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.

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

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.

Entry Creator Merge Tag

The entry creator merge tag can be used in notifications, confirmations, and with some add-ons to output properties of the user who was logged in at the time the entry was saved.

Entry Date Merge Tags

The entry date merge tags can be used in notifications, confirmations, and with some add-ons to output the date and/or time the entry was created, updated, and paid.

Field Merge Tags

Displays the value submitted for the field with the specified field_id. If no value was submitted, the merge tag will not display anything.

Post Image Merge Tags

Will display either the uploaded post image or metadata about the image.

Entry Detail

The Entry detail page allows you to view the information created for the entry. From this screen you can view the info, add notes, print, and enable notifications.

Reviewing Entries (Form Submissions)

When a form is submitted, typically you will be notified via the notification system. If you need to review submissions outside of email, Gravity Forms collects all submissions within your WordPress admin dashboard.

Importing Form Entries

This article will discuss several methods for importing entries into Gravity Forms, including database migrations, WP-CLI commands, and third-party plugins.

Exporting Form Entries

Learn how to export all of your form entries (submissions) to enable further analysis or manipulation in external tools.