Automatically place uploaded image in post

Hi all

Im pretty new to Gravity forms but its one amazing plugin so far!

The only thing I am trying to do but failing miserably is auto posting uploaded images submitted by my users. I added an image upload field, the post is sent for approval then when I post it the image does not appear.

What am I doing wrong here? I tried reading the documentation but idiotically I cant make sense of the tags and instructions.

Also is it possible for users to upload a gallery of images?

Any help much appreciated

John

You could define a width on your <img> element. Are you using the Post Body field and then creating a template from that? That could be another option for you. Here is a good explanation for that:

The Post Image field uploads the image to your Media Library and attaches the image to the Post that is created. The image isn't going to automatically show up in your post. For one we wouldn't know where it should be displayed or how it should be displayed.

Just like if you go to your Media Library and upload an image, or go to Add New Post and click on the upload image icon and upload an image, they don't automatically get added into the Post Body of a post unless you insert it into the Post Body.

If you want the image to be included in the post body then you need to edit the Post Body field on your form, turn on the Content Template option and then in the Content Template configure your post. Whatever appears in your Content Template is what will be used as the content of the post that is created, including any field merge tags you include. Merge tags are replaced by the actual fields value when the form is processed and the post is created.

You can use the "Insert form field" drop down above the Content Template to insert form field merge tags. So using this functionality you can insert the merge tag for your Post Image field, including selecting which size from the Media Library sizes.

Just remember that the Content Template overrides the Post Body field itself and whatever you configure in the Content Template is what will be used to create the content of the Post.

The Content Template supports shortcodes so you can also include the [gallery] shortcode in the Content Template if rather than manually inserting a Post Image field merge tag you want to show a gallery of all the images that were uploaded with that Post.

Great, let us know how it goes!

When you choose the Post Image merge tag, it shows a drop down of what size you want to use:

http://grab.by/bvxG

Yes on the gallery question, that should work out.

Hmm, that's odd. The [gallery] shortcode is built in WordPress gallery functionality for any photos attached to the page or post. It is designed to do exactly what you describe. Display any images associated with the post as thumbnails wherever you insert the shortcode.

You can read more here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode

Your theme may or may not support the [gallery] shortcode out of the box, it may require CSS adjustments. It just depends if the theme developer took the time to properly style this or not. Most good themes do.

Let me know if any of that info helps/changes anything for you.

Woo hoo! Got it working using your link above. Thansk again. I just added link="file" to [gallery] so it reads [gallery link="file"] and now the thumbnails pop up (im also using wp-prettyphoto)

thanks for your help
john

Great plugin, loving it. Works great now but just one final thing, when im using gallery shortcode the images that pop up are huge. How do i set the post image upoads to link to a smaller image size as opposed to the full sized uploaded image? Hope that makes sense!

Sorry this is the last thing! :-)

Yep I used that but is that not for the thumbnail size? Perhaps I need to regenerate thumbnails to see the changes?

Thanks Ill try that. The site is "under construction" at the moment so only accessible through admin.

Cool thanks mate

Hi I agree this is a great post, and it seems like I am not the only one trying to acheive having user upload their photos to posts.

I am running into some issues. I've added a form including the post image, post title, post category, and post body fields. I've added the merge tag for post image into the post body field, however, my images are still not showing in the post on the site... any idea as to what I might be doing wrong?

Also, would there be any way to add the image as the "featured image" for the post? and/or in the post excerpt?

Thank you so much for your help!!!

Okay, again, my apologies. I found it! Love love love this plugin!!!!