Gravity Forms: WordPress Plugin Tutorial

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1. How Premium Plugins Work: Purchase, License Keys and Updates
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   “Gravity Forms is the first paid plugin in this course, and paid plugins work differently from the free ones. In this lesson you'll learn how you buy one, how you install it, and what that license key you paid for actually does. Here's the whole difference, and it comes down to where the plugin lives and how it gets its updates. Good to know: don't unzip that file.” Watch the full lesson →

2. Install and License Gravity Forms in WordPress
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   “Last lesson we talked through how paid plugins work. Now we do it. This exact flow — upload, activate, paste the key — is the one you'll use for every paid plugin you ever buy. Plugins, Add Plugin. This is the free catalog, and the plugin we bought is not in it — it never will be, because you buy it from the company that makes it.” Watch the full lesson →

3. How to Build a Contact Form with Gravity Forms
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   “Gravity Forms is installed and licensed. Now we build something with it. In this lesson you'll create a form from scratch and meet the editor you'll spend all your time in. The editor is just two halves. On the left is your form as it will look.” Watch the full lesson →

4. Show Form Fields Only When Needed, Plus Thank-You Messages and Emails
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   “A form that asks everyone the same questions is a blunt instrument. In this lesson we make the form react to its own answers, and then we decide what happens after someone submits it. Three ideas, and they cover almost everything people ask Gravity Forms to do. In short: the confirmation is what they see, and the notification is what you get. Keep those two apart.” Watch the full lesson →

5. View, Export and Back Up Form Submissions in Gravity Forms
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   “Every time someone fills in your form, Gravity Forms keeps a copy. That's the single biggest reason to use it over a plain email form — because email gets deleted, and a database doesn't. This distinction is worth being clear about, because it's the thing that saves people. An inquiry that only lives in an inbox isn't really saved at all.” Watch the full lesson →

6. Build a Multi-Page Event Registration Form with Pricing
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   “Time to put the whole course together. We're going to build a real event registration form across three pages, price the ticket, and then register for the event ourselves, exactly as a visitor to your site would. Here's the shape of it. Nothing gets more people to the end of a long form than splitting it into steps.” Watch the full lesson →

7. Let Visitors Add Multiple Entries with the Repeater Field
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   “Gravity Forms 3.2 adds a field that solves a problem every registration form runs into: one person filling the form in for several people. You'll find it under Advanced Fields, and since version 3.2 it is always on. Let's add one to a real form. A repeater is a box of fields, and the visitor can add that box again and again, one set per person.” Watch the full lesson →

8. Gravity Forms Column Layout: Fix Gaps When Fields Hide
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   “Two features you already know can get in each other's way. Put fields side by side in columns, add conditional logic that hides one of them, and the row gets a hole in it. Gravity Forms 3.2 adds a setting that decides what the other fields do about it. It's one setting for the whole form, under Form Settings. Let's watch all three on a real form.” Watch the full lesson →

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