Manage Otter Blocks forms with AI

What we learned testing it

Behavior the ability descriptions do not mention.

• Reading submissions needs a capability Otter gives administrators when one opens the WordPress dashboard. Installed over WP-CLI, the ability was refused for the administrator until Otter granted it (tested); opening any wp-admin page once does that.
• Otter saves every submission before it sends the email. When the email fails, the submission is marked failed and the visitor sees an error instead of your thank-you message (tested).
• A form whose email is switched off still marks its submissions complete, because nothing failed. So does a form emailing an old address. The AI checks the form's settings, not just the status (tested).
• A form connected to Mailchimp or Brevo with the Submit Action Subscribe Only adds people to the list and sends you no email. The fix-emails recipe finds those; the action is changed in the block editor, since a consent box comes with it.
• With no address set, a form emails the site admin email and sends from it too. Clearing a setting through the AI brings its default back (tested).
• Filtering submissions by form needs Otter Pro. On the free version the AI reads all of them and groups them by form, newest first, with no date filter (tested).
• Submission times come back in UTC. The recipes turn them into your site's time zone.
• The AI changes a form's email and messages, not its fields, captcha or mailing list. Those stay in the block editor. If the form's page was open in the editor before the AI's change, reload it before saving: saving it there writes the old form settings back.
• Forms in widget areas are not found by Otter's abilities, though their submissions are. The recipes name them by the page they were sent from.