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

{form_title} Merge Tag

Displays the title of the submitted form. Can be used in areas such as notifications and confirmations to access form properties.

{payment_action} Merge Tag

The {payment_action} merge tag can be used in notifications assigned to events added by payment add-ons such as Authorize.net, PayPal Standard, PayPal Payments Pro, and Stripe to output details of the event which triggered the notification.

{post_edit_url} Merge Tag

Displays the edit URL for the post which was created during submission.

{pricing_fields} Merge Tag

Displays the product/order table in a confirmation or notification.

{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.

{user} Merge Tag

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

Submit Button CSS Selectors

Here's how to apply styles to Gravity Forms submit buttons. You can utilize these selectors to apply any additional styling that you may need.

Pipe

This article goes over the details of the Pipe Recorder Field in the Pipe Add-On used with Gravity Forms.

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.

Using Calculations

When using number fields, you are able to easily perform calculations. In this article, we will show you how to set up a calculation field.