Gravity Forms 2.8: A Streamlined Editing Experience (2024)

FAQs

Is Gravity Forms worth it? ›

I have been using only a few features from Gravity Forms to help make my website more interactive, and it helps a lot. Gravity Forms is an essential tool for WordPress. I can't find any wrong with Gravity Forms, although it is quite expensive, but it's worth your money and good for investment.

Gravity Forms Pricing

Basic License: $59 per year * Elite License: $259 per year * Pro License: $159 per year * * Gravity Forms updates and support are provided only for the duration of an active Gravity Forms subscription. Renews Annually.

To style a Gravity Form, you need to apply some simple CSS to the elements of the form. There are several ways you can add custom CSS to your site but the easiest is to go to Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS and add the code there. The first thing you need to do is decide which elements you want to style.

The best and easiest way to edit existing entries in Gravity Forms is by using the GravityEdit add-on (it's 340% faster than regular editing!). If you need to edit entries en masse, this is by far the quickest way to do it. Using GravityEdit, you can update entries without having to click “Edit” on each one.

Other important factors to consider when researching alternatives to Gravity Forms include integration and email. We have compiled a list of solutions that reviewers voted as the best overall alternatives and competitors to Gravity Forms, including Jotform, Typeform, WPForms, and Microsoft Forms.

Gravity Forms Authorize.net Add-On

You can use it to set up one-time or recurring payments for your forms, complete with options to manage and customize the recurring payment details.

Gravity Forms only comes in a premium version, while some other popular form plugins have free versions that are available at WordPress.org.

To recap, some of the main benefits of choosing Gravity Forms are as follows: An easy-to-use visual, drag-and-drop form builder interface. Powerful built-in features such as conditional logic, multi-page forms, calculations, dynamic field population, and more.

What does it do? The One-time Fee perk allows you to add a one-time fee to the first payment of a PayPal Standard subscription. For example, let's say you're signing users up for a web hosting package but need to charge them a setup fee on the initial payment. That is now possible with the One-time Fee perk!

Rather than a thousand words in your radio button or checkbox labels, just insert an image. It's dead simple with Gravity Forms Image Choices – enable images in the field, browse the media library and insert your selection.

Can you style Gravity Forms? ›

Styles and Layouts for Gravity Forms lets you create beautiful designs for Gravity forms. It uses WordPress Customizer for providing styling options with easy to use controls. The design changes you make in this plugin are instantaneously visible so you can see how the form looks in realtime.

If you want to add a Gravity Form to Elementor without installing a third-party plugin, you can do so using a shortcode. All you need to do is copy the Gravity Forms embed shortcode for your form, and paste it into an Elementor “Shortcode” widget.

In the Form menu, click on the import/export link. That will take you to a page where you can export your form. Once you've exported the form XML file to your local machine, you can go to the same page on another install, and import the form file you exported from the first site. Easy peasy.

To add custom JavaScript, got to the Settings menu for your desired form and select the “Code Chest” item. Now just copy-and-paste your desired snippet into the JavaScript setting or start writing something from scratch, you little code pirate!

Conditional Logic

Gravity Forms' conditional formatting function — perhaps its most popular feature — allows you to reveal or hide specific fields depending on a user's answer to or selection of a certain field in the form.

Entries. The entry data is not encrypted. This means you should not use Gravity Forms to store very sensitive data like credit card details or passwords that could result in serious issues in the event of a data breach.

Gravity Forms Customers

We know of 955,739 live websites using Gravity Forms and an additional 1,210,326 sites that used Gravity Forms historically and 572,253 websites in the United States.