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Uploading Files to Google Drive from WordPress
By Jeff MatsonIf you frequently handle user-submitted file uploads on your WordPress site, you’ll likely want to place them on a cloud storage provider like Google Drive. By sending your file uploads to a cloud storage provider such as Google Drive, you will not only have a backup in the event of a disaster, but your web host will likely be much happier with them off of your server. In this article, we’ll show you how to easily send any file uploads from your WordPress form directly to Google Drive.
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Add-On Developers: We Want to Hear from You!
By Jeff MatsonPart of what makes Gravity Forms the top choice in WordPress form plugins is our extensive developer community, whose devotion and hard work producing top-notch Gravity Forms add-ons enriches the utility of our own product in ways we never imagined. We want to help our ingenious users find your amazing add-ons! What We’re Working On In the coming weeks, we’ll be launching a brand new section of the site to highlight developers like you and the add-ons you produce. From this area users will be able to browse or search a directory of third party add-ons, see a little bit of detail about the add-on, as well as some information on the developers behind them. If a user then wants more information, or to download or purchase, we will send them directly to your website so you can ensure that all necessary information is presented just as you intended. We hope that these changes will not only allow developers everywhere to bring new attention to their Gravity Forms add-ons, but also help our users better identify high-quality add-ons to fit their needs. Want In? If you want to get a jump-start and be among the third party Gravity Forms add-ons… READ MORE
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Sending Form Entries to Google Calendar
By Jeff MatsonDo you need to schedule events using forms on your WordPress site but don’t want to manually view entries to add them to Google Calendar? In this article, we’ll outline how to automatically send your form entries directly to Google Calendar using Gravity Forms and Zapier.
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Updating Spreadsheets from Form Entries in WordPress
By Jeff MatsonPreviously, we wrote about how you could send your form entries to Google Sheets. While inserting new data for each entry is as far as it needs to go for most users, you might need to continuously update the spreadsheet. With just a bit of additional logic, you can easily use Gravity Forms to find existing rows and update them as needed.
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