Formsafe Contact FormCopying a contact form to another WordPress site
Export the form as a file on the first site and import it on the second. A good export carries the fields, the mail settings and the messages, so the copy works immediately. For an agency with a standard enquiry form, it turns a half-hour of setup per client site into a minute.
What should travel with a form
- The fields, in order, with labels, types, options, help text and which are required.
- The notification: recipients, subject, message and Reply-To.
- The automatic reply, if there is one.
- The confirmation and all the error messages, especially if you've translated or reworded them.
What shouldn't travel: the entries. They're personal data and belong to the old site.
Doing it with Formsafe
On Formsafe's import screen — the Import button at the top of Formsafe → Forms — the Forms as a file section exports the forms you tick as JSON — a plain text file you can keep, email or put under version control. On the other site, open the same section, paste the file's contents and press Import the forms. Each form arrives complete, with a new id and its own shortcode there. Recipients written as {admin_email} automatically mean the new site's admin address, so a form built on your own agency site doesn't keep sending to you.
The import checks the whole file before creating anything. A file with a field type Formsafe doesn't know is refused, naming the type, instead of creating a form with a hole in it.
A thank-you page travels as its address, not its number: pages are numbered per site, so the old site's page 7 is some other page on the new one. If the new site has a published page at the same address, the imported form sends visitors there. If it hasn't, the import says so, and the form shows its thank-you message until you choose a page under After sending.
Keeping a library of standard forms
Agencies often keep a folder of exported forms: a contact form, a quote request, a callback request, each with the house wording and a sensible autoreply. Import the right one on each new site, change the recipient if it isn't the site admin, and place it with the block or shortcode.
Moving from Contact Form 7 instead?
If the forms are still in Contact Form 7, don't export anything: Formsafe's importer reads CF7's forms directly — see switching from Contact Form 7.
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