Surbma

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This Gravity Forms add-on is helping you to meet GDPR compliance by disabling IP address saving and it also deletes all entries after submission, so no personal data will be saved in the WordPress installation’s database.
This plugin is a Gravity Forms add-on, so you need to buy the <a href="https://surbma.com/go/gravityforms/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gravity Forms</a> (affiliate link) plugin first.
IMPORTANT! There is no settings and options for this plugin. There is no admin menu or page for this plugin. It just works! When you activate the plugin, all features will be active: 
– IP Anonymization 
– Entry deletion
Disclaimer: This plugin does not make your website nor your data management GDPR compliant. It is helping you to comply with GDPR, by not saving any submitted data in the WordPress database. However you can still control the submitted data to be sent to any third party services or to any email address. It is your duty to manage and control all submitted personal data to be compliant with GDPR.
IP Anonymization: This plugin is disabling IP address saving, so no visitor IP will be saved.
Remove form entries: If you enable this plugin, all new entries will be deleted immediately after the form submission. So there will be no entries stored in the WordPress database. Submitted data can be sent by email or can be intergrated with third party services, like CRM, help desk, newsletter and other services.
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Surbma | GDPR Proof Gravity Forms

This Gravity Forms add-on is helping you to meet GDPR compliance by disabling IP address saving and it also deletes all entries after submission.

Samuel Aguilera

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:
<ol>
<li>Flush current cache on plugin activation. This is required in order to allow the next step to run.</li>
<li>Dynamically check if there’s a Gravity Forms for any of the supported embedding methods (see below for the list).</li>
<li>If so, it will prevent post/page from being cached by any of the supported caching plugins, browsers and CDN/Proxies.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Embedding methods supported:</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress default editor, shortcode or Gutenberg block. Content of any post type, including pages and custom posts.</li>
<li>ACF fields of type Text, Text Area, and WYSIWYG. Disabled by default.</li>
<li>Avada. The following elements has been proven to work: Content Boxes, “Gravity Form”, Modal, Text Block. Other elements could work too, but not tested.</li>
<li>Beaver Builder. It will detect Gravity Forms shortcodes added to a Text Editor module.</li>
<li>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+).</li>
<li>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…</li>
<li>Elementor. The following widgets added to the post content are supported: Shortcode, Text.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/" rel="ugc">Essential Addons for Elementor</a> Gravity Forms widget.</li>
<li>GravityKit Gravity Forms Widget for Elementor.</li>
<li>PowerPack for Beaver Builder Gravity Forms Styler module.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-addons-for-beaver-builder-lite/" rel="ugc">Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder</a> Gravity Forms Styler module.</li>
<li>Ultimate Addons for Elementor By Brainstorm Force.</li>
<li>WooCommerce Gravity Forms Product Add-ons by Lucas Stark.</li>
<li>WPBakery Page Builder. The following elements has been proven to work: “Gravity Form”, Text Block. Other elements could work too, but not tested.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tools-gravity-forms-divi-module/" rel="ugc">WP Tools Gravity Forms Divi Module</a>.</li>
</ul>
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:
<ul>
<li>Autoptimize</li>
<li>Cache Enabler</li>
<li>Comet Cache</li>
<li>Hummingbird</li>
<li>Kinsta Cache</li>
<li>LiteSpeed Cache</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-optimize/" rel="ugc">Page Optimize</a> (Script concatenation only)</li>
<li>Perfmatters (Delay JS exclusions only)</li>
<li>Speed Optimizer (by SiteGround, the plugin with more name changes in the history of WordPress!)</li>
<li>Surge</li>
<li>W3 Total Cache</li>
<li>WP Engine System</li>
<li>WP Fastest Cache</li>
<li>WP Optimize</li>
<li>WP Rocket</li>
<li>WP Super Cache</li>
</ul>
Caching plugins NOT supported:
<ul>
<li>Breeze. It doesn’t support DONOTCACHEPAGE constant or filters to skip caching. Check FAQ for a workaround.</li>
<li>NitroPack. It doesn’t support DONOTCACHEPAGE constant or filters to skip caching. Check FAQ for a workaround.</li>
</ul>
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.
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>PHP 7.0 or higher.</li>
<li>WordPress 4.9 or higher.</li>
<li>Gravity Forms 2.3 or higher.</li>
<li>Only forms embedded using classic editor shortcode or Gutenberg block are supported.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
Just install and activate. No settings required except for ACF support (see FAQ).

Fresh Forms for Gravity


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!


Excellent Plugin that Solves a Real Problem

Prevent supported caching and JS optimization plugins breaking Gravity Forms.

Surbma | GDPR Proof Gravity Forms vs Fresh Forms for Gravity