9 Powerful Ways To Use Gravity Forms WordPress Plugin

People have one thing in common nowadays: they want instant gratification. If you want a cookie, you want a triple fudge chocolate chip cookie sprinkled with moon shadows and angel tears, and double dipped in a vat of vanilla chocolate symphony ice cream. And guess what? You want it now. You know why? Because, chances are, there’s a bakery just around the corner that sells one of these masterpieces.

The same concept applies for web design and creation. Why go to the trouble of sourcing something that does 1 job when you can get an amazing tool that does 100 things in 1, and is simple, clean and easy to install?

Nowadays, you don’t have to sit typing lines of code and squinting into the early hours of the morning to get the concept you want on your webpage. Thanks to WordPress, and it’s host of plugins, you can get what you want with minimal input.

That’s where Gravity Forms comes in. It’s the pinnacle of all that’s right with WordPress. The creators of this bad boy put so much thought into their product, that there are literally 100′s of ways to use Gravity Forms – we’ll check out about 9.

Whilst it was initially created as a form generator for your site, it’s evolved into a behemoth of a a web tool without the hassle of insane amounts of maintenance on the user’s part. It’s clean, simple, easy to install and is perhaps the business solution a lot of people are looking for.

On the other hand, it’s going to cost you a tidy sum if you want to enable it on more than one WordPress site. To be fair, there are many other form creation plugins on the market – and most are free – but Gravity Forms does more than just one job. However, before we jump on the Judgin’ Express (toot toot) we should take a look at the actual functions of this plugin and figure out whether it’s actually worth the initial payment of $199. After that, it’s all yours – unless you want ongoing support and updates. Luckily, as a reader pointed out, on time license renewals are discounted – 25% for the personal package and 50% for the business and developer packages – and as a result the second year’s updates and support will cost you less.

9 Powerful Ways To Use Gravity Forms WordPress Plugin

1. Order Forms
2. Payment Collection
3. Contracts + Agreements
4. Job Application Forms
5. PDF Extended
6. Surveys
7. Internal Reporting
8. Email Receptionist Contact Form
9. User Generated Posts
10. Nifty Add-Ons