Enhance Your Website with Gravity Forms

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1. Enhance Your Website With Gravity Forms Jeff Mackey, SIX15 solutions December 9, 2012 Sunday, December 9, 12
2. Nice to meet you • SIX15 Solutions, LLC WordPress development, website design • 18+ years IT experience • Detroitnet.org, Refresh Detroit • IT Advisory Chair for Oxford High School Sunday, December 9, 12
3. And you are? • WordPress beginner... ? • Seasoned WordPress veteran... ? • Behind on your Christmas shopping... ? Sunday, December 9, 12
4. What is Gravity Forms? • “Premium” WordPress form management plugin, downloaded over 488,000 times. • Build basic or complex forms quickly, with no programming required.* • Hook into services such as Campaign Monitor, Mail Chimp, Freshbooks, PayPal. Sunday, December 9, 12
5. gravityforms.com Sunday, December 9, 12
6. Features Sunday, December 9, 12
7. Form Builder Drag-n-drop interface, Multi-Page Forms, Limit Entries, Schedule Forms Sunday, December 9, 12
8. Simple and Advanced Fields Text, drop-downs, radio buttons, HTML, Post fields & more Sunday, December 9, 12
9. Conditional Logic Hide or display buttons, fields or entire pages based on function or field logic Sunday, December 9, 12
10. Create Order Forms Display product and price fields, with option and shipping choices; integrate with PayPal Sunday, December 9, 12
11. Notifications Be notified via email; route notifications to people based on form logic; HTML emails Sunday, December 9, 12
12. Entry Management View, Edit or Export any form entry directly from the WordPress Admin Sunday, December 9, 12
13. Customization Hook into Gravity Form logic to pre- populate fields or Custom Post Types Sunday, December 9, 12
14. Layout and Styling Design label placement; use pre-defined CSS or utilize generated IDs and classes Sunday, December 9, 12
15. License Options Sunday, December 9, 12
16. Integration (Basic) • Available to Business & Developer license types: - AWeber - Campaign Monitor - MailChimp - Picatcha Sunday, December 9, 12
17. Integration (Advanced) • Available to Developer license type only: - Authorize.net - Freshbooks - PayPal - Polls - Signature - Twilio - User Registration Sunday, December 9, 12
18. Requirements “Gravity Forms requires a minimum of WordPress version 3.3+, MySQL 5 and PHP 5 in order to function properly. Please note that Gravity Forms is not compatible with the WordPress.com hosted service.” gravityforms.com Sunday, December 9, 12
19. Simple Form Demo • Create a simple contact form • Set up routing and notifications • Style form labels • Embed form into page Sunday, December 9, 12
20. Next Steps... Sunday, December 9, 12
21. Dynamic population This: Plus this: Gets you this: Sunday, December 9, 12
22. Function Call Embed Use PHP function within theme file to place form within your site’s design Sunday, December 9, 12
23. Creating Posts Design form that creates a Post, assigns Categories & Tags, and sets Status Sunday, December 9, 12
24. Creating CPTs Use third-party Gravity Forms plugin to create Custom Post Type posts Sunday, December 9, 12
25. Adv. Custom Fields Enable Gravity Forms to populate custom fields in Posts or Custom Post Types Sunday, December 9, 12
26. Adv. Form Demo • Define Custom Post Types • Define custom fields, assign to CPTs • Create form with dynamic field population • Have the form create CPT entries Sunday, December 9, 12
27. Questions? Sunday, December 9, 12
28. Thank You • Link me up • SIX15.com • twitter.com/jeffmackey • linkedin.com/in/jeffmackey • Presentation available on speakerdeck.com Sunday, December 9, 12