https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/use-gravity-forms-for-blog-post Gravity Support Forums Topic: Use Gravity Forms for blog post en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:07:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/use-gravity-forms-for-blog-post#post-30550 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:08:01 +0000 Carl Hancock 30550@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Yes, you can insert the value of an image field within the Post Body. You would use the Content Template option on the Post Body field to create a Content Template and then insert the appropriate merge tag for the Post Image field to output the image as part of the Post Body.</p> <p>Currently there is no support for automatically setting the Featured image. However, it can be done via a customization and there are examples in the support forum that show you how to do this. It is a feature we plan on adding in the future. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/use-gravity-forms-for-blog-post#post-30531 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:33:23 +0000 trewknowledge 30531@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Will I be able to add images or other media inside the blog post? As in adding images that will go beside the text of the blog post?</p> <p>Or is it set up that users can only upload a photo and that will be used as the "featured image" </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/use-gravity-forms-for-blog-post#post-30482 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:42:23 +0000 dofan83 30482@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hye, I don't know if I am in the correct page or not, but can anyone here tell me how I can make a posting system close to this criteria: Have my user to post content with image embed in the post body. Can you explain whats the step by step process to build such a form? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/use-gravity-forms-for-blog-post#post-19098 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:29:14 +0000 bradvin 19098@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@comet - you can save to a custom post type using this plugin :</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-custom-post-types/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-custom-post-types/</a></p> <p>You can also map a dropdown field to a custom taxonomy </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/use-gravity-forms-for-blog-post#post-19072 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:38:06 +0000 Carl Hancock 19072@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@IA4W You can make a form post to only one category by selecting the Default Category on the Post Title or Post Body fields. This will set the category for that form. HOWEVER this only appears if you don't have a Post Category field on your form. If you have a Post Category field on your form then it hides this feature.</p> <p>If you want to predefine a category you can add a Post Category field to your form, edit it and choose Select Categories from the Properties tab and select the Category you want. Then choose the Advanced tab and set the field visibility to Admin Only. This will hide the field but still save the data. Note this only works in Gravity Forms v1.5 which is a development release on the downloads page.</p> <p>The Post Body field is a textarea. If they want to input HTML they can input HTML. But they can't insert form field values, only the administrator has access to do that using the Content Template functionality. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/use-gravity-forms-for-blog-post#post-19048 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:02:12 +0000 Michael 19048@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi there,</p> <p>Can the post body field be set up to allow users to format it ? I have not seen that functionality out of the box. How could we add this formatting functionality for this Field.</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p> Michel </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/use-gravity-forms-for-blog-post#post-19043 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:19:37 +0000 IA4W 19043@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>I can't figure out how to make the form post to only one specific category. I suspect it has to do with "Allow field to be populated dynamically" but I don't really know what to put there.</p> <p>How do I accomplish this?</p> <p>Thanks! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/use-gravity-forms-for-blog-post#post-18209 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:11:02 +0000 Carl Hancock 18209@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@comet Custom Post Types aren't supported as a feature of the form builder user interface. In order to save a post as a Custom Post Type you will have to use an API hook and tell Gravity Forms to save the post as that post type. If you search the forum for custom post type you will find numerous posts on the subject.</p> <p>Yes you can have several custom fields on your form and the data will be stored as post meta for the post that is created.</p> <p>Gravity Forms is not designed to be used to modify existing posts, it is only designed to create posts. Once posts are created they are managed in the WordPress dashboard. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/use-gravity-forms-for-blog-post#post-18202 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:02:19 +0000 comet 18202@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hey guys, this is great information. I'm going to need exactly this. Will this also work for Custom Post Types?</p> <p>I have created a custom post type with several custom fields.</p> <p>Can I use Gravity Forms to create a form on the frontend which inputs data in to those custom fields?</p> <p>Also, can my users modify existing posts using Gravity Forms? Thank you for your help. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/use-gravity-forms-for-blog-post#post-18194 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:50:55 +0000 Carl Hancock 18194@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>It depends on how you are expecting to add them to the post. If you want that data to appear in the post content, yes you can use the Content Template functionality of the Post Body to insert field values of non-Post Fields into your Post Body and configure the layout of the Post Body.</p> <p>Otherwise if you want that data to be stored as a Custom Field you can either use the Post Custom Field which has a variety of field types it can be displayed as. You can also use the Content Template functionality of the Custom Field to insert values from non-Post Fields into a Custom Field. </p>