Gravity Forms v1.7.7 Released
By Carl Hancock
Published August 7, 2013
Gravity 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 that uses jQuery UI’s draggable, droppable or sortable touch enabled and will work on touch enabled mobile devices, tablets and touch screens.
Implementation of Touch Punch now means you can re-arrange entry list columns using the entry list column customizer via touch screen device, re-order your fields in the Form Editor via a touch screen device, and re-order choices on Drop Down, Radio Button and Checkbox fields via touch screen devices. It also means we’ll be making other things within the Form Editor, and Gravity Forms itself, touch enabled. So keep an eye out on where we take this in the future.
Remember, find the easter egg feature in this release and post a comment below with your guess… first person to guess correctly wins!
What’s New in Gravity Forms v1.7.7?
- Easter egg feature related to Entries… find it, comment and guess correctly and win a free renewal!
- Added support for touchscreen devices anywhere jQuery UI draggable, droppable or sortable is used within Gravity Forms using WordPress core’s integrated Touch Punch JS for jQuery UI .
- Added safeguard to prevent double clicks on forms in certain situations from creating duplicate entries.
- Added logging statements around the setup() function.
- Added support for filtering return of ‘has_conditional_logic’, useful for developers using conditional logic in objects not checked by Gravity Forms.
- Added support for updating page title based on settings page.
- Updated multi-site database upgrade procedure so that it only updates all sites in the network on network admin pages.
- Updated tooltips so that they use the jQuery UI Tooltip script instead of qTip.
- Updated masked input script to 1.3.1.
- Updated chosen script to 0.9.12.
- Updated tooltip function so that it uses a global variable improving performance on sites using WPML.
- Updated ManageWP hooks so that they fire in the admin and front end.
- Updated GFFormsModel::search_leads() to accept both a single form id and an array of form ids.
- Updated dutch translation file.
- Updated Pot file.
- Updated Add-On framework with various fixes and enhancements.
- Fixed issue with scheduling when “weekly” is selected.
- Fixed an issue where user defined pricing field wouldn’t format to currency on AJAX forms after a validation failure.
- Fixed an issue where the confirmation message would not be displayed below the progress bar on AJAX enabled forms.
- Fixed E_STRICT notices under WP 3.6 running on PHP 5.4.
- Fixed entry meta conditional logic in confirmations and notifications.
- Fixed issue with pagination on entry list page displaying wrong counts after a search is performed.
- Fixed notices.
- Fixed localization issues.
- Fixed issue with admin_title filter return false instead of original title when not on form settings page.
- Fixed bug with hidden, single, or calculated product inputs object creation treating the field id as a string instead of number, resulting in the ids of the items in the inputs object not matching the field id.
You can update to the latest version of Gravity Forms using Automatic Update. Just visit the Updates page under the Forms navigation in your WordPress Dashboard. Update deployment is staged so if you do not see the update available, try again in a few hours. You can also download the latest version of the plugin from the Downloads page.