{"id":18420,"date":"2019-12-18T13:16:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T18:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/?p=18420"},"modified":"2020-03-12T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T18:39:18","slug":"how-to-migrate-from-wpforms-or-ninja-forms-to-weforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/boldgrid-wpforms-plugin-product-guide\/how-to-migrate-from-wpforms-or-ninja-forms-to-weforms\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Migrate from WPForms or Ninja Forms to weForms"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><h1 id=\"how-to-import-forms-from-wpforms-or-ninja-forms-to-weforms\">How to Import Forms from WPForms or Ninja Forms to weForms<\/h1>\n<p>If you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/website-builder\/\">created your WordPress website<\/a> with BoldGrid Inspirations before December, 2019, your website came with contact forms provided by either WPForms or Ninja Forms. As of 2020, BoldGrid is officially recommending using weForms, and all new sites created with BoldGrid Inspirations will be pre-installed with the powerful new forms plugin. If you have a BoldGrid website you&rsquo;d like to update to the newest forms plugin, follow these steps.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"install-the-weforms-plugin\">Install The WeForms Plugin<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>In your WordPress Dashboard, navigate to&nbsp;<strong>Plugins -&gt; Add New -&gt; BoldGrid.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Locate and click the <strong>Install Now<\/strong> button under weForms.<\/li>\n<li>Once it&rsquo;s installed, click&nbsp;<strong>Activate.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/activate-weforms.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18421 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/activate-weforms-1024x594.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the Add BoldGrid Plugins screen, highlighting the button to activate weForms\" width=\"1024\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/activate-weforms-1024x594.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/activate-weforms-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/activate-weforms-768x446.png 768w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/activate-weforms-610x354.png 610w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/activate-weforms-250x145.png 250w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/activate-weforms-550x319.png 550w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/activate-weforms-800x464.png 800w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/activate-weforms-310x180.png 310w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/activate-weforms-517x300.png 517w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/activate-weforms-862x500.png 862w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/activate-weforms.png 1155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2 id=\"import-your-forms-and-replace-shortcodes\">Import Your Forms and Replace Shortcodes<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>To follow best practices, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/total-upkeep\/backup-wordpress-website\/\">make a backup of your website using BoldGrid Total Upkeep.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Navigate to the <strong>weForms -&gt; Tools -&gt; Import&nbsp;<\/strong>tab.<\/li>\n<li>Locate your previous forms tool, Ninja Forms or WP Forms, and click&nbsp;<strong>Import.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Once the forms have imported, inspect them to ensure that they imported correctly.<\/li>\n<li>Once you&rsquo;ve verified that your forms imported correctly, click on&nbsp;<strong>Replace Shortcodes.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/replace-shortcodes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/replace-shortcodes.png\" alt=\"A Screenshot of the weForms import process, highlighting the replace shortcodes button.\" width=\"732\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/replace-shortcodes.png 732w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/replace-shortcodes-300x275.png 300w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/replace-shortcodes-610x560.png 610w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/replace-shortcodes-250x230.png 250w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/replace-shortcodes-550x505.png 550w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/replace-shortcodes-196x180.png 196w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/replace-shortcodes-327x300.png 327w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/replace-shortcodes-545x500.png 545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Congratulations! You&rsquo;re all set to use the latest forms plugin recommended by BoldGrid. You should go ahead and test submit all of your forms to ensure they&rsquo;re working as expected.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Import Forms from WPForms or Ninja Forms to weForms If you created your WordPress website with BoldGrid Inspirations before December, 2019, your website came with contact forms provided by either WPForms or Ninja Forms. As of 2020, BoldGrid is officially recommending using weForms, and all new sites created with BoldGrid Inspirations will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"bgseo_title":"How to Import Forms from WPForms or Ninja Forms to weForms","bgseo_description":"If you'd like to migrate to the latest forms plugin recommended by BoldGrid, you can follow these steps to import forms from your previous plugin to weForms.","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boldgrid-wpforms-plugin-product-guide","feature-type-free","experience-level-getting-started"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18424,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18420\/revisions\/18424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}