https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/using-gf-to-generate-a-profile-page Gravity Support Forums Topic: Using GF to generate a Profile page en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:39:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/using-gf-to-generate-a-profile-page#post-27873 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:59:47 +0000 shomalgan 27873@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thank you Carl , but don't need wordpress front end profile ,Indeed, i need a form that could be displayed/edited after user login. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/using-gf-to-generate-a-profile-page#post-27871 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:37:32 +0000 Carl Hancock 27871@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@shomalgan Gravity Forms is a form builder so it doesn't display user profiles, that isn't what it is designed to do. WordPress has built in user profiles that users can see when accessing their profile in the Dashboard. You could also use other plugins that add user profiles to the front end of WordPress. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/using-gf-to-generate-a-profile-page#post-27861 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:01:54 +0000 shomalgan 27861@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>However, is there any simple way to display profile data? i don't need ability to edit . </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/using-gf-to-generate-a-profile-page#post-18960 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:11:40 +0000 Carl Hancock 18960@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Yes, that was what I was referring to with the hooks. It's possible to customize it using hooks to be able to pre-populate the fields with the existing user's data and then update rather than create a new user on submit. One of our developers has already done so on a freelance project. So it is possible.</p> <p>We want to make it possible without having to write code, etc. but we have to work out the best way to handle it from a UI standpoint and how to present that to users when creating forms, etc. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/using-gf-to-generate-a-profile-page#post-18959 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:05:05 +0000 dwdutch 18959@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Fair observation but, let me make an observation by first breaking my original posting into two distinct components:</p> <p>1) ability to display profile data</p> <p>2) ability to edit profile data</p> <p>Having just tried out the new User Registration plug-in (very nice, by the way!) i can see that once this is stable it becomes a very good platform to solve component #1... by simply reversing the actions to pull the data from the WP tables rather than pushing it.</p> <p>As for #2, i acknowledge that this may be a different beast (but, a guy can still hope :) </p> <p>Thanks for the feedback, Carl. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/using-gf-to-generate-a-profile-page#post-18947 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:25:48 +0000 Carl Hancock 18947@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Gravity Forms is currently designed to create data, it isn't designed to edit data out of the box. It would be possible to do what you want to do, but would require custom code and the use of a bunch of different api hooks to pull off. So it is possible, but it's a fairly advanced customization to implement something like this. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/using-gf-to-generate-a-profile-page#post-18942 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:09:01 +0000 dwdutch 18942@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'd like to create a GF form that displays profile information for a particular user BUT not have that form administrate (or, at least, prevent SUBMIT) unless it is the user himself viewing the form. </p> <p>Is this possible? Perhaps there is already a description of how to do this and I just couldn't find it in the forum. </p>