Slower week on our end, with a few of the team taking some well-deserved time off, so no new releases this time (plenty cooking for next week, though!). Instead, we're featuring Gravity Labs, the Gravity Forms team's new home for experimental add-ons and snippets.
In this edition:
🧪 Community feature: Gravity Labs
🤖 The Prompt: Meet Fable, Sol, and… Gandalf?!
✍️ From the blog: How to build a CRM on top of Gravity Forms
🧪 COMMUNITY FEATURE
Gravity Labs
Explore the side projects and prototypes from the Gravity team.
Gravity Forms quietly launched something you probably already have access to, and it's worth a look. Gravity Labs is their new home for experimental add-ons and code snippets: early ideas, side projects, and prototypes built by the Gravity team and shared with the community as-is.
"This is part of the exciting times here at Gravity Forms as we are into this new AI era, and we're able to iterate and build stuff in a much faster fashion than ever before."
—Matt Medeiros, Community Lead at Gravity Forms
The best part is that it's included free with every active Gravity Forms license. No new subscription, no extra cost. You log in at labs.gravity.com, download what you want to try, and install it on your WordPress site.
Here's a taste of what's there today:
Google Sheets sends each entry straight to a spreadsheet row, with no manual exports.
Versioning brings true version control to your forms, so every change is tracked and reversible.
Feedback turns your form entries into a public idea board with voting, comments, and filtering.
If you want the quick tour, Matt from Gravity Forms walks through the whole thing. Quick note: the video says access is limited to newer plans, but that has since changed, and every active Gravity Forms license now qualifies.
One caveat worth repeating: these are experiments, not officially supported products. Some may grow into full add-ons; others won't. Test them on a staging site and keep a backup before you run anything in production.
🤖 THE PROMPT
Meet Fable, Sol, and… Gandalf?!
A quick tour of what caught our eye in AI over the last couple of weeks, from the WordPress world and beyond.
WordPress puts a bouncer at the door. With its new Protect the Shire initiative, WordPress.org now holds every plugin and theme release for up to 24 hours before it goes out through auto-updates, giving both humans and a new AI reviewer time to check for anything nasty. That reviewer is a Wapuu named Gandalf, the first of what Matt Mullenweg hints could be a whole crew of AI agents looking after the directory.
The reason? Frontier AI is raising the stakes on both sides. The same leaps in coding ability that help developers also hand attackers faster, cleverer ways to find and exploit weaknesses. WordPress had its own scare when a set of trusted plugins was quietly sold to a bad actor, and supply-chain attacks have been hitting npm, PyPI, and GitHub (Read how we protect against these types of attacks).
With more than 3,000 plugin commits landing on some days, a short pause before code reaches 78,000+ plugins and themes feels like a fair trade. Mullenweg expects the 24 hours to shrink to minutes as the AI review process sharpens.
"2026 will be a year of tension between two approaches: updating as quickly as possible to stay secure, and holding back on updating to stay secure."
—Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic
The frontier models had a wild few weeks. Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 launched June 9 as the company's most capable public model, then vanished three days later when a US export-control order pulled it over national-security concerns. After nearly three weeks offline, it returned globally on July 1 with new cybersecurity safeguards (requests it flags now fall back to Opus 4.8), and Anthropic is pushing a shared industry framework for scoring AI jailbreaks alongside Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Meanwhile, OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 on June 26 with a cleaner naming scheme: the number is the generation, the name is the tier. Sol is the flagship, Terra is the balanced option, and Luna is built for fast and cheap.
If you collect contacts or leads through Gravity Forms, you already have the start of a CRM. The data is just stuck on the entries screen in your WordPress admin, where only you can see it. In this tutorial, Casey shows you how to turn the form data you already collect into a working WordPress CRM using GravityView. No code, no monthly SaaS bill, and your data stays on your server.
In our WordPress market share study we analyzed the HTTP Archive dataset to examine the growth and decline of the most used CMSes. This companion piece zooms into the WordPress slice by looking at the page builders WordPress sites are actually built with.
If you haven't tried GravityView 3.0 yet, it now includes one-click styling, native page builder integrations, and an AI connector. Update from your dashboard and take it for a spin!
Until next time, Zack with GravityKit
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