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.

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

{quiz_score} Merge Tag

Displays the total score for the quiz or for a specific quiz question. The score is affected by weighted scoring.

{quiz} Merge Tag

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

{referer} Merge Tag

Displays the address of the page which referred the user agent to the current page.

{save_email_input} Merge Tag

Using the save_email_input merge tag will insert a form into the “Save and Continue” confirmation allowing the user to enter an email address the resume link should be sent to.

{score} Merge Tag

Displays the score for a specific survey question. Scoring must be enabled on the survey field for it to be tallied.

{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.

{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.