Creating a form to add data to post page upon submission?

Im not sure how to explain this other than to tell you exactly what Im trying to do and see if you know if it can be done. Basically, Id like to create a post asking our readers to submit a youtube URL to us in a form at the bottom of the post, along with their name, email, etc.... Then, if this is possible (and this is where I'd love your thoughts), Id love it if that information could be added to the post itself or below the post somehow after it's been submitted. Is it possible to do that?

So, Im reading a post, I fill out a form giving my name, email, and youtube link (for example), and then I hit submit, refresh the page, and then see that my entry was received and is inline?

This is somewhat a work around for the fact that I cant customize the comments form as Id like to ask for example, for a youtube URL. I suppose that the other option, though Im not aware that it exists - is, can I use gravity forms to augment the comment form in wordpress?

Any thoughts or ideas on how I could accomplish something like this? Even if not with Gravity form Im stuggling to find a solution and need to launch something so any thoughts or feedback you have would be really helpful.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Carl,

What would you suggest for me? I am a newbie here also. I have created a Gravity form so that I could get users to submit their music. I've created a "Submit" tab on the website so that when a user presses that they can complete the Gravity form and submit their music.

Firstly, the problem I have is that the completed forms appears as a draft blog post. However much of the content is missing and I don't want to necessarily complete all the SEO, tags etc as I would in the case of a real blog. In fact it feels that if I use this method I am not saving time but writing a new blog post via the information I have received in my email (which has not fully followed through to the draft blog post). The title has but not the music link or the paragraph form.

Secondly, if I do approve and post this user generated blog post it appears as a new blog post each time on the front page of my website. I didn't necessarily wan that when I approve a piece of music a new blog post is generated on the front page.

It sounds like the steps above may also be what I need to follow. Is this correct?

Lastly, if I did some form of automatic user upload would this literally mean that once they upload that is it - I don't approve it. Or does it simply mean it is uploaded in the correct format with the need for alteration?

Thank you.

@Chris: Thanks for getting back to me. I will take your advice and think I will add one of the wordpress plug-ins. Stealth publish sounds to be a good one and seems to do what I want.

On anoyher note I had my Gravity form set to pending. However, I see that in the post section of the form set up I did not select 'Post Body' but selected another sub category. I have realised that this was the reason why the post body did not filter through to my word press blog - whereas everything else did. I've now amended this. What should now happen is that the wordpress post is pre-populated with all of the fields I have selected in Gravity forms allowing me to just press the send button.

I'm thinking about the paypal option, but will look into that in more detail.

Thanks.

This is great... thank you soo much for giving me such a detailed response. I wish I was more of a develop[er... Any chance I could pay someone on your end to do this for me?

Hey @reelseo

Just an idea: if you follow Carl's suggestions 1, 2 and 3; number 4 can be achieved using PluginBuddy's LoopBuddy.

This kind of thing is exactly what LoopBuddy is designed for. The only problem you might have is that your theme's loop might need to be updated to The Loop Standard that LoopBuddy requires. This is still a lot easier than creating a whole new page template with a custom loop though.