This is my presentation on Gravity Forms, for Orange County WordCamp 2012. Gravity Forms is an extremely powerful plugin for WordPress. Much of my presentation was a live demo of the plugin. I plan on creating some screencasts covering similar topics, so check www.webtrainingwheels.com for those.
2. Who The Hell Am I?
Find me :
Lucy Beer | www.WebTrainingWheels.com | @webtw
Been using WordPress since 2004, helping businesses with online
marketing since about 2002
I train people in WordPress&online marketing
Every day I teach people how to use WordPress and make it do
cool things ;)
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4. Why Gravity Forms?
•What, I have to PAY for a plugin?!
•It’s a time saver
•It does complex things, easily
•It goes way beyond contact forms!
•Integrations – MailChimp, Aweber, PayPal, Authorize.net
and more
•There’s support
•A Gravity Forms sub-eco system is developing – plugins
made especially for GF (about 30)
•Other plugins integrate with GF – e.g. WooCommerce&
Cart66 have GF extensions
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6. A Few Handy Integrations
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7. Fancy-Awesome Contact Form
Add Opt in to your mailing list
Route form to different departments
Track in Google Analytics
Product Order
Form
User Submitted Content
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8. GF Showcase –
Custom User Registration and Photo
Upload
Development by: Ross Teasley, CasaDana.com
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10. GF Showcase – MultiPage
Form
Development by: Stephen Kane www.Handpickedtomatoes.com
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11. GF Showcase
GF => Garage Sale Map
http://www.ocnexperts.com/submit-a-garage-sale/
Development by Loren Nason, Dave Jesch
Kiya Sports – Purchase Group Paddle Board Lessons
https://www.kiyasports.com/standup-sup-paddleboarding-beginner-
lesson-large-group-lesson-6-10/
Development by Gregg Franklin
WP Beginner –WP Site Gallery
http://gallery.wpbeginner.com/submit-a-site/
http://gallery.wpbeginner.com/
Ecommerce –Thomas Henry Store:
http://www.thomas-henry.de/thomas-henrys-little-shop/
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12. Handy Add-Ons
Some of the Gravity Forms plugins you’ll find in theWordPress repo:
• Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types
• Gravity Forms Stripe Add-On
• Gravity Forms CSS Ready Class Selector
• Gravity Forms Directory
• Gravity Forms Salesforce Add-On
• Gravity Forms Subscriptions Add-On
• Mad Mimi, HighRise, Constant Contact
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13. Extra Fancy
GravityWiz.com – lots of code snippets
and tutorials
GF has an extensive API with lots of hooks
& filters
http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/p
age/Developer_Docs
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