silverado
Member
Hello, I'm considering buying your plugin for a new WP project. But first I would like to ask you a couple of things.
1. I want to create a form so users of my site can post from the front-end without having to log into the back-end. Can I do it with your plugin?
2. Could I configure it so users should first register before posting?
3. Could posts wait for administrator moderation before they are posted?
Thanks in advance
1) Yes, Gravity Forms can be used to create forms that are accessible on the front end of your site that create posts.
2) Gravity Forms itself does not do access control. So this is possible, but you'd have to use a plugin like the Members plugin to control access to the page containing the form so that only logged in users can access that page. The Members plugin can be found here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/
We do plan on adding a feature to a future release that will make it so you can set a form so only logged in users can view it, and it will show a message to users that aren't logged in. So it will be a native feature eventually, for now it can only be done by using an access control plugin like the Members plugin.
3) Yes, you can configure the form so that the Post that is created is set as a Draft. Then an administrator would have to approve and publish the Post for it to go live.
silverado
Member
Thanks Carl for the answers. Everything clear now.
Just one more thing, before installing the plugin in the final WP installation, I want to do some testing in another WP installation with another domain.
Can this be done while the plugin is used only in one site?
Yes, just remove it from the first site before adding it to the second.
Nope. You can use ANY field on a form that creates a post. However, only the Post Fields generate Post data. You can capture additional data, not just the information for the Post, using the form.
Using the content template features of some of the Post Fields you can then include the value of non-Post Fields within the value of a Post Field. So you can use any field type on a form that creates a Post. That includes captcha.
BUT only the Post Fields are going to generate a Post, the others just get stored as part of the Form Entry that is created.
silverado
Member
Hi Carl,
So only the post fields can generate the data that will be seen in the post, right?
Could you explain in more detail what do you mean when you say:
"Using the content template features of some of the Post Fields you can then include the value of non-Post Fields within the value of a Post Field. So you can use any field type on a form that creates a Post. That includes captcha."
Thanks
There is a option on the Post Title, Post Body and Post Custom Field called a Content Template that allows you to build the value of that field using the value of other fields, regardless of field type.
So if you have a field that asks for their Name and a field that asks for their Age you could then dynamically build the Post Title using the Content Template to create the Post Title by combining the value of the Name field with the value of the Age field.
Here is an example: http://i.imgur.com/8diwn.png
In that example, because I configured a content template for that Post Title field it's going to create the Post Title field using the value of the First Name Last Name and Email fields exactly as they are in the Content Template. The Content Template also supports static content so if you wanted to mix static and field values you could.
Here is an example of that: http://i.imgur.com/SPk9g.png
