Gravity forms - thoughts?

[Mrupp44]

anybody have an opinion as to whether gravity forms is worth the money? is it pretty popular?

thanks for any thoughts!!

Matthew

[arun76]

Hi Matthew-

Depending on what you want to do, I've found Gravity forms relatively easy to setup and get working. There are options for conditional field display, splitting up the form into multiple steps, adjusting the CAPTCHA approach, etc that work pretty reliably out of the box. The drawback that I've encountered is that it's not terribly easy to customize the output (get directly to the markup and change it). That may not be an issue for your specific use case, but there have been times where a client was using Gravity Forms and I wished it gave me some more flexibility.

On a related note I put a post together which runs through some of the plugins that I've used for Wordpress optimization here (including Gravity Forms) -  - http://www.funnelenvy.com/blog/2013/11/20/23-tools-to-optimize-wordpress-for-search-conversions/

Hope this helps.

Arun