Gravity Wiz Weekly #189

David Smith

/ May 19, 2023 / 8 Comments

Greetings, wizards! 

Hope everyone had a pleasant and productive week. I always look forward to touching base with you at the end of mine. 🙂

If you’re still enjoying these newsletters, I’d love to hear from you! Tell me what you like, what you don’t like, and what you’d like to see more of.

Now, onward to this week’s edition!

Gravity Forms OpenAI: GPT-4

With the incessant buzz about AI changing the world, I’m sure you’re at least a little curious to explore how AI can improve your own business processes or help you create an entirely new product or service.

Our free OpenAI plugin for Gravity Forms is a great way to satiate that curiosity and, BONUS, we’ve just added support for GPT-4!

The GPT-4 model is ten times more advanced than 3.5, with big upgrades to its problem-solving, programming, and creative capabilities. It does, however, come with a few gotchas. 

• It is much slower than 3.5-turbo (but results are better).
• A bit more expensive ($0.03 vs $0.002 for 1k tokens).
• A more conservative rate limit (40k vs 90k tokens/minute).
• Fine-tuning is not supported. 

Depending on your needs, these may be negligible drawbacks for the huge performance and quality improvements GPT-4 brings to the table.

We had to wait forever to get access to the GPT-4 API so if you aren’t on the waitlist, sign up now. If you already have access to GPT-4, get the latest version of GF OpenAI and start building the future!

Changelog Highlights

GP Page Transitions

Page Transitions’ buttery animations and frictionless auto-progression no longer prevent users from saving their progress via Gravity Forms Save and Continue. Speaking of “Save and Continue”, wouldn’t it be crazy if you could automatically save your progress?

GP File Upload Pro

We ironed out some kinks with File Upload Pro and Gravity Forms’ dreamy Orbital theme, part of the new theme framework introduced in GF 2.7. We’re working on a followup update that further improves File Upload Pro’s UI with the theme framework so it can be controlled via the block settings.

GP Post Content Merge Tags

The [eid field=”1”] shortcode has been updated to return labels rather than values when targeting a choice-based field (e.g. Drop Down, Radio Button, Checkbox) – a noteworthy FYI if you’re using the [eid] shortcode to display entry content via a page builder or outside of standard post content.

Not familiar with Post Content Merge Tags? It lets you create dynamic pages populated with entry data. Think receipts, invoices, and custom thank you pages.

New Resources

New Guide | Populate Gravity Forms Drop Downs w/ ACF Relationship Field

Ready to become a Populate Anything power user?

This tutorial will teach you how to use ACF’s Relationship field to create connections between your custom post types (e.g. Packages → Activities) and then use Populate Anything’s field filters to only populate activities that belong to the selected package.

New Snippet | Whitespace Merge Tags for QR Codes

Created tabbed QR code data that can be auto-inserted into multiple spreadsheet columns when scanned! Example:

{Product ID:1}{tab}{Product Name:2}{tab}{Product Price:3}{tab}

The generated QR code can now be scanned directly into a spreadsheet and each data point (Product ID, Product Name, and Product Price) would be inserted into the corresponding column. Nifty!

Snippet Update | Numbering List Field Rows

Here’s a sweet little visual enhancement for your List fields. Just a bit of CSS and you’ve got numbered rows! This week, we updated the CSS to work better with the latest version of Gravity Forms.

Gravity Perks

GP Advanced Save & Continue (v1.0.7)

• Fixed issue where auto save requests could cause Save and Continue tokens to be improperly “refreshed” after submitting a form.

GP Conditional Logic Dates (v1.2.10)

• Fixed an issue with conditional logic flyout click.

GP File Upload Pro (v1.3.9)

• Added compatibility for Gravity Forms’ new Theme Framework.

GP Limit Choices (v1.7.13)

• Updated “Enable Limits” tooltip for clarity.

GP Page Transitions (v1.0.12)

• Updated Swiper from 8.4.5 to 9.2.4.
• Fixed issue where clicking the Save & Continue button will not work as expected if Soft Validation is enabled.
• Fixed issue where using the return key on Next/Previous page buttons could trigger multiple page progressions.

GP Populate Anything (v1.2.55)

• Added new gppa_submit_button JavaScript filter.
• Fixed a JavaScript error that could occur with Live Merge Tags if using multiple Nested Form fields in a form pointing to the same child form.
• Fixed regression with Live Merge Tags in checkbox choices not working as expected in some cases.
• Fixed a PHP warning that could be triggered in some situations when using GravityView.

GP Post Content Merge Tags (v1.3.9)

• Updated [eid] shortcode’s “field” attribute to return choice labels rather than values to match the output of merge tags.