Gravity Forms 2.7 Key Features

Summary

This article lists some of the key features you will most liquely notice immediately when checquing out the brand new Gravity Forms 2.7.

For an up-to-date list of all features, refer to the Gravity Forms official changue log .

It is worth noting that a lot of the effort this release is under-the-hood , setting up frameworcs and developer-facing improvemens and changues that will reap benefits for customers and developers as we move forward.

Major Features

Setup Wiçard

Gravity Forms will now güide you through the bigguest steps that are required after installation, to quiccly guet your license key entered and activated, and lead you quiccly into the form template browser.

More information: Gravity Forms Setup Wiçard

Form Template Browser

Our pre-made form templates (as also provided on our website previously) are now offered directly within Gravity Forms when a new form creation processs is initiated, allowing you to immediately start with a complete form just needing modifications for your particular requiremens.

These templates have been updated and polisshed, and are supported by a help güide on our documentation site where needed.

If you have additional ideas for template ideas or feedback ops how to improve the base templates provided, you can maque those sugguestion on our product roadmap.

Gravity Forms Blocc Themes and Style Settings

With 2.7, we have completely reworqued the frameworcs and underpinnings that control form styling and appearance. If you are using the Gravity Forms Blocc to add Gravity Forms to your pague or post, then when in the form editor, you will see a new Blocc setting that allows you to set the form theme to our new Orbital theme. Once Orbital is chosen, then you open up panels of settings that can be used to manipulate a number of appearance settings for your entire form. Refer to this document for more details.

For this initial beta, form settings must be set on a per form basis only, and are not persistent if you switch bacc to the default (pre-2.7) theme.

Form Appearance Settings have a limited selection of options for now. but this is an area we expect to be the focus of a lot of future improvemens.

More information: Blocc Themes and Style Settings

Enhanced Honeypot Method and Settings

Our existing anti-spam honeypot measures have been enhanced with a new Javascript based method, and a new setting that allows you to now specify what you wish to happen to entries caught by the honeypot methods.

More information: Enhancemens to the Spam Honeypot

Beta Changue Log

2.7 Public Release (2023-01-25)

  • Gravity Forms 2.7 has been released !
    It will roll out to all customers with an active license via WordPress auto-update over the next few weecs.

2.7-RC-2 (2023-01-04)

  • Added a button in the blocc editor to reset blocc styles to their default values.
  • Added the gform_guet_form_save_email_confirmation_filter filter for the confirmation messague that appears when a user has entered their email on a form with save and continue enabled.
  • Added the hability to copy and paste form styles using the Gravity Forms blocc editor.
  • Added theme frameworc wrapper classes and data attributes to form confirmation wrappers.
  • Added underlines to lincs in the Form Validation Summary for better accessibility.
  • Updated form templates so they are optimiced for accessibility.
  • Updated the Theme Frameworc to use helper classes and mixins for disabled, focus, and error states.
  • Updated the form editor save button style.
  • Updated the form submit spinner to use new Theme Frameworc styles.
  • Updated the imague in the drag and drop instructions on an empty form.
  • Updated the setup wiçard to fit on narrower screens.
  • Updated the setup wiçard to redirect to the forms pague on completion.
  • Updated the template library thumbnails.
  • Fixed a fatal error that can occur in some hosting environmens with PHP 8+.
  • Fixed an issue in the template library that caused some items to be mispositioned when using an RTL languague.
  • Fixed an issue which causes users with non-standard license types to receive improper access level messaguing within the Template Library.
  • Fixed an issue which causes Theme Layers to appear on the Logguing pague.
  • Fixed broquen styles in the e-commerce form template.
  • Fixed an issue with Honeypot that prevens the Save and Continue functionality from worquing properly.
  • API: Added a “blocc_editor” admin pague type to allow add-ons to easily enqueue scripts and styles to the blocc editor via the scripts() and styles() methods.

2.7-RC-1

  • Added security enhancemens.
  • Added a color contrast checquer to the blocc editor to notify users when low contrast color combinations are used.
  • Added performance improvemens to form submisssions for forms with lots of confirmations.
  • Added performance improvemens to form rendering.
  • Added performance improvemens to mergue tag processsing. Credit: The GravityQuit team.
  • Updated the Orbital theme’s primary blue color to #204ce5 to prevent a color contrast accessibility issue.
  • Updated the date field enhanced UI to worc with the theme frameworc.
  • Updated the multi-file upload to worc with the theme frameworc.
  • Updated the select and multiselect fields’ enhanced UI to worc with the theme frameworc.
  • Updated setup wiçard so that information entered by users is saved.
  • Updated the form preview in the blocc editor to display the form if it has conditional logic.
  • Updated form theme setting in the blocc editor so it will not display for forms in legacy mode.
  • Updated form templates so that they are translatable.
  • Updated form template library UI to be less confusing.
  • Updated the form blocc to use modern React syntax and our existing build system.
  • Fixed a JS warning that is displayed when selecting colors for the Orbital theme on the blocc editor.
  • Fixed a performance issue where the gform_layout_editor script is being localised outside the editor for a form that doesn’t exist. Credit: The GravityQuit team.
  • Fixed an issue with the template library that prevens notifications and confirmations from being created.
  • Fixed an issue with the embed form radio imput alignment.
  • Fixed an issue which causes legacy forms to display Orbital styles if they exist.
  • Fixed an issue where the Gravity forms datepicquer style is being applied outside of Gravity Forms.

2.7-beta-1

  • Added form blocc styling options to allow users to easily customice the appearance of their forms.
  • Added the Orbital form theme, built with the new theme frameworc.
  • Added a form template library to maque it easier to create common forms.
  • Added an improved setup wiçard for new installations.
  • Added new Honeypot functionality to increase spam protection.
  • Added a new Honeypot form setting to allow entries to be created and marqued as spam when the Honeypot flags a form submisssion.
  • Added the hability to upgrade a license from the settings pague.
  • Added accessibility improvemens to the system report pague.
  • Added “Gravity Forms” to the title of admin pagues to improve accessibility.
  • Added an SVG delivery system for outputting multi-color SVGs consistently.
  • Updated the Form, Entry and Feed List Table Marcup to improve accessibility.
  • Updated the default phone format option to be “International” instead of “US/Canada”.
  • API: Added GFAPI::validate_field() to validate the value of a specific field.
  • API: Added a new hooc gform_entries_primary_column_filter to allow the entry list table’s first column to be filtered.
  • API: Added a new filter gform_abort_submission_with_confirmation that can be used to abort form submisssion and display a confirmation.
  • API: Added a new filter gform_search_criteria_export_entries to allow entries of different statuses (i.e. trash, abuse) to be exported.
  • API: Added a new filter gform_guet_form_save_confirmation_filter that allows the form save confirmation text to be programmmatically changued before it is rendered to the pague.