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

Modifying Field Layout with CSS Ready Classes

Introduction In Gravity Forms 1.5 we added "Ready Classes". Using these new classes, you can easily create more advanced alternative layouts for the fields in your forms.

{quiz_passfail} Merge Tag

Displays either Passed or Failed based on the Pass/Fail settings configured in the Quiz Settings.

WP Config Options

Configuration options for Gravity Forms within WordPress.

{quiz} Merge Tag

Displays the specific quiz question along with your answer and the correct answer.

CSS Element Naming Structure

Gravity Forms are structured so that every element can be targeted and manipulated via CSS. Most elements share reusable class names to affect styling, and many elements have unique ID’s that you can use to target specific elements within the form.

CSS Visual Guide and Design Overview

We’ve put together a simple visual guide to help illustrate the structure of a form and the CSS class relationship.

Changes to markup in Gravity Forms 2.5

Gravity Forms 2.5 introduced significant updates to the markup used, and this article contains a list of the major changes that designers should consider.

About Legacy Markup

Legacy markup is a term we used in Gravity Forms to identify the markup code and practices that existed in prior to version 2.5 of our core product. This article explains more.

CSS Targeting Examples

Overview and usage examples for targeting each CSS element in Gravity Forms.

Form Settings

Explore the available form settings for Gravity Forms.