https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-form-user-to-be-post-author Gravity Support Forums Topic: Need form user to be post author en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:14:37 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-form-user-to-be-post-author#post-42437 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:21:38 +0000 Chris Hajer 42437@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@amliy - please start a new topic with your issue in the future so we can give you individual attention. Also, we try not to handle support in the pre-purchase forums. But this one is simple.</p> <p>I do it like this:<br /> [a href="http://example.com/?p={post_id}"]Continue to your post[/a] but using the proper HTML angle brackets.</p> <p>That shortlink will be expanded based on your permalink settings to a pretty permalink if applicable. The {post_id} merge tag is available in the drop down on the confirmation page. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-form-user-to-be-post-author#post-42211 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:01:15 +0000 amliy 42211@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>hi<br /> i m just curious about it<br /> how can i put "post link" like "continue to your post"link" after submission </p> <p>after user have completed post form </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-form-user-to-be-post-author#post-36800 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:04:31 +0000 Chris Hajer 36800@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Conditional content templates are not built in to Gravity Forms 1.5 or 1.6. But you can do it by creating a custom content template in your functions.php using the <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_post_submission" rel="nofollow">gform_post_submission</a> hook.</p> <p>Does this help at all?<br /> <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/post-template-condition-based-on-field" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/post-template-condition-based-on-field</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-form-user-to-be-post-author#post-36798 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:57:43 +0000 thedanielrichard 36798@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@Chris - That might just do the trick; took me about an hour trying to figure that out till finding this post. :)</p> <p>It allows html to be included in the content template if I got it correct; allowing users to be attributed to their site if any. However, would there be any way to have conditions in the post content template (ie: if field "website title" and "website url" exists, includes line "of 'website_title'" -- in content template)?</p> <p>Running the Gravity Forms on: <a href="http://travelsify.com/write-your-entry/" rel="nofollow">http://travelsify.com/write-your-entry/</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-form-user-to-be-post-author#post-31899 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:07:35 +0000 Chris Hajer 31899@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@hazel, if you require the first and last name, you could always display the first and last name in the post, something like this in your content template: </p> <pre><code>This post was submitted by unregistered user {Name (First):4.3} {Name (Last):4.6}</code></pre> <p>The post would be created by whichever user you select as default for this form. You could create an "Unregistered User" and then attribute all posts to them, and still display this information in the post body. I guess it matters what your use case is, but for fknadnrew I think this would work (although a better solution there would be a forum with registered users I think.)</p> <p>If you've already purchased Gravity Forms, you can start a new topic referencing this post and we can help you configure it there. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-form-user-to-be-post-author#post-31869 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:56:00 +0000 hazel 31869@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I also would really benefit from this capability. It was the reason I originally used TDO forms, and it is the one thing that I need but don't have now that I have moved to Gravity forms. Curious to know if there have been any developments on this since last December when the Admin last answered, and/or if there are any plans to develop it in the future. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-form-user-to-be-post-author#post-25961 Fri, 20 May 2011 08:05:26 +0000 fknandrew 25961@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I would also appreciate it if letting a non-registered user's name be used as the author. I am making a Q and A site and it seems quite important to know who is asking the question. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-form-user-to-be-post-author#post-24483 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:52:59 +0000 chartier 24483@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I would pay for a plugin or higher license to do this. It's the only reason why I still run a small set of sites on Tumblr. Ideally, I'd love to let users fill in their name and URL and that would display on any author metadata displayed in the post. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-form-user-to-be-post-author#post-14291 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:16:13 +0000 TymB 14291@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I suppose that is best for now. I'm getting around it by posting their name into the first line of the body of the draft post, then the editors can do what they need. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-form-user-to-be-post-author#post-14287 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:05:48 +0000 Carl Hancock 14287@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@TymB You can't currently. They have to be logged in. A WordPress user has to exist to assign them as the author. I've heard TDO allows this, and it sounds like a hack. We can look into how they are handling this, but we would prefer to keep it within WordPress best practices and avoid hacks. </p>