GWW 324: Going the Distance

Greetings, wizards!

In honor of this week’s big release, I drafted this edition on loop with Cake’s Going the Distance. Hit play and read along — it’s a vibe. (I strongly considered Go the Distance from Hercules, but Cake had the vehicular energy this one called for.)

Wizards, start your engines! 🏁

Go the Distance: GP Address Autocomplete 2.0

For five years, Address Autocomplete has taken the pain out of typing an address. Now it does the math on what’s between them. The new Travel Estimate field measures distance and drive time using Google’s Routes API, and the Map field can draw the route from origin to destination — all powered by Google’s new Places API.

Drop those estimates straight into your calculations, conditional logic, and merge tags, and suddenly a lot of “how would I even build that” forms get easy: delivery fees by distance, mileage reimbursements, travel-time quotes, service pricing that scales with the drive. Not bad for a field that used to just autofill your street. 😏

Top Picks: Product Updates

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

The new “Allow Resource Rescheduling” setting lets you keep customers on the same resource when they move a booking, so a reschedule changes the when without changing the who or what.

GP Inventory
✦ Easy, flexible inventory management for Gravity Forms.

Put your remaining stock to work with the new :inventory merge tag modifier. Show a field’s available inventory anywhere you use merge tags — and pull it right into your calculation formulas for pricing, limits, and logic that reacts to what’s actually left.

GP Placeholders
✦ Um, placeholders for List fields, I guess?

Back when Gravity Forms added native placeholder support, we deprecated this perk — but plenty of you still lean on it for List field placeholders, which core still doesn’t cover. GF 3.0 introduced a breaking change, and while the perk is technically deprecated, we had to show up for you hardcore List field users. 😂

Community Highlight: Advanced Permissions Meets Entry Blocks

Our friends at CosmicGiant shipped Advanced Permissions 4.0, and the headline for Entry Blocks fans is simple: your permission rules now follow your entries onto the front end. Entry Permissions filter which entries show up in Entries blocks, and Form Permissions govern who can edit or delete them — no reconfiguring required, since existing rulesets apply automatically.

It’s a big release beyond that too, extending enforcement across GravityView, the Gravity Forms REST API, and even AI agents via MCP. This plugin is absolutely living up to its name!

Updated: Full Page Spinner on Submission

The long arm of Gravity Forms 3.0 reached one of our most popular resources — so we gave it a tune-up.

The full-page spinner drops a clean overlay and animated spinner over the whole screen the moment someone submits, turning that awkward “did it work?” pause into instant, unmissable feedback. It’s especially handy on forms with file uploads or heavier server-side processing.

Grab the updated snippet and CSS, tweak the colors to match your brand, and you’re done.

✦ 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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GP Bookings | Minimum Quantity by Remaining Capacity — Require a minimum booking quantity while a slot still has plenty of room, then ease off automatically as it fills up — great for pushing bigger group bookings early without blocking that last single seat.

GP Sliders | Minimum Submission Value — Enforce a hard minimum on a slider without touching its visual range. For example, a slider can run from 1% to 10% while rejecting anything under 2% — which also stops an untouched slider (sitting at its 1% default) from slipping through.

GP Read Only | Read Only on Edit — Keep fields locked when editing an entry, not just when viewing it.

What changed: Read Only now extends to the native Gravity Forms Entries edit screen — not only Entry Blocks, GravityView, and Gravity Flow. Flip on a single setting when you want those edit-screen fields locked down too.

Product Updates

Gravity Perks

GP Address Autocomplete (v2.0)

• Added Travel Estimate field to Address Autocomplete.
• Added support for Google’s new Places API.

GP Bookings (v1.0.3)

• Added “Allow Resource Rescheduling” setting to prevent customers from changing the resource assigned to their booking when rescheduling.
• Fixed issue where resource types were missing from form exports, causing imported resources to have no resource type.
• Fixed issue where the Booking field’s price was excluded from Gravity Forms 3.0’s Total calculation whenever another product field changed.

GP Copy Cat (v1.4.98)

• Fixed an issue where Copy Cat could trigger an infinite loop when copying values to number-formatted fields alongside certain conditional logic or product calculations.

GP Easy Passthrough (v1.10.3)

• Fixed issue where Number fields using a comma as the decimal separator were populated with an incorrect value.

GP eCommerce Fields (v1.2.42)

• Fixed Tax field not updating in Nested Forms context.
• Fixed issue where the {subtotal} merge tag could return double the correct amount with Gravity Forms 3.0.

GP Inventory (v1.0.28)

• Added :inventory merge tag modifier for displaying a field’s available inventory and using it in calculation formulas.
• Fixed an issue where a field with inventory availability conditional logic was omitted from in confirmations and notifications if the submission consumed the last of the inventory.

GP Nested Forms (v1.2.34)

• Fixed an issue where product prices could display as $0 when GPPA-populated products were used in a nested form with different markup versions.

GP Page Transitions (v1.0.48)

• Fixed an issue where the submit spinner would spin indefinitely when submitting the last page with Soft Validation enabled in Gravity Forms 3.0.

Gravity Connect

GC API Alchemist (v1.0.17)

• Fixed an issue where a failed test request only reported “status code 0” instead of the underlying connection error, hiding the cause of the failure.
• Fixed issue where returning an entry to an API Alchemist Gravity Flow step did not retrigger the API.

GC Google Sheets (v1.4.13)

• Fixed an issue where the GC Google Sheets Lookup Column could append a duplicate row instead of updating an existing matching row in edit mode.

Free Plugins

GF Cache Buster (v0.6.13)

• Fixed issue where nonces passed to JavaScript via wp_localize_script were not refreshed in the AJAX response.

GF Form Notices (v1.0.3)

• Fixed an issue where the Gravity Forms Orbital theme stripped styles from notices, causing HTML elements to display as plain text.
• Fixed date merge tags not respecting the WordPress site’s locale.

GF Rounding (v1.14.3)

• Fixed issue where rounding a Product field with a User Defined Price multiplied the value by 100.