As 2025 draws to a close, it’s time to look back on the year at Gravity. While we’ve been hard at work behind the scenes on something exciting for 2026, we’ve also focused throughout 2025 on refining our existing products, expanding integrations, and strengthening our community connections.

As always, we’d like to thank everyone in the Gravity community for your ongoing support. From our customers old and new, to our certified and community developers, partners, and others within the WordPress ecosystem, your continued trust and feedback help shape everything we do.

Let’s take a look back at the updates and highlights from 2025…

Gravity SMTP: More integrations, fresh UI, and new features

Gravity SMTP celebrated its first birthday in 2025! Since launching in April 2024, the plugin has continued to grow with new integrations and features that make managing your WordPress emails easier than ever.

New email service provider integrations

This year we added seven new email service provider integrations to Gravity SMTP:

• Elastic Email
• Mailersend
• SMTP2GO
• Emailit
• Resend
• SparkPost

These join our existing lineup including SendGrid, Mailgun, Postmark, Brevo, Gmail/Google Workspace, Outlook/Microsoft 365, Amazon SES, Mailchimp, and Zoho Mail – giving you incredible flexibility when choosing an email provider.

Want to vote on future integrations? Head over to the Gravity SMTP Roadmap and let us know what’s important to you!

Fresh new look and enhanced features

Gravity SMTP received a UI refresh this year, making navigation and email management even more intuitive.

We also launched a new Activity Digest Email feature, helping you stay informed about your site’s email performance with regular summaries delivered straight to your inbox.

For more information on Gravity SMTP, check out our Ultimate Guide to Gravity SMTP or visit the documentation.

Gravity Forms: New and updated add-ons, enhanced spam protection, new templates, and more

2025 brought important updates to Gravity Forms, with add-on updates and releases, enhanced spam protection, and expanded form-building capabilities.

Add-Ons: New releases and major updates

This year saw important updates to our add-on lineup, including a brand new integration with Brevo and a major update to Stripe, one of our most popular payment add-ons.

Brevo Add-On

Launched in May, with this brand new integration you can now send form submissions directly to your Brevo dashboard, making it easier than ever to manage your email list and connect with your audience.

What’s more, by combining Gravity SMTP for Brevo transactional emails with the new Brevo Add-On, you can now manage all marketing and transactional emails through a single platform. This makes it easier than ever to streamline your communications.

Stripe Add-On 6.0

Our Stripe Add-On received a major update this year with an improved payment workflow for Stripe Card Element users. Entries are now created for both successful and failed payments, giving you complete visibility into all form submissions.

We also added feed status triggers so you can conditionally activate feeds based on payment status, a post payment actions setting to ensure feeds only process after successful payment, and support for conditional confirmations and notifications. There’s also a new timeout confirmation for when Stripe’s response is delayed.

For more information, check out the Stripe Add-On documentation.

Strengthening our anti-spam toolkit

We continued to strengthen our spam protection features throughout 2025, with updates to both Gravity Forms core and our anti-spam add-ons.

• Honeypot enhancements – We added a new Submission Speed Check setting that detects and blocks submissions that happen too quickly to be human. We also updated the default honeypot behavior so spam entries are now created and marked as spam automatically, making it easier for you to review and check for false positives.

• Akismet Add-On v1.1 – The Akismet Add-On was updated to communicate directly with the Akismet API, so you no longer need the Akismet plugin installed and configured.

• reCAPTCHA Add-On v1.7– We added support for Google reCAPTCHA v3 Enterprise, along with a refreshed settings UI. Gravity Forms now supports reCAPTCHA v2 (built-in), v3 classic, and v3 Enterprise, giving you flexibility in choosing the verification method that works best for your forms.

New form templates

We added new templates to our library this year, helping you to get started with a new project faster or giving you a solid jumping-off point for more complex form builds:

New form templates

• Consent Form Template – Perfect for healthcare providers, research organizations, and any business that needs to collect user consent and agreements in a clear, compliant way.

• Event Sponsorship Form Template – Ideal for nonprofits, event organizers, and community groups looking to streamline their sponsorship applications and track sponsor details.

• Membership Form Template – A must-have for membership organizations, clubs, and associations that need to manage member sign-ups, renewals, and collect member information.

• Testimonials Form Template – Great for businesses and agencies that want to collect customer testimonials, reviews, and feedback to showcase on their website or marketing materials.

These join our growing collection of premade, fully customizable templates. View the templates!

Gravity Flow 3.0: Faster, smoother, and more intuitive

2025 saw the release of Gravity Flow 3.0 – our biggest quality-of-life update yet! Version 3.0 is all about speed, efficiency, and making workflow management smoother than ever.

Key features in 3.0

Whether you’re running a small business with straightforward approval processes or managing enterprise-level workflows with hundreds of users and complex routing, Gravity Flow 3.0 delivers significant improvements that will transform how you work.

• Lightning-fast AJAX search – For sites with 150+ users, AJAX search is now enabled by default. Start typing and users appear instantly – no more loading long lists!

• New repeater functionality – The conditional routing UI had a complete visual overhaul with full-width rows and plenty of space to view and modify selections.

• Step navigator – Jump between any step in your workflow instantly, reducing the need to keep multiple tabs open.

• Bulk step controls – Select multiple steps and quickly activate, deactivate, duplicate, or remove them in batches.

• Enterprise-ready V2 API – Almost a dozen new V2 API endpoints make it easier than ever to build custom integrations and extend Gravity Flow.

Gravity Flow 3.0 is available to all customers with an active license. For more information, visit the Gravity Flow documentation.

New Gravity Account Dashboard

We launched a completely redesigned Gravity Forms Account Dashboard in 2025! Running from our new gravity.com domain, the dashboard received a total overhaul with a streamlined interface, cleaner UI, and significantly faster performance.

The new dashboard makes it easier than ever to manage your licenses, download plugins and add-ons, access help resources, and update your profile – all with improved search capabilities throughout.

All existing gravityforms.com URLs now redirect automatically to gravity.com. This launch is the first phase of our transition to gravity.com, which will soon become the central hub for all customer accounts across our full product suite.

Gravity Affiliate Program relaunch

We relaunched our Gravity Affiliate Program in 2025, making it easier than ever to earn commission by promoting Gravity Forms. Whether you’re an agency recommending our plugin to clients, a longtime fan, or a professional affiliate marketer, the program offers up to 30% commission with no cap on earnings.

The updated program includes a user-friendly Impact dashboard, access to affiliate resources, and dedicated support to help you succeed.

Ready to start earning? Visit our Affiliate Program page to learn more and apply!

Gravity Experts: Refreshed and ready to help

Gravity Experts got a fresh new look in 2025! Our expert team continues to design custom forms and workflows that streamline business processes for organizations around the globe – from custom workflows and API integrations to strategic planning and ongoing support.

If you’re looking to improve your business processes, implement complex workflows, or need expert guidance on getting the most out of the Gravity suite, our team is here to help. Visit Gravity Experts to learn more!

Gravity Learn and community resources

We’ve been hard at work creating resources to help our community throughout 2025. From webinars and courses to podcasts and video tutorials, we’re committed to providing content that helps you get the most out of Gravity Forms.

Gravity Learn, our academy-style platform, grew significantly this year as the home for much of this content. Whether you’re new to WordPress and Gravity Forms, or you’re a seasoned developer managing multiple clients’ sites, we have content to help everyone… learn!

Monthly webinars

Throughout 2025, we’ve run monthly webinars to help our community get the most out of Gravity Forms.

Highlights included:

• Square.com Payments & Overview – Joined by an expert from Square, we explored how to use Square with Gravity Forms to accept and process online payments, create professional payment forms, and manage all your payments through a single Square dashboard.

• Spam Protection 101 – Explore practical strategies for managing spam in Gravity Forms, from honeypots and reCAPTCHA to advanced options like conditional logic and custom validation, helping you keep your form entries spam-free.

• Getting Started with Gravity Flow – Learn how Gravity Flow integrates with your WordPress site to streamline workflows like client onboarding, approval requests, and multi-person review processes, making Gravity Forms even more powerful for your business.

Missed a webinar? All sessions are available on demand on our webinars page.

Breakdown podcast

Our Breakdown podcast, hosted by Matt Medeiros, continued throughout 2025 with inspiring conversations from the WordPress community.

Each episode digs into the stories of developers, agency owners, and entrepreneurs who are building incredible solutions with Gravity Forms – exploring their challenges, successes, and the creative ways they’re solving problems for their clients and businesses.

Recent episodes included:

• From Accountant to Agency Owner: Building a Profitable WordPress Business – Laurie Barron shares how she transitioned from accounting to running a successful WordPress agency, why AI and page builders aren’t replacing agencies, and how she uses Gravity Forms with ChatGPT to automate content creation for clients.

• Using AI to Accelerate WordPress Development – Jonathan Williams discusses how AI tools are transforming his development workflow, the limitations and advantages of AI in coding, and the future implications for WordPress developers as AI lowers barriers to entry.

• How Liam Dempsey Powers Agency Projects with Gravity Forms – Liam Dempsey explains how he uses Gravity Forms to build client trust through intuitive forms, handles complex workflows for nonprofit clients, and focuses on building relationships rather than just websites.

Find Breakdown wherever you listen to your podcasts!

YouTube channel

Throughout 2025, we’ve been creating video content to help you get the most out of Gravity Forms, Gravity Flow, and Gravity SMTP.

Whether you’re exploring what the plugin can do or you’re a customer looking to master a specific feature, our YouTube channel has you covered. Need help setting something up? This is the place to go for step-by-step guidance and expert tips.

Our video content includes:

• Plugged In – We share some of our favorite WordPress plugins from across the ecosystem, highlighting the tools our team uses regularly and what makes them worth checking out.

• Gravity Forms Quick Tips – Handy bite-sized videos packed with ideas to take your forms further – no fluff, just useful tips you can put to work right away.

• Shorts – Quick hits covering news, product updates, and tips – everything you need to know in under a minute.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date with the latest videos!

Crew Collective: A new podcast

Sometimes we like to do things a little bit differently. This year we launched Crew Collective – a new podcast where space meets storytelling!

Hosted by Stuart Barefoot, Crew Collective is all about the art of creating worlds and characters that resonate – from books and movies to songs and video games. Each episode, we sit down with creators to talk about how they work, what inspires them, and how they bring their ideas to life.

Recent episodes included:

• A Visual Legacy: Apollo Remastered ft. Andy Saunders – Imaging specialist and author Andy Saunders discusses how he used a unique digital technique called ‘stacking’ to remaster original flight film from NASA’s Apollo missions that had been locked away for 50 years, resulting in a best-selling book with stunning visuals documenting one of mankind’s greatest achievements.
• Searching for Utopia: Do You Dream of Terra Two? ft. Temi Oh – Author Temi Oh shares her debut novel about six teenagers sent on a 23-year journey to colonize a newly discovered planet, exploring themes of coming of age, the search for utopia, and the full humanity of characters beyond the traditional hero’s journey.
• Sourcing the Public Domain: Homemade Documentaries ft. Jackson Tyler – YouTube creator Jackson Tyler explains how he turned a teenage hobby of collecting NASA’s public domain footage into Homemade Documentaries, a viewer-funded channel with tens of millions of views featuring curated long-form documentaries about NASA’s most famous missions.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Events and community

Meeting our community in person is extremely important to us. These connections help us learn, grow, and shape the future of our products.

WordCamps and industry events

This year we sent team members to WordCamp Europe and WordCamp US, as well as CloudFest Miami. We also attended Stripe Sessions and Stripe New York, where we connected with partners and learned from great talks.

These in-person gatherings with partners, customers, and the broader WordPress community are invaluable – the conversations and insights we gain always influence our products and direction.

WP Accessibility Day

Additionally, accessibility is extremely important to us here at Gravity Forms. We were delighted to sponsor WP Accessibility Day again in 2025, supporting this 24-hour global event dedicated to promoting and learning website accessibility best practices for WordPress websites. We’re fully committed to helping make the web accessible to everyone.

Investing in our team

At Rocketgenius, our team is at the heart of everything we do. In 2025, we invested in bringing our team together and building for the future.

Rocketgenius retreat

This year, the Rocketgenius team came together in Costa Rica for a company-wide retreat. As a fully remote company, these opportunities to connect face-to-face are incredibly valuable.

The retreat gave us time to step back from day-to-day work, align on our goals and mission, and collaborate on the future direction of our products and company. It was an important moment for team building and strategic planning that will shape what’s to come in 2026 and beyond.

Rocketgenius Internship Program

2025 was our busiest internship year yet! The Rocketgenius Summer Engineering Internship continues to be a cornerstone of how we invest in the next generation of talent. Many of our past interns have advanced through our Journeyman Program and continue to grow their careers with Rocketgenius.

We’re excited to announce that applications for the Rocketgenius Summer 2026 Internship are now open! This fully remote, paid program runs from June through August 2026 and is open to U.S. residents. Interns earn $4,000 per month while working on real projects alongside our experienced engineers and product teams.

Ready to kickstart your career? Visit our Internship page to learn more and apply by February 1, 2026!

Looking ahead

This year has been about strengthening our foundation – from product improvements to new resources and deeper community connections.

As we look toward 2026, we’re more excited than ever about what’s on the horizon. We have big plans, new features in the works, and a continued commitment to supporting our community every step of the way.

From all of us at Rocketgenius, thank you for being part of the Gravity community. We wish you happy holidays, a successful new year, and we can’t wait to share what’s next.

Here’s to 2026!