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Editing uploaded data/images? Show content on front page?

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  1. torsteino
    Member

    Hi,
    I have a client in the casting business (casting for TV & similar). They want people to be able to register themselves in their database, and upload at least one picture, preferrably more. Then they want to be able to edit/update the content themselves, and show thumbnails of the images on the front page.

    Parts of this would be easy to do with a custom user registration form, but I'm wondering if gravityforms would be a better route, to keep all registrations outside of WPs users.

    1: Is it possible to use a normal query/loop to show the thumbnails of the first (main) image each person have uploaded with gravityforms? Or rather - is it simple or a pain in the *** to make this work?

    2: I saw the "entry management" part of the feature, does that also mean the admins/editors of the site can easily upload new images to replace existing ones that users have uploaded?

    3: Is it possible for the admins to "approve" an entry (say, with an extra field/radiobutton only available in the admin-area), so that the thumbnail is shown on the frontpage only if approved (using the query/loop-part i asked about above)?

    4: To upgrade from a 3-site lisence to unlimited, how much is it? $100?

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday September 22, 2011 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    1) This is only possible if you use Gravity Forms to create posts with each Post being presented as a profile. You don't query and loop through form entries on the front end. Or at least, we don't provide functions for doing so.

    2) Yes, admin's or whoever you give access via role management (using another plugin) could edit and change entry data. HOWEVER if you are using the form to create a post, that won't update the post. At that point they would have to edit and update the WordPress post itself.

    3) If you are using Gravity Forms to create a post, you can set that post as a draft and an admin or editor would have to approve and then publish that post just like any other post draft in WordPress.

    4) To upgrade from the Business License to the Developer License you would pay the difference in price.

    One thing to note is users aren't going to be able to come back and edit their data. Gravity Forms doesn't have built in functionality for allowing users to edit their data on the front end. It's only accessible to admins.

    Also keep in mind that it sounds like what you want to do is use Gravity Forms to create posts, and then use and present those posts as profiles on your site. So that would require you to edit your theme so it displays the posts this way. These posts could be assigned to a specific category that you use for profiles.

    Your use case is very specific so you may have to do some work to get it to do what you want to do and it may require theme customizations to accommodate what you want to do. It's a general purpose form tool but it isn't designed to do exactly what you described out of the box. But it can be customized to do virtually anything.

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday September 23, 2011 | Permalink