WordPress Plugin

Service Area Checking WordPress Plugin Guide

Getting started with service area checking on WordPress is easy! This guide will step you through each step of the way so that you are up and running in no time.

Download service area checking WordPress plugin

The first thing you need to do is download the free WordPress plugin. This is can be done by creating a free Service Area WIZARD account and heading to the WordPress plugin page. On this page simply click the “Download Plugin” button and your download will start.

Install the WordPress plugin on your website

Now you have the free service area checker WordPress plugin downloaded, you need to install it on your website. Simply login to your WordPress backend and navigate to the “Plugins” page. Now click “Add new” at the top of the page. Now click “Upload Plugin” at the top of the next page. You can now choose the file to upload. It will be named something like “serviceareawizard-contact-v2.zip”. Once you have uploaded the the plugin, activate it.

Configure service area checker WordPress plugin

Now you have activated the service area postcode checker plugin you will see a new option in the pop out menu when you hover your cursor over the “Settings” menu item. This new option is “Service Area WIZARD Options”.

Go to this menu item. We will come back to this options page shortly.

Link your account to the service area plugin

We now need to create an API token. Don’t worry, this is not technical in the slightest. Head back to your Service Area WIZARD account and go to the API Tokens page. Simply give your token a name (this can be anything, it literally does not matter what you call this), and click create.

Your newly created token will appear on screen. It will only be displayed once. But don’t worry if you lose it, a new token can be created at any time. Copy this token.

Head back to the WordPress plugin options page on your website, paste the API token into the API Token input.

Other plugin options

Now fill in the other options on the plugin options page.

• From email address

  Pretty self explanatory but this is the email address that your contact form will be sending from.

• Email signoff

  This will be displaced at the bottom of the emails received by your enquiring potential customers. Eg. John @ PropertyRefurbs

• Button Background Colour

  Customise the button background colour to match your brand. Not sure how to find the colours on your website? Right click on the page of your website and click inspect element. Play around with this and I’m sure you will find it.

• Button Text Colour

  Customise the button text colour to match your brand.

• Country

  Set the country that you are doing service area checking in. If you select UK Postcode the form will display “Postcode”, if you select USA Zip code the form will display “Zip code”, and if you select AUS Postcode the form will display “Postcode”.

Set your business service area

You are nearly set up and ready to go! Now head back to your account on Service Area WIZARD, back on the WordPress plugin page (Settings page) scroll to the bottom and you will see the “WordPress Plugin Settings” form. Enter your country, postcode / zip code, and service area radius in km. Click save.

Display service area check contact form on WordPress website

We now need to display the service area checking contact form on our WordPress website so that our users can make use of it! This can be done by using a shortcode in our page editor OR in our theme template files.

Shortcode in WP editor (EASIEST METHOD)

The quickest and easiest method is by pasting the shortcode directly into our WP page wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) editor. The shortcode is:

[saw_contact_form]

Shortcode in WP theme template files (SLIGHTLY LESS EASY METHOD)

The other method is still easy, but requires you to have access to your theme’s template files. Simply use the following code where you want your form to be placed in your theme files:

<?php echo do_shortcode("[saw_contact_form]"); ?>

Enable more checks for free

By default your account will be limited to 5 service area checks per hour. However this can easily be boosted to over 250 checks per hour completely free! Simply head over to the Dashboard page in your Service Area WIZARD account and follow the instructions.

Subscribing to the Codingoblin mailing list will boost your checks by 25 per hour. Subscribing to the Codingoblin YouTube channel will give another 25 checks per hour boost. And using the discount code CODINGOBLIN2023 on our £9.95 /month plan will give you a free lifetime premium access worth £9.95 /month. This is a limit time offer so get it quick as it won’t be available forever.

Test everything is working

Now you should be all set up and ready to go! Head to the page where you have chosen to display your service area check contact form and you should see it sitting there. Test it out. If you have followed the instructions everything should be working as expected.