Creating a Gravity Form
Gravity Forms is a plugin that allows you to create forms to collect information from your users. You can use Gravity Forms to create forms for many purposes, such as contact forms, applications, work requests, surveys, and more. In this example, we'll create a general contact form.
To get to Gravity Forms, from your dashboard, do the following:
- Hover over Forms.
- Click Forms.
After arriving to your Gravity Forms page you may or may not see already created forms. You can follow the steps below to create a new form.
- Click the Add New button.
- Select the Blank Form template for this example.
On the next page:
- Give your form a name.
- Optionally provide a description for the form. This is not required, but is helpful if you choose to show the form description when you embed the form on a page.
- Finally, click Create Blank Form.
Now that we have created our blank form, we need to add some fields to it. Let's start with a Name and Email field. Open the Advanced Fields tab and follow the steps below.
- Drag and drop or click the Name field.
- Drag and drop or click the Email field.
We now need to add a field for the message itself. However, there is not an advanced field for this, instead we need to switch to the Standard Fields tab, where we can then do the following:
- Drag and drop or click the Paragraph Text field.
Lastly, we need to modify the Paragraph Text field, since it is a standard field.
- Click anywhere on the Paragraph Text field on the left-hand side.
- Open the General tab, then change the Field Label from Untitled to Message.
- Finally, click the Save Form button.
