News & Updates
A collection of missives and messages, along with nerd talk and company carryings-on.
Gravity Forms v1.8 Beta 2 Released
By Carl HancockBeta 2 of Gravity Forms v1.8 is now available. Beta 2 features new features, minor enhancements and bug fixes to Gravity Forms, the Add-On Framework and the API. Gravity Forms v1.8 is a major update that introduces a lot of great new user features, enhancements, and powerful new developer features such as the new Add-On Framework and a complete API. You can get complete details on all of the great new features and enhancements by reading the Gravity Forms v1.8 Beta 1 release announcement. Please report any bugs or issues you may encounter to our support team and make it clear it is in reference to the Gravity Forms v1.8 Beta 2 release when doing so.
Read moreGravity Forms PayPal Payments Pro Add-On v1.0 Released
By Carl HancockThe Gravity Forms PayPal Payments Pro Add-On v1.0 is now official. It’s gone through a rigorous beta testing phase and is good to go! Not to be confused with the PayPal’s old “PayPal Pro” solution, this Add-On is only designed to work with PayPal’s newer PayPal Payments Pro payment processing solution. 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.
Read moreGravity Forms v1.7.12 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms v1.7.12 is now available via automatic update and the downloads page. This is a maintenance release that also implements some backwards compatibility with form forms created using the Gravity Forms v1.8 beta. We recommend that all users update as soon as possible as it is important for WordPress users to always keep WordPress, plugins and themes up to date.
Read moreGravity Forms v1.8 Beta 1 Released
By Carl HancockWe are extremely pleased to announce the availability of Gravity Forms v1.8 Beta 1. This release introduces a major new enhancements such as drag-n-drop Multi-File Uploads. You will also notice UI refinements, WordPress heartbeat integration, form trash, and other enhancements. This release will really be a treat for developers as it introduces the latest version of our Add-On Framework for developing Gravity Forms Add-Ons as well as the introduction of a complete API that allows developers to interact with a specific Gravity Forms install to add, update, delete and return Gravity Forms data. And yes, there is already developer documentation available for both!
Read moreGravity Forms v1.7.11 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms v1.7.11 is now available via automatic update and the downloads page. This is a minor maintenance release that resolves two issues that may impact some users. However, we still recommend that all users update as soon as possible as it is a WordPress best practice to update WordPress, plugins and themes when updates are available. We can’t stress this enough: Always keep your WordPress site up to date.
Read moreGravity Forms v1.7.10 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms v1.7.10 is now available via automatic update and the downloads page. This is a major maintenance and bug fix release and we recommend users update when they can. You should always keep WordPress, plugins and themes up to date.
Read moreGravity Forms Coupon Add-On v1.0 Released
By Carl HancockThe Gravity Forms Coupons Add-On is now available as an official v1.0 release! This Add-On allows you to quickly add flat amount or percentage based coupons to order forms created using Gravity Forms.
Read moreGravity Forms User Registration Add-On v1.7 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms User Registration Add-On v1.7 is now available via automatic update. This is a maintenance, bug fix and compatibility release. As with all updates we release, we highly recommend users update both WordPress and WordPress plugins whenever updates are available.
Read moreGravity Forms v1.7.8 Released
By Carl HancockGravity Forms v1.7.8 is now available via automatic update and the downloads page. This is primarily a maintenance and bug fix release and we highly recommend users update. You should always keep your WordPress site up to date.
Read moreGravity 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.
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