https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-a-form-create-a-post-without-having-the-user-edit-it-1 Gravity Support Forums Topic: Can a form create a post without having the user edit it? en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:04:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-a-form-create-a-post-without-having-the-user-edit-it-1#post-8252 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:28:01 +0000 SoZo 8252@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks Carl. I'll just hide them with styles until then. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-a-form-create-a-post-without-having-the-user-edit-it-1#post-8248 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:50:22 +0000 Carl Hancock 8248@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>This capability will be in the 1.3.14 release that is currently in development. There will be an option to set the Visibility for these fields to Admin Only which effectively hides them from the front end. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-a-form-create-a-post-without-having-the-user-edit-it-1#post-8235 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:51:10 +0000 SoZo 8235@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm running 1.3.13.1 and don't see how to hide custom post fields. Did this feature not make it in after all? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-a-form-create-a-post-without-having-the-user-edit-it-1#post-1471 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:23:47 +0000 panmanphil 1471@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>OK, I'll have to pursue this a different way then. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-a-form-create-a-post-without-having-the-user-edit-it-1#post-1470 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:11:47 +0000 Carl Hancock 1470@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Currently this isn't possible as the Post Title and Post Body cannot be hidden.</p> <p>But what you could do is add the Post Body and Post Title to the form, and then use CSS to hide those particular fields. Then you can populate them using the hooks when the form is submitted.</p> <p>Gravity Forms 1.3 is getting ready to be released and will add the ability to have hidden custom post fields, although it still won't be possible to set the Post Title or Post Body to be a hidden field. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-a-form-create-a-post-without-having-the-user-edit-it-1#post-1464 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:00:56 +0000 panmanphil 1464@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>[sorry I mistakenly posted first under News and Announcments, please delete]</p> <p>I think I understand the post fields, they fulfill the feature of have a form that creates a post. What I was hoping for though was that I had a form with required fields and when the user submitted the form, it would create a post with the data from those required fields. Instead, this prompts the user to fill in the post fields separately.</p> <p>I think I have enough to get started with the filling of the post fields based on other answers here with some code snippets. What I don't grok is how to keep the post fields hidden so the person filling out the form doesn't think they should write in the post fields themselves. So I can populate the post title and body from code, but I don't want the post fields on the form visible to the user.</p> <p>Ideas? </p>