Gravity Forms 2.7 is now live and ready to be installed on your WordPress website!

With Gravity Forms 2.7, you’ll find a superior user experience, from the redesigned Setup Wizard to help you quickly get up and running, to the new form template library that streamlines the form creation process.

And let’s not forget the new form theme and styling options we’ve added to the block settings, which enable you to easily customize the appearance of your forms, no CSS needed!

Gravity Forms 2.7 also sees a significant shift in how we build our products, using React and our new component library to create our back-end UI. This will significantly benefit our developer community, and the experience of building on Gravity Forms.

Gravity Forms 2.7 is now available to update from within WordPress Admin for anyone with an active license. Update today to get the most out of Gravity Forms!

Ready to find out more about Gravity Forms 2.7? Watch the video or read on for further in-depth information…

 

Form Creation Has Never Been Easier

A much anticipated feature, 2.7 brings a new built-in form template library to Gravity Forms. Our premade, fully-customizable form templates will help you get started in minutes, or can be used as a jumping off point for more complex form builds.

Templates that you can expect to find in the new library include…

• Contact Forms
• Survey
• Event Registration Form
• Payment Forms
• Donation Form
• User Registration Form

No more confusion on how to get started with a new form, or need to re-build forms from scratch for each new website – simply choose the template that most closely resembles your project brief, and then get customizing or publish as-is!

Form Styling Out of the Box

A real game changer for many of our customers, with Gravity Forms 2.7 you can now style your forms directly in the block editor, no CSS required.

With 2.7 you’ll find a new, highly extensible front-end theme framework, which incorporates a new form theme – Orbital! You’ll find Orbital 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, with Orbital, you’ll find 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!

The new front-end framework has been built with full site editing in mind, setting Gravity Forms up for the future of WordPress, and laying the groundwork for new add-ons such as Conversational Forms and the potential for developers to create their own form themes.

Enhanced Spam Protection

Requests for improved spam form protection are something we hear constantly so, as part of 2.7, we have continued to enhance our anti-spam toolkit by adding a more sophisticated honeypot mechanism to Gravity Forms.

In addition to the traditional honeypot spam protection method, JavaScript will now be used to inject another honeypot field into the form right before it is submitted, helping to identify and reduce the number of spam entries. You’ll also be able to configure your honeypot settings, opting to not create an entry when a spam form is submitted, or create an entry and mark it as spam, allowing you to check for false positives.

For more information on the extensive spam protection options offered by Gravity Forms, including support for Google reCAPTCHA v2, v3, and Akismet, check out this article – How to prevent Spam Form Entries.

A Fast Set Up for Everyone

The Setup Wizard has been redesigned from the ground up to ensure a smoother, and more user-friendly Gravity Forms experience from the get-go.

The new Setup Wizard will enable customers to quickly get started and onboarded – new users can configure their Gravity Forms settings, agencies can opt to hide license details from clients, and if you’re a seasoned customer in a hurry, we know you’ll appreciate the faster setup times!

Developer Features

As well as all the user-facing features we’ve mentioned above, much time has been spent focusing on how we build our products. In 2.7 we have started building our 2.7 back-end features using React, creating a component library, a React build system, and a number of NPM packages.

This means that, if you’re a developer, you will be able to use our component library and build systems in your own add-ons, without having to worry about what version of Gravity Forms your users have. Watch this space!

Update to Gravity Forms 2.7 Today!

As mentioned, Gravity Forms 2.7 is now available to ALL customers with an active license!

Simply open your WordPress dashboard, head over to your plugins page, and click to Update to Gravity Forms 2.7.

Gravity Forms 2.7 can also be downloaded from within your Gravity Forms dashboard.

And of course, the latest version of Gravity Forms is available to all new customers. Simply head over to our pricing page to pick the right plan for your form building needs and make a purchase.

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.

Any questions on any of the new features available with 2.7 or how to update the plugin? Feel free to contact our friendly and knowledgeable Support team.

Further Gravity Forms 2.7 Resources

As always, the Gravity Forms documentation is bursting with in-depth resources to help you get the most out of our form plugin. For more information on the new and improved 2.7 features, have a read of these articles…

• Block Themes and Style Settings
• Gravity Forms Setup Wizard
• Using the Gravity Forms Template Library
• Enhancements to the Spam Honeypot

Demo Gravity Forms

If you don’t have Gravity Forms yet, don’t worry. You can sign up for your own personalized Gravity Forms 2.7 demo and see why Gravity Forms is the top choice for WordPress sites worldwide.

Already in love? Purchase our premium WordPress form plugin today!