Big news this week: the GravityView 3.0 beta is here! There isn't much to see on the surface yet, but underneath it's a major refactor that lays the groundwork for plenty of exciting new features coming in future versions. See the article linked below for the full rundown, including instructions on how to get access, test it, and share your feedback with us.
In this edition:
🌟 Product spotlight: Updates to GravityView and GravityExport
📣 Announcement: GravityView 3.0 beta is here
🤖 The prompt: Is AI becoming the new wp-admin?
✍️ From the blog: GravityImport vs GravityMigrate (a decision guide)
🧰 Updates to the ’Kit
🌟 PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT
GravityView
Quickly edit Gravity Forms entries inline to save time, reduce clicks, and streamline your workflow.
Two practical improvements landed in the GravityView v2.59.0 release. First, a new View setting lets you customize the title shown on the Edit Entry screen, so the heading no longer has to match the View's default.
Second, the Search Bar widget now renders the Gravity Flow Assignee field as a dropdown of users and roles, making assignee-based searches usable without custom code. A fatal error on PHP 8+ when a date-range or number-range field received an unexpected URL value has also been resolved.
Alongside the stable release, GravityView 3.0.0-beta.1 is now available for developers and integrators who want to test the next major version. You can find out more below.
GravityExport
Export Gravity Forms entries to Excel, CSV, or PDF and share them instantly with secure download links.
If you've ever set up a Save feed linked to a Filter feed, you may have noticed that the Filter feed's full configuration (column position, sort order, filename, and so on) only applied when the Save was triggered via Webhook. Trigger that same Save feed manually, on schedule, or via a button click, and the output didn't always match.
That's fixed in v1.11.0. The Filter feed configuration now applies on every Save trigger, so you get consistent output regardless of how the export runs. Save feeds linked to a Filter feed with Column Position set to Left (transposed) now produce a transposed file on every trigger, not just webhooks. And scheduled Save feed exports are no longer at risk of silently dropping a chunk of entries on invalid UTF-8, partial disk writes, or a corrupt accumulation file.
We’re excited to announce the launch of the GravityView 3.0 beta! This is a structural upgrade (the biggest in years). We’ve rebuilt the plugin’s internal plumbing to a modern standard so we can ship features and fixes faster going forward. The beta is open now, and we're looking for help testing it before it goes live!
For most sites the changes will be invisible: your Views keep working, your templates keep rendering, and your entries show the same data in the same places. But because 3.0 touches the foundations of the plugin, we want real-world testing across as many configurations as possible before we call it shipped.
If you're interested in being a beta tester, or just curious what's actually changed, read the full announcement below.
MCP servers are starting to look less like a developer toy and more like the new interface layer for WordPress. Three launches in twelve days suggest the floodgates are open.
WP Engine kicked things off by moving its Smart Search AI MCP server into open beta. This MCP wires an AI agent directly into your site's content so it can answer questions accurately by searching across a vector database of real-time content. No custom RAG pipeline, no complicated infrastructure. It pairs with OpenAI's AgentKit for a no-code chatbot.
WPVibe MCP from SeedProd took another route. A free, hosted MCP that lets any AI assistant operate a self-hosted WordPress site with a single click. It's hosted at mcp.wpvibe.ai and openly positions itself against WordPress core's MCP Adapter by offering support for more AI clients and full WP REST API access.
Pressable also joined in the fun. Their MCP, launched April 29, lets you manage sites with natural language instructions—"clone this", "surface plugin security alerts", "update this site's PHP version", "configure HTTP basic auth"—straight from Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. No dashboard, no menus!
And of course, I would be remiss if I didn't mention our very own GravityKit MCP 😉 Although it was released a good deal before the others, we've made some upgrades to it recently. It's well worth trying out for anyone wanting to manage forms and entries conversationally.
Both add-ons enable you to “import” data into Gravity Forms, and that’s where the confusion lies. If you’re trying to get data into Gravity Forms but can’t tell which add-on fits the job, this guide will get you to the right answer!
🧰 UPDATES TO THE ’KIT
Here are the plugins that got updates since our last newsletter:
Just a quick reminder: we're always on the lookout for customer success stories. If you've built something recently for a client (or even just for yourself), we'd love to hear about it. Share your story and we'll feature your work it in a future case study.
Until next time, Zack with GravityKit
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