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

Nested Conditional Logic Limitations

Gravity Forms does not officially support nested conditional logic. This means a field should not have conditional logic based on a field that also has conditional logic.

Entry Trash

With Gravity Forms version 1.6, unwanted entries are no longer deleted immediately. Instead these entries are moved to the Trash.

Printing an Entry

This option shows a print preview for your entry, displaying all of the form field names as well as the values that have been entered.

Bulk Print Multiple Entries

The Bulk Print functionality allows you to print multiple entries at once.

Debugging Feed Issues

This article explains how to identify and resolve feed processing issues through systematic troubleshooting.

Starred Entries

Gravity Forms allows you to star entries in the entry list to flag submissions that need attention, such as high-value orders, time-sensitive requests, or reference entries for training. Starred entries can be filtered for quick access from the entries list.

Working With Multiple Feeds

Multiple feeds let you send form data to different services from a single submission. How multiple feeds behave depends on the add-on.

How to Display Choices in Columns

The Display in columns setting lets you arrange field choices into multiple columns in the Form Editor, with options to set the number of columns and choose horizontal or vertical display.

Turnstile

The Cloudflare Turnstile field for Gravity Forms offers an alternative to Google reCAPTCHA.

Configuring Notifications in Gravity Forms

It can be quite helpful to receive a notification when a user submits a form. This ensures that you do not have to constantly check your form submissions to see if anything has been submitted. Discover how to configure these notifications for your forms.