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Enhance Your Website With Gravity Forms Jeff Mackey, SIX15 solutions December 9, 2012 Sunday, December 9, 12

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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

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And you are? • WordPress beginner... ? • Seasoned WordPress veteran... ? • Behind on your Christmas shopping... ? Sunday, December 9, 12

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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

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gravityforms.com Sunday, December 9, 12

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Features Sunday, December 9, 12

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Form Builder Drag-n-drop interface, Multi-Page Forms, Limit Entries, Schedule Forms Sunday, December 9, 12

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Simple and Advanced Fields Text, drop-downs, radio buttons, HTML, Post fields & more Sunday, December 9, 12

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Conditional Logic Hide or display buttons, fields or entire pages based on function or field logic Sunday, December 9, 12

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Create Order Forms Display product and price fields, with option and shipping choices; integrate with PayPal Sunday, December 9, 12

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Notifications Be notified via email; route notifications to people based on form logic; HTML emails Sunday, December 9, 12

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Entry Management View, Edit or Export any form entry directly from the WordPress Admin Sunday, December 9, 12

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Customization Hook into Gravity Form logic to pre- populate fields or Custom Post Types Sunday, December 9, 12

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Layout and Styling Design label placement; use pre-defined CSS or utilize generated IDs and classes Sunday, December 9, 12

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License Options Sunday, December 9, 12

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Integration (Basic) • Available to Business & Developer license types: - AWeber - Campaign Monitor - MailChimp - Picatcha Sunday, December 9, 12

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Integration (Advanced) • Available to Developer license type only: - Authorize.net - Freshbooks - PayPal - Polls - Signature - Twilio - User Registration Sunday, December 9, 12

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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

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Simple Form Demo • Create a simple contact form • Set up routing and notifications • Style form labels • Embed form into page Sunday, December 9, 12

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Next Steps... Sunday, December 9, 12

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Dynamic population This: Plus this: Gets you this: Sunday, December 9, 12

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Function Call Embed Use PHP function within theme file to place form within your site’s design Sunday, December 9, 12

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Creating Posts Design form that creates a Post, assigns Categories & Tags, and sets Status Sunday, December 9, 12

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Creating CPTs Use third-party Gravity Forms plugin to create Custom Post Type posts Sunday, December 9, 12

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Adv. Custom Fields Enable Gravity Forms to populate custom fields in Posts or Custom Post Types Sunday, December 9, 12

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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

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Questions? Sunday, December 9, 12

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Thank You • Link me up • SIX15.com • twitter.com/jeffmackey • linkedin.com/in/jeffmackey • Presentation available on speakerdeck.com Sunday, December 9, 12