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Publishing an approved entry

  1. I would like to accept entries, and them publish these posts on a page.
    The form takes an uploaded file (a picture), the details of the poster, and a description of the picture.

    What I've figured out so far:

    So far, I've got a form accepting entries. The form is embedded in a page. I'm receiving the entries as drafts. I can mark them as published.

    So, my next step:
    I'd like to figure out how to publish a page that will grab the post content and the submitted picture from each entry.

    How I think I can do it:
    It looks like the entries are all posts. They are all posts that have the same category. So, all I have to do is create a custom loop that will grab posts of that category, then extract the text from the post, and the image submitted by the poster.

    ok .... am I on the right track so far?
    If I have, then my question boils down to this: "how to grab the picture submitted with the form, while I'm in the loop".

    What I've tried:

    I spent quiet a bit of time trying to figure out how to get my ideal result using Zach's directory and add ons plugin. I wasn't able to get the outcome I wanted( Looks like a great plugin, though).

    Sunil

    Posted 13 years ago on Saturday October 22, 2011 | Permalink
  2. Sounds like you're almost there. You have the posts being created, and you want to include all those posts in a page? I did something similar to that using the "Category Shortcode" plugin.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-shortcode-w-generator/

    I think that will work for you too.

    Here's the form I set up:
    http://gravity.chrishajer.com/story-submission/
    Password is gravity ( I forget why I password protected that )

    When you post the story, it will be in the category categories:
    http://gravity.chrishajer.com/category/stories/

    But you want to show all posts, in one page, which is what I did here:
    http://gravity.chrishajer.com/all-stories/

    The content of that page has only the shortcode from the Category Shortcode plugin:

    [php]
    [Category number='-1' id='5' method='full' order='asc' orderby='title']

    Let us know if you need more help.

    Posted 13 years ago on Saturday October 22, 2011 | Permalink
  3. You can skip all this, and just implement the above as your "next step".

    How I think I can do it:
    It looks like the entries are all posts. They are all posts that have the same category. So, all I have to do is create a custom loop that will grab posts of that category, then extract the text from the post, and the image submitted by the poster.

    ok .... am I on the right track so far?
    If I have, then my question boils down to this: "how to grab the picture submitted with the form, while I'm in the loop".

    What I've tried:

    I spent quiet a bit of time trying to figure out how to get my ideal result using Zach's directory and add ons plugin. I wasn't able to get the outcome I wanted( Looks like a great plugin, though).

    Posted 13 years ago on Saturday October 22, 2011 | Permalink
  4. Thanks for the reply.

    So, I've now experimented with the Category Shortcode plugin. Thats great. knowing about it could have saved me some work on a seperate theming puzzle :)

    It could definately help me access the posts without having to compose my own custom loop.
    (Mind you, I'm starting to get used to building loops)

    The more immediate problem I have, is how to get to the images that have have been submitted via the form, and then approved for publication, while I am in the loop (or while using the category shortcode plugin).

    Any idea how I can do this?

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday October 24, 2011 | Permalink
  5. Doesn't the plugin handle the full content of the post, including the images?

    If not, your question might be better answered in a general WordPress support forum, like wordpress.stackexchange.com or wordpress.org/support/ as it's not related to Gravity Forms. We captured the data for you, now it's up to you to display it.

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday October 24, 2011 | Permalink

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