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Brand New Release: Gravity Forms 2.7.15

By Gravity Forms Published October 9, 2023

We’re pleased to announce the release of Gravity Forms 2.7.15. With this update, you’ll find additional support for the Orbital form theme, helping to further integrate Orbital into the everyday Gravity Forms experience…

• Added a new global setting to select the default form theme. On new sites, “Orbital” will be the default theme.
• Added a ‘theme’ parameter to the Gravity Forms shortcode.
• Added a new gform_default_styles filter to apply the same styles to all forms on a site.

Styling Your Forms with Orbital

With Gravity Forms 2.7, we released Orbital, a new form theme that incorporates styling options to help you easily customize the appearance of your front-end forms.

The previous form theme was released with 2.5 and was built to inherit as much as it could from whichever WordPress theme being used. Although this means that the appearance of the form on the front end closely resembles the rest of the website, up until Orbital, there was no way to easily make changes to a form’s styles.

Orbital has been built to be an opinionated theme, using custom UI elements to help forms look ‘good’ straight out of the box. That said, the default appearance of a form using the Orbital form theme may clash with your WordPress theme, especially when it comes to elements like the color scheme and button styles.

Therefore, Orbital has built-in block styling options, allowing you to tweak the color scheme of your form, alter the size of inputs, modify button styles, and much more!

Orbital Everywhere!

Gravity Forms 2.7.15 sees further support for Orbital, with new features added to help integrate the form theme into the everyday form-styling experience. Features include…

• Applying Orbital Globally – Under Gravity Forms > Settings, you can now select Orbital as your default form theme, so going forwards all of the forms on your site will use that theme. However, if needed, you can still change the theme on a case by case basis, in the block settings or using a shortcode parameter.

• Adding Orbital to Shortcode – With 2.7.15 you’ll now be able to add Orbital to the shortcode when embedding a form. Easily specify Orbital using the parameter theme=”orbital”. Example…

• Applying Styles to All Forms – With 2.7.15 you’ll also find a new filter gform_default_styles enabling you to apply the same styles to all forms on your site, including forms embedded with shortcode. However, you can override these default styles in any form block by just changing the style settings.

For more information on styling your forms with Orbital, check out the Gravity Forms documentation.

Gravity Forms 2.7.15 Changelog

• Added a new global setting to select the default form theme. On new sites, “Orbital” will be the default theme.
• Added a ‘theme’ parameter to the Gravity Forms shortcode.
• Added a new gform_default_styles filter to apply the same styles to all forms on a site.
• Fixed an issue where the setup wizard saves an empty license key if the user clicks the “Skip” button.
• Fixed an issue that causes fatal errors on some sites during the background processing of telemetry data.
• Fixed an issue where feed settings for ActiveCampaign, Agile CRM, Breeze, Mailchimp, Trello, Twilio, and Zoho CRM display a deprecation warning when using PHP 8.1.
• Updated the appearance of the template library.
• Updated the name of “Gravity” theme to “Gravity Forms 2.5 Theme.”

Gravity Forms 2.7.15 Add-On Framework Changelog

• AF: Fixed the Creation of dynamic property CLASS::$delayed_payment_integration is deprecated notice with PHP 8.2.
• AF: Fixed an issue where the background feed processor uses a stale instance of the add-on to process the feed preventing the {apc_media} merge tags from outputting values.