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How to Use Gutenberg with Gravity Forms
By Jonathan CalderonGutenberg with Gravity Forms With the introduction of version 5.0, the team at WordPress have released the Gutenberg plugin as their default editor. If you install WordPress from this point forward or update your existing version, you’ll see the classic editor has been replaced with the Gutenberg editor. If you are unfamiliar with Gutenberg, we’ve prepared a small introduction for you below this article. Click here to read it. Since WordPress 5.0 removed the classic editor, you’ll notice the Add Forms button that embeds a Gravity Form has been removed. But do not worry! There are a few ways you can use Gutenberg with Gravity Forms. There are a three methods to add a Gravity Form to a page or post: 1. Install the Gravity Forms Gutenberg Block (Recommended) This is the cleanest and simplest method, so it’s the one we recommend to all Gravity Forms users. We strongly recommend you get used to using Gutenberg blocks, because this is how WordPress will be developed in the future. First, download the Gravity Forms Gutenberg Add-On from our Downloads Page. This will add a block to the Gutenberg editor. Inside the editor, click the plus symbol to add a new block,… READ MORE
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Gravity Forms and Zapier: How to Connect Your Forms to 3,000+ Apps
ByGravity Forms and Zapier make a powerful pair. In this article, we’re going to introduce you to Zapier and explain how to connect it to Gravity Forms.
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How to Create a Net Promoter Score Survey With Gravity Forms
ByIt’s important that you understand how your customers feel about your business. Learn how to create a Net Promoter Score survey to capture that data.
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Accepting PayPal Payments in Your WordPress Forms
By Jeff MatsonAt times, setting up a quick and simple form for receiving PayPal payments on your WordPress site is far easier than a full e-commerce solution. While full solutions offer things such as inventory management and a deeper checkout process, it’s often overkill to deploy a large-scale solution for just a few items.
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Redirecting Users After a Successful Form Submission in WordPress
By Jeff MatsonDepending on your particular needs, you may need to redirect users who submit your form to another location on your WordPress site. Thanks to the confirmation settings in Gravity Forms, it’s easy to redirect users to another page with just a few clicks. Adding Gravity Forms’ advanced conditional logic to the mix, you can even redirect your submissions to different places, based on the data that they submitted.
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How to Launch a MailChimp Drip Campaign with Gravity Forms
ByWith email automation, you can engage your list automatically. In this article, we explain how to setup a drip campaign using Gravity Forms and MailChimp.
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Quick Guide to Using Conditional Logic for Smarter Forms
ByWith conditional logic, you can build interactive forms that let you collect the data you need without straining the user experience.
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How to Use Gravity Forms for Email Marketing Automation
ByIt’s not just forms. Use Gravity Forms for email automation using a variety of tools and integrations. Here’s how.
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Mastering the Multi-Page Form With Gravity Forms
ByHere’s what to know about designing high-converting multi-page forms with Gravity Forms.
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Capturing Salesforce Leads From WordPress Form Submissions
By Jeff MatsonCRMs like Salesforce are important to businesses all over the world for keeping track of clients and closing on leads. Your company is no different, you need a WordPress CRM like Salesforce to organize your contacts and make sales.With WordPress being used on over 27% of the internet and Salesforce being the biggest name in the CRM industry, it makes perfect sense that many users would want to utilize the forms on their WordPress sites to capture leads and save them to Salesforce. In this article, we’ll show you how to easily send your form submissions directly from your WordPress site to Salesforce and create new Salesforce leads from that data.
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10 Ways to Supercharge Your Forms with Zapier
By Jeff MatsonThe Zapier Add-On is an excellent choice for managing data from your forms and transforming it into limitless useable media publications. Find out more…
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Creating the Perfect Contact Form
By Jeff MatsonHere at Gravity Forms, we proudly help websites build forms for a multitude of purposes. Of those various purposes, the most common use for any WordPress form plugin is to create a contact form. Contact forms are a staple for any website, and nearly every website on the planet has at least one (we’d even be willing to bet that if other planets have websites, they probably have contact forms on them too). Well, we’ve seen quite a few contact forms over the years on all kinds of WordPress sites, and we can say without a doubt that they’re not all made equally. Thanks to our experience with powering forms on millions of WordPress sites, we’ve become a bit of an expert in the field of making efficient and beautiful contact forms. So what goes into making a contact form that drives high conversions and is a pleasure for the user? Keep reading and we’ll show you exactly how to make the perfect contact form!
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