Title: Fresh Forms for Gravity
Author: Samuel Aguilera
Published: Oktoba 8, 2019
Last modified: Aprili 7, 2026
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# Fresh Forms for Gravity
By [Samuel Aguilera](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samuelaguilera/)
[Pakua](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/fresh-forms-for-gravity.1.5.6.zip)
* [Details](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/fresh-forms-for-gravity/#description)
* [Reviews](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/fresh-forms-for-gravity/#reviews)
* [Development](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/fresh-forms-for-gravity/#developers)
[Saidia](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fresh-forms-for-gravity/)
## Maelezo
Caching is great for scenarios where your post or page content it’s not changed
frequently, but if you have a form embedded to which you do changes very often or
you’re using dynamic code, that doesn’t run for a cached page, or using third-party
solutions relaying in dynamic live data (e.g. reCAPTCHA), using caching in these
cases is going to cause issues. The same applies to certain automatic JS optimizations
done by caching plugins that are known to break JS execution easily.
An easy solution is to configure your caching plugin or proxy to exclude the page
where the form is embedded, but you need also to remember this when you create a
new page or embed a new form in an existing page…
This plugin will take care of the above automatically doing the following:
1. Flush current cache on plugin activation. This is **required** in order to allow
the next step to run.
2. Dynamically check if there’s a Gravity Forms for any of the supported embedding
methods (see below for the list).
3. If so, it will prevent post/page from being cached by any of the supported caching
plugins, browsers and CDN/Proxies.
#### Embedding methods supported:
* **WordPress default editor, shortcode or Gutenberg block**. Content of any post
type, including pages and custom posts.
* **ACF** fields of type Text, Text Area, and WYSIWYG. **Disabled by default**.
* **Avada**. The following elements has been proven to work: Content Boxes, “Gravity
Form”, Modal, Text Block. Other elements could work too, but not tested.
* **Beaver Builder**. It will detect Gravity Forms shortcodes added to a Text Editor
module.
* **Conversational Forms** add-on. It will automatically detect any form page using
the **conversational_form** post type (requires Conversational Forms add-on 1.3.0
+).
* **Divi**. It should work with any of the default modules where you can insert
a GF shortcode into the content. e.g. Call To Action, Text, Tabs…
* **Elementor**. The following widgets added to the post content are supported:
Shortcode, Text.
* [Essential Addons for Elementor](https://wordpress.org/plugins/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/)
Gravity Forms widget.
* GravityKit Gravity Forms Widget for Elementor.
* **PowerPack for Beaver Builder** Gravity Forms Styler module.
* [Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-addons-for-beaver-builder-lite/)
Gravity Forms Styler module.
* Ultimate Addons for Elementor By Brainstorm Force.
* **WooCommerce Gravity Forms Product Add-ons** by Lucas Stark.
* **WPBakery Page Builder**. The following elements has been proven to work: “Gravity
Form”, Text Block. Other elements could work too, but not tested.
* [WP Tools Gravity Forms Divi Module](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tools-gravity-forms-divi-module/).
If you’re not using any of the above embedding methods you can still use Fresh Forms
with a filter to pass the ID number of the posts where you want to run Fresh forms.
You can also make Fresh Forms to add a cookie when a form is detected to use this
cookie as a way to skip caching for hosts using Varnish based caching. Please see
FAQ for more details.
There’s no options page. Only the plugin version is saved to the database to be
able to handle actions after an update when needed, **no other data is stored**.
It should work with any caching plugin with support for DONOTCACHEPAGE constant,
and proxies respecting the use Cache-Control HTTP header.
Caching and Optimization plugins **supported**:
* Autoptimize
* Cache Enabler
* Comet Cache
* Hummingbird
* Kinsta Cache
* LiteSpeed Cache
* [Page Optimize](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-optimize/) (Script concatenation
only)
* Perfmatters (Delay JS exclusions only)
* Speed Optimizer (by SiteGround, the plugin with more name changes in the history
of WordPress!)
* Surge
* W3 Total Cache
* WP Engine System
* WP Fastest Cache
* WP Optimize
* WP Rocket
* WP Super Cache
Caching plugins **NOT supported**:
* Breeze. It doesn’t support DONOTCACHEPAGE constant or filters to skip caching.**
Check FAQ for a workaround.**
* NitroPack. It doesn’t support DONOTCACHEPAGE constant or filters to skip caching.**
Check FAQ for a workaround.**
Cloudflare and other CDN/proxies:
This plugin will add appropriate HTTP header to pages with a Gravity Forms form
to exlude the page HTML from caching when the web host setup allows it.
By default Cloudflare doesn’t cache the page HTML, it does only when you have configured
it to “Cache Everything”. In this case, after activating the plugin, you need to
purge cache in your Cloudflare account or wait for cache expiration to let Cloudflare
know the page must be excluded from caching.
Certain hosts like **WP Engine and Kinsta don’t allow HTTP headers modification
from WordPress side of things**, therefore Cloudflare support will not work for
these hosts.
Other proxy services should work in a similar way, but I don’t have access to test
any other proxy service. Feel to reach me if you want to provide me access to add
support for your proxy service (documentation for the proxy would be required).
Note for these cases (caching is done by an external service), Fresh Forms can just
include the HTTP header when your web host allows it. Once the header is added,
it’s up to the CDN/proxy being used to obey the header and skip caching for the
page.
#### Requirements
* PHP 7.0 or higher.
* WordPress 4.9 or higher.
* Gravity Forms 2.3 or higher.
* Only forms embedded using classic editor shortcode or Gutenberg block are supported.
#### Usage
Just install and activate. No settings required except for ACF support (see FAQ).
## FAQ
### The plugin is not working in LiteSpeed server
As stated on this plugin description it supports the **LiteSpeed Cache plugin**,
NOT LiteSpeed server directly. So if you’re using a LiteSpeed based web host, you
need to install [LiteSpeed Cache plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/litespeed-cache/)
before installing Fresh Forms for Gravity.
### I want to enable ACF support
ACF fields of the following types are supported as standalone fields and also as
subfields of a Flexible Content or Repeater field: Text, Text Area, WYSIWYG. But
this is disabled by default.
To enable ACF support go to the settings page at Forms > Settings > Fresh Forms.
### I want Fresh Forms to run for certain posts where I’m embedding forms using an embed method that is not supported.
Starting with Fresh Forms 1.5 you can add a list of pages or posts IDs where you
would like to force Fresh Forms to run by going to Forms > Settings > Fresh Forms.
You could also add the freshforms_post_has_gform filter in your theme functions.
php file or a custom fucntionatliy plugin to pass Fresh Forms an array containing
the ID of the pages/posts where you want it to run without performing the usual
automatic detection of forms.
The following example would exclude posts with ID 1 and 8:
```
add_filter( 'freshforms_post_has_gform', 'fffg_fresh_these_posts' );
function fffg_fresh_these_posts(){
// Force Fresh Forms to run for posts with id 1 and 8.
return array( 1, 8);
}
```
The following example would exclude WooCommerce products using a product category
with the slug product-category-1
```
add_filter( 'freshforms_post_has_gform', 'fffg_fresh_these_products' );
function fffg_fresh_these_products( $post_has_form ){
global $post;
// Run Fresh Forms for a WooCommerce product if it has one of the following categories slugs.
$product_categories = array( 'product-category-1' );
if ( is_object( $post ) && 'product' === $post->post_type && has_term( $product_categories, 'product_cat', $post->ID ) ) {
return array( $post->ID );
}
// Otherwise.
return $post_has_form;
}
```
After doing the above, you need to **flush your host/plugin and browser cache**.
### Is Varnish caching supported?
Fresh Forms targets only WordPress caching plugins, it doesn’t communicate with
your server directly. If you have a WordPress installed to manage Varnish cache
and this plugin has support for the DONOTCACHEPAGE constant, Fresh Forms should
work out of the box.
But there are some WordPress plugins, like Breeze by CloudWays and NitroPack, that
while they are created to integrate WordPress with Varnish, they don’t support DONOTCACHEPAGE
or provide any WordPress filters to exclude content dynamically (at the time of
writing this).
But both have support to exclude pages from their cache based on a cookie added.
Since Fresh Forms 1.3.4, you can use the freshforms_add_cookie filter in your theme
functions.php file or a custom functionality plugin to make Fresh Forms to add a
cookie that you can configure in CloudWays or NitroPack account dashboard.
```
add_filter( 'freshforms_add_cookie', '__return_true' );
```
Once you have the filter added to your site, follow the instructions below.
CloudWays documentation: [How to Include or Exclude Cookies From Varnish](https://support.cloudways.com/how-to-include-or-exclude-cookies-from-varnish/)
Make sure you select **Exclude** for the Method, and use **FreshForms** for the
cookie Value.
NitroPack documentation: [Excluded Cookies](https://support.nitropack.io/hc/en-us/articles/1500002527202-Excluded-Cookies)
Use **FreshForms** for the Cookie Name and **no-cache** for the Cookie Values.
After doing the above, you need to **flush your host and browser cache**.
## Reviews
### [Problem Mover – Not Solver](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-mover-not-solver/)
[webgeeze](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webgeeze/) Julai 10, 2024
Whilst this does in fact do ‘what is says on the tin’ it actually creates more headaches…
If you have a site which relies on caching, in effect, any page with gravity forms
on, will no longer be cached. This plugin may solve one problem of Gravity form
not being hidden by a cache tool, but it negates the benefit of caching the whole
page or post that Gravity is displayed in and for the sake of GF being displayed….
If you have a big page that you wish to rank well for, any benefit of caching it,
is lost by using GF… It would appear, the issue with Gravity forms comes from additional
plugins which are used to embed or style the form. If the Gravity form is used in
clean code, the impact of it being hidden by LS Cache or other Caching tool, is
void. This isn’t a dig at the plugin developer. It’s just a fact, the plugin (for
me) does not solve a problem, it just shifts the problem to another area. It’s more
important to have a correctly cached page than disable it to have a Gravity Form
in it…
### [Excellent Plugin that Solves a Real Problem](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-plugin-that-solves-a-real-problem/)
[nathaningram](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nathaningram/) Juni 14, 2024
You have to love a plugin that just works, and this one does. Install, activate,
and all the caching and optimization problems related to Gravity Forms go away.
THANK YOU!
### [Fixed an Issue with LiteSpeed Cache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixed-and-issue-with-litespeed-cache/)
[Warren](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rabbitwordpress/) Machi 13, 2023
This plugin was recommended by Gravity Forms priority support to resolve an issue
with a form not loading while LiteSpeed Cache was running. After clearing the LiteSpeed
Cache and local browser cached It worked perfectly, the form now loads no problem!
### [Fabulous Plugin | Solves Multiple Gravity Forms Issues](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fabulous-plugin-solves-multiple-gravity-forms-issues/)
[AeroStar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jetxpert/) Septemba 7, 2021
We were referred to this plugin by Gravity Forms’ Dev Ops Team. Works like a charm.
It solves many Gravity Forms issues caused when minifying JS files via a cache plugin.
Prior to installing this plugin, we had to use both SG Optimizer and WP Rocket to
solve our Gravity Forms issue. Thanks to this plugin, however, we only have to use
one cache plugin. In our case, we decided to stick with SG Optimizer. Job well done.
Thank you!
### [Wonderful plugin and phenomenal support](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wonderful-plugin-and-phenomenal-support/)
[Daniel Maier](https://profiles.wordpress.org/demaier/) Agosti 28, 2020
The plugin saves you a lot of time and effort when dealing with caching and Gravity
Forms with a classic, clean and lightweight efficiency! The latter update, which
added some support to ACF is yet another wonderful addition. Samuel Aguilera is
extremely responsive and efficient. I appreciate the thoughtful and brilliant collaboration
to the open source community.
### [Invaluable plugin, outstanding support](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invaluable-plugin-outstanding-support/)
[Square Eye](https://profiles.wordpress.org/squareeye/) Machi 17, 2023
As regular users of Gravity Forms and a certain leading WP
host, we hit an issue with cached data getting attached to the wrong form submission–
a potential nightmare. The host was able to disable caching on the form page, but
we’d have to go and ask them every time we created a new form, which is a pain.
Fresh Forms for Gravity not only
solves this problem, but the support from Samuel is outstanding – on two occasions
we’ve reported a hiccup with our host which he tested and fixed incredibly quickly.
Problem solved and we’re very grateful!
[ Soma maoni yote 7 ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fresh-forms-for-gravity/reviews/)
## Wachangiaji & Wasanidi
“Fresh Forms for Gravity” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.
Contributors
* [ Samuel Aguilera ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samuelaguilera/)
“Fresh Forms for Gravity” zimetafsiriwa kwa lugha 2. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/fresh-forms-for-gravity/contributors)
for their contributions.
[Translate “Fresh Forms for Gravity” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/fresh-forms-for-gravity)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fresh-forms-for-gravity/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/fresh-forms-for-gravity/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/fresh-forms-for-gravity/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/fresh-forms-for-gravity/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### 1.5.6
* Added support for data-cfasync to inline scripts. Although Cloudflare’s documentation
doesn’t mention support of this attribute for inline scripts, in practice adding
it seems to exclude them from Rocket Loader. Thanks to Richard Wawrzyniak for
the suggestion.
#### 1.5.5
* Updated data-cfasync exclusion function.
#### 1.5.4
* Added JS handlers for Turnstile add-on.
#### 1.5.3
* Added support for GravityKit Gravity Forms Widget for Elementor.
#### 1.5.2
* Added support for the conversational_form post type introduced in the Conversational
Forms add-on 1.3.0 version.
* Moved check for force options (setting and filter) to an earlier stage.
#### 1.5
* Improved ACF support by requesting the field content only for supported types.
* Added a settings page for optional settings.
* Filter freshforms_acf_support is now deprecated in favor of the new settings
page.
#### 1.4.17
* Reverted ACF support back to disabled by default.
#### 1.4.16
* Prevent fatal error if post content is not a string (as required by WordPress
has_shortcode function). Which could happen for not supported embedding methods
or when a third-party is altering the expected post content.
#### 1.4.15
* ACF support is now enabled by default when the ACF plugin is enabled for the
site.
* Changed ACF checks to the last position of possible checks to avoid running them
when the form is already detected in any other embedding method.
* Improved logging message for the scan_content() function used for ACF and UAEL.
#### 1.4.12
* Added support for PowerPack for Beaver Builder by IdeaBox Creations Gravity Forms
Styler module.
#### 1.4.11
* Optimized code for plugins accepting partial matches for JS files exclusion.
* Added support for Perfmatters delay JS exclusions. This plugin has other filters
to investigate which are not supported yet.
* Fixed PHP 8.1+ deprecated notice. Thanks to WordPress user @artgoddess for reporting
it.
#### 1.4.8
* Added support to exclude Gravity Forms scripts from [Page Optimize](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-optimize/)
concatenation feature.
#### 1.4.7
* Code refactor to prevent a third-party messing with the JS exclusion variables.
#### 1.4.6
* Fixed a fatal error which can happen when purging the cache for WP-Optimize during
Fresh Forms initial activation. Thanks to @castoruk for the report.
* Fixed a fatal error which can happen when purging the cache for Kinsta Cache
plugin during Fresh Forms initial activation. Thanks to @squareeye for the report.
* Improved checks of existing functions for cache purge during activation.
#### 1.4.3
* Some code refactoring.
* Prevent warning if $post->ID is not valid for some reason when the function to
check for shortcodes is called. Thanks to @bozzmedia for the report.
* Added some new handlers for GF 2.7+ to the JavaScript handlers exclusion. Thanks
to Richard Wawrzyniak.
#### 1.4
* Added support for Ultimate Addons for Elementor By Brainstorm Force.
#### 1.3.19
* Fixed array warning when `wp doctor check autoload-options-size` is used. Thanks
to @bozzmedia for the report.
* Added Surge to the list of supported caching plugin. It supports Cache-Control:
no-cache header.
* Added Cache Enabler to the list of supported caching plugin. It supports DONOTCACHEPAGE
constant.
#### 1.3.16
* Added support for Pantheon Cache cleaning on plugin activation. According to
Pantheon Cache documentation cache exclusion is based on the Cache-Control header,
which Fresh Forms already adds, so clearing cache should enable cache exclusion.
https://pantheon.io/docs/cache-control
#### 1.3.15
* Updated use of LiteSpeed Cache plugin constants to avoid issues also with optimizations(
JS minification, combination, defer, etc…).
#### 1.3.14
* Added support to exclude pages with a form from W3TC minify JS feature (files
and inline). W3TC minifies inline JS as part of the HTML minify, so this affects
also to HTML minification for form pages.
* Added gform.initializeOnLoaded to the list of inline scripts string matches.
Thanks to Richard Wawrzyniak for pointing it.
#### 1.3.12
* Added support to prevent issues with Hummingbird Asset Optimization breaking
JS based features.
* Added support to prevent issues with WP Rocket Defer JS, Minification/Combination
of files and Combine Inline JS features breaking JS based features.
* Added experimental support for Bluehost’s Endurance Page Cache.
* Added missing path for SuperSignature scripts to Autoptimize exclusions.
* Added automatic flush of cache after Fresh Forms updates to allow new additions
to take effect transparently. Known issue: WP-Optimize requires a manual purge
from its settings page.
* Changed the value of the Fresh-Forms HTTP header to use the version number.
* Improved CloudFlare’s Rocket Loader exclusions.
#### 1.3.5
* Added support to prevent WP-Optimize minification breaking form pages.
* Added Fresh-Forms HTTP header.
* Added filter freshforms_add_cookie filter that makes Fresh Forms to add a cookie
that you can use with Varnish based caching plugins like CloudWays or NitroPack.
See FAQ for more details.
* Fixed WP-Optimize cache exclusion that was broken due to WP-Optimize bad practice
of using PHP_INT_MAX as priority for add_filter/add_action lines.
#### 1.3.1
* Added filter freshforms_post_has_gform to force Fresh Forms to run without checking
if there’s a form. See FAQ for more details.
#### 1.3
* Added support to detect UABB Gravity Forms Styler module. Thanks to Kellen Mace
for the Beaver Builder module detection code https://gist.github.com/kellenmace/
add5c45e5bddcdd3271de8fc7d204a18
* Added new Signature add-on page parameter to SG Optimizer exclusions. Thanks
to Richard Wawrzyniak for pointing it.
* Added additional domains for SG Optimizer external scripts exclusions.
* Fixed JS scripts exclusions for Autoptimize. Thanks to Richard Wawrzyniak for
pointing it.
#### 1.2.10
* Added another SG Optimizer exclusion to prevent SG Optimizer from breaking Stripe
Checkout redirection. Thanks to Richard Wawrzyniak.
#### 1.2.9
* Added support for forms embedded using the WP Tools Gravity Forms Divi Module
plugin.
#### 1.2.8
* Added support to detect a Gravity Forms form embedded into ACF fields of Text,
Text Area, and WYSIWYG type as subfields of a Repeater field.
* Added support for Essential Addons for Elementor Gravity Forms widget.
* Fixed a warning when the post has an ACF Flexible Content field but is empty.
* Refactoring of some code.
#### 1.2.4
* Added more SG Optimizer exclusions.
* Added support to detect a Gravity Forms form embedded into ACF fields of the
following types as standalone fields and also as subfields of a Flexible Content
field: Text, Text Area, WYSIWYG.
* Added support to detect a Gravity Forms form embedded into WooCommerce product
using WooCommerce Gravity Forms Product Add-ons by Lucas Stark.
* Minor code changes.
#### 1.2
* Added an exclusion for SG Optimizer to prevent an issue with form redirection
inline script due to the “Combine JavaScript Files” feature, that despite of
its name also affects to inline scripts. Thanks to Richard Wawrzyniak.
* Added an exclusion for SG Optimizer to prevent an issue with the Signature page
not displaying the image due to the “Minify the HTML Output” feature. Thanks
to Travis Lopes.
* Added an exclusion for SG Optimizer to prevent an issue with the PayPal Commerce
Platform Add-On due to the “Defer Render-blocking JS” feature.
* Added additional exclusions of inline JS and files for SG Optimizer.
#### 1.1.6
* Added additional checking for Gravity Forms shortcode and blocks when a reusable
block is used. Thanks to Richard Wawrzyniak.
#### 1.1.5
* Added support for Kinsta Cache.
* Added support for Autoptimize.
* Minor tweaks to SG Optimizer and WP Engine System support.
#### 1.1.2
* Improved WP Engine System support.
* Added support for SG Optimizer.
#### 1.1.1
* Fixed a few notices.
#### 1.1
* Fixed issue with shortcode detection.
* Added support for WP Engine System.
#### 1.0
* First public release.
## Meta
* Version **1.5.6**
* Last updated **2 wiki zilizopita**
* Active installations **3.000+**
* WordPress version ** 4.9 au juu **
* Tested up to **6.9.4**
* PHP version ** 7.0 au juu **
* Languages
* [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/fresh-forms-for-gravity/), [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/fresh-forms-for-gravity/),
na [Ukrainian](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/fresh-forms-for-gravity/).
* [Tafsiri kwa lugha yako](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/fresh-forms-for-gravity)
* Tags
* [cache](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cache/)[caching](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/caching/)
[gravity forms](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gravity-forms/)[GravityForms](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gravityforms/)
* [Advanced View](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/fresh-forms-for-gravity/advanced/)
## Ratings
4.7 out of 5 stars.
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## Contributors
* [ Samuel Aguilera ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samuelaguilera/)
## Saidia
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