Toolset Forms Vs Gravity Forms: A Hands-on Experience:-Today we are going to differentiate two most popular forms Toolset forms vs Gravity forms. If you guys are not aware of toolset, it’s a suite of plugin that helps you in creating WordPress sites by make it easy to work with custom content types. You can make use of toolset forms to build listing sites, directories, membership sites and more others.
Toolset form helps you in add/edit custom content types and users.
For examples: you could enable people to submit their business to your directory or submit job to job board, or allow users to edit their profile from front-end of your site.
With the latest updates, the toolset team has made lots of improvements to form editor, most noticeably adding drag and drop form builder.
To check how these new features stack up to most popular form plugins for developers, let’s dig into the comparison of Toolset forms vs Gravity forms.
Toolset Forms Vs Gravity Forms:
Both of these forms will allow you to build forms but they approach it in different ways.
Gravity forms focused on building forms in general, so you may use it for anything from simple to more advanced uses such as front-end post creations, payments, user registration etc.
Toolset is little more streamlined when it comes to the advanced applications for forms. It allows you to build three different kinds of forms.
- Post forms:- allow users to create or edit any posts on your site.
- User forms:- this will helps in create new users or edit existing ones.
- Relationship forms:- lets you connect posts in many to many order.
Also you can add payment functionality if needed. You wouldn’t use Toolset forms for basic contact form; through there are workarounds that helps you to do it.
If you want the similar front-end functionality with Gravity forms like you get with toolset forms. You need a third party extension like GravityView. And if you want custom post types with you need something like Gravity Forms + Custom post types.
Comparing Form Builder Interface:-
Toolset:- with toolset forms you get a drag and drop editor that makes it easy to build and arrange forms. If you want to add new fields, you get dedicated fields for post content, as well as bunch of generic fields that you can make use of as needed.
Gravity Forms:- you get drag and drop editor with gravity forms also to create forms.
You’ll build your forms from scratch using fields from four categories on right:
- Standard fields:- basic fields
- Advanced fields:- things such as name, email etc.
- Post fields:- fields that connect to post information.
- Pricing fields:- fields for payment forms
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