Gravity Forms 2.3; Coming Soon to a WordPress Near You!

Hello, wizards!

The first beta for Gravity Forms 2.3 has officially dropped. We wanted to take moment and give you a closer look at some of the feature highlights and what they mean for you as a Gravity Forms user or developer.

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• Accessibility Improvement: Tabindex Suppressed

  Improved accessibility: tabindex attribute is now suppressed unless enabled via the shortcode or gform_tabindex filter.

  

  This is the start of a larger push to make Gravity Forms more accessible. By default, the tabindex will not be included for fields in the form markup.

  If you need to specify a tabindex you can still use the “tabindex” attribute on the [gravityforms] shortcode – or – if you want to get fancy, you can use the gform_filter filter. Tabindex suppression means you’ll no longer need our tabindex conflict fix.

• Checkbox Field: Select All Option

  Select All choice added to Checkbox Field to easily select/deselect all choices.

  

  A much-requested user-facing feature! Enable the Select All option on your Checkbox fields to allow users to select (and deselect) all checkboxes with a single click.

  If you’re looking for a way to limit how many checkboxes can be selected and/or span that limit over multiple checkbox fields, check out our Gravity Forms Limit Checkboxes plugin.

• Import Multiple Form Export Files

  Multiple form export files can now be imported at once using the Import/Export tools.

  

  Not much to add here. Select multiple form export files and Gravity Forms will handle importing them all in one batch. Handy.

• OpenSSL Encryption Support

  Introduced support for OpenSSL encryption.

  

  This is primarily for developers. Gravity Forms provides two helper functions for encrypting/decrypting data: GFCommon::encrypt() and GFCommon::decrypt(). These methods are being deprecated in favor of GFCommon::openssl_encrypt() and GFCommon::openssl_decrypt.

  Pro tip: Gravity Forms provides “Easter egg” support for encrypting your entry data via the gform_is_encrypted_field.

• Carbon Copy Support for Notifications

  Added Notifications setting for defining CC email to Email Notification. Enabled using the new gform_notification_enable_cc filter.

  

  Include a comma-delimited list of emails who should be cc’d or use a merge tag for an Email field. Activate with:
  add_filter( 'gform_notification_enable_cc', '__return_true' );

  If you need to filter the notification’s cc programmatically, use the gform_notification filter.

• Drop Down Enhanced UI Updated

  Updated the included Chosen JS library for the enhanced Drop Down field UI to the latest version.

  

  Just keeping things up-to-date. Nothing particularly exciting in the new version of Chosen but it’s still real pretty to look at. :)

Excited?

Gravity Forms continues to lead the online forms industry. The Gravity Wiz team is very excited for Gravity Forms 2.3! Read the full beta release post here.