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Official Widget - Where do I get it?

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  1. CollegeDegrees
    Member

    I must be missing something I installed the latest version but I can't find the gravity forms widget at all... Is it still in the download?

    Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday October 6, 2010 | Permalink

  2. Kevin Flahaut
    Administrator

    Yep, the widget is included with the plugin. It's just titled "form" in the widget admin.

    screenshot

    Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday October 6, 2010 | Permalink

  3. CollegeDegrees
    Member

    Ah okay so for those that may experience the same problem....

    1) Go to Appearance in your wordpress admin (wp-admin).
    2) Click on Widgets
    3) You see a new widget called Form/Gravity Forms Widget

    You can play with it there. How do we do this via code? Meaning how can I insert the widget into my sidebar.php script?

    Thanks for the super quick response as usual! Truly awesome support!

    Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday October 6, 2010 | Permalink

  4. Kevin Flahaut
    Administrator

    You just drag the widget to the sidebar/widgetized area on the right in that admin page and configure it there.

    screenshot

    You can have multiple "sidbars" if you will or "widgetized areas".. it all depends on the theme. Most themes already have a widgetized sidebar so you shouldn't have to do anything to the theme markup to use it.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets

    Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday October 6, 2010 | Permalink

  5. CollegeDegrees
    Member

    Okay, but I actually want to insert it into the theme file myself, I did drag and drop it in but it then replaces my existing sidebar (feature of my theme). If there is no short code or function call for it, just let me know. Thanks again!

    Posted 13 years ago on Thursday October 7, 2010 | Permalink

  6. Kevin Flahaut
    Administrator

    There isn't a function to embed the widget, you would just use the normal function embed method to embed your form in a theme file.

    You can find more info on that here.

    http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-do-i-send-dynamic-values-with-the-gravity_form-function#post-10887

    Posted 13 years ago on Thursday October 7, 2010 | Permalink

  7. CollegeDegrees
    Member

    Oh, that's too bad, it would be handy to be able to embed the widget via code. Thanks anyway for your help.

    Posted 13 years ago on Sunday October 10, 2010 | Permalink

  8. Kevin Flahaut
    Administrator

    You don't embed widgets via code.. I guess you can if you really want, but that's not how its supposed to work. You create widgetized areas/sidebars in your theme and register them, then you can use any widget you'd like in those areas.

    http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/18/see-how-easy-it-is-to-widgetize-wordpress-themes/

    All the Gravity Forms widget does is give you a GUI to embed the form in the widgetized area.. if you embed the form in the theme files via the function call, you're getting the same thing.

    Posted 13 years ago on Sunday October 10, 2010 | Permalink