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Creating posts from form

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  1. netcooler
    Member

    Hi there.
    I was playing around with the demo on the site, but I couldn't find an answer to my question:

    Can the form create an automatically-formatted post?
    For instance, I want to have a paragraph text field in the form, that would become a blockquote in the post. I want two single-line text fields in the form that will become two consecutive lines without linebreak between them in the post.

    This is the scenario:
    I am running a website similar to UrbanDictionary, only in Herbew.
    Naturally, the site relies on visitor input. Each post (=dictionary entry) is uniformly formatted, but I have to validate it on each post publication. Right now users register and they have a sample post to follow its formatting. Needless to say, not all users know how to follow the format or sometimes they're just lazy.
    This method is time-consuming for me as a moderator, and a form plugin would greatly help me.
    I want to yank the formatting part out of the equation, since this is not something a user should do. And know what? Not even a thing a moderator should do.

    You can see what I mean about uniformly-formatted posts here: http://www.dorbanot.com

    Any help on this will be greatly appreciated!

    Asaf Sagi.

    Posted 14 years ago on Saturday January 30, 2010 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    Hello Asaf, currently you cannot pre-format what the post body will be populated with.

    However, it would be possible to do this using the available API hooks. But it isn't a built in feature.

    The good news is we plan on making it a feature, possibly as early as the 1.4 release. So keep watching, things are only going to continue to get better and more powerful.

    Posted 14 years ago on Sunday January 31, 2010 | Permalink

  3. netcooler
    Member

    Hi Carl. Thanks for your quick reply.
    Do you have an estimated schedule of when 1.4 gets released? This for me is a required feature before I go ahead and buy this plugin.

    I'm anxious and excited to see what's in store for us!

    Asaf.

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday February 5, 2010 | Permalink

  4. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    How about a custom post or page template to display that data however you want?

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday February 5, 2010 | Permalink

  5. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    Yea, that is another option.

    You could use a custom post template combined with custom fields and accomplish a variety of layouts this way also.

    Gravity Forms Custom Fields can be formatted using a variety of field types which would allow you to control how the information is input.

    Then your post template would display the post body and the post custom fields however you want to format them.

    This would be possible with the current version of Gravity Forms and could be a good way to implement this type of form to post functionality.

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday February 5, 2010 | Permalink

  6. netcooler
    Member

    Sounds like something I might be able to work with.

    I can go on and create a sample post that would serve as a template. Would then Gravity Forms create for me new posts based on that template (with their permalinks and everything), or would it be like a mold that data from a database would be poured in and it won't be linkable and chronologically-sorted?

    [Edit: By the way, I find it quite hard to keep track of my question in a forum, which I do not regularly visit.]

    Posted 14 years ago on Sunday March 7, 2010 | Permalink