https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/creating-posts-from-form Gravity Support Forums Topic: Creating posts from form en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:49:04 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/creating-posts-from-form#post-3786 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:24:51 +0000 netcooler 3786@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Sounds like something I might be able to work with.</p> <p>I can go on and create a sample post that would serve as a template. Would then Gravity Forms create for me new posts based on that template (with their permalinks and everything), or would it be like a mold that data from a database would be poured in and it won't be linkable and chronologically-sorted?</p> <p>[Edit: By the way, I find it quite hard to keep track of my question in a forum, which I do not regularly visit.] </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/creating-posts-from-form#post-3180 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:32:50 +0000 Carl Hancock 3180@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Yea, that is another option. </p> <p>You could use a custom post template combined with custom fields and accomplish a variety of layouts this way also.</p> <p>Gravity Forms Custom Fields can be formatted using a variety of field types which would allow you to control how the information is input.</p> <p>Then your post template would display the post body and the post custom fields however you want to format them.</p> <p>This would be possible with the current version of Gravity Forms and could be a good way to implement this type of form to post functionality. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/creating-posts-from-form#post-3175 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:19:36 +0000 Chris Hajer 3175@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>How about a custom post or page template to display that data however you want? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/creating-posts-from-form#post-3172 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:25:17 +0000 netcooler 3172@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Carl. Thanks for your quick reply.<br /> Do you have an estimated schedule of when 1.4 gets released? This for me is a required feature before I go ahead and buy this plugin.</p> <p>I'm anxious and excited to see what's in store for us!</p> <p>Asaf. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/creating-posts-from-form#post-3050 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:53:54 +0000 Carl Hancock 3050@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hello Asaf, currently you cannot pre-format what the post body will be populated with.</p> <p>However, it would be possible to do this using the available API hooks. But it isn't a built in feature.</p> <p>The good news is we plan on making it a feature, possibly as early as the 1.4 release. So keep watching, things are only going to continue to get better and more powerful. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/creating-posts-from-form#post-3044 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:42:34 +0000 netcooler 3044@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi there.<br /> I was playing around with the demo on the site, but I couldn't find an answer to my question:</p> <p>Can the form create an automatically-formatted post?<br /> For instance, I want to have a paragraph text field in the form, that would become a blockquote in the post. I want two single-line text fields in the form that will become two consecutive lines without linebreak between them in the post.</p> <p>This is the scenario:<br /> I am running a website similar to UrbanDictionary, only in Herbew.<br /> Naturally, the site relies on visitor input. Each post (=dictionary entry) is uniformly formatted, but I have to validate it on each post publication. Right now users register and they have a sample post to follow its formatting. Needless to say, not all users know how to follow the format or sometimes they're just lazy.<br /> This method is time-consuming for me as a moderator, and a form plugin would greatly help me.<br /> I want to yank the formatting part out of the equation, since this is not something a user should do. And know what? Not even a thing a moderator should do.</p> <p>You can see what I mean about uniformly-formatted posts here: <a href="http://www.dorbanot.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.dorbanot.com</a></p> <p>Any help on this will be greatly appreciated!</p> <p>Asaf Sagi. </p>