March 30, 2020
NOTE: We have kept this post up to date with continual additions to our GravityForms support.
Gravity Forms is one of the most popular and robust WordPress form plugins. Its extensive functionality addresses almost every need, and the user-friendly drag-and-drop interface actually makes creating forms fun!
That’s all fantastic, but in Strattic-land there was one problem: Gravity Forms doesn’t work on the static, headless sites that Strattic generates from WordPress websites. The reason for this is that the plugin depends on interaction with the WordPress database to process form submissions, and on Strattic static sites there are no WordPress databases. The front end for the forms looks perfect, but it’s not enough to have a pretty face.
So we did something about it.
Drumroll, please!
Strattic is excited to announce that we now support Gravity Forms! 🥳
Gravity Forms has a ton of features so we are starting out by supporting many of the most-used parts of the plugin (see below for full list of supported features), with plans to roll out support for more features over time.
Srattic supports Gravity Forms out of the box! No need to enable any Strattic settings.
(Prerequisite: installing and activating the Gravity Forms plugin on your WordPress website)
Test your form by submitting it. Both WordPress and static environments are connected to our integration, so you can test on either. Whoever is configured to receive email confirmations in Gravity Forms will get an email notification with the form submission details. Tada!
Gravity Forms comes with the following types of fields to choose from: Standard, Advanced and Post. Strattic has support for most of the Standard and Advanced Fields. Post fields are not supported.
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You can make any field required!
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Strattic users can now use conditional logic for notifications and confirmations to show or send different messages based on data selected in a form. Learn more about conditional logic for confirmations and notifications.
After a user fills out a form, you can display a thank you message or redirect to a page or URL.
Send an email notification upon submission.
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There’s a lot you can configure on the Form Settings page in Gravity Forms. Strattic supports most of these configurations.
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We are working hard to make sure that you can use as much Gravity Forms functionality as possible.
Here’s what’s next, so stay tuned!
Rebecca Markowitz
CX Team Lead
Love onboarding companies to Strattic so WordPress sites can be fast, secure, and reliable in one click. Instead of downtime or crashing when you drive traffic to your site, it actually gets faster (crazy, but true!). This is the true magic of Strattic and static output.