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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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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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How to Create a Form in WordPress
By Jeff MatsonFor the many users that are new to WordPress every day, creating forms on your site can be intimidating. Thankfully, creating a form in WordPress doesn’t have to be hard. In just a few simple steps, we’ll show you how to create a simple, yet powerful contact form in WordPress. Here’s how to create a WordPress contact form: Log into your WordPress admin dashboard. Install a form plugin for WordPress. Create a new form. Add fields to your new contact form. Embed your form onto a Contact Us page. Prefer a video instead? Check out this great video from PluginTut: Install a WordPress Form Plugin First, you’ll need to install a WordPress form plugin. In this example, we’ll use a plugin that millions of companies such as American Red Cross and Microsoft rely on every day: Gravity Forms. There are several other WordPress form plugins available on the market, but Gravity Forms is the tried and true solution for those who want top-notch support and expansive features.
Read moreBuilding Apps With Gravity Forms
By Carl HancockWordPress 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 indepth tutorial that Steven has written on building applications with Gravity Forms. His first was an introductory tutorial to using Gravity Forms as a platform. If you have any interest in building applications with Gravity Forms or are just curious as to more advanced usage, we definitely encourage you to check out both of these great tutorials!
Read moreCan’t Update Gravity Forms? Can’t Install Add-Ons? Your IP May Be Blacklisted
By Carl HancockWe 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 VPS and dedicated solutions, shared web hosts will share an IP address across multiple customers. If one customer does something malicious (intentionally or unintentionally) he can get that IP address blacklisted by one or more internet security providers. In other words, one user of a shared IP address can easily ruin things for all users of that shared IP address. To be clear, this can also happen on VPS and dedicated solutions. You can accidentally get your IP address blacklisted, or the previous user of that IP address may have gotten it blacklisted. But it is much more common with shared web hosts that use shared IP addresses. This is an issue that web hosts should not ignore. If they are providing customers with blacklisted IP addresses, it’s like providing a user with a stolen… READ MORE
Read moreCSS Ready Classes for Gravity Forms
By Kevin FlahautIn Gravity Forms 1.5 we’re adding some new “Ready Classes”. Using these new classes, you can easily create more advanced alternative layouts for the fields in your forms. Essentially, Ready Classes are class names that you can add to the parent element surrounding each field to take advantage of pre-defined styles included in the default form stylesheet.
Read moreGravity Forms CSS Visual Guide
By Kevin FlahautView 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.
Read moreCreating a Modal Form with Gravity Forms and FancyBox
By Kevin FlahautThere 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. Pretty simple right?
Read moreClearing Default Field Values with jQuery
By Kevin FlahautA 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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