https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/limit-number-of-published-posts-per-form-per-user Gravity Support Forums Topic: Limit number of published posts per form per user en-US Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:13:47 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/limit-number-of-published-posts-per-form-per-user#post-46498 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:56:21 +0000 David Smith 46498@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi BusinessOnline,</p> <p>This is going to require some custom code. Here is a high level breakdown of how this could be accomplished.</p> <ol> <li>use gform_pre_render hook to add this customization</li> <li>get the current user data like so:<br /> <pre><code>[php] $current_user = wp_get_current_user();</code></pre> </li> <li>in custom function, use WP's <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts" rel="nofollow">get_posts()</a> to retrieve a list of posts the current user has authored</li> <li>check the count() of the returned posts, if greater than your max, output a style block with a style like:<br /> <pre><code>[css] #gform_wrapper_1 { display: none; }</code></pre> </li> <li>this will hide the form so most users won't look any deeper. For clever users, you'll need to add similar functionality to the gform_validation hook as well to prevent the hidden from from being submitted.</li> </ol> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/limit-number-of-published-posts-per-form-per-user#post-46458 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:16:36 +0000 Dave 46458@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have came to Gravity Forms from TDO Mini Forms where I could use throttling options to set a limit of active posts per user over any period of time I wanted. I ideally need to be able to do the same, however I do not need to do it over a period of time. Whenever a user uses a form, the post is always set to their account so that the user is the author of the post they submitted.</p> <p>For example. All users will be registered before they can access the form (I already have this set by protecting access to the form with a membership plugin).</p> <p>There are two forms that need to limit the number of active (published) posts per user. One form needs to be limited to 1 and the other needs to be limited to 5. How can I check the number of active (published) posts that a user has, or how can I restrict usage of a form based on how many active (published) posts a user already has? </p>