When using plugins, do you need both the WP plugin and the GF plugin? [RESOLVED]

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For example akismet or mailchimp, they both have WP plugins as well as GF plugins. Currently for akismet i have the WP plugin but not the GF plugin.

I do have the checkbox in the settings for: Protect your form entries from spam using Akismet

Is there a reason or purpose for the GF plugins, if the WP plugin exists?

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If by WP plugins you are referring to another form plugin, then no you don’t need both.

Akismet is auto installed on every Wordpress website. If your website is planning on having a lot of comments on blog post I’d recommend you keeping it. If not, I’d get rid of it.

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The Gravity Forms Akismet add-on does require the Akismet plugin from the WordPress plugin directory to be installed. The basic Akismet integration is site wide. The GF add-on extends it with form specific settings so you can enable/disable the integration for specific forms and customize the field mappings.

The Gravity Forms Mailchimp add-on integrates Gravity Forms directly with Mailchimp so it doesn’t require any other plugins.

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I think you understood the question better than I did. Lol (I think the original question was edited!) just kidding but maybe.