The Populate Anything add-on for Gravity Forms lets you pull live data into your forms. Combined with Mass Email Notifications, it allows for highly dynamic, personalized email content.
How It Works #
- Add Populate Anything-enabled fields to your control form.
- These fields can pull values from posts, users, taxonomies, or even other form entries.
- Use merge tags from those fields inside your Subject or Message.
- When you submit the control form, each email batch will include those dynamic values.
Example Use Cases #
- User Data: Pull in account details from WordPress user profiles.
- Form Data: Reference values from other Gravity Forms entries.
- Custom Data: Populate a dropdown or hidden field with values from a custom database table.
Tips #
- Use Populate Anything fields as hidden fields if you don’t want staff to edit them.
- Combine with Target-Form Merge Tags (
:meff) for even richer personalization. - Always test with a small batch first — dynamic data sources can change frequently.
By pairing Populate Anything with Mass Email Notifications, you can create campaigns that adapt to each recipient, pulling in up-to-date, person-specific data at send time.
