Big News: Gravity PDF Canonical Release
After 12 years publishing Gravity PDF exclusively through WordPress.org, we’ve decided to expand our distribution channel and are now offering the plugin from GravityPDF.com. We’re calling this the canonical release. It’s very similar to the WP.org version, but has an alternate update mechanism so you receive updates in your WordPress admin area directly from GravityPDF.com. I’m sure you’ve questions, so we put together an FAQ page to answer the common Qs.
The TL;DR summary: we recommend switching to the canonical release (it’s quick and easy).
But the canonical release isn’t the only big change. Our developer friends can now install and manage Gravity PDF plugins/extensions with PHP’s Composer. If you have a modern development workflow using Git and Composer (e.g. Bedrock) then this is for you. Enjoy!
We’re excited to tell you about Bulk Generator 2.0. We’ve rebuilt the UI from the ground up, and it’s more accessible and user-friendly than ever. But the real game-changer? You can merge your form’s Gravity PDF documents into a single PDF file. This can help streamline your accounting process (send one PDF instead of a zip with 30 PDFs), or let you combine multiple PDF reports together. Now that’s a time-saver!
The popular Core Booster extension now has support for displaying image choices in your PDFs – both the native Image Choice field and JetSloth’s powerful image add-on. This functionality will help you bring your PDF documents to life. But we weren’t done yet. Another useful addition is the new Introduction setting. It’s a quick way to add custom content and images to the beginning of your PDFs, before the form fields are displayed.
Finally, the Gravity PDF Previewer 4.1 update improves the Form Editor display. The update shows a more accurate representation of the Previewer Field while you’re form-building, which is useful when tinkering with the field settings. The release also includes a number of front-end performance improvements, too.
Along with the headline news, the team published a number of smaller updates to resolve bugs and complete normal housekeeping work (got to keep things tidy). See the Releases section at the bottom for links.
Gravity Forms Ecosystem
Outside of Gravity PDF there’s plenty going on in the Gravity Forms ecosystem:
- Gravity Forms 2.9 is big news, with the introduction of two new field types.
- A new AI product was recently launched over at gravitybuilder.ai. I haven’t had a chance to test it yet, but the Document-to-Form feature certainly piqued my interest. If it works as advertised it would be a big time-saver for long, complex forms, and one to keep an eye on.
- The GravityKit team has released a free plugin which adds a Gravity Forms widget to Elementor – a popular page builder plugin.
- The Gravity Wiz team just dropped an Airtable integration for Gravity Forms. Don’t let the name fool you; this isn’t some air hockey table integration. Airtable is basically an advanced workflow builder tool.
- Jetsloth have published a comparison article discussing the main differences between Gravity Forms new Image Choice field and Jetsloth’s Image Choices add-on.
Releases:
Here’s a roundup of releases since the last newsletter (in order of release):
