Validation messages are essential for highlighting incorrect values in form fields. However, WPForms provides the option to adjust validation messages globally for all forms. With PowerUps for WPForms, you can set the validation messages for each form.
After installing PowerUps for WPForms, follow the steps below to set form-specific validation messages.
- From your WordPress dashboard, navigate to Forms -> Ultimate Kit.
- Select the form for which you want to set validation messages.
- Go to the Power Ups panel and then click on the Settings button of Form Validation Messages.
- You will get the following settings for the Form Validation Messages
- Enable: Use this to enable custom form-specific validation messages.
- Required: This is the validation message that shows when any required field is not completed.
- Email: This validation message shows when the email is entered in the wrong format.
- Email Suggestion: It shows when the user enters email IDs that look misspelled.
- Email Restricted: If you are using the built-in restrictions provided by WPForms, then this message will show if the user entered a restricted email.
- Number: This message shows when the user enters a value that is not allowed in the numbers field.
- Number Positive: This message is shown when the user enters a number that is not positive, but the field requires a positive value.
- Minimum Price: It shows when the price is less than the minimum price.
- Confirm Value: This message shows when the two values are supposed to be the same, but aren’t the same.
- Input Mast Incomplete: If you have enabled an input mask for the field, but the data entered in the field isn’t in the same format, then this validation message will be shown.
- Checkbox Selection Limit: Shows when a user tries to select more than the allowed number of checkbox inputs.
- Character Limit: Shows for the inputs where the character limit is set and the user tries to enter more than the allowed number of characters.
- Word Limit: Word limit validation messages appear when the number of words allowed in the input field is reached.
- Payment Required: If the form contains product fields and the payment information is not submitted, then this error message will be displayed.
- Credit Card: Shows when the entered credit card number is not valid.
- Website URL: Specific for url field when the entered value is not a valid URL.
- Phone: If the phone number entered is not appropriate format, then this validation message will show.
- File Extension: If the file extension is not in the supported list of uploads, then this validation message will appear.
- File Size: If the uploaded file size is more than the allowed file size, then this validation will be shown to the users.
- Time (12-hour): In case the time field is expecting the value to be in 12-hour format, but the entered value is invalid, then this validation message will be shown.
- Time ( 24 Hours ): Validation message that shows when the entered time is not in a valid 24-hour format.
- Limit Hours: If the entered value in the field is outside of hours limit set.
- File Upload Total Size: If multiple files are uploaded and the combined size of the uploads is more than the allowed size, then this error will appear.
- After updating the validation messages then click on the Save button to make changes live.
If you leave any of the validation messages set to empty, then it will automatically use the global error message for that field.
