blafarmm
Member
Please excuse this noob question...
After one constructs a form to their liking -- what is the correct procedure for "publishing" that form -- so that it has a defined URL on one's server -- and is accessible and linkable for visitors via the Internet.
Thanks and apologies for the idiotic question.
No worries, its a simple process.
You can add a form to a new page or post, or any existing page or post by embedding a "shortcode" into the post editor. Once you've added the shortcode, you simply update or publish your page/post as you normally would and your form will be active and available for use.
You can find out more information in the documentation section here.
blafarmm
Member
Thanks very much Kevin.
One more follow-up question if you don't mind:
I am currently using WPRemix for my design. However, I need to be able to "publish" some of my forms in a very generic fashion -- so that the only element on the page is the form (no logo, no menu links and nothing but the form occupying the page).
Can you please point me in the direction for accomplishing that goal?
Thanks very much.
You'll want to create a very basic page template, associate that with your page where you embedded the Gravity Form.
This should get you started.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates
I also created a sample page "plain" page template much like you described for a blog post a while back. You can see it about halfway down the content.
http://www.gravityhelp.com/creating-a-modal-form-with-gravity-forms-and-fancybox/
Hope that helps out.
You might find this plugin useful
blafarmm
Member
Thanks very much Kevin.
Those were two helpful tutorials -- and I followed them "to the letter".
I placed the .php files I created after reading both tutorial versions in my "Themes" root directory -- but I cannot seem to be able to select them. I've repeatedly used my "Appearance" option -- but it only offers "WordPress Default", "WordPress Classic" and "WPRemic".
Then, in an act of desperation, I copied the two files to my WPRemix theme -- and I was able to access them with no problem -- but every Gravity Form that I insert causes "bullet points" to appear on every "form entry".
I've "toggled" bullet points editing control with no success -- and I've viewed the HTML and there are no formating tags -- it's completely blank. I'm guessing it's a stylesheet issue -- but I don't know.
1. Can you please tell me how one accesses those "plain pages" when they are in the "themes" root directory?
2. Or, can you please tell me how to remove the bullet points when I access them from within my WPRemix directory?
Thanks very much -- and apologies for the hand-holding.
Sorry for any confusion. The page template should be in the root of the theme folder you're using, not the main "themes" folder. In your case, this would be the wpremix folder.
As far as the bullets, this is usually due to the form inheriting styles from your theme. You can add the following CSS declaration to your theme style sheet and it should remove the bullet styling
.gform_wrapper li, .gform_wrapper form li, .gform_wrapper form ul li { list-style-type:none!important; background-image:none!important}
You can add it at the end of the rest of the CSS. So just copy-n-paste the CSS that Kevin provided you and place it at the bottom of your themes CSS file.
