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Viewing and exporting form submissions

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Viewing and exporting form submissions

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- [Instructor] One day, the company I worked for received a phone call from a client complaining that their contact form wasn't working, and we discovered that we typed in their email address incorrectly. So all of those contact form submissions went to an email address that didn't exist, and they were lost forever. Let's just say that the client wasn't happy. That's why I typically recommend, that when you use a contact form that you also store submissions into the database. That way even if the emails get lost, or get stuck in spam, or get stuck somewhere else there's always a backup. Lucky for us Jetpack does this automatically. In fact, you may have already noticed it. In the admin under Feedback we can see all of our different form submissions, and they're displayed just like they're emailed out. The name is here, the email address here, subject line here, and all the individual fields beneath that. I do find this a little bit hard to read, and I'd rather have a list of fields…

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