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Show Gravity PDF in raw HTML
Do you want to inspect the raw html output of your Gravity PDF? With this simple url argument you can do that.
Gravity PDF
Gravity Forms Entries in Excel Download
Do you want to create a download link to an Excel file with all your Gravity Forms entries data from a form (or even forms)? Doeke Norg created a wonderful plugin to do exactly that.
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Browser back button warning in a multipage Gravity Form
When using a multipage form, users might try to go back to previous pages by using the browser back button instead of using the previous button in the form. In Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge this triggers the browser to navigate away from the page where the form is embedded and the users often looses the information he already entered. Even worse is that IE and Edge use the backspace key as a shortkey for the browser back button. And backspace is a key most people use, when they fill out forms...
Gravity Forms
Repeater Field Gravity Forms (nested)
This plugin from GravityWiz / Gravity Perks will make it a lot easier for you to create repeater blocks inside a Gravity Form, in which you can use all your Gravity Forms knowledge to validate, count and do more within a repeating form. This is going to be a game changer, but there are still some burdens to overcome.
Gravity Perks
Change Ajax Spinner Gravity Forms
Do you want to change the Ajax Spinner for your gravity forms?
Gravity Forms
GravityWP – Count
Display the number of entries in Gravity Forms (and filter them). Or count and display the total for multiple entries of a number field in Gravity Forms and show it on your website with this simple shortcode.
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Complex List Field Gravity Forms
Do you want to add a very complex list field to your Gravity Form? This is the way to do it. Add dates, dropdowns, uploads and numbers (and calculations of these numbers) to your list field. it’s amazing what extra power you give to your form… for your users!
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PDF download Gravity Forms
Do you want to generate PDF’s automatically filled with data from Gravity Forms entries? And do you want to show this as a download link on the front end of your WordPress website? With the combination GravityView and Gravity PDF it’s easy.
Gravity PDF
Colorpicker Gravity Forms
Gravity Forms doesn’t offer a colorpicker as one of their standard fields. JetSloth released a Gravity Forms Add-On to include a color-picker in your form. It hooks into several Standard Fields like 'Single Line Text', 'Radio Buttons' and 'Checkboxes'.
JetSloth
Pagenumber and total pages in Gravity PDF
Do you want to show the page number or the total number of pages in your Gravity Forms PDF file? This can be done with merge tags.
Gravity PDF
Using CSS list in Gravity Forms field description
Do you want to use a CSS list in your Gravity Forms description? That can come in handy, but it doesn’t look very nice if the Gravity Forms CSS is enabled.
Gravity Forms
Go to the top after Next or Submit Gravity Forms
When you use pages in your Gravity Forms (people click Next to go to the next page in the form) or when people submit their form, you may want to automatically have the page centred at the top of your website. This is very easy to do. It makes it much friendlier for visitors of your form, because they know that they start from the same point after clicking a button (Next or Submit).
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WordPress Multi Site Gravity Forms License
If you use Gravity Forms in a Multi Site install of WordPress, and you create new sites,
you may want to add the Gravity Forms license key automatically to your new site.
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Change expiration date Save and continue Gravity Forms
Do you want to change the expiration date for Gravity Forms ‘Save and continue’ functionality (standard 30 days)? This is easily done by adding filter in the functions.php file in your theme folder.
Gravity Forms
Capitalize fields in Gravity Forms
How to capitalize the content of a Gravity Forms input field? There are two possible angles. If you just want to display the content of a field in Uppercase, use the CSS.
If you want to convert the user input to Uppercase while submitting the form, use the PHP solution.
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Standard CSS for Gravity Forms
This article gives an overview of the possible CSS ready classes which can be used in Gravity Forms.
Gravity Forms
GravityView Dynamic Population
You can use GravityView to dynamically populate a lot of fields in your Gravity Form. In this tutorial we explain you how you can use GravityView and Import Entries to make a beautiful list of links (which uses already available information) to fill in fields in a Gravity Form automatically (which also reduces the chance of wrong information!).
Gravity View
Percentage sign Gravity Forms Number Field
If you use the calculation function in Gravity Forms, sometimes you want to show people right away a percentage of the numbers they typed in. For example: The are a number of people that follow a study, and a number of people that passed the exam. You create a number field in Gravity Forms that calculates the percentage: people that passed the exam / total people * 100.
If you have 100 people following the exam. And 20 people that passed. You get: 20 / 100 * 100 = 20%
You probably want to show this as easy as possible: 20%
But that is not so easy in Gravity Forms. We found a solution.
Gravity Forms
Autocomplete Gravity Forms
Autocomplete, or word completion, is a feature in which predicts the rest of a word a user is typing. The Autocomplete plugin from MA-group makes it possible for Gravity Forms text fields. Users can press the tab key to accept a suggestion or the down arrow key to accept one of several loaded options.
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Duplicate Section and Fields Gravity Forms
Do you want to duplicate sections and multiple fields in your Gravity Forms? It will take a lot of time when you do it in the standard form builder. Bulk Actions gives you a tool to easily duplicate or clone multiple fields and whole sections.
JetSloth
Drip Mail Marketing Gravity Forms
Drip campaigns (known by many other names like drip marketing, automated email campaign, lifecycle emails, autoresponders and marketing automation) are basically a set of marketing emails that will be sent out automatically on a schedule. If you have Gravity Forms and Gravity Flow installed, it’s very easy to set up your own Drip Campaign.
Gravity Flow
Address Autocomplete Gravity Forms
Gravity Forms Address Autocomplete simplifies the form filling process helping your users to enter their address with the Google Places suggest API. You make them save time by finding accurate addresses with suggestions and filling forms faster with autofill.
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Bar Chart Gravity Forms
Do you want to show data from your Gravity Forms in a (complex) Bar Chart? There is only one plugin you should use: GF Chart. You can easily make Bar charts (even very complex ones) from the data visitors of your website filled in on your website.
GFChart
Read Only Fields Gravity Forms
In some cases you want to show some fields as ‘Read only’ in Gravity Forms. Especially when you use Dynamic Population, you may want to only show the information without visitors of the site being able to change this information.
Gravity Perks
Update entry email notification in Gravityview
With Gravity Forms Utility you can trigger Gravity Forms e-mail notifications when updating an entry, even when using GravityView to update entries from the front-end of your site. You can download this plugin using the button below.
Gravity View
X-theme & CSS ready classes Gravity Forms
If you use the popular WordPress template X-theme in combination with Gravity Forms, you may experience some problems with CSS Ready Classes. There is a simple solution for that.
Gravity Forms
Merge Tags for Gravity PDF
If you make custom pdf templates for Gravity PDF, it can be handy to have a list of all the merge tags from a specific form. With our simple plugin you can use a shortcode to get all the merge tags from a specific form ID.
Gravity PDF
Email notification on entry update GravityView
There is now a plugin available that triggers the Gravity Forms e-mail notifications when updating an entry in GravityView. You can download this plugin using the button below. We also explain how you can make seperate notifications for 1st time entry and updating the entry.
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Zip-code before City in Gravity Forms (order of address field)
Do you want to change the order of the Gravity Forms Address field items? Especially to put the ZIP-code before the City (as is usual in Germany and the Netherlands for example)? Here you find the easiest way.
Gravity Forms
Limit Dates Gravity Forms
This plugin allows you to limit the selectable dates in your Gravity Forms Datepicker fields. The plugin gives you granular control to manage the selectable date range with an easy-to-use user interface.
Gravity Perks
Unique path for every upload Gravity Forms
Normally uploads in a Gravity Form are stored in the same folder. This is a problem when uploaded files are privacy sensitive and you want to share the links to files with people who filled in a form. They know the way to the folder, so they can get access to files from others (merely by guessing). Thankfully, it is possible to create unique folders for each upload.
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Likert scale question Gravity Forms
Do you want to show a Likert scale question in your Gravity Forms? With the Survey Add-On for Gravity Forms that’s easy to do.
Gravity Forms
List Upload File Gravity Forms
Do you need an Upload field in your Gravity Forms list column? No need to look further, the plugin does just that: Provides two ajax file upload fields – a single field and the ability to make the a list field column an upload field.
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Ranking (order) question Gravity Forms
You want visitors or users to rank different answers (set them in a specific order)? The survey Add-On for Gravity Forms makes that possible. You can give different options and ask your visitor to rank them a certain way, for example the best highest and the worst lowest.
Gravity Forms
Word Count Text field Gravity Forms
In Gravity Forms there is the option to count characters. But maybe you want to limit the amount of Words typed in a Single Line Text, Paragraph Text and Post Body fields. You can do this with the Gravity Perks Plugin Word Count. With this plugin it’s possible to set a minimum number of Words and a maximum number of Words in a text field in Gravity Forms. This way you have much more control over what people type in your form.
Gravity Perks
4 quarters CSS ready Gravity Forms
Do you want style your form with 4 quarter fields (CSS ready classes). This is a default option now in Gravity Forms. Read here how to use it in your form.
Gravity Forms
List Field Date Picker Gravity Forms
Do you need a Date field in your Gravity Forms list column? No need to look further, this plugin does just that: it allows you to turn a list field column into a ‘date’ field.
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Slider Gravity Forms
Do you want to show a slider in your Gravity Form? This is the way to do it. Simply add a slider and decide how to show it: what is the maximum (in currency, or number) and minimum and which steps can they make. Look at the example below.
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List Number Field Gravity Forms
Do you need a Number field in your Gravity Forms list column? And to make calculations within a list row or column? No need to look further, the plugin of Adrian Gordon does just that: Turn your list field columns into repeatable number fields.
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Gravity Forms Preview
Do you want to preview data filled in your Gravity Forms before visitors submit it? Don’t look further, there is an excellent plugin available for just that.
Gravity Perks
List Drop Down Field Gravity Forms
Do you need a Drop Down field in your Gravity Forms list column? No need to look further, the plugin of Adrian Gordon does just that: Gives the ability to add drop down (select) fields inside of a list field column.
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Copy values to other fields Gravity Forms
Do you want to make it possible to visitors of your form to copy data filled in in text fields to other ’empty’ fields? For example the invoice address and the shipping address. Or a name from a contact and somebody that is signing the form? Well… this is easy doable.
Gravity Perks
Show All Merge Tags Gravity Form
Do you want to have a list of all the merge tags from a specific form? With our simple plugin you have a special admin page or can use a shortcode to get all the merge tags from a specific gravity form. No more clicking on a dropdown to select the merge tag you need, but just copy and paste it from the list.
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User friendly error message Gravity Forms
Do you want to change the standard error text (when people did something wrong on your form). It looks quite unfriendly, the standard validation error. So let’s make it a little bit more friendly. You find the PHP and CSS code you need to do just that.
Gravity Forms
CSS Ready Classes selector for Gravity Forms
Gravity Forms has CSS Ready Classes to style your form fields. Using these classes, you can easily create more advanced layouts for the fields in your forms. Excellent idea, however, the problem is you always need to remember what the exact class name is. Now with this CSS Ready Classes selector, you don’t need to remember. Simply click on a button to launch the pop-up and choose the class you want to add.
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Radio button images Gravity Forms
Did you know you can use images in your radio buttons in Gravity Forms? This is a nice way to provide your visitors with a visual, appropriate image to select when they provide information. You see it already as a design pattern, so use it also in your Gravity Form!
Gravity Forms
Generate unique ID for Entry Gravity Forms
Maybe you want to generate a unique ID, code, number or combination of numbers and letters for each entry in Gravity Forms. This is very easy with the special Gravity Perk Unique ID.
Gravity Perks
Star rating field Gravity Forms
Do you want to add a rating field to your Gravity Form? For example to rate an experience, article or for another evaluation? With the Survey Add-On you can easily add a Rating field to your webform.
Gravity Forms
Gravity Forms Image Choices
Do you want to add images as choices for Radio Buttons or Checkboxes fields within Gravity Forms (or Survey, Quiz, Product and Options)? With this plugin you can add images without having to paste HTML code inside your Form Fields. And it produces beautifully styled and easily adaptable css styling.
JetSloth
Styling multiple columns List Gravity Forms
When you have some kind of repetition in your form (every time the same block), for sure the Gravity Forms List field is best to use. But sometimes it’s difficult to fit everything in one single row. With a little CSS you can change that easily.
Gravity Forms
Tooltips for Gravity Forms
Do you want to show tooltips in your Gravity Forms (with extra information about a certain field)? With Magic Tooltips for Gravity Forms you can add HTML and shortcode inside your Tooltips. Even for every radio button and checkbox item.
Other GF Add-ons
Checkbox Images Gravity Forms
Did you know you can use images in your checkbox in Gravity Forms? This is a nice way to provide your visitors with a visual, appropriate image to select when they provide information. You see it already as a design pattern, so use it also in your Gravity Form!
Gravity Forms
Edit and duplicate multiple fields Gravity Forms
Do you want to duplicate multiple Gravity Forms fields at once? Or edit many titles of different fields in one overview? Than you should really consider to use the Bulk Actions Pro plugin for Gravity Forms.
JetSloth
Excel Export Gravity Forms
With GravityView and the addon DataTables it gets really easy to export data from Gravity Forms directly to Excel. Ofcourse, Gravity Forms offers the possibility to export data in a .CSV format. But you probably also want the option to download directly to an Excel format from the front-end of your website.
Gravity View
Full page confirmation message Gravity Forms
Do you want to have a full page overlay confirmation message in your Gravity Form? Here you will find some inspiration on how to achieve that.
Gravity Forms
Import Entries from Excel Gravity Forms
With the plugin Import Entries you can easily import entries using an Excel file. This makes it also possible to import big list of data to your WordPress site and use it to fill in information automatically using the Polulate Field possibility in Gravity Forms.
Gravity View
Merge Tag Modifier Gravity Forms
Do you know you can add functionality to your Gravity Forms Merge Tags. This can come in handy, for example when you want to show a field input capitalized or you want to replace certain values in the field.
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