GWW 316: Secret Calculators

Greetings, wizards!

We’re heading into a big weekend here in the States: Independence Day! I’m trying to wrap things up early today so my fellow wizards and I can kick off the weekend a little early and enjoy a well-earned holiday with our families.

If you celebrate, Happy 4th of July! If you don’t, I hope you’re enjoying a life full of liberty and happiness. We’ll see you again soon. 😊

P.S. This week’s spotlight is so good, we’re kicking things off with it. 🎆

Spotlight: Turning a Quote Form into a Sales Prep Tool

A premium charter bus operator had one rule: keep pricing off the quote form. But their sales team still needed a rough estimate to work from.

So Zach Greene and his team at Half Dome Partners gave the form a secret calculator. Underneath the normal-looking quote request, Populate Anything quietly checks the pickup and drop-off, then API Alchemist pulls the driving distance from Google Maps. From there, Advanced Calculations turns it into an estimate.

The result? Prospects fill it out like always, and the sales team gets pricing context before they say hello. 👋

Top Picks: Product Updates

GF Dev Tools
✦ Everything you need to test and debug Gravity Forms in one toolkit.

Our free plugin for anyone using Gravity Forms more than once a week just got a little feature enhancement. The Show Hidden preview option, which allows you to see hidden fields when previewing your forms, now also reveals hidden fields within Nested Form fields as well.

GF Spam Hexer
✦ A powerful spell to protect against spam in Gravity Forms and WordPress.

Spam Hexer ran into a little hex of its own. Stripe Payment Elements submissions were being flagged as spam due to pre-checkout validation. The spell has been corrected. Shoutout to Hajii Gomeshi for this wizardly find.

GP Advanced Calculations
✦ Advanced calculations with functions, conditionals, and an intuitive formula editor.

You may recall that we added support for date and time calculations in Advanced Calculations in May. Very sorcerous stuff. This week, we fixed an issue where dates before 1970 did not work in calculations. Calculation logic should never be bound by the limits of time. 🕰️

How To: Automatically Resize Gravity Forms Textareas

Paragraph fields, textareas — they’re the same thing — and GF Autogrow gives them a tasty UX glow-up (or is that grow-up?). See it for yourself:

Then learn just how easy it is to enable this on your forms. ✨

✦ Sorcerous Snippets

We add new snippets (and updates) to our Snippet Library every week — ready-made solutions that often beat prompting AI, or give you a solid head start on your next vibe-coded build.

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Gravity Forms | Choice Groups

Organize your Drop Down and Multi Select choices into visual groups using simple heading syntax — bucket related choices under headings so a long list is easier to scan and navigate.

What changed: Add standalone choices alongside grouped ones. You’re no longer forced to put every choice under a heading — let a few outliers sit ungrouped. Shoutout to Gui Lamu for the upgrade!

Gravity Forms | Edit Products & Payment Details

Edit products and payment details right from the Gravity Forms Edit Entry view.

What changed: Fixed an issue where the snippet was running on pages besides the Entry Detail page. This is the fun part of sharing snippets in the newsletter — a handful of new folks pick it up, run it in a setup we hadn’t tried, and surface a bug that’s been sitting there quietly. The snippet gets better and better.

GP Conditional Pricing | Show Original Price

Show the original price crossed out next to the adjusted price, so customers can see exactly what they’re saving.

What changed: Keep the crossed-out price accurate, even with GP Conditional Pricing’s dynamic pricing. Updated to work with fields that have a quantity input enabled or disabled.

Video: Multiple Beneficiaries, One Submission

Product Updates

Gravity Perks

GP Advanced Calculations (v2.0.3)

• Fixed an issue where dates before 1970 did not work in calculations.

GP Advanced Conditional Logic (1.0-beta-1.3)

• Fixed an issue where conditional logic using the wildcard pattern would not correctly display fields when the current date matched the pattern.

GP Bookings (1.0-beta-2.9)

• Added gpb_ics_calendar_props filter hook to customize ICS calendar properties.

GP eCommerce Fields (v1.2.36)

• Fixed issue where calculation listeners were re-bound on every form render, stacking duplicates until the page slowed and crashed.

GP Media Library (v1.2.39)

• Fixed a fatal error that could occur during entry cleanup when deleting associated Media Library files after an entry is removed by automated workflows.

Gravity Connect

GC API Alchemist (v1.0.15)

• Fixed an issue where OAuth token expiration values stored as numeric strings could trigger a fatal type error when retrieving the token expiration timestamp.

Free Plugins

GF Cache Buster (v0.6.11)

• Fixed issue where the form_theme parameter was not properly sanitized.

GF Dev Tools (v1.0.11)

• Added support for Show Hidden in Live Preview for Nested Forms.

GF Spam Hexer (v1.0.2)

• Fixed issue where Stripe Payment Element submissions were flagged as spam because the PoW nonce was consumed during pre-checkout validation and seen again on the redirect-back submission.