Gravity Forms is the most established web form plugin for WordPress.
What is Gravity Forms?
- Gravity Forms is the first premium web forms plugin for WordPress
- Gravity Forms is developed by RocketGenius
- Using Gravity Forms you can build easy or complex web forms in WordPress
- Gravity Forms has its own ecosystem of add-ons (developed by 3rd party developers)
Example of a simple Gravity Form
Contact Form
Contact Form Above Explained
- Name (name field) = user’s first and last name as two related text strings
- Email (email field) = an email address verified by the use of @ and . characters
- Message (paragraph text) = multi-line text string
Core functions of Gravity Forms
- Unique form = the data interactive and collective interface of Gravity Forms
- Unique entry = a data submission, from a particular user, via a particular form
- Unique field = a particular data entry point of a particular form
- Notification = an automated message generated and sent on the successful submission of a particular form
- Confirmation = an action performed (usually a page redirect or message displayed) on the successful submission of a form
- Settings = customisable features of a particular form
- User data = data related to a particular user
History of Gravity Forms
- Founded in 2008 by the development team, RocketGenius (Carl Hancock, Alex Cancado, and Kevin Flahaut) in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States.
- Their headquarters are located at 1620 Centerville Turnpike, Unit 102, Virginia Beach, VA 23464.
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