Okay, someone please advise.
I am going through my forms-setting them to POST fields rather than standard fields.
The problem is that I my theme has a custom post type "Listing" and it has categories. I want my GF to post to "Listing" and I want my GF Post Field-categories to have my Listing categories---not the default categories under the default WP posts.
ALSO--no one seems to have advice on this concept. Given my website is about education--and revolves around reviews of educational products--I have 9 parent categories: books, supplies, etc; in addition, I have BY AGE and BY SUBJECT.
By Age has five sub-categories and By Subject has more than 30--(as in Science gets broken down into types of science and biology gets broken down into further, etc)
Is it EASIEST to post all the reviews (GF forms) to ONE custom type and from there create custom fields & templates for how this content appears on the front end for users~OR~is it easiest to create multiple custom types. The folks over at TYPES and VIEWS just said they can't give me their opinion but with all due respect, my experience in the business sector leads to my preference being EFFICIENT. I know I can do it either/or--that is not the point--I want easiest, less fuss, less problems as the end result is that all the review forms will publish for the user--dynamically.
I am not confident doing business with folks who are not assured enough to lend and opinion and some reasoning. I mean, the alternative is I'm wasting a lot of time doing things the hard way when their is a simpler solution.
I don't know if it is necessary but I installed:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-custom-post-types/
but I would prefer NOT to use this additional plug-in unless I need to and am hoping that this can be done without more bloated plug-ins.