Gravity PDF vs WP-EMail

Gravity PDF is the ultimate third-party PDF automation tool for generating digital PDFs using the popular form-builder plugin Gravity Forms. Highly Customizable PDFs Out of the box you get four highly-customizable PDF designs. Within minutes, you can personalize the look and feel by adding your company logo, header, footer, paper size / orientation, font, color and size. If the free designs don’t suit, select from our range of templates in the Template Shop, go bespoke and have a template build by our team, or build your own using HTML/CSS/PHP. Send as Email Attachment Gravity PDF can automatically email the PDF to both the admin and the user as soon as the form is completed. You can combine this feature with a Gravity Forms payment add-on to sell personalized reports, gift certificates, or generate PDF invoices. Privacy, Security, and GDPR Gravity PDF generates PDFs on your web server, and no third-party service receives your sensitive Gravity Forms entry data. Robust security protects your documents, and the plugin is GDPR-compliant for our European friends. Digital document management with WordPress and Gravity Forms just became simple with Gravity PDF! Free Feature Unlimited Use, No Restrictions – There are zero hard limits to the number of PDFs you can configure across all your forms or generate on your entries. Gravity PDF does NOT stamp documents with our logo, limit the number of PDFs you can create per month, or purposefully restrict essential functionality to force you to upgrade to a paid plan. Privacy and Security – your form data is never sent to a third party to generate the PDFs and the documents are generated directly on your web server. Strong access control policies are put in place to prevent unauthenticated access to your PDFs. Multilingual – a multitude of languages from across the globe can be displayed in PDFs, include complex scripts like Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Additional Fonts – match your branding and enhance the overall look and feel of PDFs by install your own fonts. Columns – use Drag and Drop columns in Gravity Forms and PDFs will automatically mimic that layout. Shortcode and Merge Tags – You can generate a link or URL to PDFs using both shortcodes and merge tags so your users can download the PDF right after form submission. Export Entries – include the direct link to any PDF(s) when exporting your form entries Webhooks Add-on – send the direct PDF link with Webhook requests when using Gravity Forms Webhooks add-on. Gravity Flow – create complex workflows using Gravity Flow and automatically email Gravity PDF-generated documents at any step in the workflow. GravityView – add links to PDFs when building a members area using GravityView + Advanced Filtering add-on. Background Processing – generating PDFs on form submission can be time consuming. Offload it to a background process will ensure form submissions are processed faster. Design PDFs – developers can build their own PDF templates using HTML, CSS, and PHP with the help of our developer documentation. Documentation and Support – there is extensive documentation covering every feature of Gravity PDF that you can comb through, plus we provide free general support to all users. Unlock More Functionality Pay for additional PDF designs and functionality from our online store. New Designs – get access to 9 additional universal designs, 6 certificates, 6 invoices, and 3 letter styles Additional customizations – watermark PDFs with your own logo or text, control fields that should be displayed per PDF, add field descriptions, display all checkbox or radio field options, add notes, show field values instead of labels, and hide the product table On-screen Preview – allow users to preview the PDF before form submission (and optionally payment) so they can see what the end result will be. This is a great feature for capturing e-signatures, selling PDF reports / certificates / gift cards, or providing an on-screen proof before the PDF is sent to the printers (perfect for business cards). Bulk Download – search, filter, and select entries and then zip up all your PDFs and download all together in a convenient zip file Smart Loading Indicator – improve the UX for your users when generating complex PDFs that take time to create. GravityView – turn GravityView into a drag-and-drop PDF builder for your Single Entry View Layouts. GFChart – create PDF reports that display pie, bar, or column charts with aggregate Gravity Forms data using GFChart. 30-Day Refund Guarantee – Purchase with confidence knowing when you buy a product from our store that you can get a refund within 30 days, for any reason. Hire the Experts Need a tailor-made solution for Gravity PDF that solves complex business problems? Our team of experienced developers have helped thousands of businesses like yours to accomplish these goals. We can even fill existing PDFs like government forms, without sending your sensitive entry data to a third-party server! Find out more. Documentation & Support We have extensive documentation on using Gravity PDF, and our friendly support team provides FREE basic support via GravityPDF.com. Contribute All development for Gravity PDF is handled via GitHub. Opening new issues or submitting a pull request is welcome. Keep up to date with Gravity PDF by subscribing to the newsletter, following us on Twitter/X, subscribing to our YouTube channel, and liking us on Facebook. If you enjoy using the software we’d love it if you could give us a review!

WP-EMail puts an “Email This Post” link on your posts and pages. A visitor clicking it gets a small form, fills in their name, their friend’s name and address and an optional remark, and the article goes out through wp_mail() — so it uses whatever WordPress itself is set up to send with. Every message is logged, so you can see what was sent, to whom, from which address and whether it arrived. The page title, the subject line, the HTML body, the plain text body and every message the visitor sees are templates you can edit, each with its own list of variables and a button to put the original back. Features An “Email This Post” link built from an HTML template you edit, with the envelope glyph, the wording and the post type as variables A standalone e-mail page or a popup window HTML or plain text messages, with the article whole or cut to a word count Image verification, and a minimum interval between sends, to keep the form off spammers’ lists A sortable, paginated log of every message, with totals and a one-click purge A widget and template tags for the most emailed posts and pages A block on the WP-Stats page, if you have WP-Stats installed Donations I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations. Usage The plugin works as soon as it is activated. All you have to decide is where the e-mail link appears. On selected posts and pages, type the shortcode into the content: [email_link] This works in both block and classic themes, and puts the link exactly where you want it rather than on everything. On every post and page, call the template tag from your theme instead. In a classic theme, open wp-content/themes/ /index.php — or single.php, page.php, and so on — find: and add this inside the loop, where you want the link to show: Use one or the other, not both, or the link appears twice. If the link is there but clicking it gives a 404, re-save your permalinks under WP-Admin -> Settings -> Permalinks. The plugin registers its /email/ endpoint on activation, but a site with unusual rewrite rules can need the nudge. Everything else is configured under WP-Admin -> E-Mail -> Settings, which has two tabs: Settings for the link, the form and delivery, and Templates for the eight message templates. The log of what has been sent is under WP-Admin -> E-Mail -> Manage E-Mail. Filters Use wp_email_capability to hand a screen to a capability other than the default. The logs screen is gated on manage_email and the settings screen on manage_options: add_filter( 'wp_email_capability', function ( $capability, $context ) { return 'logs' === $context ? 'edit_posts' : $capability; }, 10, 2 ); Use wp_email_form_field_values to pre-fill the form. The plugin uses it itself to fill in a logged-in visitor’s name and address: add_filter( 'wp_email_form_field_values', function ( $values ) { $values['yourremarks'] = 'Thought you would like this.'; return $values; } ); The other three are wp_email_ipaddress (the address a send is attributed to), wp_email_template_redirect (whether the plugin takes over the request for its own endpoints) and wp_email_trust_proxy (whether the usual forwarding headers may be trusted).