Our Thoughts.
A collection of missives and messages, along with nerd talk and company carryings-on.
Gravity Forms Turns 4
By Carl HancockWe aren’t big on fanfare or over the top marketing here at Rocketgenius. Our focus is on keeping our heads down and delivering the best plugin in the WordPress community along with the best support to match. However, we seem to have neglected to call out an important milestone that occurred last Saturday, August 24th. Gravity Forms turned 4. Rocketgenius as a company is also turning 5. Time sure does fly! A lot of companies would have jumped at the opportunity to turn a milestone such as this into some sort of marketing opportunity. Have a big sale, etc. But we truly have our noses to the grindstone to the point that the light bulb didn’t go off that we just reached a pretty amazing milestone as a company until I was thinking about it late last night. On August 24th, 2009 we released Gravity Forms v1.0 to the public.
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What is Possible with Gravity Forms and Zapier?
By Carl HancockThe Gravity Forms Zapier Add-On was first released on July 15th. We highly recommend you check it out. Find out more…
Read moreGravity Forms PayPal Payments Standard Add-On v1.9 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms PayPal Payments Standard Add-On v1.9 is now available via automatic update. This is an important compatibility update in response to changes made in PayPal’s API. We recommend all PayPal Payments Standard users update as soon as possible.
Read moreGravity Forms PayPal Pro Add-On v1.3 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms PayPal Pro Add-On v1.3 is now available via automatic update and the Add-On Browser. This is a compatibility update in response to a change made to PayPal’s API. All PayPal Pro Add-On users should update as soon as possible. PLEASE NOTE: This is a PayPal Pro Add-On update and not an update to our Add-On for PayPal’s newer PayPal Payments Pro product.
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Gravity Forms Zapier Add-On v1.1 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms Zapier Add-On v1.1 is now available via automatic update and the Add-On browser. Find out more…
Read moreNew Gravity Forms Feature and Easter Egg Contest Winner!
By Carl HancockWe have a winner! Gravity Forms user Andrew Bloom of Scottidesign was the first to correctly point out what the new undocumented “easter egg” feature introduced in the Gravity Forms v1.7.7 release was: Enhanced Entry Select All Functionality. Want to learn more about this new feature? Read on!
Read moreGravity Forms MailChimp Add-On v2.3 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms MailChimp Add-On v2.3 is now available via automatic update. This is an important compatibility release that is required for updating to Gravity Forms v1.7.7 to maintain compatibility with the change from using the qTip script for tooltips to using the jQuery UI functionality built into WordPress. We highly recommend all users upgrade to both Gravity Forms v1.7.7 and this new version of the MailChimp Add-On.
Read moreGravity Forms v1.7.7 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms v1.7.7 is now available via automatic update and the downloads page. While vX.X.X releases going forward will only contain updates, bug fixes, refinements and NO new features, v1.7.7 does include some new features. Only vX.X releases will contain new features going forward. On that note, i’m also please to announce that development on Gravity Forms v1.8 has begun! One of the new features in v1.7.7 is an easter egg! We aren’t telling you what it is… yet. The first person to comment on this release announcement and correctly guess what the feature is, will win a free Gravity Forms renewal. Maybe we’ll even throw in a free upgrade if you don’t already have a Business or Developer License! If nobody guesses correctly, we’ll post another blog post at the beginning of next week revealing the new feature and it’s details. Here’s a hint… it has to do with Entries. The other new feature is support for the Touch Punch script which makes jQuery UI touch enabled. Touch Punch is a core WordPress script so we are able to implement this without introducing new scripts within Gravity Forms. The primary benefit of this feature is it makes any functionality… READ MORE
Read moreGravity Forms Authorize.Net Add-On v1.4 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms Authorize.Net Add-On v1.4 is now available via automatic update and the Add-On browser. This update makes significant changes under the hood to how Gravity Forms interacts with Authorize.Net when handling recurring payments via the ARB API. This release introduces a new hook that allows you to utilize the entry id as the invoice number within the Authorize.Net transaction.
Read moreGravity Forms Coupons Add-On v1.0 Beta 1 Released
By Carl HancockWe are pleased to announce the beta 1 release of the Gravity Forms Coupons Add-On. This Add-On allows you to quickly add flat rate or percentage based coupon discounts to order forms created using Gravity Forms. This has been one of the most highly requested features to use in combination with our Pricing Fields so we are pleased to finally make it available to our users.
Read moreGravity Forms PayPal Payments Pro Add-On v1.0 Beta 1 Released
By Carl HancockThe Gravity Forms PayPal Payments Pro Add-On v1.0 Beta 1 is now available. Not to be confused with the legacy PayPal Pro, this new Add-On allows you to accept payments via PayPal’s newer PayPal Payments Pro payment processing service. As new payment processing startups such a Stripe and WePay move in on PayPal’s turf it has forced them to re-organize their product offerings which has caused fragmentation. What was previously known as PayPal Pro is not the same thing that is currently being marketed by PayPal as PayPal Payments Pro. If you signed up for PayPal’s “Pro” offering within the last year you likely have a newer PayPal Payments Pro account utilizing the Payflow API that this Add-On is designed to integrate with.
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Gravity Forms Zapier Add-On v1.0 Released
By Carl HancockThe Gravity Forms Zapier Add-On allows you to leverage Zapier to integrate with over 3,000 different web services and counting.
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