It is one of the most important elements in your website… your contact form. So why is it that WordPress doesn’t have a built-in feature that enables you to create custom contact forms? Thankfully, the creative folks at RocketGenius have stepped up to the plate and filled this much-needed void with an amazing new plugin called Gravity Forms.
Over the past several years, I’ve tried just about every contact form plugin out there, including cforms and Contact Form 7. I was frustrated with the apparent trade-off between functionality and usability. It seemed that the more flexible the plugin, the more confusing the UI. This is where Gravity Forms simply blows away the competition! They’ve managed to create an incredibly flexible plugin, adding innovative features while still maintaining a drop-dead-simple AJAX interface that feels more like a desktop app than a web plugin.
In fact, this plugin is so good, you’ll wonder why it doesn’t just come standard in WordPress! (hint, hint)
Just a few of the innovative features…
- Seamless Integration with WordPress 2 – If you know how to use WordPress, you know how to use Gravity Forms. From the colors to the way it functions, Gravity Forms looks and feels like a part of WordPress.
- Visually Create Forms with Our Sleek Editor – The visual form editor enables people with no HTML skills to create complex forms in minutes. Just add fields, choose field options, and drag them into the desired position.
- Prevent Spam with Built-In reCAPTCHA Protection – The reCAPTCHA field will shield you from spam by preventing from submissions from automated scripts. You will also be helping in digitizing books for online use.
- Allow Users to Automatically Create a Post – Let your users help with data entry. When added to a form, our Post Fields create a post when the form is submitted. Great for user submitted stories, job postings, directories, etc.
- Manage Entries from the WordPress Admin Panel – Search, edit, delete and keep track of all entries from the Entries page in your WordPress administration panel.
- Easily Export Form Entry Data to CSV Format – Need your entry data for other applications? Easily export all or part of your entries to CSV. Our export tool makes it a breeze to export only the fields that are needed.
Gravity Forms also sends automatic emails to users in response to a submission, enabling you to create professional and personalized messages.
If you’ve been searching for a simple way to create custom forms for your WordPress pages and posts, look no further than this plugin! Honestly, Gravity Forms is unrivaled when it comes to creating custom forms for WordPress.
We suggest taking a look at some of the screenshots below, and then jump over to their site to take the video tour.
But wait! There’s more…
Thanks to the good folks over at WooThemes, you can use the coupon code: WOOFORM20 when you purchase Gravity Forms, and they’ll give you a nice 20% discount. So what you waiting for? Go check it out already…
CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT GRAVITY FORMS FOR YOURSELF!
December 10, 2009
It should be mentioned that Gravity Forms requires MySQL version 5+, as MySQL 4.x is not suported.