One of our biggest selling points for WooThemes has always been the fact that our themes extend & improve your experience and usage of WordPress. In a similar vein, most of you would use multiple plugins on every new WordPress install as a away of adding functionality to WordPress which isn’t native to the core thereof. Most plugins also work out-of-the-box and don’t require special consideration when it comes to adding it to a theme, but there are some plugins that require a higher-level of integration for you to experience the full effect.
So in the last couple of days, we’ve spent some time adding proper integration & support for the awesome, forms plugin – Gravity Forms – to ALL of our themes. This means that you are now able to purchase a license for Gravity Forms, plug it into any WooThemes-powered WordPress install and you’ll have fancy, customizable forms within a few minutes. To get an idea of what this will look like, here’s a screenshot showing Gravity Forms integrated with our latest theme, Coda:
Quick & Easy Contact Forms
In our opinion, Gravity Forms are the only form management plugin you should ever consider using for WordPress and we even use it ourselves for our contact form here on WooThemes. The plugin includes amazing features such as a simple drag ‘n drop interface, conditional form fields, e-mail notifications, as well as integrations with some top web apps: CampaignMonitor, MailChimp & Freshbooks. So you really can’t go wrong here…
Here’s another example of a more advanced form using some of the other form elements that are available to you:
Using some of the advanced form elements available in Gravity Forms.
This is just another value-add to your experience with WooThemes and the integration of Gravity Forms should help you both improve your existing forms, or if you haven’t been using any, add another level of dynamic interaction to your website. Grab your copy of Gravity Forms now!
28 June 2010 at 11:29 am #
Nice work. I love Gravity Forms. Another match made in heaven.
28 June 2010 at 12:30 pm #
Gravity Forms + Woo Themes : Great Idea
28 June 2010 at 3:50 pm #
Awesome. My business runs on WooThemes and Gravity Forms. Now they work even more seamlessly than before. Wonderful!
28 June 2010 at 4:50 pm #
Great combo! Woo + Gravity Forms.
Cathy Perkins – The WordPress Wizard
http://TheWordPressWizard.com
28 June 2010 at 6:46 pm #
Awesome! I love it when you guys make my life easier!
28 June 2010 at 10:48 pm #
Great – how about a discount from GF foe those of us who don’t have a lic. ?
29 June 2010 at 2:29 am #
Already using this combination — I think it’s a great move guys! Another integration I’d really like to see one day is “The Events Calendar” plugin by Shane and Peter, now being sold on Code Canyon. The plugin is really fantastic in that it combines a sophisticated events management system into wordpress.
In fact, if there was a theme I would love to see next, it would be one that could be used as an events management calendar, where events could be submitted from the community using Gravity Forms, and then displayed using The Events Calendar… God I would love to work on something like that!
29 June 2010 at 9:19 am #
29 June 2010 at 2:47 am #
Already using Gravity Forms on two WooThemes, this is defiantly a great reason for me to update theme versions on my sites
Well done Woo!
29 June 2010 at 4:55 am #
I’m a bit confused. Having used gravity forms for some time now, I don’t understand what you mean by having gf ‘integrated’ into woo themes.
Right now, I simply create a new form in the gf manager, and insert the code into the page/post where I want it to appear.
What is woo adding to the mix that gf does out of the box?
29 June 2010 at 5:32 am #
Integrated styles! Often times the classes and buttons get confused between the themes, causing us, the designers, to have to edit the styles to no end in the effort to get things to look good.
That’s a big time saver for me as the forms don’t always render properly on my pages and I have to spend added time writing more styles so they work properly. I’d rather spend the time drinking beer!
29 June 2010 at 9:16 am #
@Shawn – @mmtrav has summed it up nicely.
We’ve added styling for the forms to allow them to really work perfectly out-of-box i.e. activate GF and start using it without having to add your own styles for the form elements.
29 June 2010 at 10:25 am #
You also have the added benefit that you can easily edit the css yourself if you want to change the look as it’s been added to style.css
29 June 2010 at 5:27 pm #
Nice!!!
Do you have any contact with the people from Shopp by coincidence?
29 June 2010 at 7:31 pm #
Nope we don’t, but all of our themes work fine with Shopp.
We’re also doing something interesting in this space in the very near future.
29 June 2010 at 9:38 pm #
I need to really look into gravity forms more. I have heard of them and been on their website a number of times but I didn’t see the huge benefit. Mind you that was a long time ago now and my awareness of features has increased ten fold.
I’ll take a look!
29 June 2010 at 10:04 pm #
Good news! But what about taking this one step further and providing some sort of discount for WooThemes subscribers?
just a thought!
29 June 2010 at 10:47 pm #
Great stuff; is Gravity Forms WP 3.0 compatible?
30 June 2010 at 12:15 am #
Great stuff. Gravity Forms integration really adds another WOW to WooThemes, Cheers!
30 June 2010 at 9:41 pm #
@Chris Yes, Gravity Forms is WordPress 3.0 compatible.
22 July 2010 at 8:05 am #
Carl, next week I am going to be attempting to integrate the events calendar plugin (http://codecanyon.net/item/events-calendar-pro-wordpress-premium-plugin/) and Gravity forms together.. but I have no idea about plugin hooks, etc, and how to get your plugins to talk to one another..
I don’t suppose there’s documentation on how to do this either on gravityforms.com or elsewhere on the internet? If so, could you point me in the right direction? Any help appreciated..
22 July 2010 at 8:43 am #
Suggest that you try to contact Carl directly.