Gravity Forms is an advanced form builder plugin for WordPress. It can be a solution if you want to create a WordPress-based website that consists of forms. Not just a contact form but also forms like a user registration form, front-end content submission form, job application form, to a payment form. To ease your job in creating a form, Gravity Forms offers a form builder where everything is drag and drop. You just need to pick a form field and then drag it to the canvas area. You can then make the settings accordingly. Once you are done creating the form, you can preview the form to see what it looks like once gone live.
In addition to allowing you to create forms, Gravity Forms also allows you to manage the form submissions without installing an extra plugin thanks to its built-in form submission manager. The Gravity Forms built-in form submission manager allows you to filter the data based on the parameters (fields) available on your form.
Gravity Forms Field Types
Gravity Forms offers a lot of field types you can use to create a form. They are grouped into into several caregories:
Standard Fields
- Single Line Text
- Paragraph Text
- Drop Down
- Multi Select
- Number
- Checkboxes
- Radio Buttons
- Hidden
- HTML
- Section
- Page
Advanced Fields
- Name
- Data
- Time
- Phone
- Address
- Website
- Username
- Password
- File Upload
- CAPTCHA
- List
- Consent
- Chained Selects
- Quiz
- Survey
Post Fields
- Title
- Body
- Excerpt
- Tags
- Category
- Post Image
- Custom Field
Pricing Fields
- Product
- Quantity
- Option
- Shipping
- Total
- PayPal
Gravity Forms Features
Gravity Forms is a completely paid plugin. You have a chance to try how it feels to create a form using Gravity Forms for free via the offered demo. The features offered by Gravity Forms are varied depending on the plan you subscribed to. The Basic plan allows you to connect your form with popular email marketing services like ActiveCampaign, AWeber, GetResponse, and so on. The Pro plan allows you to connect your form with popular services like Dropbox, Agile CRM, Trello, Slack, Square, and so on. The Elite plan allows you to connect your form with payment services like Authorize.net, 2Checkout, PayPal Payments Pro. The Elite plan also comes with features like the ability to create polls, quizzes, surveys, as well as the ability to add a signature and create a user registration form.
Furthermore, Gravity Forms also supports add-ons to extend its functionality. You can visit its official Community page to find Gravity Forms add-ons developed by third-party developers. Here are the key features offered by Gravity Forms:
- Submission Manager
- Conditional Logic
- Email Notifications
- File Uploads
- Calculations
- Spam Protection
Gravity Forms Styling Options
CSS knowledge is not required to create a form with Gravity Forms, but if you know CSS and want to style up your form using CSS, you can do so. Gravity Forms supports custom CSS. You can add a custom CSS on every element on your form.
Or, if you use have no CSS knowledge and use Elementor on your WordPress site, you can install Elementor add-ons like Happy Addons and Essential Addons to style up your Gravity Forms form via Elementor visual editor.