a useful option, though, and I’ve added this to our feature request list for consideration down the road.
If you have any additional questions, please submit a ticket — we’ll be able to reply faster from there 🙂 Thanks!
Is it possible to attach a company logo to the top of the PDF?
Hi Caroline – We don’t currently have any way to do this, but I’ve added the idea to our feature request list for possible consideration. I’m sorry we can’t provide this option for you right now, but thanks for the suggestion! 🙂
hi
can a user print out his forms after filling in the front-end?
Hi Simon,
Once the user receives an email notification after they’ve submitted the form, they can print it out via their browser if they’d like.