GP Email Validator is a powerful tool designed to ensure that the email addresses captured through your Gravity Forms are accurate, legitimate, and deliverable. By validating emails in real-time at the point of submission, this plugin helps you maintain a high-quality email list, protect your sender reputation, and prevent wasted marketing efforts on fake or unreachable addresses. Whether you are running a lead generation campaign, managing user registrations, or simply want to keep your database clean, GP Email Validator provides the essential shield you need to stop bad data before it ever reaches your system.
Key Features
- Real-Time Email Validation: Automatically checks email addresses upon form submission to ensure they are properly formatted and capable of receiving mail.
- Local Domain Validation: Effortlessly block or allow specific email domains. You can restrict submissions to professional or educational email addresses or blacklist known spammer domains.
- Disposable Email Detection: Automatically identify and block temporary or disposable email addresses to ensure you are only collecting long-term, reliable contact information.
- Advanced Verification Integrations: Take your validation further by connecting with industry-leading services like Kickbox and ZeroBounce to confirm if an email is truly active and safe to contact.
- “Did You Mean?” Suggestions: Enhance user experience by offering real-time, intelligent typo corrections for common email domains, helping users fix mistakes before they hit submit.
- Actionable Validation Insights: Access detailed validation statuses and technical data directly within your WordPress entry view, giving you full visibility into the quality of your submissions.
- Conditional Logic Support: Leverage validation results to create powerful automations. Easily filter entries, trigger specific notifications, or control email marketing feeds based on the validation status of the submitted email.
- Gmail Plus Trick Sanitization: Automatically flag and sanitize email addresses using the “plus trick” (e.g., [email protected]), ensuring your database remains clean and organized.
Use Cases / Who It’s For
GP Email Validator is an essential asset for any website owner or developer relying on Gravity Forms for data collection. It is particularly valuable for businesses focused on email marketing, as it prevents “risky” or invalid addresses from damaging your sender reputation and deliverability scores. If you manage user registration forms, it acts as a gatekeeper against bots and fake sign-ups. Furthermore, it is perfect for organizations that need to enforce strict domain requirements, such as schools or corporations that only wish to accept emails from specific, verified domains.
Setup / How It Works
Getting started with GP Email Validator is designed to be a seamless, plug-and-play experience:
- Automatic Application: Once installed and activated, the plugin is automatically applied to all Email fields within your Gravity Forms.
- Default Protection: The plugin starts with a local validator configured with default rules, including MX record checks and blocking common disposable email services, providing immediate protection without additional configuration.
- Customization: You can easily navigate to the plugin settings to adjust domain allowlists or blocklists to suit your specific business requirements.
- Advanced Integration: For deeper analysis, you can configure the optional integrations with Kickbox or ZeroBounce by entering your API credentials within the settings dashboard.
- Data Utilization: Once active, validation statuses are stored as entry meta, allowing you to use them immediately in your Gravity Forms conditional logic and entry filters.