How to Create a Check Off List Within My WordPress Blog

A checklist can add interactivity to your site.

A checklist is a way to give additional functionality and interactivity to your blog readers. By adding HTML input commands to your blog posts, pages, or template files, checkboxes can be positioned anywhere on your site. Checkboxes can be used in a variety of ways, such as how-to articles, travel checklists, or to-do lists. Checklists can also be used within surveys, allowing your readers another way to interact with you.

Instructions

1. Log in to your WordPress administrator area.

2. Place the cursor at the position in a post where you want the checkbox, then copy and paste the following code:

   <form>

   <input type="checkbox" name="name" value="value" />Description<br />

   </form>

3. Replace "name" and "value" with descriptive terms for the checkboxes. "Name" is given to all checkboxes in a particular range, and "value" is an identifier for each individual box. For example, two checkboxes inside <form> tags could both have the name "gender," with one having the value "male" and the other "female."

4. Replace "Description" with a short piece of text that will appear just next to the checkbox.

5. Copy the entire line that starts with the <input> tag, including the description and the <br /> tag, and paste it inside the <form> tags. Past the line either above or below the checkbox that you have created. Repeat the previous two steps to define the name, value and description for this checkbox. Continue until the code for all needed checkboxes has been written.

6. Click "Publish" on the top-right of the screen if you are writing a new post or page, or "Update" if you are adding the checkboxes to an already existing post. If you are adding this code to a template file in the Theme Editor, click "Update File" just underneath the editing screen.

Tips & Warnings

• Note that only "Administrator" and "Super Admin" user roles are able to edit the WordPress template files. If your account is of a lower level, ask a site administrator to complete this task for you.

References

• W3 Schools: HTML Forms and Input