Casey and I just got back from PressConf, and I'm feeling super energized about GravityKit's future. The conversations were productive, the talks were genuinely illuminating, and the in-person moments reminded me why this community is worth showing up for. Time to channel all this energy into something amazing—starting with this newsletter!
In this edition:
💬 Reflecting on PressConf
🌟 Product spotlight: What's new in GravityView v2.57.0
🤖 The prompt: The engineers behind EmDash, Claude Opus 4.7, and Mythos
✍️ From the blog: Getting Gravity Forms data into external tools
🧰 Updates to the ’Kit
💬 REFLECTING ON PRESSCONF
The biggest thing I took away from PressConf? Our job is to solve your problems, not to ship separate tools that you have to assemble. We're here to deliver polished, out-of-the-box solutions that just work. That's always been the goal, and PressConf reminded me how much further we can take it.
You can expect more from us in the coming months: more opinionated features shipped ready-to-use, deeper solutions for the problems you're facing, and exciting progress on new products. We're doubling down on what's made GravityKit valuable to you.
Thanks for being on this journey with us. The best is ahead.
—Zack
🌟 PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT
GravityView
Display Gravity Forms entries on the front-end of your site and build powerful web applications.
GravityView v2.57.0 lands with a couple of small-but-mighty quality-of-life wins, plus a round of compatibility fixes.
First up: a new View setting that lets searches extend beyond your configured start and end date range. If you've ever set a date range on a View only to have users frustrated that older or newer entries are hidden from search, this one's for you. Flip the setting on and searches can surface entries outside the visible window.
The Search Bar also got a nice editor upgrade. A new live-updating configuration summary in the View editor shows you the field count and search mode at a glance—no more opening the settings dialog just to audit how a Search Bar is set up.
On the fix side, we patched a case where URL filter arguments could bypass the "Search in visible fields only" setting, squashed a duplicate "Edit" link in the Gravity Forms entries page on 2.9.31.3+, and restored async notifications for entry deletions and approval-status changes.
These updates are part of our latest round of releases, which also includes updates to Gravity Forms Zero Spam.
EmDash on WP Product Talk: the "spiritual successor" conversation
GravityKit's own Zack Katz co-hosted an episode of WP Product Talk with Matt Cromwell, interviewing Cloudflare's Matt Kane and product lead Matt "TK" Taylor about EmDash, Cloudflare's new open-source CMS that's been billed as the spiritual successor to WordPress.
The origin story alone is worth the listen: the project was kicked off by Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince asking his team, "Can we build the next WordPress?" Kane, who joined Cloudflare through the Astro acquisition in January, built the first version in about two months with heavy help from AI agents.
EmDash is a fascinating look at how AI is changing how products get built—and what the WordPress community might be inspired by in the years ahead. Worth a listen!
New models from Anthropic
Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.7 yesterday, and it's a solid upgrade over 4.6. Better at writing and debugging code, sharper at following instructions, noticeably better eyesight (it can now read finer details in images), and it checks its own work before answering.
If you use Claude for anything (writing, research, building forms, debugging), it just got a bit smarter and more reliable.
Anthropic also teased Claude Mythos, an experimental "frontier" model that's only available to a small set of vetted partners right now. It's their most capable model yet, with a specific focus on finding (and fixing) security holes in software. Color us intrigued!
Gravity Forms is excellent at capturing data. But once entries start flowing in, you often need that data in spreadsheets, CRMs, project management platforms, or custom applications. This guide covers six methods for getting your Gravity Forms entry data into external tools, ranked from zero-code to developer-friendly. Whether you’re evaluating integration options before buying or looking to connect your existing stack, we’ve got you covered!
🧰 UPDATES TO THE ’KIT
Here are the plugins that got updates since our last newsletter:
