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.

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.

Entries

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

Merge Tags

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

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

Single Line Text Field CSS Selectors

Overview and examples of the CSS selectors available for single line text fields.

Drop Down Field CSS Selectors

Overview and examples of the CSS selectors available for drop down fields.

Poll

The Poll field is available when using the Polls add-on and allows you to create polls to survey your users.

Nested Conditional Logic Limitations

Gravity Forms does not officially support nested conditional logic. This means a field should not have conditional logic based on a field that also has conditional logic.

Website

The Website field allows users to enter a website URL and automatically validates that the information entered was formatted correctly.

Time

The Time field allows users to submit a time as hours and minutes and automatically validates that the information entered was formatted correctly.

Post Title

The Post Title field allows users to submit data that is then used to populate the title for a post. This field works in tandem with the other Post fields to allow you to create a form that can generate post data from a user submission.

Post Tags

The Post Tags field allows users to submit data that is then used to populate the tags for a post. This field works in tandem with the other Post fields to allow you to create a form that can generate post data from a user submission.

Post Image

The Post Image field allows users to upload an image that is added to the Media Library and Gallery for the post that is created. This field works in tandem with the other Post fields to allow you to create a form that can generate post data from a user submission.

Post Excerpt

The Post Excerpt field allows users to submit data that is then used to populate the excerpt of a post. This field works in tandem with the other Post fields to allow you to create a form that can generate post data from a user submission.