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Gravity Forms Toolbar

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This small and lightweight plugin just adds a lot Gravity Forms related resources to your toolbar / admin bar. Also links to all admin settings pages pages of the plugin are included, making the life of form administrators/ developers a lot easier. So you might just switch from the fontend of your site to read current ‘Entries’ or just ‘Add a new Form’ etc. How cool is that? :) Also, support for all official and lots of third-party add-ons is included!

As the name suggests this plugin is primarily intended towards website admins/ developers. Beside the forum, support links etc. the main plugin settings links will only appear if the current user has the appropiate rights/ capabillities for these. This just goes hand in hand with the very same user rights Gravity Forms itself uses to display its menu entries. So also Editors or any user user with the proper rights could view ‘Entries’ etc (you could easily tweak all those roles & caps with the awesome “Members” plugin!).

NEW Features since v1.3+

  • Display notifications when new Gravity Forms plugin update is available
  • Settings to control menu items notifications display for updates and unread entries
  • Toolbar menu item for Gravity Forms Toolbar plugin settings

Plus the new features since v1.2+

  • Admin settings page to optinally remove Support/Docs/FAQ and/or “Active Extensions” sections from menu (settings under “General Settings”)
  • Admin settings allow also to dynamically add existing Forms (link to their edit pages) and Entries of these forms
  • Visual notification of new entries in the Toolbar (top level) and on “Entries” sub-level (if dynamic entries are activated)

Official Add-Ons Support

The plugin out of the box supports links to settings pages of all officially available Gravity Forms Add-Ons, 8 to date (counting only the ones with settings pages!):

  • User Registration
  • PayPal
  • MailChimp
  • AWeber
  • Campaign Monitor
  • Freshbooks
  • Twilio
  • Authorize.Net

Add-Ons/ Plugin Support

At this time the plugin out of the box supports also links to settings pages of some third-party Gravity Forms related plugins:

Special Features

  • Not only supporting official Gravity Forms/ Gravity Help sites ALSO third-party and user links – so just the whole Gravity Forms ecosystem :)
  • Link to downloadable German language packs – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)
  • Link to Dutch language/translation plugin – only displayed when Dutch locales are active (nl_NL or nl)
  • NOTE: I would be happy to add more language/locale specific resources and more useful third-party links – just contact me!

Localization

  • English (default) – always included
  • German – always included
  • Serbian by Dev4Press
  • .pot file (gravity-forms-toolbar.pot) for translators is also always included :)
  • Your translation? – Just send it in

Credit where credit is due: This plugin here is inspired and based on the work of Remkus de Vries @defries and his original “WooThemes Admin Bar Addition” plugin.

This plugin is a co-work from:

David Decker – DECKERWEB from deckerweb.de and GenesisThemes

and

Milan Petrovic – Dev4Press from dev4press.com

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Installation

  1. Upload the entire gravity-forms-toolbar folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Look at your toolbar / admin bar and enjoy using the new Gravity Forms links there :)
  4. Adjust a few options on the settings page – under “General Settings” > “Gravity Forms Toolbar”
  5. Go and manage your entries and forms or develop new ones :)

Note: For custom and update-secure language files please upload them to /wp-content/languages/gravity-forms-toolbar/ (just create this folder) – This enables you to use fully custom translations that won’t be overridden on plugin updates. Also, complete custom English wording is possible with that as well, just use a language file like gravity-forms-toolbar-en_US.mo/.po to achieve that.

· Minimum WordPress version required: 3.1
· Tested up to WordPress version: 3.3.2

FAQ

Q. Does this plugin work with newest WP version and also older versions?
A. Yes, this plugin works really fine with WordPress 3.3 and 3.3.1!
It also works great with WP 3.2 – and also should with WP 3.1 – but we only tested extensively with WP 3.3+ this time. So you always should run the latest WordPress version for a lot of reasons.

Q. How are new resources being added to the toolbar / admin bar?
A. Just drop me a note on my Twitter @deckerweb or via my contact page and I’ll add the link(s) if it is useful for admins/ webmasters and the Gravity Forms community.

Q. How could my plugin/extension settings page be added to the admin bar links?
A. This is possible of course and highly welcomed! Just drop me a note on my Twitter @deckerweb or via my contact page and we sort out the details!
Particularly, I need the admin url for the primary options page (like so wp-admin/admin.php?page=foo). I also need the correct name of the main PHP class or function (to check if the plugin extension exists or not). (I don’t own all the premium stuff myself yet so you’re more than welcomed to help me out with these things. Thank you!)

Q. There are still some other plugins for Gravity Forms out there why aren’t these included by default?
A. Simple answer: Linking/ adding is only possible where a plugin has its own admin pages and these are properly accessable.

Changelog

1.3

  • Further enhancements and additions for plugin’s own settings/features:
    • NEW: Display notifications when new Gravity Forms plugin update is available.
    • NEW: Settings to control menu items notifications display for updates and unread entries.
    • NEW: Toolbar menu item for Gravity Forms Toolbar plugin settings.
  • Extended add-on and resources support:
    • NEW: Added support for newly released official “Authorize.Net Add-On”
    • NEW: Added Gravity Forms News Planet feed link to resource links (you can also access this from here: http://friendfeed.com/gravityforms-news)
  • Other stuff:
    • CHANGE: Changed wording from “Gravity Forms Main Settings” to just “Plugin Settings”
    • IMPROVEMENT: For WordPress 3.3+ changed display of resource links group: now at the bottom, below settings links and in WP 3.3 group style :)
    • CODE: No longer loading CSS styles or menu items for not logged-in users when plugins like “GD Press Tools” are active (which have options to show toolbar / admin bar also for visitors…)
    • CODE: Minor code/ code documenation tweaks.
    • UPDATE: Updated readme.txt file and all screenshots.
  • Translations related:
    • NEW: Added possibility for custom and update-secure language files for this plugin – just upload them to /wp-content/languages/gravity-forms-toolbar/ (just create this folder) – this enables you to use complete custom wording or translations.
    • NEW: Added Serbian translations by Dev4Press :)
    • UPDATE: Updated German translations and also the .pot file for all translators!

1.2.1

  • BUGFIX: Fixed capability issue for displaying plugin’s options page when “Members” plugin is installed
  • CODE: Improved conditional check for Dutch language plugin; also, some more minor tweaks and improvements
  • UPDATE: Fixed errors in .pot file from v1.2 – updated German translations and also the .pot file for all translators!

1.2

  • Extended plugin functionality a lot, making it even more useful! – Thanx to new plugin co-author Milan Petrovic of Dev4Press!
    • NEW: Admin settings page to optinally remove “Support/Docs/FAQ” and/or “Active Extensions” sections from menu (settings under “General Settings”)
    • NEW: Admin settings allow also to dynamically add existing “Forms” (link to their edit pages) and “Entries” of these forms
    • NEW: Visual notification of new entries in the toolbar (top level) and on “Entries” sub-level (if dynamic entries are activated)
  • CODE: Improved conditional check for Dutch language plugin (only display link if plugin is not activated)
  • UPDATE: Extended and improved readme.txt file
  • UPDATE: Updated German translations and also the .pot file for all translators!

1.1

1.0

  • Initial release