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

Post Category

The Post Category field allows the user to select a category for the post they are creating. 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 Body

The Post Body field allows users to submit data that is then used as the body content 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.

Input Mask

Input masks provide a visual guide allowing users to more easily enter data in a specific format such as dates and phone numbers.

File Upload

The File Upload field allows users to upload a file with their form submission. You can limit which filetypes a user may upload.

Radio Buttons

The Radio Buttons field allows users to select one option from a list. Only one option from the available choices can be selected.

Number

The Number field allows a user to enter a number. The field than automatically validates the form data to insure that a number was entered.

Paragraph Text

The Paragraph Text field allows a user to enter text in a textarea form field.

Single Line Text

The Single Line Text field allows users to submit a single line of text. This basic field can be used for anything where no more than a single line of input is required.

Hidden

The Hidden field can be used to store information that should be not visible to the user but can be processed and stored with the user submission.

Email

The Email field allows you to present a field that captures email data.