--- title: "The GravityKit Welcome page and GravityView guided tours" date: 2026-11-12 updated: 2026-11-12 author: "Casey Burridge" link: "https://www.gravitykit.com/docs/gravityview/getting-started/welcome-page-and-guided-tours/" category: "GravityView > Getting Started" --- This guide shows how to open the GravityKit Welcome page and GravityView's own Welcome page, what the sample View creates, and how to restart, finish or turn off GravityView's guided tours. ## The GravityKit Welcome page The Welcome page is GravityKit's starting point in WordPress, with ideas, guides and your license setup in one place. To open it, hover over **GravityKit** in the WordPress admin menu, then click **Welcome**. Products that have a Welcome page show a card under **Your products**. Click **Explore product** on a card to open that product's page. ![The GravityKit Welcome page, with the GravityKit menu open on the left, the Set up your Kit card, and the GravityView card under Your products](https://www.gravitykit.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/2026-11-13-welcome-hub.png) The GravityKit **Welcome** page. ### Set up your Kit Administrators also see a card on the Welcome page that shows where the site's licenses stand. When the site has no license yet, the card's **Set up your Kit** button opens a short tour of [**Manage Your Kit**](https://www.gravitykit.com/docs/general-help/downloads/installing-activating-and-updating-gravitykit-plugins/): [add a license key](https://www.gravitykit.com/docs/gravityview/view-setup/activating-your-license/) or [connect your GravityKit account](https://www.gravitykit.com/docs/general-help/licensing/managing-your-licenses/#connect-your-gravitykit-account), then install and turn on your products. When your license covers products you haven't installed, the same tour opens from **Install your products**. Click the button again to restart the tour, or pick up a paused one with **Resume tour** under **GravityKit**. ## GravityView's Welcome page GravityView's Welcome page has a suggested next step, a **Get set up** checklist, guides and courses, and two guided tours. The first time you activate GravityView, this page opens on its own. After that, open it from the GravityView card on the GravityKit Welcome page. ![The top of GravityView's Welcome page on a site with no forms, with a Build a sample View button, a Create a form link, and the Build your first View tour with a Start tour button](https://www.gravitykit.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/2026-11-13-gv-welcome-start-here.png) *GravityView's Welcome page on a site with no forms yet.GravityView's page shows for users who can edit Views*[GravityView capabilities](https://www.gravitykit.com/docs/gravityview/roles-and-capabilities/gravityview-capabilities/) explains which roles that includes. **Note**: With [GravityView Pro](https://www.gravitykit.com/products/gravityview-pro/), the card and the page are named **GravityView Pro**. After you update to GravityView Pro, the page opens once with a **What's new in GravityView Pro** section. ## Build a sample View While your site has no Views, GravityView's Welcome page offers a **Build a sample View** button. Click it, and GravityView creates: - A form named **Sample Contact Submissions**, with five made-up entries. - A published Table View named **Sample View: Contact Submissions**, which anyone can see, even when logged out. The sample View then opens in the View editor with a tour of how it's put together. ![The sample View, Sample View: Contact Submissions, open in the View editor with a tour card titled Your sample View is ready and a See it link](https://www.gravitykit.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/2026-11-13-sample-view-ready.png) *The sample View, right after you build it.When you're done with the sample, delete it like any other View and form:* - Hover over **GravityKit**, click **All Views**, then click **Trash** under **Sample View: Contact Submissions**. - Hover over **Forms**, click **Forms**, then click **Trash** under **Sample Contact Submissions**. ## The guided tours The tours run on the [View editor](https://www.gravitykit.com/docs/gravityview/getting-started/how-to-setup-your-first-view/), and their cards tell you what to do at each step. **Build your first View** takes you through naming a View, choosing a form and layout, arranging the fields, then publishing and [embedding the View](https://www.gravitykit.com/docs/gravityview/getting-started/embedding-a-view-on-a-page-or-post/). **See how it works** shows the parts of a finished View, with a short clip for each step. Start either tour from GravityView's Welcome page. Until you've published a View of your own, the New View screen also offers Build your first View with a button in the bottom-right corner. ![A See how it works tour card on the View editor for step 3, Publish and embed your View, with a short clip, links to the embedding docs, the 3 of 7 step counter, and a Next button](https://www.gravitykit.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/2026-11-13-tour-step-with-clip.png) A tour card, with the step counter at the bottom. ## Get a tour back Closing a tour card pauses the tour. To pick it up again, click **Continue the GravityView tour** in the bottom-right corner of the View editor, **Resume tour** under **GravityKit** in the admin menu, or **Resume tour** on GravityView's Welcome page. The **X** on that corner button turns the tour off, the same as **Don't offer this tour again**. Each tour on GravityView's Welcome page has a **More options** button (**⋯**) with these choices: - **Start over:** begin the tour again from the first step. - **Mark as done:** mark the tour as finished without going through it. - **Don't offer this tour again:** stop offering the tour on the View editor. ![The Build your first View tour on GravityView's Welcome page with its More options menu open, showing Start over, Mark as done and Don't offer this tour again](https://www.gravitykit.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/2026-11-13-welcome-tour-options.png) The **More options** menu for a tour.A tour you turn off stays on GravityView's Welcome page, marked **Hidden**, and you can still start it from there. To have the View editor offer it again, click **More options**, then **Offer this tour again**. ![The Build your first View tour marked Hidden under More tours and demos, with its More options menu open and Offer this tour again at the bottom](https://www.gravitykit.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/2026-11-13-welcome-tour-hidden.png) A hidden tour and its **Offer this tour again** option