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  1. goboygodesign
    Member

    I just wanted to ask a few questions before I dive on in -

    We need to build out a membership system primarily for a user-submitted photo gallery but also for newsletter opt in, forum membership, etc etc. I presume that gravity forms can accomplish that, but I couldn't find information about a couple things:

    1. where does gravity put the user data? does it use the default wordpress wp_usermeta table?
    2. Given that we want to restrict the photo tagging to specific words (1,400 or so of them) does gravity forms have the capability to use restrictive autocomplete for tagging? this is very important..
    3. I understand that for the time being users cannot update or edit their own uploads out of the box - is that something that can be accomplished without conflict using another plugin?
    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday September 27, 2011 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    1) Gravity Forms stores user data in the wp_usermeta table. It only CREATES data and can create custom user meta. It does not, however, implement editing functionality which means it doesn't add fields to the user profile page, etc. It only creates the initial user and populates the meta based on the settings you configure.

    2) Gravity Forms does not have built in restrictive autocomplete for tagging. This is something you would have to implement as a customization either via jQuery or the gform_validation hook or a combination of the two.

    3) I don't see why not. Gravity Forms only creates the data. What happens to the Posts and Users that are created after that is entirely up to you and other plugins you implement.

    Just keep in mind that Gravity Forms and the User Registration Add-On is only ideal for the initial user registration. It doesn't protect content, etc. or control access to the site. It only creates the user based on the settings you configure.

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday September 27, 2011 | Permalink