https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-plus-magic-fields Gravity Support Forums Topic: Gravity Forms plus Magic Fields en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:46:58 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-plus-magic-fields#post-70571 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:43:07 +0000 David Peralty 70571@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks for letting us know. It would be nice if every custom fields plugin took advantage of the architecture that WordPress provides, but I understand there are limitations to that. I have seen people integrate Custom Post Types before. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-plus-magic-fields#post-70567 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:27:40 +0000 mthompson 70567@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I might look at Easy Custom Post Types instead of Magic Fields. Magic Fields stores data in its own table, not in wp_postmeta. Since Gravity Forms uses wp_postmeta, Gravity Forms and Magic Fields don't sync together even if you use the same custom field name. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-plus-magic-fields#post-65698 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:17:37 +0000 cmccrone 65698@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>If you aren't good with editing the wordpress templates, this plugin will let you use SHORTCODES in the post/page content to display the custom fields selected in the "gravity forms" form. The only one that doesn't word is MultiSelect, they use different formats than each other.</p> <p><a href="http://codecanyon.net/item/easy-custom-content-types-for-wordpress/234182" rel="nofollow">http://codecanyon.net/item/easy-custom-content-types-for-wordpress/234182</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-plus-magic-fields#post-15528 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:22:31 +0000 Carl Hancock 15528@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm not aware of a WYSIWYG solution. All themes that I am aware of require you to customize them to show a custom field value. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-plus-magic-fields#post-15525 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:56:13 +0000 Nosmada01 15525@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks Carl for explaining how to display the fields and providing the links to more reading on the subject. </p> <p>I noticed in <a href="http://wparena.com/how-to/the-power-of-wordpress-custom-fields/" rel="nofollow">http://wparena.com/how-to/the-power-of-wordpress-custom-fields/</a>, that they list a bunch of plugins to help with custom fields. Do you know which one of these is best for easily getting the custom fields into the theme template without adjusting the template manually? So looking for a WYSIWYG solution.</p> <p>Thanks </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-plus-magic-fields#post-15520 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:18:14 +0000 Carl Hancock 15520@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Standard Fields and Advanced Fields aren't stored with Post Data. They are stored with Entry Data.</p> <p>Any data you want stored as accessible by a Post has to be stored using Post Fields. Either the Post Title, Post Body or as Custom Fields. This is the only data a post has access to.</p> <p>The Post Custom Field has field types that cover most of the Standard and Advanced fields, so you should be able to use them instead of the normal Standard and Advanced Fields.</p> <p>Custom Fields are single value fields, so they aren't going to support field types like the Address which consists of multiple values. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-plus-magic-fields#post-15517 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:48:33 +0000 indiequick 15517@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>PERFECT. I've been working on a 'video contest' site that users can submit their info, and some the fields are a combination of 'custom fields' while others are the 'Standard Fields' or 'Advanced Fields' from the Gravity Forms admin. </p> <p>Carl, with this thread I can see how to put custom fields into a post, but how would I go about doing the same thing w/ Standard Fields or Advanced Fields? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-plus-magic-fields#post-15513 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:31:08 +0000 Carl Hancock 15513@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Custom fields only appear on the front end if your theme is configured to display/output them. They aren't output by default. Your theme has to display the custom field values. The custom field data is there if you see it when editing a post, but if it isn't appearing when you view the post on your site it's because your theme doesn't have code in place to show the values.</p> <p>See the WordPress Codex on Custom Fields:</p> <p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields</a></p> <p>Here are some other articles on how to use Custom Fields:</p> <p><a href="http://www.kriesi.at/archives/how-to-use-wordpress-custom-fields" rel="nofollow">http://www.kriesi.at/archives/how-to-use-wordpress-custom-fields</a></p> <p><a href="http://wparena.com/how-to/the-power-of-wordpress-custom-fields/" rel="nofollow">http://wparena.com/how-to/the-power-of-wordpress-custom-fields/</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-plus-magic-fields#post-15511 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:26:17 +0000 Nosmada01 15511@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Carl,<br /> Thanks for your speedy reply. </p> <p>I really like that you get the form to make a draft post that I can approve. Let me try to explain what I am saying about draft vs publishing. When I go into a submitted post, I can see my Test Custom Field showing up, with the value that the person put in "this is my answer", so this is great! However, when I click publish, and go and look at the published post on my site, "this is my answer" does not show up? In other words, the custom field values are in the draft, but not being published to the site.</p> <p>Looking forward to your thoughts. Perhaps I have to use the Magic Field Key in the way you are mentioning, but since the field was showing up with the accompanying value in the draft, I was hoping for a way to get it to publish it, without involving another plugin.</p> <p>Thanks. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-plus-magic-fields#post-15508 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:09:53 +0000 Carl Hancock 15508@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>If Magic Fields stores data as custom fields in the post_meta table it's just a matter of knowing what the custom field key is for each of your Magic Fields and then using that key as the name of the custom field when adding a Post Custom Field to your form.</p> <p>I'm not sure what you mean by you can get it to post to the draft but not to the web site. A draft is a post status, by default posts created by Gravity Forms are set as drafts so they are first approved before they are published. You can publish them by editing the post and publishing the post. If you want Gravity Forms to automatically publish the post you edit the Post Title or Post Body field and configure the Post Status. </p>