Title: Hidden Fields
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Hidden Fields

 *  Resolved [americangreenroofing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/americangreenroofing/)
 * (@americangreenroofing)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hidden-fields-3/)
 * I’m having trouble figuring out how to use hidden fields, or what they are. Any
   explanation? Is it possible to have some “Advanced” fields that only show up 
   when someone clicks on the right thing in the form?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpgform/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpgform/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mike Walsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpwalsh8/)
 * (@mpwalsh8)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hidden-fields-3/#post-5069246)
 * Hidden fields are pretty much self explanatory – they are fields which have a
   preset value which are not presented to the user.
 * Imagine you have a situation where you have 2-3 different web sites which all
   share a Google Form. You’d like to know which site a form response originated
   from. You could do this with a hidden field. You define the Google Form within
   each of the three web sites with the hidden field set uniquely for each site.
   When the user submits for the form, the hidden value will be submitted uniquely
   identifying the site the form was submitted from.
 * There many other similar use cases. There is some [background information](http://michaelwalsh.org/blog/2013/11/wordpress-google-form-v0-59-beta-2-now-available/)
   on my web site from back when I first implemented it.
 *  Plugin Author [Mike Walsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpwalsh8/)
 * (@mpwalsh8)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hidden-fields-3/#post-5069247)
 * I failed to answer the second part of your question. With respect to Advanced
   Fields, the only way to do that would be to set it up using a multi-page Google
   Form which takes a different path through the form based on your responses.
 * I have an [example on my site](http://michaelwalsh.org/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/wpgform/sample-multi-page-form/)
   which takes a different path based on your responses.
 * There isn’t any sort of fancy Javascript available to show or hide fields based
   on user response. While it would be technically possible with jQuery, it would
   be pretty form specific and not something easily built into the plugin in the
   general case.

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 * Last reply from: [Mike Walsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpwalsh8/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hidden-fields-3/#post-5069247)
 * Status: resolved