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Sending Form Entries to Google Calendar
Do 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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Updating Spreadsheets from Form Entries in WordPress
Previously, 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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Collecting Repeatable Data in WordPress Forms
Collecting repeatable data is a frequent need when building WordPress forms. Whether you’re registering players for a team, recording employees working for a company, or purchasing multiple configurable products on a single checkout form you’ll need a way to collect repeatable data. In this article, we’ll show you an effortless way to obtain and work with repeatable data and fields by utilizing Gravity Forms and…
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Creating Application Forms In WordPress
Creating application forms on your WordPress site is simple with tools like Gravity Forms. In this article, we’ll walk you through creating a job application form. Soon, you’ll be able to collect applications of all types and include things like resume uploads, signatures and video submissions to make your form stand out from the rest.
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Building Apps With Gravity Forms
WordPress developers have long known that Gravity Forms is a powerful tool that can be used to build complex applications and workflows, but sometimes good examples can help spur great ideas. With that in mind Steven Henty, one of our brilliant Gravity Forms developers, has published a great tutorial on leveraging the Gravity Forms API to create a custom approval workflow. This is the second…
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Can’t Update Gravity Forms? Can’t Install Add-Ons? Your IP May Be Blacklisted
We have seen a rise in the number of people reporting issues automatically updating Gravity Forms, downloading or updating Gravity Forms add-ons from within their WordPress Dashboard. Upon investigation, we have discovered that the issue is typically due to a shared IP address being blacklisted by one of a number of Internet security firms. This is a common problem with shared web hosts. Unlike most…
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Gravity Forms CSS Visual Guide
View Guide (HTML Version) | Download Guide (png) We’ve put together a simple visual guide to help illustrate the structure of a form and the CSS class relationship.
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Creating a Modal Form with Gravity Forms and FancyBox
There have been a few questions on how to create a Gravity Form in a modal window. For this example, we’re going to use the jQuery script “FancyBox” to create the modal form. Basically, what you’re going to do is to create a form, embed it in a simple page and then link to it from the page you want to include the modal form.…
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Clearing Default Field Values with jQuery
A few people have asked about automatically clearing the default field values on focus. While that’s not a feature in the current version of Gravity Forms, It’s easy enough to accomplish with a little bit of jQuery goodness. This script will remove any default value from input fields and textareas on focus, and if you haven’t changed it, will restore it on blur.
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Gravity Forms Feature Highlight: Entry List Customizer
One of the cool features of the Entry List that a lot of people haven’t yet put to use is the handy column customizer. When dealing with forms with many columns, Gravity Forms provides you with the flexibility to pick and choose which fields are used on the Entry List page.
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Gravity Forms Feature Highlight: Admin Only Visibility
Many people are using Gravity Forms as a simple contact us form solution, it’s quick and easy to setup a form and have it live in a matter of minutes. Because of this, some of the more advanced features get overlooked. One of these is the Admin Only Visibility setting for fields.
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Gravity Forms Feature Highlight: Admin Labels
One of the great features of Gravity Forms that most people don’t know about is the Admin Label. This feature is available for every field and can be found as an option under the Advanced tab when editing a field in the form editor. It is the first option under the Advanced tab and allows you to rename the field for admin only use. What…
