PDF for GravityView 2.0 is out, and on November 17, Jake Jackson of Gravity PDF joins us on GravityKit Live to show what's new. We're recording ahead of time, so send in your questions now. This week also brings GravityMath totals that keep up with your DataTables, Repeater fields on GravityBoard cards, and a look at how BrightLeaf Giving built a live ledger and client portal on Gravity Forms.
In this edition:
🎙️ GravityKit Live: PDF for GravityView 2.0, with Jake from Gravity PDF
🌟 Product spotlight: totals that follow your table, and Repeater fields on board cards
🤖 The Prompt: Agentic WordPress has a roadmap
💼 Case study: BrightLeaf Giving's live ledger and client portal
🎧 On the podcast: Casey on The SDM Show
🧰 Updates to the ’Kit
🎙️ GRAVITYKIT LIVE
🕛 Date: Tuesday, November 17 at 11am ET (4pm UK, 5pm CET) 🗓️ Add to calendar: Google | iCal 📍 Where: Premiere on YouTube
PDF for GravityView 2.0, with Jake from Gravity PDF
Join us on Tuesday, November 17 at 11am ET for another installment of GravityKit Live! Jake Jackson, the developer behind Gravity PDF and PDF for GravityView, joins Casey and me to demo version 2.0 and explain what to check before you update from 1.x.
What's new in 2.0? You can turn a View's Multiple Entries page into one PDF, download Single Entry PDFs for the entries you select as a ZIP, and show GravityView Maps in your PDFs, which now match your View's theme.
We're recording ahead of time, so send us your questions now, and we'll ask Jake during the recording.
Can't make the premiere? Register anyway and we'll send you the replay afterward.
Perform advanced calculations on Gravity Forms entries to display totals, averages, or build custom calculators.
GravityMath 2.14.0 brings live totals to DataTables Views. Put a shortcode in a Custom Content widget, and it adds up the rows on screen, updating as visitors search, sort, page through the table, or change how many rows show. It works with DataTables 3.15.0, out this week too.
The totals above the table add up the 10 rows on screen
So when a visitor searches a sales table for one region, the total above it shows only that region's revenue. Totals read the fields the table shows as columns, so to total a field, add it to the table.
GravityBoard
Display Gravity Forms entries on collaborative kanban boards: manage projects, coordinate with your team, and streamline your workflows.
GravityBoard 1.7.0 lets a card's description show a Repeater field. Each row is listed the way the Gravity Forms entry screen shows it, with field labels above their values, so a card for an event can list every vendor and the service they provide.
Each card lists the rows of its Vendors Repeater field
Boards that use a Repeater field for a card's title, description, label, or due date also load again; before this release, they didn't load at all. And on sites set to another language, the board, its block, and the condition builder now show their text in the site's language (customizing GravityBoard translations covers changing any of it).
These updates are part of our latest round of releases, which also includes updates to GravityView, GravityCalendar, GravityCharts, GravityEdit, GravityExport, GravityImport, GravitySearch, and more.
WordPress wants connecting an AI agent to your site to go like this: you ask your agent for help with your site, it recognizes WordPress, sends you a link to approve access, and you're in.
That's the plan in WordPress for the Agentic Web, a proposal by Jason Adams, Director of Engineering (AI) at Automattic. It targets WordPress 7.3 and has four parts:
MCP, the standard way AI agents connect to other software, would be built into WordPress.
WordPress would ship a starter set of Abilities (the actions a site tells an agent it can take, such as publishing a post).
Agents would sign in with OAuth, the same kind of "Allow access?" screen you see when you connect an app to your Google account.
All of this would be tied together into one simple setup.
I think the sign-in is the piece that matters most. Today, giving an agent access to your site requires configuring an Application Password, which isn't very user-friendly. A sign-in screen with a way to revoke access later is more secure, and it's something you can hand to a client.
For plugin makers, Abilities become the shared language: a plugin that registers good Abilities works with whatever agent a site owner brings. The GravityKit MCP already builds its GravityView and GravityBoard tools from each product's Abilities, so give it a try if you haven't already.
💼 CASE STUDY
How BrightLeaf Giving built a live ledger and client portal with GravityKit
BrightLeaf Giving runs a fiscal sponsorship platform where every dollar in and out has to be traceable. Its client portal, built from more than 30 GravityView Views, gives each program manager a live dashboard of their own funds, donors, and grants.
Behind the portal, every transaction lands in one Gravity Forms form, now more than 5,500 entries across 128 program accounts. GravityMath works out each balance live from that ledger, so what clients see in the portal can't drift from the records.
Our own Head of Marketing, Casey Burridge, joined Rob Cairns on episode 702 of The SDM Show to talk about turning form entries into working web apps: directories, client dashboards, and reports you can share without handing out admin logins.
Casey and host Rob Cairns on The SDM Show
They also cover why marketing has to happen all year, what AI means for content and security, connecting AI assistants through the GravityKit MCP, and moving forms from other plugins into Gravity Forms with GravityMigrate. Rob's closing tip is worth hearing too: test your forms and their integrations regularly, because they can break without anyone noticing.
