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I am trying to include a basic contact form in the wordpress admin area. It is in a dashboard widget. However, the form is not loading properly. Any advice or does anyone know what to do to get this to work? See attached.

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I've never heard anyone ask for this before and I'm not sure it's possible. The front end scripts that make the form work are loaded in preview or when the form is accessed on the front end.

The back end scripts for building the form are segregated from the front end scripts. They load independently of each other. You would somehow have to convince Formidable that loading a form in the admin area was loading on the front end. I'm clueless how you would do that.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? If you want admin users to fill out a form in the admin area, you may have to think of an alternate way such as a CPT and custom fields.

Here are some details for creating options pages in the WordPress admin area:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Options_Pages

Maybe you can try this with a Formidable shortcode. I don't know for sure. I've never tried it, but options pages can have a form tag.

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