Gravity Forms Versioning GPL v0.1.1-alpha.1

Gravity Forms Versioning GPL Overview

Gravity Forms Versioning adds version control to your WordPress forms. Capture automatic snapshots on every save, compare versions side-by-side, restore earlier versions instantly, and export forms as JSON for environment transfers.

Every WordPress site that runs Gravity Forms eventually hits the same problem: someone edits a live form, a field disappears, a notification stops firing, and nobody remembers exactly what changed or when. Gravity Forms Versioning exists for the people who build and maintain those forms and would rather not rely on memory or screenshots to protect their work. If that sounds like your day-to-day, this plugin was written with you in mind.

Agencies managing forms across dozens of client sites will find the per-form export and import particularly useful, since it turns a form built once into something reusable across staging, production, and client environments without rebuilding fields from scratch. Freelance developers working solo benefit just as much: the automatic version capture means you never have to remember to back up a form before making a risky change, because the plugin already did it the moment you saved. And in-house marketing or ops teams who don’t touch code but do touch form settings gain a safety net they can use themselves, restoring an earlier version without filing a request or waiting on a developer.

Larger organizations with change-approval processes will appreciate the manual snapshot labels and notes, which let a team document why a form changed, not just that it changed. Combined with optional email notifications, this gives site owners visibility into form edits across a team of contributors, which matters more than it sounds once you have more than one or two people with access to the form editor.

What Gravity Forms Versioning Does

At its core, Gravity Forms Versioning watches every save you make to a Gravity Forms form and quietly stores a snapshot of it. Fields, settings, confirmations, notifications, and conditional logic are all captured, which means a version isn’t just a copy of the visible fields but a full record of how the form actually behaved at that point in time. You don’t have to remember to create a backup. It happens automatically, every time, in the background.

Where the plugin becomes genuinely useful is in what you can do with those snapshots afterward. The side-by-side diff viewer lets you pick any two versions and see exactly what changed, field by field and setting by setting, rather than guessing based on a vague sense that “something’s different.” When you find the version you want, restoring it is a single click, and the plugin automatically captures your current form state first, so a restore is never a one-way door. If you decide the rollback wasn’t the right call, reversing it is just as easy as the restore itself was.

Beyond internal version history, Gravity Forms Versioning also handles the job of moving forms between environments. Export a single version or an entire form’s version history as JSON, then import it on another site.

The importer checks for conflicts before writing anything, so you’re not overwriting a production form by accident because two people built similar forms independently. For anyone who develops on staging and deploys to production, this closes a gap that Gravity Forms doesn’t address on its own.

Key Capabilities

• Automatic version capture on every form save, so you always have a fallback without extra steps
• Manual snapshots with labels, notes, and an optional lock, for marking milestones like “pre-campaign version” or “client-approved”
• Side-by-side diff viewer covering fields, settings, confirmations, and notifications, not just a surface-level field comparison
• One-click rollback with an automatic safety backup, so every restore is itself reversible
• Per-version and per-form JSON export, giving you control over whether you move one snapshot or a form’s entire history
• Import with conflict detection and overwrite control, built for safe transfers between staging and production
• Optional email notifications when forms change, useful for teams where more than one person edits forms
• SHA-256 checksum duplicate detection and retention limits, so storage doesn’t balloon with redundant snapshots