Gravity Forms (http://www.gravityforms.com/) is the go-to form plugin for many WordPress users and developers. But if you’re just using it to create simple contact forms, then you’re missing out on much of what this powerful plugin can do for you.
Using a user-driven awards contest site as a case study, Mandi will start off with a quick intro to Gravity Forms and explain why it offered the best solution for this project when compared to other available plugin options.
Then she’ll dig a little deeper into Gravity Forms’ out-of-the-box features and explain how they made it remarkably easy to execute some of the more advanced features for this site on a very tight timeline.
Next, Mandi will show you how to take Gravity Forms even further by using some of its basic hooks and related add-on plugins to do things like:
• Create user-submitted posts (with custom posts types too!)
• Implement fancy validation rules for your fields
• Dynamically auto-populate fields with almost any data your heart desires
Finally, she’ll wrap up by sharing a few of the gotchas she’s run into using Gravity Forms.
About Mandi
Mandi’s career fate was probably sealed at the age of 8 when her grandma bought a 386 and they subsequently spent many weekends learning the ins and outs of MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 together. She stumbled on WordPress over five years ago, and what started out as a hobby has somehow morphed into full-time work bending WP to her will through custom theme and plugin development.
About our Venue Sponsor
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