User Guides

  • Installation

    Installing Gravity Forms is a breeze. Here you’ll find everything you need to get Gravity Forms installed within seconds.

  • Creating a Form

    Gravity Forms has been built from the ground up to be as simple to use as it is powerful. Creating a form has never been easier!

  • Configuring Notifications

    Keep track of every form submission, notify your users that their submission was successful, and more.

  • Embedding a Form

    Forms are only useful when someone can use them. Embed your forms directly into your content with ease.

  • Reviewing Form Submissions

    Easily review every submission to your forms in an easy to use interface.

All Categories

Standard Fields

Explore the Standard Fields available in the Form Editor, such as the Drop Down and Radio Button fields.

Advanced Fields

Advanced Fields offer more complex field types that can provide specific functionality, such as email, address or password fields, polls, surveys, and more.

Pricing Fields

Discover the different Pricing Fields, such as Product, Option, Total, and Shipping.

Post Fields

Learn about the different Post Fields available, such as Post Body, Post Title, and several others.

Field Settings

User Guides related to Field Properties, such as how to use calculations and conditional logic.

Entries

Learn how Gravity Forms shows form submissions, which we call "Entries". These are what your form was built for!

Conditional Logic

Conditional logic allows you to build interactive forms that can show or hide fields based on user selections. Additionally, conditional logic is available to control other elements like buttons, confirmations, notifications and feeds.

Merge Tags

Articles explaining the different Merge Tags available, such as {admin_email} and {all_fields}.

Confirmations

Confirmations define the response shown immediately after a successful form submission. Use them to show an on-page message, send the submitter to a WordPress page, or redirect to any URL.

Notifications

Notifications send information after a form submission to admins, submitters, or routed recipients.

Design and Layout

Need to style your forms to match your existing WordPress theme? Gravity Forms provides form themes and plenty of CSS selectors to beautify your forms.

Settings Reference

Reference articles for the different settings available in Gravity Forms.

Articles

Migrating Your Forms from Ready Classes

If your forms use CSS Ready Classes, now is the time to begin transitioning to the Layout Editor or custom CSS solutions to ensure compatibility with upcoming versions of Gravity Forms.

How to Display Choices in Columns

The Display in columns setting lets you arrange field choices into multiple columns in the Form Editor, with options to set the number of columns and choose horizontal or vertical display.

Notifications Settings Reference

This quick reference guide lists all settings related to Notifications and briefly describes their purpose.

Confirmations Settings Reference

This quick reference guide lists all settings related to Confirmations and briefly describes their purpose.

Merge Tags Reference

Gravity Forms uses merge tags to dynamically insert submitted field values and other relevant information into notifications, confirmations, post content templates, and more. This article offers a quick reference guide and links to detailed documentation for each tag.

{activation_url} Merge Tag

This article explains how to use the {activation_url} merge tag for user account activation.

{admin_email} Merge Tag

Displays the email address configured on the WordPress > Settings > General page.

{all_fields} Merge Tag

Displays a preformatted HTML table containing all of the submitted values.

{all_quiz_results} Merge Tag

Displays the results of all Quiz Fields that exist in the form.

{apc_media} Merge Tag

Allows for files uploaded to the media library to be inserted into the post.