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Accepting PayPal Payments in Your WordPress Forms
By Jeff MatsonAt times, setting up a quick and simple form for receiving PayPal payments on your WordPress site is far easier than a full e-commerce solution. While full solutions offer things such as inventory management and a deeper checkout process, it’s often overkill to deploy a large-scale solution for just a few items.
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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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How to Launch a MailChimp Drip Campaign with Gravity Forms
ByWith email automation, you can engage your list automatically. In this article, we explain how to setup a drip campaign using Gravity Forms and MailChimp.
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Quick Guide to Using Conditional Logic for Smarter Forms
ByWith conditional logic, you can build interactive forms that let you collect the data you need without straining the user experience.
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How to Use Gravity Forms for Email Marketing Automation
ByIt’s not just forms. Use Gravity Forms for email automation using a variety of tools and integrations. Here’s how.
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Mastering the Multi-Page Form With Gravity Forms
ByHere’s what to know about designing high-converting multi-page forms with Gravity Forms.
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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.
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10 Ways to Supercharge Your Forms with Zapier
By Jeff MatsonThe Zapier Add-On is an excellent choice for managing data from your forms and transforming it into limitless useable media publications. Find out more…
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Creating the Perfect Contact Form
By Jeff MatsonHere at Gravity Forms, we proudly help websites build forms for a multitude of purposes. Of those various purposes, the most common use for any WordPress form plugin is to create a contact form. Contact forms are a staple for any website, and nearly every website on the planet has at least one (we’d even be willing to bet that if other planets have websites, they probably have contact forms on them too). Well, we’ve seen quite a few contact forms over the years on all kinds of WordPress sites, and we can say without a doubt that they’re not all made equally. Thanks to our experience with powering forms on millions of WordPress sites, we’ve become a bit of an expert in the field of making efficient and beautiful contact forms. So what goes into making a contact form that drives high conversions and is a pleasure for the user? Keep reading and we’ll show you exactly how to make the perfect contact form!
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Uploading Files to Google Drive from WordPress
By Jeff MatsonIf you frequently handle user-submitted file uploads on your WordPress site, you’ll likely want to place them on a cloud storage provider like Google Drive. By sending your file uploads to a cloud storage provider such as Google Drive, you will not only have a backup in the event of a disaster, but your web host will likely be much happier with them off of your server. In this article, we’ll show you how to easily send any file uploads from your WordPress form directly to Google Drive.
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Sending Form Entries to Google Calendar
By Jeff MatsonDo you need to schedule events using forms on your WordPress site but don’t want to manually view entries to add them to Google Calendar? In this article, we’ll outline how to automatically send your form entries directly to Google Calendar using Gravity Forms and Zapier.
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Updating Spreadsheets from Form Entries in WordPress
By Jeff MatsonPreviously, we wrote about how you could send your form entries to Google Sheets. While inserting new data for each entry is as far as it needs to go for most users, you might need to continuously update the spreadsheet. With just a bit of additional logic, you can easily use Gravity Forms to find existing rows and update them as needed.
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