Gravity Support Forums Topic: Hook or Filter to populate description with post content?

Gravity Support Forums Topic: Hook or Filter to populate description with post content? https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/hook-or-filter-to-populate-description-with-post-content Gravity Support Forums Topic: Hook or Filter to populate description with post content? en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:39:47 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 <![CDATA[Search]]> q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php Dana Cobb on "Hook or Filter to populate description with post content?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/hook-or-filter-to-populate-description-with-post-content#post-53582 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:28:49 +0000 Dana Cobb 53582@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Hi, WebEndev, Below is an example of pulling the content for an existing post and using that content as the description for a form field. I use the WordPress function get_post to pull out the content - <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post</a> . I also use the Gravity Forms hook "gform_pre_render" - <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_pre_render" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_pre_render</a> . Change the code to reference your post id and field id. You may also set which form you want to apply this code to by using gform_pre_render_1 (add the form id to the hook). <pre><code>add_filter("gform_pre_render", "populate_description"); function populate_description($form) { $id = 142; //post id $post = get_post($id); //WordPress get_post function $content = $post->post_content; //loop through fields on form //to get the field for which you want to alter the description foreach($form["fields"] as &$field) //change the description for field 2 if($field["id"] == 2){ $field["description"] = $content; } //return altered form return $form; }</code></pre> WebEndev on "Hook or Filter to populate description with post content?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/hook-or-filter-to-populate-description-with-post-content#post-53455 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:44:09 +0000 WebEndev 53455@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Yes, exactly. But keep the post formatting... Dana Cobb on "Hook or Filter to populate description with post content?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/hook-or-filter-to-populate-description-with-post-content#post-53452 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:39:42 +0000 Dana Cobb 53452@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Hi, WebEndev, I am not sure I understand what you mean, could you explain a bit more? Are you loading a form and populating it with information from an existing post and want what was submitted in a Post Body field to be displayed as the description for your checkbox field on this new form? WebEndev on "Hook or Filter to populate description with post content?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/hook-or-filter-to-populate-description-with-post-content#post-52883 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:20:42 +0000 WebEndev 52883@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Is there a way to retrieve a posts content and populate it in the field description (specifically a checkbox field description? I would like to populate the description with the formatted content from a post. I didn't see anything in the documentation, but I may be missing it. Thanks.