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

{source_page_number} Merge Tag

When using the Google Analytics Add-On, this merge tag returns the number of the page from which the user has navigated.

{square_receipt_url} Merge Tag

The {square_receipt_url} merge tag outputs the URL to the receipt hosted by Square for the transaction associated with the current entry.

Reviewing Spam Submissions

The following features are available on the Entries List and Entry Detail pages when entries have been marked as spam by a compatible anti-spam plugin.

Fighting Spam

Spam is a problem which impacts all publicly accessible forms eventually but there are steps you can take to reduce the amount of spam which is successfully submitted.

{survey_total_score} Merge Tag

Displays the total score for the survey. Scoring must be enabled on the survey field for it to be tallied.

{today} Merge Tags

The {today} merge tags can be used in field default value settings, notifications, confirmations, and with some add-ons to output the date and/or time the merge tag is processed.

{user_agent} Merge Tag

Displays the browser and platform information of the machine from which the entry was submitted.

{user} Merge Tag

Displays the value of the user meta field for the logged in user, based on the modifier used.

Conditional Shortcode

The conditional shortcode allows you to perform conditional logic in the message content of your Admin and User Notification emails as well as the Confirmation Message that is displayed when a form is submitted.

Custom Field Merge Tags

Display a custom field value from the post/page the form was submitted from. These fields could be added through WordPress Custom Fields, through register_meta, or through a plugin like ACF, Pods or MetaBox.