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.

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

Date

The Date field allows you to present a field that captures date data using the jQuery UI date picker.

Checkboxes

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

Address

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

Page Break

The Page Break field allows the creation of multi-page forms. Adding a Page Break field will automatically enable the multi-page functionality for your form.

Section Break

The Section Break field allows you to add a content separator to your form to help organize groups of fields. This is a visual element rather than an actual data collecting form field.

HTML

The HTML field allows you to place a block of free form HTML anywhere in your form. This is useful for adding images or additional content.

Allow Field to be Populated Dynamically

Checking this option will enable data to be passed to the form and pre-populate this field dynamically. Data can be passed via Query Strings, Shortcode and/or Hooks.

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.

Multi Select

The Multi Select field allows users to select multiple options available in the multi select box.

Create Content Template

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