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 without any hassle.
Why Print a WordPress Form Entry?
For many users, exporting their form entries as a PDF file allows them to save or print the file. If you export an entry as PDF, you can even attach it to an email if you want.
With WPForms, you can print a WordPress form entry with just a click. So let’s walk you through a step-by-step guide on printing a WordPress form entry.
Step 1: 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. WPForms allows you to create different types of forms like survey, complaint, parental consent, and almost anything you can think of.
You can also check out our tutorial on how to create a simple contact form. And make sure you’ve some entries added to your form to follow this tutorial.
Step 2: Print a Form Entry
To print a form entry, go to WPForms » Entries.
You’ll see the entries of one of your forms on this page. You can select a different form by clicking on the arrow icon present beside the existing form title.
Now, to print a form submission, you need to open the individual form entry on a separate page. You can do that by clicking on the View link.
The individual form entry page allows you to see every detail of that particular submission. You can also perform useful actions including exporting it to CSV.
Now click on the Print option under the Actions section on the right side of your page.
Clicking on it will direct you to a new page where you can view the form entry without any distraction. Then, click on the Print button to print this form submission.
In Google Chrome, you can print the form entry if your device is connected to a printer. You can also save the file as PDF if you want.
If you’re using another browser, you can use a tool like PDFCreator to print the form submission.
Final Thoughts
That’s it! We hope this article helped you to print your WordPress form submissions to 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, is this feature available? i am looking for this as well. and also able to print multiple result in form view
Hi ng!
Unfortunately, there is still no possibility to add the company logo to the PDF file.
You can print out your form entries from the View Entry page, there is a Print entry button in the right sidebar. But if you want to print out multiple form entries, you will have to open them one by one and print separately.
I apologize for any confusion!
Have a good one 🙂
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.
Hi all !
It would be very helpful, when a form is submitted, to get a notification email with an attached pdf document including all fields.
Is it something on your list?
Thanks
Hi Greg,
We don’t have a way to do this right now, but I’ve made a note on our feature request list so we can keep it on our radar! Thanks for the suggestion 🙂
I would love to see the option for users to print their forms out right before submitting the form. My client wants this and I’m trying to figure out a way for the users to have nice looking print outs like this one. 🙁
Hi Trinity,
We don’t have a way to do this right now, but I’ve made a note on our feature request list so we can keep it on our radar! Thanks for the suggestion 🙂
I worked out that the sender could receive a copy of the emailed form if the entry ,{field_id=”#”} is added to the Send to Email Address field in the Settings > Notifications screen.
Replace # with the ID number of the email field.
Note:The leading comma is the separator for multiple email recipients.
Hi John,
I’m glad to hear you got that sorted out. If you need any assistance with anything else, please feel free to reach out.
Thanks! 🙂
Hi
Is this function ready? will it be ready soon. eagerly waiting for this feature
Hi Vinod.
Currently, we don’t have a built-in option to print/preview a form entry before submitting it. I do agree it would be super helpful.
I apologize for any inconvenience!
Have a good one 🙂
Hi Trinity,
Did you figure out a way to do this? I need the same application.
Hi Will,
We currently don’t have a way of doing this so I apologize that we don’t have quite what you’re looking for right now. That being said, I’ve forwarded this to our team as a feature request for them to consider as they plan out future updates to the plugin.
Thanks!
When printing, is it possible to include image preview for the images uploaded via the form?
Hi Ali,
We don’t have a way to do this right now, but I’ve made a note on our feature request list so we can keep it on our radar! Thanks for the suggestion 🙂
What a waste of time. I would consider an upgrade, but am extremely disappointed that I did all the installation, set up a couple forms, integrated with constant contact, etc….then went to view entries and you can’t even do that trying the Lite version. Ugh.
Hi Rob,
I’m apologize for the confusion and frustration. WPForms Lite entries are not stored to your website and will only exist in the email notification that is sent when a form is submitted. Entries are, however, saved to your site when using a paid WPForms license.
I hope this helps!
Is it possible to have the form data automatically print to PDF and attach to the notification email, rather than having to do it manually for each submission?
Hi Melanie,
Unfortunately we don’t have a way to do this right now, but I’ve made a note on our feature request list so we can keep it on our radar! Thanks for the suggestion 🙂
RE: “Is it possible to have the form data automatically print to PDF and attach to the notification email” Is this a feature yet? Seems like multiple competitors of yours (Caldera for one) are doing this for different reasons like HIPPA and PHI compliance. Let me know, please.
Hi there!
Currently, we do not have a built-in option to generate a PDF from the submitted form data. I do agree it would be super helpful, though. I’ve made a note of the feature request and we’ll keep it on our radar as we plan out our roadmap for the future.
I apologize for any confusion!
Have a good one 🙂
Is there a way to get the form submissions as a word document formatted and ready to copy and paste and use for a design, without the lines?
Hi Karlon,
We don’t have a way to do this right now, but I’ve made a note on our feature request list so we can keep it on our radar! Thanks for the suggestion 🙂
Really wish form submissions could be automatically attached as a compact PDF. This would be such a useful feature and it looks like it’s high in demand. Please make it happen!
Hi Andrew! Thanks for your message!
We agree this will be a super helpful feature, and it is in our features list currently. However, I don’t have any information if it will be developed in the nearest future, unfortunately.
I apologize for any confusion over this!
Have a good one! 🙂
It’s not clear to me which plans include the print to PDF option — is this included in your basic (least expensive) plan? Also is is possible for me to select the fields that are included in the PDF, and exclude some? Thank you!
Hi Myrna!
Currently, we do not have a built-in option to generate a PDF file from the form entry. I do agree it would be super helpful, though. I’ve made a note of the feature request and we’ll keep it on our radar as we plan out our roadmap for the future.
I apologize for any confusion!
Have a good one 🙂
Please say you have created an option for the user to print the form from the confirmation page by now? It would be really helpful and there are multiple requests above….
Hi David, thanks for your question!
Currently, we do not have a feature to print the confirmation page. I do agree it would be helpful, though. I’ve made a note of the feature request and we’ll keep it on our radar as we plan out our roadmap for the future.
As a workaround, you can add an HTML print button that will trigger the browser Print function into the Conformation page/message.
I hope this helps.
Have a good one 🙂
is there any way that our custom template when receives in email/ automatically converted into pdf. & we just direct download that pdf in our custom template that we have already build…
Hey Ramsha – That sounds like a great feature to have! I am afraid, we don’t have it at the moment. I have gone ahead and added a feature request on your behalf. Currently, a quick workaround can be to directly print your email from your email inbox, here is a tutorial on how to do that.
Have a good one!