Gravity Forms - WordPress Form Management

UPDATE: The issue issue fixed as of version 1.1.1 so I am removing my hotfix as it is no longer needed. Thank to Zack Katz creator of the Gravity Forms Salesforce Add-on for the quick fix.

I use Gravity Forms for a lot of things.  Recently I needed to integrate some forms with Salesforce the wildly popular CRM system.  At first I developed a more or less manual method to post the form information to Salesforce and redirect back to the confirmation page.  This was impractical in that every time one of the content contributors needed to create form that would post to Salesforce I had to manually build the redirect. By chance I was looking for something else in the WordPress plugin repository and ran across the Gravity Forms Salesforce Add-on.

This plugin is a free Salesforce Add-On for Gravity Forms that adds contacts directly into Salesforce, making lead generation even easier to use with WordPress.  The plugin advertised that it added one setting, a check a box when configuring your forms, and all of those form entries would be added to Salesforce.  There was only one problem.  Checkbox or no the plugin was posting every form to Salesforce, which meant that many forms that shouldn’t be posting contact information to Salesforce were doing so.

I contacted the developer to see if there was a solution but as of this post I have yet to hear back from him.  The plugin is really good on the Salesforce side of things and I couldn’t wait to hear back from the developer so I started looking through the code to see if I could solve the problem for myself.  After a bit of poking around I discovered that there was no check to see if the form had the Salesforce Integration checkbox selected or not.  A few lines of code later I had fixed the bug – or at least patched it to my satisfaction and the checkbox was working.  Only forms that have been designated to integrate with Salesforce were doing so.

I contacted the developer again with a list of the changes so that he will hopefully integrate them into the next release.  In the meantime if you are using the Gravity Forms Salesforce Add-On and you are having the same problem you can grab the hotfix below.

Roman Forum and Colosseum (credit: rmlowe)

I’m switching the forums back to bbPress now that there is a bbPress WordPress plugin for it.  I’m going to try to port all the messages back but there I’m not sure how that will work out.  So please be patient if you feel you need to post to the forums.  I had previously used bbPress but is seemed that no progress was being made regarding development so I switched to Mingle Forum.  Turns out bbPress was more useful – I was able to track topics better and respond better to posts. So that said I need to fix a few style issue and and try to port the posts back to bbPress and then the forums will be available once again.

UPDATE: In retrospect I’ve decided not to import the existing forum content for a couple of reasons.  One, I don’t have the time to do it.  And, two, I’d just like to start fresh with the forums and simplify them.

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1. Can’t change to another style besides shadowed.
2. IE specfic stylesheets not loading correctly in shadowed and elegant themes.

I will have these fixed this weekend and release version 1.6.9.5 addressing both of those issues.

The main new feature that I added was the ability to auto-lightbox links to images that did not have an image in the link (i.e. text links to images.)  I also added additional control over the width and height of images which can allow for interesting display options and different handling for long text.

Lightbox Plus now also works with WordPress MU.  It has been tested with version 2.9.2 of WordPress MU and works quite well.  It can be enabled globally or individually.

Full list of changes below.

1.6.8

• Fixed duplicate rel=lightbox[] tags being generated.
• Fixed IE 6 specific stylesheets – should provide correct headers for php based css documents.
  • AlphaImageLoader should automatically be configure for old verions of IE – 6 or less
• As of this version IE 6 or less are no longer supported.
  • If you are using IE 6 or less it is recommended that you upgrade your browser.
• Added option to auto-lightbox text links to images
• Added additional width and height options
  • width – can set a fixed total width. This includes borders and buttons.
  • height - can set a fixed total height. This includes borders and buttons.
  • innerWidth – This is an alternative to ‘width’ used to set a fixed inner width. This excludes borders and buttons.
  • innerHeight – This is an alternative to ‘height’ used to set a fixed inner height. This excludes borders and buttons.
  • initialWidth - can set the initial width, prior to any content being loaded.
  • initialHeight – can set the initial height, prior to any content being loaded.
• Updated admin.css and admin-html.php to correct a top level class that may effect global styles.
• Now works correctly with WordPress MU
  • Tested with WordPress MU 2.9.2
• Degradation of performance in Firefox corrected. May still occur in older versions
  • Note: with the release of Firefox 3.0.19 the 3.0.x branch of Firefox will reach its end of life on March 30, 2010

You can download Lightbox Plus from WordPress.org or 23systems or download Lightbox Plus 2.4.6 directly.

If you require support you can go to the Lightbox Plus message board.

0.8.9.1

• Minor interface updates
  • Quick links in plugins list
  • Added additional support and FAQ links to admin panel
• Readme and faq update

0.8.9

• Moved JavaScript calls to the footer to improve load times.
  • You must have the wp_footer() call in your template for FLIR to work – see /wp-content/theme/default/footer.php for example.
• Updated Facelift to version 2.0b3.
  • Various improvments to rendering and speed
  • Using minified version of FLIR for improved load times
  • Additional features (not all are implement with FLIR for WordPress)
  • Bug fixes from previous versions
• Added one additional setting – Single Cache Directory option
• Updated admin panel to hide help text and provide icon to toggle

0.8.8

• Updated Facelift to version 1.2.2.
  • Corrects security vulnerability with Facelift

0.8.7.1

• Minor adjustments to work with WordPress 2.8.
• Minor changes to jQuery method to ensure compatibility with jQuery 1.3.2.

0.8.7

• Fixed typ0 in JavaScript which creates issue with IE7.

0.8.6

• Fixed bug in disable for IE 6 that was also disabling for IE 7 (Thanks Zack for pointing out my stupid error)
• Change some text in the admin panel to clarify a few items.

0.8.5

• Set the tags used by the Automatic method to follow the element types as defined in the configuration
• Add checkbox to allow the use of external JavaScript libraries – jQuery, Scriptaculous and Prototype support only
• Hide Elements to Replace section when using Automatic method as Elements to Replace is not used in that case.
• Add checkbox to disable FLIR for IE6 or lower users to avoid rendering issues that sometimes occur.
• Fix the global Use FancyFonts not showing it’s activated.
• Other minor interface fixes for WordPress 2.7
• Changed internal selection methods to increase speed and reduce memory usage.

You can download it from WordPress.org or 23systems or you may download Facelift Image Replacement 0.8.9.2 directly.

You can get support at the Facelift Image Replacement message board.