Anonymous Submissions for Gravity Forms

Overview

Anonymous Submissions for Gravity Forms gives you a straightforward way to collect useful responses without retaining the identifying submission metadata Gravity Forms normally stores automatically.

Choose which forms should be anonymized, and the plugin removes the submitter’s IP address, source URL, browser user agent, and logged-in WordPress user ID from each new entry. Submitted field answers remain intact, so surveys, feedback forms, questionnaires, suggestion boxes, and reporting forms can still support your normal review and follow-up workflows.

Anonymization is controlled form by form. Your selected forms receive the additional privacy protections, while every other Gravity Form continues working normally.

How it works

1. Install and activate the plugin alongside Gravity Forms.
2. Open Forms → Anonymizer in the WordPress dashboard.
3. Select the active forms that should not retain identifying submission metadata.
4. Save the settings and continue collecting responses as usual.

For selected forms, the plugin prevents the submitter’s IP address from being stored during normal submission processing. It then clears the remaining managed metadata immediately after the Gravity Forms entry is created.

If a selected form already has entries, use the Management tab to count and anonymize the identifying metadata stored with those earlier submissions.

Key features

Form-by-form anonymization

Choose exactly which active Gravity Forms should be anonymized using a simple checkbox interface. Forms that are not selected remain unchanged.

Removes identifying entry metadata

The plugin clears the automatic submission details that could help connect a response to a particular person or device:

• Submitter IP address
• Form source URL
• Browser user-agent information
• Logged-in WordPress user ID

Preserves submitted answers

Field responses remain available in Gravity Forms for review, reporting, exports, notifications, and other workflows. The plugin targets identifying entry metadata rather than deleting the useful content of the submission.

Protects new submissions

IP storage is prevented while Gravity Forms processes submissions from selected forms. The remaining managed metadata is cleared as soon as the entry has been saved.

Anonymizes existing entries

Already collecting responses? The Management tab shows how many entries on your selected forms still contain managed identifying metadata and lets an administrator clear it in one action.

Disables identity-bearing Gravity Forms features

The plugin automatically disables two features on selected forms that can create additional identifying records:

• IP-based view counting, which relies on visitor IP information
• Save and Continue, because draft submissions can separately retain IP addresses, source URLs, email addresses, and partial answers

Fits into the Gravity Forms dashboard

All controls live under Forms → Anonymizer, with separate Settings and Management tabs. A direct Settings link is also available from the WordPress Plugins screen.

Safe uninstall option

Choose whether the plugin’s settings and licensing information should be removed when the plugin is uninstalled.

Built for privacy-conscious forms

Anonymous Submissions for Gravity Forms is useful anywhere you want candid responses without Gravity Forms automatically attaching account or request metadata. Potential uses include:

• Employee or organizational feedback
• Customer satisfaction surveys
• Anonymous suggestion boxes
• Community questionnaires
• Internal reporting forms
• Research and opinion surveys
• Post-event feedback
• Sensitive experience reports

An important note about anonymity

The plugin removes specific metadata stored automatically by Gravity Forms, but the design of the form still matters.

A form cannot provide anonymous responses if it directly asks for a name, email address, telephone number, identifying upload, or other personal information. Payment add-ons, third-party integrations, email notifications, analytics tools, security plugins, Gravity Forms logging, and web-server logs may also retain information independently.

For a genuinely privacy-conscious workflow, review the form fields and every connected system before promising complete anonymity to respondents.

Frequently Asked Questions