{"id":6033,"date":"2018-09-03T17:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/?p=6033"},"modified":"2018-09-03T17:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:40:15","slug":"in-2018-and-beyond-why-we-think-gravity-forms-is-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/in-2018-and-beyond-why-we-think-gravity-forms-is-here-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"In 2018 and Beyond Why We Think Gravity Forms Is Here to Stay!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gravity Forms<\/a> is a premium but a robust and competitive WordPress form plugin. Since its launch, it has managed to reach and maintain a position where it is considered to be one of the best choices for building advanced forms despite being an all-paid solution.<\/p>\n

However, one question which may arise while making a pick among several WordPress form plugins \u2014 out of which many are free \u2014 “Is Gravity Forms still preferable in 2018 and the coming years?”. Well, the answer is a big YES!<\/p>\n

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Its up-to-date features, diverse form functionality, and compatibility with Gutenberg are all the crisp points one can bet on.<\/p>\n

Gravity Forms<\/a> delivers beyond the concern of just creating a basic level contact forms<\/em> for your websites. There are plenty of form options which you can choose ranging from order forms<\/em> to surveys<\/em>, polls<\/em>, quizzes<\/em>, questionnaires<\/em>, file uploads<\/em> and what not.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Gravity Forms’ Gutenberg add-on<\/a> is the adaptive step of their developers to meet the compatibility needs with the changing WordPress ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Being a huge supporter of this necessary change, the Gravity Forms team have started to align the features and possibilities of this plugin with Gutenberg which will indeed help them to maintain the standard as the best forms builder plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\n

Today’s piece features everything that makes Gravity Forms<\/a> an advanced and adaptive WordPress form plugin which totally worths your money.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get started!<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfaf Gravity Forms<\/h2>\n

Gravity Forms’ popularity is owed to the untiring efforts of its incredible team which include some very prolific folks like\u00a0Carl Hancock<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Jeff Matson<\/a>. They have worked hard in providing a user-friendly form building experience. They have always kept pace with changing trends, and that’s why they’ve never stopped updating their products.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udd30 Gravity Forms (core) version v2.3.3.6 | \u2705 Gravity Forms Gutenberg Add-On version v1.0 Beta | \ud83c\udf1f Gravity Rest API v2 version v2.0 RC1 | \ud83d\udc4a Gravity Forms CLI version v1.0.3 | are the latest releases of Gravity Forms.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

You can access all these products once you complete the checkout process of purchasing Gravity Forms. These versioned products appear as shown in the screenshot below:<\/p>\n

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While going through this extensive review, you’ll first find some essential form building features which make it the best plugin in this niche. Towards the end, I’ll discuss in detail its Gutenberg add-on which I believe is its key highlight right now since WordPress plugins are still in the phase of adopting Gutenberg and Gravity Forms has successfully passed this benchmark. \ud83d\udc4a<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc4c Features Which Make Gravity Forms the Best WordPress Form Plugin<\/h2>\n

All the latest stable versions of Gravity Forms<\/a> which I’ve mentioned shortly have maintained the highlighted position among the other free or premium WordPress plugins for a long time. After, going through the details of the core features, you will get to know why this incredible plugin is still the best forms building plugin. Let’s get through them.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udea5 Conditional Logic<\/h3>\n

Conditional logic\u00a0is the key to online forms and the good news is that Gravity Forms offer the following pre-built feature-set for it.<\/p>\n