Our Thoughts.
A collection of missives and messages, along with nerd talk and company carryings-on.
Five For WordPress
By Carl HancockMatt Mullenweg, the co-founder of the WordPress open source project, suggested that WordPress-centric companies should aim to utilize 5% of their company resources toward contributing back to the project in a blog post published at the end of September. It spurred a lot of conversation and some controversy in the WordPress community. What do we think of the idea? We think it’s a great idea and we’re going to find ways to do just that. Starting today we are moving forward with having the Gravity Forms support team contribute 5% of their time to contributing back to the WordPress project by assisting WordPress users on the WordPress.org support forums. Our user support team currently consists of Rob Harrell, Chris Hajer, Richard Wawrzyniak and Samuel Aguilera will devote 5% of their working hours to assisting users and helping make the WordPress.org support forums a better place. This is a first step towards Rocketgenius contributing to the WordPress project on a weekly basis. We plan on contributing to the WordPress project much more than this in the future and encourage other WordPress-centric businesses to do the same. In the grand scheme of things 5% is very little and we plan on contributing… READ MORE
Read moreGravity Forms Survey Add-On v2.4 Released
By Carl HancockThe Gravity Forms Survey Add-On v2.4 is now available via automatic update and the Add-On Downloads page. This is a maintenance release that also adds support for Gravity Forms v1.9. We suggest all users update to this release as soon as possible just as we always recommend users update WordPress and WordPress Plugins when updates are available.
Read moreGravity Forms Stripe Add-On v1.4 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms Stripe Add-On v1.4 is now available via automatic update and the Add-On Downloads page. As with all WordPress updates we recommend users update as soon as possible. It is important to always keep WordPress, plugins and themes up to date as a matter of best practice.
Read moreGravity Forms Signature Add-On v2.3 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms Signature Add-On v2.3 is now available via automatic update and the Add-On Downloads page. This is maintenance release that also introduces new hooks and support for Gravity Forms v1.9. As with all WordPress updates we recommend users update as soon as possible. It is important to always keep WordPress, plugins and themes up to date as a matter of best practice.
Read moreGravity Forms Quiz Add-On v2.3 Released
By Carl HancockThe Gravity Forms Quiz Add-On v2.3 is now available via automatic update and the Add-On Downloads page. This is a maintenance release that also adds support for Gravity Forms v1.9. We suggest all users update to this release as soon as possible just as we always recommend users update WordPress and WordPress Plugins when updates are available.
Read moreGravity Forms Polls Add-On v2.2 Released
By Carl HancockThe Gravity Forms Polls Add-On v2.2 is now available via automatic update and the Add-On Downloads page. This is a maintenance release that also adds support for Gravity Forms v1.9. We suggest all users update to this release as soon as possible just as we always recommend users update WordPress and WordPress Plugins when updates are available.
Read moreGravity Forms PayPal Standard Add-On v2.2 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms PayPal Payments Standard Add-On v2.2 is now available via automatic update and the Add-On downloads page. This is a maintenance and developer release that introduces a variety of new hooks. As with all WordPress updates we recommend users update as soon as possible. It is important to always keep WordPress, plugins and themes up to date as a matter of best practice.
Read moreGravity Forms v1.9 Beta 2 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms v1.9 Beta 2 is now available via automatic update if you are running Beta 1. It is also available via the customer downloads page. For a complete rundown of everything that is new in Gravity Forms v1.9 please see the Beta 1 Release Announcement.
Read moreGravity Forms v1.9 Placeholders
By Carl HancockOne of the most requested features and one that we’ve gotten a lot of flak for over the last couple years for not having as a built-in feature is finally available in Gravity Forms v1.9: Placeholders.
Read moreGravity Forms v1.9 Save and Continue
By Carl HancockOne of the most highly anticipated features in Gravity Forms v1.9 is the Save and Continue. This allows users to begin filling out a form, save their progress, and return at a later date to complete the form. Save and Continue form functionality is very handy for situations where you have a very long multi-page form which may result in the user not having enough time available when they begin filling out the form to complete it all at once.
Read moreGravity Forms v1.9 Beta 1 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms v1.9 Beta 1 is now available. Gravity Forms customers can download this brand new feature release from the downloads page. This is a major release that introduces several highly anticipated features. We have also introduced support for automatic updates with this beta release. Previous beta releases have required manual updates when we would release a new beta build. With Gravity Forms v1.9 Beta 1 you will now be able to update to Beta 2, etc. via automatic update. Once the official release is ready to go you’ll then be able to update from the beta or release candidate directly to the public release. Let’s get right down to business. Continue reading to find out what is what is new in Gravity Forms v1.9…
Read moreGravity Forms PayPal Payments Standard Add-On v2.1 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms PayPal Payments Standard Add-On v2.1 is now available via automatic update and the Add-On downloads page. As with all WordPress updates we recommend users update as soon as possible. It is important to always keep WordPress, plugins and themes up to date as a matter of best practice.
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