GF to appear in post/page edit (pretty/easy custom fields)

I may be misreading your post, but i think you are suggesting that you need to be able to add a post with multiple custom field values of your choosing, by submitting a gfom and then have it show up in Posts / Pages Edit.

If this is the case, then that can be easily done right now - i have client sites working in exactly this way.

1. Magic Fields - adds custom fields input easily and quickly to the Post / Page admin. I use this to create all the custom fields and easily categorise - not necessary - but cleans up the admin backend.
2. Gravity Forms - Post Fields / Custom Field - Assign Existing Field to field of choice.

I use this on real estate style sites, advertisers submit posts of different types (Free / Paid / Premium) from a Gravity Form - all without seeing the admin backend. Admin then comes along and approves new Posts - boom they are editable in the Posts Edit section and live on the site.

Makes use of the front end design and keeps users out of the WP Backend, simple and effective.

Ha!

Have my prayers been answered? Magic Fields is cool but it's very ropey and the support is all in some totally mashed up form of English.

A Magic Fields equivalent from you guys would rule. I can wait a month but I do now regret spending most of yesterday afternoon mucking about with Magic Fields.

@JasonCrunch: I wasn't saying you'd wasted my time. By 'wasted' I guess I was referring more to the constant process of learning and re-learning different plugins and techniques all the time. I know, it comes with the territory, I should know that by now, I'll stop wining...

My time spent with Magic Fields the other day was useful and made me realise that it's come on a bit since the last time I gave it a try. I'm gonna use it in a project I'm about to start so if anything I should be thanking you for prompting me to take another look. Cheers! :)

I too am a Pods user. Pods is very powerful but far from perfect. I'm still not completely convinced by the way it seems to sit on top of WP as opposed to integrating nicely. The combination of the Pods and MF serve as a great temporary fix for a custom content CMS (along with countless other smaller plugins - TinyMCE Advanced and Members are a must).

However, a more robust, easy to use and better supported replacement would be welcomed. The new custom post (they so should have called it custom 'content') features of WP3 look very promising and I admit that Carl's hint towards a new product in a similar vein to Magic Fields has got me excited. Whatever it is, I dearly hope that it integrates with Members and has Import / Export features for easy modular re-use over mutliple projects

More hints please Carl :)

@dixhuit
Another option for metafields is a plugin called verve.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/verve-meta-boxes/

It is very robust, and works perfectly in every scenario I have tried. The best part is it ties in perfectly with custom post_types in wp 3.0beta2.

I can't speak to tying custom fields into gravity, as I have not done that yet, but I can say for metabox creation verve is very strong.

I used it for some time, until I learned to create my own post_types and metaboxes directly within my theme admin. I'd go into how to do that, but it would take weeks to explain. Needless to say, with wp 3.0 all the tools are readily available. It is just going to take a lot of homework on your part if you don't want to use a plugin for meta creation.

Would be really nice to see a writeup on how to use gravity to populate custom post_types metaboxes via the front end though.

Hi Carl,

Any progress on this you can share?

Thanks!

Good to know - thanks for the update and looking forward to it when it's ready!

Hi Carl,

Just checking in on this and fishing for the latest. Looks like you've all been working hard on many updates for GF so curious if this is still a possibility for this year.

Thanks!