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Gravity Forms to Author Template Page?

  1. I'm using Author Template pages created by an author.php file on my multi-author blog, as described in the Wordpress Codex at http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates. However, because many of my authors want nicely formatted pages, I do it for them using html and inline css. This can be time consuming. I'd like to set up a Gravity form that they could use to create their own formatted author page and upload images. Any idea as to how I would connect the Gravity form to create the author page that could be accessed in the same way as current author page?

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday November 10, 2011 | Permalink
  2. Do you want the Gravity Form to create a page template? Where are you adding your HTML and CSS now, for individual authors?

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday November 10, 2011 | Permalink
  3. Thanks for the quick response. I'm adding the html and inline css, including resident image URLs, on each individual author's profile in the wp filed for that purpose on their profile page. Since by default, WP strips html from that field, I use a plugin that stops the html stripping. I use the author.php file coded exactly as in the example in the wp codex linked to above. Each author's bio page is at domain/author/johnsmith. I'd like to make it so that the author's can create their own formatted and rich text author/bio pages, with images. I understand that the formatting will be more or less uniform. Would this require some sort of hook in the author.php file that would call up the fields on the gravity form completed by the author? I can send you the website URL but would rather do that via a PM or email.

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday November 10, 2011 | Permalink
  4. Hello ???? Anyone here?

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday November 21, 2011 | Permalink
  5. I'm not sure how you can use Gravity Forms to integrate with the author.php template. The author.php functionality doesn't work like posts and pages in WordPress so it isn't something that allows you to leverage things Gravity Forms already does.

    Gravity Forms only creates posts and pages. So while you could probably use Gravity Forms to do what you want, I can't really suggest a solution off the top of my head. It would take really examining A) what you want to do and B) what Gravity Forms can provide and then coming up with a solution that marries the two.

    It's much more complex and involving than what can be explained in a support forum post, it's something that requires more consulting type work to suggest a solution.

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday November 21, 2011 | Permalink