https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/using-gravity-post-type-for-changing-restaurant-menu Gravity Support Forums Topic: using gravity post type for changing restaurant menu en-US Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:45:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/using-gravity-post-type-for-changing-restaurant-menu#post-66450 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:57:21 +0000 David Peralty 66450@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>There are plenty of WordPress developers out there that could do this for you relatively inexpensively. Just remember, Gravity Forms is focused on collecting user data and if you think of it from that mindset, you'll quickly understand both how useful it can be and where its potential limitations currently are. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/using-gravity-post-type-for-changing-restaurant-menu#post-66448 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:55:37 +0000 klausdyba70 66448@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks for the info! I don't know much about php, but at least I know what is possible ad what not! </p> <p>Thanks again!</p> <p>Klaus </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/using-gravity-post-type-for-changing-restaurant-menu#post-66444 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:44:20 +0000 David Peralty 66444@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Gravity Forms is not set-up to edit WordPress posts. It can create posts, but then the link to that post would change all the time. I guess there are ways to make this work, but it would probably be very complex.</p> <p>How skilled are you with WordPress and PHP because, even with Gravity Forms helping you collect information, you would have to find ways to then grab that information and put it into your page, and that is beyond what Gravity Forms can do currently. </p> <p>I would potentially have it set-up so that a form creates a post with a bunch of custom fields. Then I would have a template specifically for that category of posts but set-up to only grab the single latest one. Then I would create a page with that template. </p> <p>Then, each day, the menu is submitted through Gravity Forms, Gravity Forms creates a post, and that post is pulled into your menu page, and styled appropriately. </p> <p>The advantage of this is that you would also have a cool archive of menu's. Eventually, if you want daily menu's you could modify your code and have a Monday Menu, Tuesday Menu, etc... without too much much work. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/using-gravity-post-type-for-changing-restaurant-menu#post-66441 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:33:15 +0000 klausdyba70 66441@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Actually it's a weekly menu they have to change (the restaurant owner, not the user). So the page which is showing the menu (a post) needs to be changed by them. I formatted the menu-text a lot with paddings, line height etc. I know if they try to change that in the post-editor they will accidentally change something so I thought i could have a form with: date; starters main dish, etc. which somehow replaces the weekly menu-post content. I think it could work, but I don't know how to put the content of the form into the post... </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/using-gravity-post-type-for-changing-restaurant-menu#post-66398 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:12:15 +0000 David Peralty 66398@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>So would you have him basically re-create the entire menu every day? Or is this just like the daily specials? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/using-gravity-post-type-for-changing-restaurant-menu#post-66377 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:29:02 +0000 klausdyba70 66377@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi! I am not sure where to look for my problem/question. Maybe someone can help me out if its possible:</p> <p>I build a restaurant website. They have a daily changing menu. I dont want the owner to have to change the daily menu in the wordpress backend, so I thought if it's not possible with a gravity post type form to avoid this.</p> <p>My idea was to have a gravity form to enter the daily menu/changes. and it takes the content of the form and put it into a "daily-menu-post" automaticlly. Is this possible and what would be the best solution to do it?</p> <p>Klaus </p>