BREAKING: Gravity Forms 3.0.2 Successfully Converts Functional Websites Into Interactive Troubleshooting Experiences
WASHINGTON — Gravity Forms announced Monday that version 3.0.2 has successfully completed the company’s long-awaited transition from “WordPress form plugin” to “full-time employment opportunity.”
The update, which introduces an exciting collection of broken input masks, mysterious styling changes, JavaScript surprises, and workflows that worked perfectly fine five minutes ago, has already been praised by developers who were worried they might accidentally enjoy their afternoon.
“We really wanted to rethink what a form plugin could be,” said a Gravity Forms spokesperson while slowly pushing a production database into traffic. “Why should entering a phone number simply work when it could instead become a three-hour investigation involving browser consoles, changelogs, CSS overrides, rollback packages, and an email from support telling you not to roll back?”
Users upgrading from Gravity Forms 2.10.5 reportedly experienced the innovative new “What The Fuck Is This?” onboarding sequence, in which previously functioning websites immediately encourage administrators to question every decision they have made since installing WordPress.
The company also introduced its groundbreaking new compatibility philosophy:
“If you have hundreds of fields configured a certain way, simply change all of them.”
Industry analysts called the strategy “bold,” “disruptive,” and “technically much easier for Gravity Forms than for you.”
One developer managing more than 10 websites reportedly spent hours reverting installations to an older version, only to later discover a support email stating:
“Note that we do not recommend reverting installations that have already upgraded.”
The email then helpfully included a link to the older version.
At press time, Gravity Forms 3.0.2 was functioning normally on a fresh WordPress installation containing one form, one text field, no plugins, no custom CSS, no users, and absolutely nothing anyone has ever built in the real world.