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

Notifications Settings Reference

This quick reference guide lists all settings related to Notifications and briefly describes their purpose.

Migrating Your Forms from Ready Classes

If your forms use CSS Ready Classes, now is the time to begin transitioning to the Layout Editor or custom CSS solutions to ensure compatibility with upcoming versions of Gravity Forms.

Troubleshooting Notifications

Gravity Forms uses WordPress’ built-in sendmail (wp-mail.php) to send its e-mail notifications. If you are having trouble sending or receiving Notifications, please try the following steps.

Configuring Confirmations in Gravity Forms

When a user submits a form, they are presented with a message, or directed to a new page. By default, this is a simple message letting them know that the form has been successfully submitted and thanking them for their submission. Discover how to change this confirmation message, as well as create custom confirmation messages based on the content that is submitted.

Common Questions Regarding Notifications

This articles answers several of the Frequently Asked Questions regarding Notifications within the Gravity Forms plugin.

Gravity Forms Notification Events

Notifications let you know when a form has been successfully submitted. Several notification events are available within Gravity Forms, as well as events for additional add-ons. Discover the different notification events that are available, such as form is submitted, payment completed, subscription created, and many others.

Resend Notifications

If you failed to receive a notification, Gravity Forms makes it easy to re-send that notification with just a few simple clicks.

Confirmations Settings Reference

This quick reference guide lists all settings related to Confirmations and briefly describes their purpose.

Email Routing in Gravity Forms Notifications

Each Gravity Forms notification has the option of additional email routing. This is similar to conditional logic in that different events can cause the notification to go to a different recipient. Learn how to configure the routing options within your notification.

Sending Notifications for Recurring Subscription Actions

At times, you may want to configure notifications so that users are notified when changing their subscription. This is especially useful for sending an email to a user when they start, cancel, or renew a subscription.