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.

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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.

Spam Detection and Protection

Protect your forms from spam and abuse. Find official add-ons, certified developers add-ons, third-party plugins, and other strategies to reduce unwanted submissions and keep your forms secure.

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

Password

The Password field provides two single line inputs (one to enter the password and the second to confirm it) that will mask entered content with blobs or asterisks. It is only available when the User Registration add-on is active.

Name

The Name field allows users to enter their name in the format you have specified. This allows you to capture name information as individual fields.

List

The List field allows the end user to add/remove additional rows (up to a pre-set limit) of information per field. This allows for the capture of multiple field values, or a variable “list” of data as defined by the end user.

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.

Post Custom Field

The Post Custom field allows users to submit data that is then used to populate a custom field value 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.