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Brand New Release: Gravity Forms 2.6

By Gravity Forms Published March 14, 2022

We are excited to announce the release of Gravity Forms 2.6. With this update you will find a number of impressive new features and additions to enhance your form building experience.

These include:

• Added the Embed Form flyout to easily embed forms into a post or page directly from the form editor.
• Added the Submit button to the form editor instead of the form settings page, with new settings to display it inline.
• Added the Choices flyout to provide more space for editing field choices in the form editor.

Gravity Forms 2.6 Top Features

 
 
Gravity Forms 2.6 sees a focus on an improved user experience within the form editor, streamlining the form creation process and helping you to build better forms faster. With a new intuitive Embed Form flyout, a relocated form Submit button, and a redesign of the UI for Choices fields, we can’t wait for you to experience all 2.6 has to offer!

New 2.6 features include:

• Embed Form Flyout – The new Embed Form flyout utilizes the WordPress Block editor, enabling you to add a form to a page or post from directly within the Form editor. Simply open the Embed Form flyout and select where you would like a form to be displayed – this can include a new or existing page, post, or custom post type (with the use of filters).

• Inline Submit Button – With Gravity Forms 2.6 you will now find the Submit Button and its settings relocated to the form editor. This means you will be able to easily set your Submit button to be inline with the last row of fields, without having to rely on CSS Ready Classes.

• Choices Flyout – Up until now, editing the options within a multichoice field could be difficult due to the narrow sidebar. To make viewing and editing values and large numbers of choices smoother, Gravity Forms 2.6 ships with an expandable Choices flyout that is responsive to page width. This gives you all the space you need to create, edit, and manage your Choices’ options within the form editor.

• Ajax Form Saving – With 2.6, the form editor will save any form changes using Ajax. This will give you a faster and smoother experience when making updates, saving your form edits automatically without the need for a full page refresh.

• Merge Tag Search – An improved merge tag UI sees search functionality added in, enabling you to easily search for the merge tags you need.

Gravity Forms 2.6 also continues our commitment to security and accessibility with a number of enhancements, bug fixes, and other useful additions, ensuring the continued improvement of the plugin.

Update to Gravity Forms 2.6

As with all our major updates, the public launch of 2.6 will be via a phased rollout to ensure smooth adoption and provide a ramped approach to gathering feedback. This means that you’ll receive the 2.6 update through your WordPress Admin at some point during the rollout period, which is expected to be a few weeks long.

However, if you don’t want to wait, Gravity Forms 2.6 is also available to all our customers via a direct download from your Gravity Forms account dashboard.

To summarize:

• Update Gravity Forms 2.6 in WordPress Admin – All customers can expect to receive an update during the rollout period (commencing 14th March, 2022). Once you receive the update, simply navigate to the Plugins page within your WordPress Admin, scroll down to Gravity Forms and select Update Now.

• Download 2.6 from Your Gravity Forms Account Dashboard – If you have an active Gravity Forms license, you can now download 2.6 from your GF Dashboard.

• New Customers – Gravity Forms 2.6 is now available to buy. Check out our pricing page to find the plan that best suits your requirements.

Note: Caching and script optimization plugins and services have been known to cause problems with the functionality of forms when Gravity Forms is updated to the latest version. To counter this issue, we recommend clearing/flushing the caches and the browser cache following all updates.

If you have any questions about Gravity Forms 2.6, or the staggered release procedure, please contact Support.

Gravity Forms 2.6 Changelog

• Added the Embed Form flyout to easily embed forms into a post or page directly from the form editor.
• Added the Submit button to the form editor instead of the form settings page, with new settings to display it inline.
• Added the Choices flyout to provide more space for editing field choices in the form editor.
• Added enhancements to the form editor so that it saves without reloading the page.
• Added enhancements to the submission process to further reduce the risk of duplicate entries.
• Added a notice in the form editor for forms that have legacy markup enabled.
• Added a splash page to tell users about new features.
• Added enhancements to the design of the form editor.
• Added a loading indicator to settings pages to improve usability.
• Added accessibility enhancements to the product field.
• Added accessibility enhancements to the time field to ensure that the AM/PM selector has a label.
• Added accessibility enhancements to the list field so that the aria labels for new rows match column headers.
• Added performance enhancements to speed the loading of entries with encrypted fields.
• Added performance enhancements to long forms with conditional logic.
• Updated how notes are displayed on the entry detail page so that HTML is no longer completely removed.
• Updated the styling of the order summary table in the entry detail page.
• Updated the minimum WordPress version on the System Status page to 5.8.
• Fixed an issue where conditional logic is not duplicated when a confirmation is duplicated.
• Fixed an issue where vertical alignment can be incorrect in complex fields if some inputs don’t have sub-labels.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the date picker icon from displaying on settings pages.
• Fixed an issue that causes the address field inputs to be misaligned when hiding sub-fields.
• Fixed an issue where checkboxes without labels are checked by default.
• Fixed a fatal error with PHP 8 when editing an entry that includes an empty date drop-down field.
• Fixed an issue with the license validation request that can result in too many sites being counted towards a license’s site limit in certain situations.
• Fixed an issue where setting the time field sub-label placement to hidden does not hide the sub-labels.
• Fixed an issue with the address field where the zip code autocomplete attribute does not appear if the sub-labels are above the inputs.
• Fixed an issue where the next, previous, and submit buttons are not showing the pointer cursor when hovering over them.
• Fixed an issue where the show country field setting for the address field is not being respected in the form editor.
• Fixed an issue where license validation is being performed too many times when the license key is left blank.
• Fixed an issue where the all_fields merge tag renders the radio choice value instead of the choice label when the value is 0.

Gravity Forms 2.6 Add-On Framework Changelog

• AF: Fixed an issue where the trial discount or a custom trial amount does not appear in the order summary.

Gravity Forms 2.6 API Changelog

• API: Fixed an issue with the “select” settings field where empty option groups are being rendered as selectable options.
• API: Added admin component for popup notifications throughout the UI.
• API: Added the ability to remove the merge tags ui from rich text fields in the Settings API.
• API: Added the ability to use Gravity Forms JavaScript components anywhere in the admin.
• API: Added the gform_settings_display_license_details filter to hide the license details on the settings page.
• API: Added the gform_plugin_settings_fields filter.
• API: Added the gform_field_filter_from_post filter to allow filter settings for the form fields, entry properties, and entry meta used in conditional logic for entry export, entry list, results pages, and some add-on to be overridden when the filters are being processed. Complements the gform_field_filters filter.
• API: Fixed an issue where the form editor tooltip is rendering CSS classes incorrectly.
• API: Fixed an issue which causes some file uploads to fail when chunking is enabled.