TutorialWord Count Text Field Gravity Forms

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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.

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Star Rating

Ranking

Unique ID

Copycat

Address autocomplete

Autocomplete

GP Limit Dates

Preview Submission

Word Count

Likert Scale

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List Field Number Format

Make a choiceEnable Number FormatMerge TagsBoth

Likert Scale

Gravity Forms Survey Field Likert Scale

	Strongly disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly agree
First row
Second row
Third row
Fourth row
Fifth row

Word Count

Single Line Text

Paragraph Text

Preview Submission

Your name(Required)

GP Limit Dates

Date

MM slash DD slash YYYY

Select your date between today and 1 month ahead. You can only select Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in this period. That’s what this plugin does, and more. For example you can set fixed dates, ranges from today, etc.

Date +365 days

MM slash DD slash YYYY

This date must be exactly 365 days in the future.

Advanced Merge Tags

Text(Required)

Date

MM slash DD slash YYYY

Copycat

Field 1

Field 2

Example

Copy Field 1 to Field 3

Example

Copy Field 2 to Field 3

Example

Copy Field 1 to 3 and Field 2 to 4

Field 3

Field 4

Address Autocomplete

Address

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Unique ID

Text

Unique ID Alphanumeric

Unique ID Numeric

Unique ID Sequential

Unique ID Sequential with Text Prefix

Unique ID Random with Text Suffix

Star Rating

Example ranking (order) field

• First Choice
• Second Choice
• Third Choice
• Fourth Choice
• Fifth Choice

Star Rating

Star Rating

ExcellentPretty goodNeutralNot so greatTerrible

Checkbox Images

Checkbox images

Checkbox Images

Radiobutton images

List Field Number Format – Activate Number Format

9,999.99 Number Format

Add Remove

9.999,99 Number Format

Add Remove

Valuta Number Format

Add Remove

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Rounding

Round up

Round down

 

Add Remove

List Field Number Format – Merge Tags

List single column (Field ID: 1)

Add Remove

Column total

Total number of rows

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List multiple columns (Field ID: 7)

Quantity

Price

Total

 

Add Remove

Column 1 total

Column 2 total

Column 3 total

Examples Modifiers:

:gwp_remove_accents	{Text:59:gwp_remove_accents}
:gwp_urlencode	{Text:59:gwp_urlencode}
:gwp_length	{Text:59:gwp_length}
:gwp_word_count	{Text:59:gwp_word_count}
:gwp_case to=upper	{Text:59:gwp_case to=upper}
:gwp_case to=lower	{Text:59:gwp_case to=lower}
:gwp_case to=lower_first	{Text:59:gwp_case to=lower_first}
:gwp_case to=upper_first	{Text:59:gwp_case to=upper_first}
:gwp_case to=upper_words	{Text:59:gwp_case to=upper_words}

Examples Merge Tags:

Date Field	{Date:63}
First day of next month
Next Monday
Monday this week

{Your name:72} rules

{Your name:72} on Names.org {Your name:72} on Behind the Name

How to add Word Count validation

Install the plugin and after it you’ll find an extra ‘tab’ in the Single Line Text and Paragraph Text field (and Post Body Text) of your form. Just fill in the minimal and/or maximum number of words you allow in this specific field, and GravityWiz will do the rest.

Alternative: Using maximum characters

As a default option, Gravity Forms allows you to set a maximum number of characters that can be filled in a Single Line or Paragraph Text field in a form. Just fill in a number and Gravity Forms takes care of the rest.

Word Count Merge Tag Modifier

The gwp_word_count Gravity Forms Merge Tag Modifier counts the number of words in a string value. This can be handy when you want to count the number of Words for calculating translation costs or to show quickly if the number of used words are fitting a specific content template (like an essay).

{Text:1:gwp_word_count}

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