How To Create a Lead Capture Form Using Contact Form 7 and Before & After Pro

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to wrap your content (i.e., a whitepaper download) with a Contact Form 7 (CF7) form, using our plugin Before & After Pro. When we’re finished, you’ll have a working lead capture form that your visitors will need to complete before they will can access your content.

Step 1: Create a new Contact Form 7 form in WordPress. It can have as few or as many fields as you would like.

Step 2: Create a new Goal in Before and After

First, select Goals from the Before & After menu

Next, click the "Add Goal" button to create a new Goal — Next, click the “Add Goal” button to create a new Goal

In your WordPress dashboard, Find the Before & After menu, then click on Goals
Click Add New Goal at the top of the screen
This will bring you to the Add New Goal screen

Step 3: In the “Before” section, select the Contact Form 7 form you just created from the dropdown menu

Note: be sure to also select the radio button for “Show a Contact Form 7 form”

Select the Contact Form 7 form you just created to serve as your "Before" — Select the Contact Form 7 form you just created to serve as your “Before”

Step 4: In the After section, choose the reward you’d like to offer

Enter your reward in the After section (in this example, a PDF file of a whitepaper)

In this example, we are offering a whitepaper download (a PDF file), so we will choose “Link to a file to download”, and paste the URL of our PDF

Note: be sure to also select the radio button for “Link to a file to download”

Step 5: Publish your goal, and copy the shortcode

publish-and-get-shortcode — First, click Publish. Then, copy the shortcode for your new goal.

Step 6: Paste the shortcode into the page (or post) where you would like the lead capture form to appear

Add your new goal shortcode to any page or post!

That’s all! Now when your visitor access this page, they’ll see your new lead capture form!

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