š 2021 update: GravityView has a great summary of everything you need to know about Gravity Forms AJAX.
The Gravity Forms plugin has recently updated to Version 1.4, and it adds a bunch of features. The one I am most excited about is Ajax submission – this means that the form no longer requires a page reload to display errors and to submit. This brings the plugin in line with Contact Form 7 and cFormsII in this functionality.
I was looking for how to enable the new Ajax submission feature on my forms, and had a moment of doubt. Here’s how:
How to enable Ajax submission on existing Gravity Forms forms
To enable the Ajax submission on forms that are already embedded in your website, do the following:
- Go to your Plugins page and make sure you’re running Gravity Forms 1.4. If not, upgrade the plugin.
- Visit the page in which your form is enabled.
- Find the Gravity Forms shortcode (it starts with
— now it should look like
How to enable Ajax submission on new Gravity Forms forms
- Go to the page you would like to add a form
- Click the editor’s Gravity Forms button (it looks like this: )
- Check the box that says “Enable Ajax”
- Click the button called “Insert Form”, and voila!
Ajax submission/validation makes Gravity Forms even better.
One of the few areas where Gravity Forms was behind other form plugins was
The Gravity Forms Directory & Addons plugin has made Gravity Forms a directory plugin. TheĀ Gravity Forms + Constant Contact has integrated Gravity Forms with Constant Contact. The plugin keeps expanding its capabilities, has awesome support, and is beautiful.
What next?
What Ā other features would you like to see in Gravity Forms? The Gravity Forms Addons plugin can implement these requests before the Ā plugin supports it, so let’s hear what you’d like to see!
3 replies on “Gravity Forms Ajax Submit – Version 1.4 Adds Ajax Support”
Is there any way to have the “Enable AJAX” checkbox checked as default?
Not at the moment. Good idea, though – I’ll consider adding that functionality to an Add-on plugin.
I have the 1.9.2 version Gravity Forms and I use Ajax, but this not works very well. He dont show the error message and he don’t send the form. Did you have an idea why ?