Gravity Forms: How to Create a New Form

Gravity Forms is the preferred plugin for website lead forms on our WordPress websites. This plugin offers a wide variety of features, customizations and add-ons, which makes it an ideal tool for businesses we work with. Additionally, the user interface is simple, straight forward, and easy to work with. In this article, we’ll show you how to create and edit a Gravity Form on your site.

Using Gravity Forms

The first step is open the Gravity Forms tab in WordPress.

To do this, log into the backend of your site and click on the link that reads ‘Forms’ in the left-hand sidebar. You’ll arrive at the main Gravity Forms page, where you can access and edit the various forms you have or will create for your site.

Creating a New Form

To create a new form, click the new form button. The next screen you see will often present Templates that recent versions of Gravity Forms now has available. Choose any you want.

We will start with the basic Simple Contact Form. Click Use Template, then add a Name (required) and Description (optiona) as prompted, and click the “Use Template” button presented.

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You will then be presented with the form fields to customize them based on what you chose for Template.

Select Additional Field Types:

If you want to add more fields to your form than what came packaged with the template you chose, you can select those using the right side navigation.

Simply move to the right side of the page and pick one of the multitude of field options under the different sections. To add a field to your form contents on the left, simply drag & drop from the right column.

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Arrange the Fields

Once you’ve created your various fields, you can place them in any order you prefer simply by dragging them above/below one another.

After you’re satisfied with your form, simply click the ‘Update’ button to save it.

How to Insert Your Gravity Form Into a Page

You’ve created your form, but how do you place it on a page? This is simple to do when working with a TheeDigital WordPress website.

Simply navigate to the page you want to add the form to, navigate to the location of the page you want to add the form, and click on the ” + ” to “Add Block” and start typing in “Call to action” or, click “See All” and navigate on the left nav menu that pops open to the “Call to Action” block that is within TheeDigital Blocks.

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Congratulations on creating your first form. If you’d like to receive notifications when it’s filled out, then go ahead and read our guide on How To Update Admin Notifications In Gravity Forms.

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