GWW 287: Spam by Submission Speed

Greetings, wizards!

We’re back from our annual retreat and it was the best one yet. Some of our favorite wizards couldn’t join this year but we got to see some new magical faces which was an absolute delight. 😊

I’m going to share a super fun activity we did on this year’s retreat next week and you’ll get to vote on who completed it the best. Don’t miss it!

Now on to this week’s regularly scheduled programming wizardry. 🧙‍♂️

Top Picks: Product Highlights

GP Bookings
✦ Turn Gravity Forms into your complete WordPress booking platform.

The Booking Time field received eight additional formatting options this week. Display the booking date and time in your preferred format.

'f j, y'     => 'F j, Y',   // March 20, 2024
'l, f js'    => 'l, F jS',  // Wednesday, March 20th
'f js, y'    => 'F jS, Y',  // March 20th, 2024
'f j'        => 'F j',      // March 20
'g:i a'      => 'g:i A',    // 8:30 AM
'h:i a'      => 'h:i A',    // 08:30 AM
'g:i'        => 'G:i',      // 8:30
'h:i'        => 'H:i',      // 08:30

Also, the Dashboard Calendar view’s selected timeframe now persists (e.g. Day, Week, or Month). If you prefer working in a specific timeframe, no more having to reselect it each time you access the calendar.

GP File Upload Pro
✦ A professional file and image uploader that feels like magic.

If you’re using File Upload Pro with the community favorite Gravity PDF, you’ll appreciate that File Upload Pro will now display .webp images inline in generated PDFs. What a pretty picture! 🖼️

GS Product Configurator
✦ Customizable WooCommerce products powered by Gravity Forms.

We did a pass on item meta styling to ensure that each field type really shined when included in the cart. No 6-7s here. All 9s. 💅

GF 2.9.21: Spam by Submission Speed

Gravity Forms 2.9.21 dropped this week and it has a pretty gnarly feature. It can now mark a submission as spam if it is submitted too quickly. Powered by Gravity Forms’ Honeypot functionality, it’s super easy to activate. Just enable the Submission Speed Check setting and then set a speed threshold.

You can also display the submission speed in the Entry List view and as a meta box on the Entry Detail view.

Thanks to the team at Gravity Forms for delivering another weapon in our never-ending war on spam. ⚔️

New: GS Product Configurator vs WC GF Product Add-ons

Ever since we released Product Configurator, folks have wanted to see exactly how it stacks up against the legacy WooCommerce Gravity Forms Product Add-ons plugin. Apparently, having a tidier name isn’t enough to convince the average adventurer. 😂

Well, we’ve finally come through with an in-depth breakdown that leaves no stone unturned, no limitation unexplored, and no feature unfeatured. Give it a read and let us know if you have any lingering doubts about which plugin rules them all. 🌋

Spotlight: Turning Gravity Forms into a Lean CRM

Imagine running three event businesses and never dropping a ball, even when your CRM software lets you down. That’s exactly what Tony Schwartz did — he swapped out his previous CRM solution for his very own Gravity Forms lean and mean CRM machine. With the help of GP Populate Anything, GP Unique ID, and Gravity Flow, Tony tracks leads, updates clients, and automates follow-ups, all from inside WordPress.

New Snippet: Limit Bookings Per Day

Imagine you have a daily service. Each service takes an hour and you have eight service slots each day. The thing is… you only want to take on four appointments per day. This snippet helps you achieve this requirement with minimal configuration.

Product Updates

Gravity Perks

GP Bookings (1.0-alpha-3.9)

• Added additional merge tag format options for booking time field.
• Updated Calendar view in Dashboard to persist selected timeframe (Day, Week, Month).
• Fixed an issue where :duration merge tag modifiers showed incorrect values during DST transitions in calculation fields.
• Fixed an issue where calendar bookings extending beyond view boundaries were hidden from display.
• Fixed service-level buffers not properly affecting resource availability.

GP Entry Blocks (1.0-beta-2.18)

• Improved compatibility with Gravity Forms 2.9.18+ file upload handling methods.
• Fixed an issue where search values containing apostrophes were being escaped, preventing entries with apostrophes from being found in search results.

GP File Upload Pro (v1.5.9)

• Added support for displaying .webp images inline in PDFs generated by Gravity PDF instead of linking to the files.
• Fixed issue where download links for File Upload Pro fields in PDFs generated by Gravity PDF were using public URLs rather than secure URLs.

GP Nested Forms (v1.2.16)

• Improved compatibility with Gravity Forms 2.9.18+ file upload handling methods.

GP Page Transitions (v1.0.43)

• Fixed JavaScript syntax error that could prevent properly detecting the current page.

GP Populate Anything (v2.1.49)

• Fixed an issue where List field rows disappeared when populating from serialized post meta.

GP Submit to Access (v1.0.12)

• Fixed Divi Theme builder compatibility issue with refreshing gated page content after form submission.

Gravity Shop

GS Product Configurator (1.0-beta-2.43)

• Improved cart/checkout item meta styling for GSPC-enabled products.

Free Plugins

Spellbook (v3.0.16)

• Fixed an issue where product-specific ‘Buy License’ links directed users to wrong pricing pages.