Forms Bridge 4.2.0 is now available. This release includes three new add-ons, Rocket.Chat, Slack and Zulip, three chat and collaboration systems with which you can integrate your WordPress forms. In addition, we’ve releases a new system to explore OpenAPI specifications to be used inside the API introspection system of Forms Bridge.
Changes
- Rocket.Chat add-on.
- Slack add-on.
- Zulip add-on.
- OpenAPI explorer as part of the API introspection system.
Team chat add-ons
This release includes three add-ons that allow you to bridge your WordPress forms to your team chat app. If your team works with Rocket.Chat, Slack or Zulip, now you can get your forms integrated with your chat system and get notified on each submission.
With this kind of integration you can get a new contacts channel, or maybe a support stream on your team chat workspace where your webpage form submissions will be automatically sent with a formatted summary of the user responses.
The email is great, but if your team is already working with a chat app now you can get all your users and contacts support notifications centralized in one place and organized by channels, rooms and streams.
OpenAPI explorer
OpenAPI Specification (OAS) is a standard, programming language-agnostic interface description for HTTP APIs. It allows developers to describe the structure, endpoints, parameters, request/response formats, and authentication methods of their APIs in a machine-readable document, usually in JSON or YAML format.
One of the key benefits of working with standards is that they define consistent ways to describe information and enable reusable solutions to solve common problems. Since OpenAPI is widely addopted, now Forms Bridge supports the exploration of these specifications.
This new feature is used inside the API introspection system —the module that exposes, to the bridges UI, the list of endpoints, their parameters, and value types. With this new feature, we have refactored the introspection of several of add-ons. Brevo, Dolibarr, Holded, Mailchimp, Listmonk, Rocket.Chat, Slack and Zulip now uses the OpenAPI explorer to retrieve endpoints parameters in a unified way, making our code more maintainable. At the same time, relying on external API specifications ensures that the API introspection automatically stays updates and aware of changes made by third parties.
Plugin
Download Forms Bridge plugin from WordPress.org.