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

Create Content Template

Checking the Create Content Template option allows you to format and insert form fields as the content of the field.

Checkboxes

The Checkboxes field allows you to present one or many checkboxes which allow multiple selections.

CAPTCHA

The CAPTCHA field allows you to add a captcha field to your form powered by the free reCAPTCHA service. This helps determine if the form is being submitted by a human or a scripted bot.

Bulk Add / Predefined Choices

When using a field with Choices (Drop Down, Multi Select, Checkboxes, or Radio Buttons) clicking the Bulk Add / Predefined Choices in General Settings allows you to select a category and customize the predefined choices or paste your own list to bulk add choices.

Address

The Address field makes it quick and easy to capture address information on a form.

Entry Date Merge Tags

The entry date merge tags can be used in notifications, confirmations, and with some add-ons to output the date and/or time the entry was created, updated, and paid.

Entry Creator Merge Tag

The entry creator merge tag can be used in notifications, confirmations, and with some add-ons to output properties of the user who was logged in at the time the entry was saved.

Signature

The Signature field allows a user to sign the form. The signature gives legal weight to the form.

Quiz

This article shows you the basic of the Quiz field and it’s field level settings.

Stripe Field

This field is only available in the Form Editor if you have installed the official Gravity Forms Stripe Add-on. If you drag the Stripe field onto your form without having completed your Stripe setup, you will get a warning message that either setup or a feed is required.