https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/embedding-formatted-entry-fields-into-a-post-body Gravity Support Forums Topic: Embedding formatted Entry fields into a Post body? en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:09:02 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/embedding-formatted-entry-fields-into-a-post-body#post-27990 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:46:18 +0000 Carl Hancock 27990@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Here is a forum post that discusses how to set it as the post thumbnail or feature image depending on how you customize the code.</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/auto-setting-the-the_post_thumbnail?" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/auto-setting-the-the_post_thumbnail?</a></p> <p>Please note that when using the gform_post_submission hook if you call it like this:</p> <p>add_filter("gform_post_submission", "set_post_thumbnail", 10, 2);</p> <p>That applies that code to all of your forms. If you append the form id to the end of gform_post_submission like this:</p> <p>add_filter("gform_post_submission_5", "set_post_thumbnail", 10, 2);</p> <p>That will apply that custom code only to that form id, in this example it would be form id 5.</p> <p>We do plan on making this a built in feature in a future release. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/embedding-formatted-entry-fields-into-a-post-body#post-27984 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:05:23 +0000 btickler 27984@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Ok, cool, it works ;)...I'm wondering on the image upload, though...is there a way to set the post's featured image? I was able to embed it into the post but not make the uploaded image the featured image. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/embedding-formatted-entry-fields-into-a-post-body#post-27839 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:56:17 +0000 btickler 27839@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>No worries :). </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/embedding-formatted-entry-fields-into-a-post-body#post-27833 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:46:49 +0000 Carl Hancock 27833@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We will be creating a tutorial for the content template soon to provide more in depth information on how to use it. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/embedding-formatted-entry-fields-into-a-post-body#post-27796 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:39:04 +0000 btickler 27796@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Cool, thanks :). Not sure how I missed that, but I am not sure it talks about that specific application of functionality much in the documentation links.</p> <p>I will try that out tonight. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/embedding-formatted-entry-fields-into-a-post-body#post-27755 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:04:00 +0000 Carl Hancock 27755@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>If you want to use the value of some form fields in the content of the Post that is created you can use the Content Template option on the Post Body field.</p> <p>The Content Template lets you manipulate the post content and create the content using the value of any field on your form. It is similar to how you create your Notifications and the Confirmation message where you can insert merge tags for form fields that are then processed and replaced the the actual field value.</p> <p>- Edit your form<br /> - Edit your Post Body field<br /> - Check the Content Template checkbox<br /> - Configure the content template. You use the "Insert form field" drop down to insert merge tags which are replaced with the field values. </p> <p>Whatever you place in the content template is what will be used to create the Post Body for the post that is created. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/embedding-formatted-entry-fields-into-a-post-body#post-27731 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:50:41 +0000 btickler 27731@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have been reading through the documentation, but I am brand new to Gravity Forms and sort of stuck at the moment. I am trying to figure out how to accomplish what I am looking for:</p> <p>My form is at <a href="http://www.dlantern.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.dlantern.com</a>, under the menu headings Nominations -&gt; Nominate Someone.</p> <p>I am submitting nominations as posts, and have used the post title, body and tag fields etc., but there is also other data being entered. It works, and I get an "Entry" for each nomination, and I get a post in pending review...the notifications work, etc.</p> <p>What I need to do is take some (not all) of the fields that end up in the Entry, or the notification Emails, and add them to the post body as text, transforming them a little bit on the way.</p> <p>So, for example in this case, nominations have a nickname for the nominator and for the nominee to protect privacy, which I would like to the top of the post in a format like:</p> <p>"Nominated by: JohnD90210<br /> On: (date/timestamp of form submission<br /> Location: (state/province), (country)"</p> <p>But nominations also have full name and Email fields that I do not want to embed in the post, so some kind of method of dumping in everything automatically won't work in this case.</p> <p>Also, the tags are populating correctly, so the nominations can be searched for by tag, but I also want to list each tag field in the body of the post, like this:</p> <p>"Country: xxx<br /> State/Province: xxx<br /> Area Code: xxx<br /> Zip Code: xxx</p> <p>Gender: xxx<br /> Age Group: xxx"</p> <p>If I am barking up the wrong tree in terms of the best way to accomplish this let me know...but my site goes live Monday, and I am not a PHP coder, so something along these lines seems like the best possibility :), if I can figure out how to funnel those fields into the post body via the Gravity Forms interface.</p> <p>If that's not possible, I am open to suggestions, and while I am a newbie with Gravity Forms, I'm also a former Oracle/Sybase DBA and a pretty good systems analyst ;), so fire away with whatever advice you want and don't worry that it will be too confusing. I basically know *what* should be possible to do with PHP and MySQL (and WordPress and Gravity Forms), just not how to do it yet ;). </p> <p>It would be great to know the ideal way to do this, but also some way for a newbie to get it working in a limited but functionally-all-there way by the end of the week :). </p>