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

A "confirmation" is the response shown immediately after a successful form submission. They can display a specific message on your page ("Thank you for your inquiry. We respond within 24 hours."), or redirect the the submitter to another page or URL.

Notifications

Notifications are a way to send information after a form submission.

Add-Ons

Learn the basics of using Add-Ons, such as downloading and installing.

Add-On Feeds

In Gravity Forms terminology a feed is like a notification that communicates information to an add-on or to an external service that the add-on integrates with, each time a visitor successfully submits your form.

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

Credit Card Field CSS Selectors

Overview and examples of the CSS selectors available for credit card fields.

Chained Selects Field

The Chained Selects field is available when using the Chained Selects Add-On. This field will allow you to create various select fields that will dynamically change based on the previous selection.

Common Field Settings

When editing a form, many of the fields you use will offer the same group of settings. This article helps explain the most common ones.

Enabling Conditional Logic for Feeds

Learn how to use conditional logic to specify when a certain feed should process based on the form data.

Downloading a Gravity Forms Add-On

This article contains instructions on how to download an official Gravity Forms Add-On from the Add-Ons library.

Consent Field

The Consent field allows you to offer a “yes/no” consent checkbox and a detailed description of what is being consented to.

Save and Continue Link CSS Selectors

The Save and Continue link allows a user to save their form data and resume entry at a later time.

Repeater (beta)

A Repeater field is a collection of other Gravity Forms fields, combined together into a set that can then be used on a single form.

Installing a Gravity Forms Add-On

Learn how to install Gravity Forms add-ons using the Add-On browser, WordPress dashboard, or FTP.

Add-On Feeds Basics

In Gravity Forms terminology a feed is like a notification that communicates information to an add-on or to an external service that the add-on integrates with, each time a visitor successfully submits your form.