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

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.

{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.

Personal Data Settings

Added in Gravity Forms version 2.4, the Personal Data tab of the Form Settings provides integration with the WordPress Export Personal Data and Erase Personal Data tools. Data for both entries and draft submissions (save & continue) are supported.

Notification Settings

Within the Gravity Forms notification settings, there are various different options that can be configured. This article serves as a reference for the various settings available when configuring Gravity Forms notifications.

Product

The Product field allows the creation of products in the form. There are several options for the type of field that should be used for the Product field: Single Product, Drop Down, Radio Buttons and User Defined Price.

Save and Continue

Save and Continue functionality is a critical feature that many individuals rely on when building large forms. By utilizing Save and Continue functionality, users are able to save their place and come back to the form without the need to start over again.