Could GF do this with Wishlist Member plugin?

This is a really interesting question because it raises the issue of whether the Wishlist shortcodes will work in the post content template function of Gravity Forms. Carl has said shortcodes do work there so, in theory, this should work. You need the GF team to confirm though.

In any event, if that didn't work, it seems to me that you could still accomplish what you're after. You could use GF to create a beautiful form through which users could add posts and you could use custom fields to collect the contacts etc that you wish to protect. You could then amend your basic loop with some conditionals so that if a user is logged in, then custom fields A, B and C would be shown, but if the user is not logged in, they would not.

Hi there Demode. What you're suggesting here is what I had in mind with the first option above. I was interested to see whether this works so just did a spot of testing on a site in which I have Wishlist Member installed.

In short, yes, what you're after can indeed be done. I've done it by using Gravity Form's post content template feature. Here's what I did:

1. I created a test form, using "Post Fields": http://grab.by/79ZD
2. Within the post body field, I then set up a post content template: http://grab.by/79ZG (you'll be able to see what I've protected with Wishlist Member private tags)
3. Having assigned the test form to a page, I then headed to that page and added a post via the test form. This is what I see as a logged in user with the relevant access rights: http://grab.by/79ZI
4. Now, this is what I see when I've logged out and am therefore accessing the site as a non-logged in user: http://grab.by/79ZJ

So, as you can see, what you're after is indeed doable, very easily, thanks to the ability to use shortcodes in the Gravity Forms post content template feature.

All the best.
Richard