I am interested in purchasing Gravity Forms to use on a product review website. However, I would like to be sure that i will be able to integrate a product review rating system into the form. I currently have MyReview Plugin and customer support there said they thought customers were able to do this with Gravity Forms
Please advise,
Thanks,
Liz Goldsmith
Gravity Forms does not have any ratings specific fields, no would it calculate an overall rating out of the box.
But you could those reviews as individual posts using drop downs or radio buttons for the ratings. You could then store this data in custom fields and calculate the totals via a custom theme page.
So Gravity Forms could do what you want, but it's going to require some customization of your theme to display the records correctly.
Depending on your WordPress development experience a ratings specific plugin may be more appropriate.
Hi Carl,
Thanks for your reply. I'm not trying to make Gravity Forms work as a review module; rather, I want to use it in conjunction with one. All of the review plugins require that the page already exists. This makes it difficult for users to add new products that they want to review, not just add their own reviews to existing products. I need a plug in that creates forms into which I can embed the review plug in. The folks at MyReviewPlugin think that their product and your product could work together. What are your thoughts?
Thanks,
Liz
Gotcha. If you need a form that then creates a post that you can then use in conjunction with the MyReviewPlugin then yes, it sounds like Gravity Forms would do the trick. It can create posts using the Post Fields, so you could have the form create the post (as a draft that you approve, or automatically published... it's configurable) and then use the MyReviewPlugin to implement the actual review functionality for that post that the user creates.
Carl,
We have a form that is using a drop down as a rating, but we cannot figure out how to get that value passed / stored into a custom field in the post. Can you elaborate on how you would do this?
@thirdriver Is the drop down field a Custom Field from the Post Fields toolbox? If you are creating a post you need to use Post Fields. Only Post Fields create a Post. So you'd need to add the appropriate Post Fields to your form such as Post Title, Post Body, etc. If you want a Custom Field that is a drop down with number ratings then you would:
- Add a Custom Field to your form from the Post Fields
- Edit the Custom Field
- Select drop down from the field type option
- Configure the drop down choices
- Type in the field label to name the field
- For the Custom Field Name choose a pre-existing name or choose New and manually type in the custom field name. This is the custom field name/key that is used to store the value.
- Save your form
Now that custom field will store the drop down selection as a custom field for the post that is created using the custom field name (also referred to as a key) that you configured when editing the field.
