On your tool bar, click on Caldera Forms. This will show you a listing of your current forms and the number of entries each form has received. 

To create a new form, click New Form from the top bar which will show a popover of several pre-programed forms you can choose from and edit to make your own. But lets start with a blank one. Click Blank Form, give it a name, and click Create Form.

You should see a wide open page with a white horizontal bar, a grey dashed border bar, a row of green text, and a flashing box that says Add Field. Click and drag that box down to the white bar. This will open a popover box with TONS of different form elements to choose from. Lets start simple and choose the Single Line Text. Press Set Field to to the right of it.

Along the right side is a set of various options that control just that one element. Give it a name, and the Slug will automatically fill (this is a code the system will be able to read, each element needs to have a unique slug, so don’t change it unless prompted to). Play around with the different options and click the grey plus button to add another row. Don’t worry, until you press Save Form, no one will see what you’ve done.

Once you’ve added a new row, you’ll see a small circled plus button under the row, click that to insert a new field element. Both buttons do the same thing, so feel free to use them interchangeably.