Gravity Forms – Placeholders add-on

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1. ★★★★★ dardotinfo

   11.8y ago

   Thanks

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2. ★★★★★ miamialbert

   12.2y ago

   Works as advertised

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3. ★★★★★ Sahil

   12.2y ago

   This is a very small plugin and it does the job well.

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4. ★★★★★ Dibakar Jana

   12.3y ago

   I was really frustrated for this. But finally this plugin saves my day!!!

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5. ★★★★★ logistic414

   12.3y ago

   Excellent plugin, very well made. Would be great to add drop down menu support as William Wilkerson tried to do in his rip-off version. If you append the extra option with js rather than prepending it as he did, it will even work on most browsers. 😉 Thanks for a great plugin.

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6. ★★★★★ Danielle

   12.4y ago

   Exactly what I needed, works great.

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7. ★★★★★ wordpresscare

   12.4y ago

   Thank your for great plugin. Works each time right our of the box. Simply add class to element and all is done on the fly. Great work!

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8. ★★★★★ Matt Cromwell

   12.4y ago

   Thanks for making something simple, intuitive and reliable right out of the box!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.2.1 Fix IE7 member not found error 1.2.1
2. — Version 1.2 Fix the enqueuing urls of Javascript files when using a Symlink as the plugins directory 1.2
3. — Version 1.1.1 Rename variable url to jquery_placeholder_url 1.1.1
4. — Version 1.1 Rename gf.placeholders.js.php to gf.placeholders.js Append a jquery.placeholder.js url as a js variable on the tag instead of using php on gf.placeholders.js.php – improves performance by using static files Always reques 1.1
5. — Version 1.0 Initial version. 1.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-02-21 3K+ → 2K+ down after 438 days in tier
2. 2024-12-10 4K+ → 3K+ down after 88 days in tier
3. 2024-09-13 5K+ → 4K+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2024-09-12 4K+ → 5K+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2024-09-11 5K+ → 4K+ down after 339 days in tier
6. 2023-10-08 6K+ → 5K+ down after 197 days in tier
7. 2023-03-25 7K+ → 6K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Edit Entries for Gravity Forms 2K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags C
• G Gravity Forms Auto Placeholders 600+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags D
• P Popup Confirmation for Gravity Forms 300+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags D
• G Gravity Forms CSS Ready Class Selector 4K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
• Gravity Forms Constant Contact 3K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
• G-Forms hCaptcha 3K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D

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Gravity Forms – Placeholders add-on: 2K+ active installs, 4.9★ (24 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/gravity-forms-placeholders