Form on blog, post to another.

We use WP as a contact manager - A post equalling a contact. Till now we have created each post by hand and initially just saw Gravity Forms a way to really tie down the format. But after a little thought we realised we could get the contacts themselves to create their own entries.

However, the full install of WP we use as contact manager needs to stay behind a password as now and unseen by the new contact. The only thing a new contact would see would be the form they fill in.

Can a form be hosted on one WP install but post to another or exist as just an independant HTML page we can host wherever?

I wonder if there's another option. Instead of using complete password protection for your entire site, you could use a membership plugin to protect everything but the page with the form (you could style that page however you like as Carl mentions) and you could make that page the homepage (under the site's Reading settings). If logging on to a page other than that form homepage were an issue (i.e., admin and others with password rights would be taken to the form upon logging in), then you could install a redirect plugin which redirects them to another page when logging in.

Just a thought.

Cheers
Richard