We've been busy consolidating our tools and moving everything into WordPress. In fact, this newsletter is being sent from our own site via a self-hosted CRM! One of the best parts of running everything in WordPress? We can customize it ourselves, and AI makes that easier than ever. Speaking of which, you'll notice a new section in this newsletter: The Prompt. It's where we'll share practical AI tips and keep you up to date with AI developments in the WordPress ecosystem.
In this edition:
🌟 Product spotlight: Updates to GravityEdit and Zero Spam
🤖 The prompt: Abilities, MCP, and the new AI connector screen
✍️ From the blog: How to build a product rental catalog
🧰 Updates to the ’Kit
🌟 PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT
GravityEdit
Quickly edit Gravity Forms entries inline to save time, reduce clicks, and streamline your workflow.
GravityEdit v2.9.2 fixes inline editing of dynamically populated choice fields, like those using Dynamic Lookup, or Populate Anything by Gravity Wiz. Checkbox values no longer get wiped or corrupted when saving, choice labels stay intact instead of reverting to raw IDs, and select fields now display labels correctly after edits.
GravityView – Maps Layout
Display entries on an interactive Google Map with geolocation functionality.
This update to the GravityView Maps Layout fixes an issue where geolocation radius search reused coordinates from the first search on every subsequent search, ignoring the new location. It also resolves PHP deprecation warnings that appeared with Gravity Forms 2.9.29+.
These updates are part of our latest round of releases, which also includes updates to GravityCalendar and Zero Spam.
WordPress 7.0 shipped Beta 2 with a new Connectors UI under Settings > Connectors, giving site owners a central place to manage AI provider connections. Official plugins for OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are already in the plugin repository.
Powering this is the Abilities API, which lets developers register standardized functionality that any AI client can discover and use. On top of that, an official WordPress MCP adapter exposes these abilities to AI agents like Claude through the Model Context Protocol—a standard for connecting AI to external platforms.
Core currently ships with just three basic abilities, but any plugin can register its own. For more functionality today, check out InstaWP's MCP server for WordPress, a community-built server with 30+ tools for managing content, media, users, plugins, and more. It's what Casey has been using at GravityKit to push content drafts from Notion straight to our WordPress site via Claude!
Need to display a browsable product catalog or equipment directory on your WordPress site? WooCommerce is overkill when you’re running an equipment rental company, managing an internal asset library, or showcasing products without needing a full shopping cart. In this post, Casey shows you how to build a fully functional product catalog using Gravity Forms for data entry and GravityView for the front-end display.
If you’re running multiple Gravity Forms on your site, chances are you’ve needed to pull data from more than one form at a time. Maybe you manage separate forms for different departments, events, or locations. With the free GravityExport Lite plugin, you can select multiple forms and download all their entries as a single Excel file, with each form on its own worksheet. No copy-pasting, no juggling files!
🧰 UPDATES TO THE ’KIT
Here are the plugins that got updates since our last newsletter:
