Comments on: Gravity Forms Widget + Extra's

By: Vince

Vince — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:48:35 +0000

Hi Chris,
I agree with all your comment except it would be better to have first referrer so as we know what brings that visitor to the site.

Ideally, it should have both first and last and option to cut-out all the rest.
but if a preference needs to be made, I'd go for first.

By: Chris Hajer

Chris Hajer — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:25:21 +0000

Joost, is there a way to have only the last page visited before hitting the form and the last referer? Right now, there could be many, many URIs listed in the confirmation email (I had 424 "page visited" 1317 "referer" entries emailed along with my form!) and when employees respond to those customer form/email inquiries, it has to be a little disconcerting for a website visitor to see that they've been tracked all through the site. Obviously the response can be trimmed, but I'm wondering if there's an easy way to include just the last referer and last page visited in the email? Basically a way to say "this person arrived at this page from [here]".

This is the information that was appended to this one particular form entry (this was me submitting a test of the form) :

http://chrishajer.com/gravity/joost-referer.txt

Thank you.

By: artis

artis — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:43:19 +0000

have i nice day sir

By: Cristian O. Balan

Cristian O. Balan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:21:06 +0000

Ok, but GravityForms is free like CF7 ?

By: Brian Meagher

Brian Meagher — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:30:30 +0000

To Todd and mirc and others wondering how GravityForms compares to CForms7...
I agree a comparison would be helpful. But GF is ajax-y, drag and drop, and so easy to use and setup.
Whereas CF7 is kinda "old school" with fields to fill out to create your form.

If the incredible "gushing" about how great GF is from some very respected users (Joost, Jeff Chandler, etc) is not enough to convice you, then you'll just have to wait for that "comparison" post.

Otherwise, jump in and enjoy the ease of use, and customization that GravityForms allows you.

My example of how I crafted an "Interview Request" form is here:
http://hotsauceweekly.com/interview-request/

By: mirc

mirc — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:32:07 +0000

I've been using CForms and it seems pretty great...
...are there reasons to switch? What are they?

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:32:25 +0000

mmm, sounds like a nice plugin. however, i would have to agee with what "ricky" said above, "
Sounds like we need a good and unbiased contact form plugin comparison - does anybody know
of one?...I'm unclear on the differences between CForms and Gravity Forms and others...".

not all our websites have a contact form but when we do... we mostly use CForms. although,
we're always open to something new and not opposed to paying for it if the support is there.

By: Abhijit

Abhijit — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:00:23 +0000

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By: Optic

Optic — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:52:01 +0000

There are lots of great free plugins, but with some of the premium paid ones, you are paying for the support, and connection to the developers. Just my opinion. I'll spend a few bucks for something above and beyond what you get for free.

If you made a plugin, would you update it faster if you made money with it or if you made if for the good of the WP community?

By: Vince

Vince — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:48:41 +0000

Would you be able to easily adapt this for cForms as well please?
many thanks

By: Zack Katz

Zack Katz — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:50:51 +0000

Hi Joost, I created the Gravity Forms Addons plugin and I was wondering if I could add your improvements to that plugin (I will add a link to this post).

By: Cristian O. Balan

Cristian O. Balan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:17:36 +0000

I have one comment with "Your comment is awaiting moderation.". Every body there ? :)

By: Golden Blogger

Golden Blogger — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:07:29 +0000

Thank your for those plugins :)

By: Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:44:45 +0000

Sounds like we need a good and unbiased contact form plugin comparison - does anybody know of one? I'd definitely like to see one, as I'm unclear on the differences between CForms and Gravity Forms and others.

By: Vince

Vince — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:47:14 +0000

How about adding tracking for PPC conversion; campaign name and/or keyword?
Something like these guys are able to do:
http://www.bestcontactform.com/features.php

By: Michael Erb

Michael Erb — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:52:19 +0000

I too will vouch for cForms.

Extremely powerful although maybe not for everyone.

But if you need multi-page forms, ability to accept file uploads in your forms, ability to integrate Custom Fields for advanced purposes in your forms and a slew of other functionality, you should give CForms a serious look. And it is free, although I have donated to the author because it is so valuable to me.

Gravity Forms I have not used and since it costs money and I can do all I need and in fact more than I need with cForms, I can't justify spending money on a solution when the free solution works well for my purpose.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:29:09 +0000

Thanks for these, especially the widget. I wonder how soon the Gravity Forms team will build these functions directly into their plugin?

By: Blair

Blair — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:10:21 +0000

Thanks for the post on this... somehow I missed news on this great plug in... Yes it costs $$$ but when you make websites for a living who cares? Prices are passed through to clients... And yes Cforms is great too but a very different animal. One technology doesn't fit everyone's needs so I welcome this paid alternative to Cforms not to mention all the other WP form plugins that are out there.

By: alec

alec — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:45:47 +0000

I've been using CForms and it seems pretty great...
...are there reasons to switch? What are they?

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:41:38 +0000

Erm? Trying to get a plug? All I was saying is check it out, I use it on a few of my sites and it works perfectly, so thought I'd share the news. If I can get something that's works for free then no point paying for it. If you're happy to pay for things when you can get them for free then I'm afraid that makes you comical. I'm not saying the Gravity forms aren't great, they obviously are, just letting people know there's similar free plugins out there.