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GravityForms: a forms plugin not…the forms plugin!

Selecting a form for your website has always been a complicated task, or at least it’s not easy.

There are many options, and very varied, and depending on the size of your project, some plugins or others will be better for you, but if you are looking for the best of the best, you are in the right place.

Keep reading because this article is going to introduce you to one of the best (if not the best) forms plugin for a .

Not only will it solve communicative and functional aspects of your web project, but it will make life more wonderful for you due to its great power of automation, productivity, and features that other forms don’t have.

About Gravity Forms

Before continuing, as in every post, I have to say that he has not contacted me to do an analysis of his plugin, nor does he sponsor this post. I also don’t use affiliate links or anything like that. I write this article because i love the pluginand I think it will be very useful for all readers of .

Gravity Forms is a payment plugin. But before you jump out of your chair and run away screaming and clutching your wallet to your chest, read on because this premium plugin is very affordable and offers a large number of solutions for your website.

There are different prices because depending on your needs, one license or another will be better for you, since one of the most important parts of this form, if you really want to get the most out of it, are its extensionsdifferentiated between “Basic, Advanced and Elite” (we see them below).

Let’s see first of all plugin advantagesso that the “itch” begins and you fall in love with this solution for WordPress forms.

Advantages of Gravity Forms

Easy to use

Gravity Forms is easy to use. And point. Despite the many configurations it has, it is intuitive and from the first moment of use you already know how it works.

Forms are built by system click and drag (drag & drop) and it has everything so that you know what each element works for (yes it is true that it has certain more advanced configurations, but obviously We’re going to cover them all here. so read on).

All types of tickets you can imagine

We will see them below, but you have form fields that are used for all kinds of projects. Also, what I like the most is that they have predefined fields, Of great usefulness. (For example, country listings, age ranges, etc).

Conditionals for your forms

Conditionals are one of the strengths from Gravity Forms. If you don’t know what they are, they are easy to understand: you can make certain fields appear or disappear depending on whether or not the user has filled in other fields.

Example: the user wants to ask about one of your “online advice” services, and as soon as he clicks on that service, extra questions will appear to collect more information about his doubts related to online advice.

This will allow you to take the visitor by the hand and give him a good walk at the level of website usability without leaving the form. (You can try it on my website… Depending on the option you choose, different questions will appear).

And you will think: this has to be very complicated. Well, you’re going to be surprised when you see how easy and intuitive it is. (We see it in the videos at the end of the article).

Staged Forms

If you have to use a long form (for example for an investigation, a follow-up survey, etc) with Gravity Forms you will be able to create different sections for your form, which will be presented by stages or phases.

Forms that replace an online store

If you have a digital product, if you ask for donations on your website, etc, but you don’t want to reload your website with an online commerce system such as WooCommerce, Gravity Forms offers you the possibility of accept payments directly in the form through its extensions with third parties (Paypal, Stripe, Auth.net, etc).

Availability of forms according to a specific date

You can create forms that are available during certain dates or specific period of time. This is ideal for contests, email engagement campaigns, landing pages, etc. (We see it in the videos).

Custom form confirmations

When the user finishes filling in the form, you can choose how the form will confirm that the information has been submitted correctly (display a text, or redirect to a specific page or URL).

Notifications for everyone

Three quarters of the same for notifications. You can configure it to choose who you want to notify (it accepts more than one email, and it is very easy to activate or deactivate).

It allows not only to notify by email, but it can be done through the form fields themselves, and even depending on which fields are filled in, it is sent to one email or another.

Create WordPress content via form

If you have a collaborative blog, or if you like to be sent content without having to create users on your website, you can use the form so that visitors can send you content suggestions, articles, images, etc., easily.

Replace the registration form

If you don’t like the default registration form that comes with WordPress, you can use Gravity Forms to create forms completely tailored to your needs.

Efficient spam reduction

Has it ever happened to you that you launch the website, and everything goes well at first, but suddenly you start receiving messages with Russian or Chinese letters?

The system anti spam of Gravity Forms, using the captcha honeypot, will help you (a lot) in the and will ensure that you only receive emails from real users.

Perfect (or almost) translation into Spanish

Of course, being a well-maintained and professional plugin, it comes translated in several languages. And they are not the typical automatic translations that many plugins use, they are well-cared translations and made by native people.

It must be said that there are parts (such as those of the extras and documentation that are not translated yet, but all in due time).

Information that can be sent through the form

In order not to make this article very long, we are going to see a little above the options that the plugin brings, with a view to creating forms. I prefer to see it a little more in detail and with an example in the videos that you will find at the end of the article.

What the plugin offers in terms of sending visitor information to you, as the owner of the website, is:

Standard fields

• single line of text
• Paragraphs
• drop down type drop down
• Selectors
• Number
• Checkboxes (of which you can choose more than one option)
• Radio buttons (of which you only choose one option)
• Hidden fields (used to add information not visible to the user, but useful when receiving form information)
• HTML field (you can include HTML code to your liking, which the user will see during the form)
• Section (here you can create sections within the form)
• Page (to add different phases or pagination to the form)

advanced fields

• Name (box with Name and Surname)
• Date (accepts date format in different ways)
• Hour
• Telephone (similar to the number but with a specific telephone format)
• Address (adds you the typical fields of an address)
• Web
• Email (allows you to even verify emails by typing them twice)
• file upload
• CAPTCHA (what I have explained above in terms of SPAM reduction)
• List (allows the user to make a list with the items they need).

input fields

• post title
• Body
• Extract
• tags
• Categories
• Outstanding image
• custom field

price fields

• Product (you can write the name of the product or service and mark a price)
• Quantity (the quantity of said product)
• Option (product options. For example, for clothing, sizes or colors)
• Shipping (you can specify the cost of shipping that product)
• Total (calculates all of the above and shows you the total to pay)
• Credit card* (it has an asterisk because it is activated if you configure a payment method through the Gravity Forms extensions. I mean Stripe, Paypal, etc)

Tickets (or submitted forms)

Once you have configured your form and they have started to send you information, post management is very similar to the default post management in WordPress.

Gives you the option to add private notes (which you can also send to the client or save for yourself), and you can also see some information about who has submitted the form (their IP, the date and time of submission, the URL from where it was submitted, etc).

Form Settings

Each form you create comes with individual options (not to be confused with the general plugin options).

Here you can configure from basic aspects such as the title and description of the form, its design, the button, restrictions (by date, by number of entries, by type of user, etc.) and other interesting options that we will see in the videos.

Confirmations, notifications and extensions added to said form are also managed in the individual settings of the forms.

General plugin settings

Not to be confused with the individual settings for each form, it is in the general settings of the Gravity Forms plugin that all the options of the plugin itself, and the general options of the extensions (add-ons) that you add to it.

Here you manage your plugin license, APIs, currency type, CSS, HTML, reCAPTCHA settings, and other general options that affect all forms at the same time.

You also have the option to uninstall the plugin.

Import and export

If you receive hundreds of emails and form entries, don’t worry, because the Gravity Forms plugin comes prepared for it.

In a simple and intuitive way, you can export the entries of each formor export the configuration of all or some forms, to be able to use them on other websites where you also have the plugin installed.

On the other hand, you can import configurations that you already have from other websites, saving time when building the website of your new project.

Extensions or Add-ons

Apart from the form solution proposed by Gravity Forms, if you already use other solutions for other areas of your work, surely you can integrate it with your forms.

Here is a list of all the extensions Gravity Forms works withwhich are integrated in a very easy way in your web project, and will allow you to acquire a much more productive and faster work process for your project.

marketing extensions

• ActiveCampaign
• mailchimp
• A Weber
• CampaignMonitor
• CleverReach
• emma
• GetResponse
• Help…