GWW 279: GPT-5

Greetings, wizards!

Our summer’s winding down, and my kids are heading back to school. I thrive on routine, and they thrive on being social, so it’s a win/win (for them, me—and you). 😂

In the spirit of a new school year, this educational newsletter feels like the perfect way to end the week. But don’t show up to class without your Spellbook! 🧙‍♂️

GC OpenAI: Hello, GPT-5

We’re excited to announce that GC OpenAI now supports GPT-5 — along with gpt-5-mini and gpt-5-nano — bringing the latest generation of OpenAI models right into your Gravity Forms workflows.

Here’s what’s new in this release:

• Expanded model support — Full compatibility with GPT-5, gpt-5-mini, and gpt-5-nano for Chat Completions.
• Improved stability — Fixed an issue with Stream Field responses to ensure smoother, more reliable output.
• Simplified settings — Removed deprecated OpenAI parameters (temperature, top_p, frequency_penalty, presence_penalty) for a cleaner configuration experience.
• Custom request options — Use the new gcoai_request_body_params filter to pass custom body parameters to AI providers.

💡 Note: GPT-5 is also available in our free GF OpenAI plugin, so you can start experimenting today.

Top Picks: Product Updates

GP Advanced Select: If you’re using Gravity Flow’s Multi-User field, you can now use Advanced Select to search for specific users, dramatically improving the UX—particularly if you have more than a handful of users on your site.

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GP Nested Forms & GS Product Configurator: These two popular (and quite magical) plugins are now available in Polish! Dziękuję, Adam D. 💜

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GP Blocklist: Did you know this perk has a built-in honeypot? It’s the perfect way to let bad actors think they’ve bypassed your defenses, discouraging them from continuing their efforts, all the while their submissions just end up in spam.

This week, we made a forward-facing change to improve compatibility with the changes Gravity Forms has made to their honeypot input.

Free: OpenAI Integration for Gravity Forms

Matt from Gravity Forms did a banger video covering how easy it is to get started with our free OpenAI plugin for Gravity Forms. Sure, we hope you’ll upgrade to our premium offering at some point—wink, wink—but you can do some pretty gnarly stuff with the free plugin too!

Did I mention that our free OpenAI add-on was just updated with support for GPT-5? 😁

How To: Record Drip Custom Events in Gravity Forms

We’re all trying to take our email marketing automations to the next level and every good marketing wizard knows that good data is the key.

Our latest guide shows you how to capture detailed Drip custom events directly from Gravity Forms. From tracking downloads and purchases to mapping form fields into Drip workflows, this tutorial walks you through setup, testing, and putting your data to work for hyper-targeted campaigns.

Utility Snippet: Force Default Values

This is an old snippet that we’ve continued to update over the years because we keep finding new ways it can help solve interesting problems.

Here’s a classic scenario. Imagine you’re populating a Date field with the next available delivery date. By default, this field is hidden but the user can conditionally reveal this field by indicating they’d like to select a custom delivery date.

Here’s the catch though. By default, Gravity Forms does not capture the value of fields hidden by conditional logic. So unless the user selects a custom delivery date, no value would be captured.

This snippet solves that by forcing the capture of values for conditionally hidden fields. And it now works with Date and Time fields. 📆

Product Updates

Gravity Perks

GP Advanced Select (v1.1.19)

• Added support for filtering based on the Advanced Select Search Value for Gravity Flow Multi-User fields.

GP Blocklist (v1.3.9)

• Improved honeypot compatibility by using the Honeypot Handler for input name.

GP Bookings (v1.0-alpha-2.8)

• Fixed an issue where the booking management interface would not display standalone service bookings.
• Fixed an issue where date range end dates were being reduced by one day for full-day bookings.
• Fixed wp_set_script_translations() calls preventing translation of certain strings.

GP Inventory (v1.0.12)

• Fixed an issue where refreshing inventory for dropdown fields with blank selections caused JavaScript errors.

GP Multi-page Navigation (v1.3.4)

• Fixed an issue where forms using the “Steps” progress indicator and GP Page Transitions “Soft Validation” would not redirect to the confirmation page or URL after submission.

GP Nested Forms (v1.2.12)

• Added Polish translations.

GP Submit to Access (v1.0.4)

• Fixed wp_set_script_translations() calls preventing translation of certain strings.

Gravity Connect

GC OpenAI (1.0-beta-2.10)

• Added gcoai_request_body_params filter to allow passing custom body params to AI providers.
• Added support for gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, and gpt-5-nano Chat Completions model.
• Fixed issue with Stream Field responses.
• Removed temperature, top_p, frequency_penalty, and presence_penalty settings as they are no longer supported by OpenAI.

Gravity Shop

GS Product Configurator (1.0-beta-2.38)

• Added notice in the GS Product Configurator product meta section to warn when WooCommerce Cart or Checkout blocks are detected, as cart item editing is not supported with these blocks.
• Added Polish translations.

Free Plugins

GF OpenAI (1.0-beta-1.15)

• Added support for gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, and gpt-5-nano Chat Completions models.