Is Gravity Forms free?

Yes, Gravity Forms is free to use. It is available as a free plugin on WordPress.org.

How many websites use Gravity Forms?

Gravity Forms has 2.0K+ active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

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Popular alternatives to Gravity Forms include WPForms – Easy Form Builder for…, Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact…, Forminator Forms – Contact Form…. You can compare them side-by-side on our comparison pages.

Does Gravity Forms work with the latest WordPress?

Gravity Forms has been tested up to WordPress 3.4.2. It requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+.

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Gravity Forms – Placeholders add-on

Name: Gravity Forms – Placeholders add-on
Rating: 4.9 (24 reviews)
Author: neojp

Adds HTML5 placeholder support to Gravity Forms' fields with a Javascript fallback. Javascript & jQuery are required.

By neojp·Forms·Free

4.9(24 reviews)

·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years ago

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As of April 2026, Gravity Forms is a WordPress forms plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 24 reviews. It has been downloaded 51K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 18% this week. Top alternative: WPForms – Easy Form Builder for….

4.9/524 reviews

2.0K+active installs

51K+total downloads

14 yearssince 2012

Overview

Adds HTML5 placeholder support to the Gravity Forms plugin copying the Field’s label as the placeholder and hidding it. Javascript fallback is used for old browsers that don’t support the HTML5 placeholder attribute.

You can find the source code at the GitHub repository, forks and pull requests are welcomed.
http://github.com/neojp/gravity-forms-placeholders/

GitHub source code

You can find the source code at the GitHub repository, forks and pull requests are welcomed.
http://github.com/neojp/gravity-forms-placeholders/

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Ratings & Reviews

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Recent Reviews

Perfect

by dardotinfo·11 years ago

Thanks

Works as advertised

by miamialbert·11 years ago

Works as advertised

Short & Sweet

by Sahil·11 years ago

This is a very small plugin and it does the job well.

Works Smooth

by Dibakar Jana·11 years ago

I was really frustrated for this. But finally this plugin saves my day!!!

Excellent

by logistic414·11 years ago

Excellent plugin, very well made.

Would be great to add drop down menu support as William Wilkerson tried to do in his rip-off version. If you append the extra option with js rather than prepending it as he did, it will even work on most browsers. 😉

Thanks for a great plugin.