Contact Form 7 vs Gravity Forms Advanced Post Creation Add-On
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| Feature | Contact Form 7 v6.2.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.0/5 Visit Details | Gravity Forms Advanced Post Creation Add-On v1.6.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Paid Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 10M+ | — |
| Last updated | October 21, 2026 | — |
| Editions | Contact Form 7 | Gravity Forms Advanced Post Creation Add-On ($) |
| Pros | Completely free, with no upsells in the code; Several spam options: Akismet, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, quiz, disallowed list; Stripe payment field and Brevo contact sync built in | Maps title, content, excerpt, taxonomies, custom fields and featured images; Front-end post editing through a form page; Posts list output for posts created by forms |
| Cons | No visual drag-and-drop builder; forms are markup; No conditional logic or multi-step forms without add-ons; Does not store submissions without Flamingo | Needs a Gravity Forms licence key for updates; Front-end editing needs a form page set up per feed; Many feed settings to configure for each post type |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | — |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Drag-and-drop builder | No | — |
| Conditional logic | No | — |
| Multi-step forms | No | — |
| Payments | Yes | — |
| File upload | Yes | — |
| Calculations | No | — |
| Entries in admin | No | — |
| Spam protection | Yes | — |
| Free version | Yes | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Form-tag markup editor for fields and mail templates, Block editor contact form selector, REST API for forms and submission feedback, Quiz and Really Simple CAPTCHA tags, Spam check against the WordPress disallowed comment keys, Saves submissions to Flamingo when that plugin is active | Create WordPress posts and custom post types from submissions ($), Map title, content and excerpt from form fields ($), Map form fields to post custom fields ($), Assign taxonomy terms from form fields ($), Featured image from a file upload field ($), Front-end post editing through a form page ($), Posts list output via the apc_posts_list Gravity Forms shortcode action ($), Create a post after a user registration feed runs ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | — |
| Brevo (Sendinblue) | — | |
| Plugins | Akismet, Flamingo | Gravity Forms ($), Gravity Forms User Registration Add-On ($) |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | — |
| Requires WordPress | 7.1 | — |
| Requires PHP | 8.3 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | — |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | api.stripe.com, www.google.com, www.recaptcha.net, challenges.cloudflare.com, api.sendinblue.com | — |
| Blocks | 1 | — |
| Shortcodes | 2 | — |