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How UF Health Uses Gravity Forms for Critical Data
By Jeff MatsonThese days, hospitals have just as many online as they do offline. With multiple hospitals, clinics, colleges and research institutes, as well as over 22,000 employees, UF Health is no exception. Combine that with over 1,500 sites across a multiple WordPress Multisite installations, and you have quite the technological challenge to keep everything moving smoothly. We always love to hear about how people are using Gravity Forms in large-scale, mission-critical environments. Today, I had the pleasure of chatting with one of the University of Florida Health‘s senior developers: Chris Wiegman to get a better understanding of the unique challenges they face every day, and how UF Health uses Gravity Forms to solve those problems.
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Gravity Forms v2.3 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms v2.3 is now available via automatic update and the downloads page. Version 2.3 is a feature release that includes a variety of enhancements and improvements. A complete rundown of the features, enhancements, and changes can be found below.
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How to Reduce Customer Fears Around Checkout Forms
ByAre you experiencing too many abandoned carts? Here’s how to fix your forms to stop it from happening.
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A Non-Developer’s Guide to Creating WordPress Forms
ByWant to create WordPress forms but not sure where to start? This is the guide for you.
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5 Cool Things Sites are Doing With Gravity Forms
ByHere are a few really cool Gravity Forms examples from other designers and developers out there.
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Uploading Files to Google Drive from WordPress
By Jeff MatsonIf you frequently handle user-submitted file uploads on your WordPress site, you’ll likely want to place them on a cloud storage provider like Google Drive. By sending your file uploads to a cloud storage provider such as Google Drive, you will not only have a backup in the event of a disaster, but your web host will likely be much happier with them off of your server. In this article, we’ll show you how to easily send any file uploads from your WordPress form directly to Google Drive.
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Add-On Developers: We Want to Hear from You!
By Jeff MatsonPart of what makes Gravity Forms the top choice in WordPress form plugins is our extensive developer community, whose devotion and hard work producing top-notch Gravity Forms add-ons enriches the utility of our own product in ways we never imagined. We want to help our ingenious users find your amazing add-ons! What We’re Working On In the coming weeks, we’ll be launching a brand new section of the site to highlight developers like you and the add-ons you produce. From this area users will be able to browse or search a directory of third party add-ons, see a little bit of detail about the add-on, as well as some information on the developers behind them. If a user then wants more information, or to download or purchase, we will send them directly to your website so you can ensure that all necessary information is presented just as you intended. We hope that these changes will not only allow developers everywhere to bring new attention to their Gravity Forms add-ons, but also help our users better identify high-quality add-ons to fit their needs. Want In? If you want to get a jump-start and be among the third party Gravity Forms add-ons… READ MORE
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Sending Form Entries to Google Calendar
By Jeff MatsonDo you need to schedule events using forms on your WordPress site but don’t want to manually view entries to add them to Google Calendar? In this article, we’ll outline how to automatically send your form entries directly to Google Calendar using Gravity Forms and Zapier.
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Gravity Forms v2.3 RC 5 Released
By Steve HentyGravity Forms v2.3 Release Candidate 5 is now available via the downloads page. It is only available via automatic update if you have previously installed a Gravity Forms v2.3 Beta or Release Candidate. Version 2.3 is a feature release that includes a variety of enhancements and improvements. A complete rundown of the features, enhancements, and changes can be found below. This is the first time Gravity Forms has ever made such a major change to the database schema so we want to ensure that every site is upgraded successfully without any loss of entry data. To avoid potential issues we advise all customers to test this version before the final release and report any issues. Now is the time for 3rd party developers and customers who have implemented customizations that may be impacted by these changes to be testing and readying changes in preparation for the final release of Gravity Forms v2.3 via automatic update.
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Gravity Forms v2.2.6 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms v2.2.6 is now available via automatic update and the downloads page. This is an important maintenance update that includes security enhancements, bug fixes, new hooks and more importantly implements changes that will help sites prepare for the upcoming release of Gravity Forms v2.3. We recommend users update as soon as possible in order to keep your WordPress site up to date with the latest bug fixes and security enhancements.
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How Much Should You Spend on Form Design?
ByCan you really DIY your forms or do you need to spend money on a developer? Here’s the answer.
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Updating Spreadsheets from Form Entries in WordPress
By Jeff MatsonPreviously, we wrote about how you could send your form entries to Google Sheets. While inserting new data for each entry is as far as it needs to go for most users, you might need to continuously update the spreadsheet. With just a bit of additional logic, you can easily use Gravity Forms to find existing rows and update them as needed.
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