jessalouisa
Member
Hi ... Is it true that I need an add-on to the Gravity form to be able to publish user generated content, like a testimonial? I'm not too familiar with developer lingo ... What is needed to be able to do this - publish user-generated testimonials to a designated wordpress post or page - in simple terms? Thanks!
jv
No this is not true.
Gravity Forms can be used to create WordPress Posts by using the Post Fields in the form editor. The Post Fields create a Post. There are Post Fields for Title, Body, Excerpt, Custom Field, Category, Tags and Images.
All you need to do to create a form that creates a WordPress post is to create a new form and add a Post Title and Post Body field to your form. Each of these have their own field options related to post creation. When the form is submitted with these fields present it will automatically create a Post.
They are called Post Fields because they are used to create Posts.
Documentation for the various field types, including the Post Fields can be found here:
jessalouisa
Member
Great - thanks for your help. Can you tell me, if I have some post fields (title, body, image) and other standard fields, will the standard fields (for example, a field with just name, or email) show up as part of the generated post? I'd like the name and the email entries to show up in generated post. Thank you ...
jv
Only Post Fields create Post Data. If your form mixes Post Fields and Standard/Advanced/Pricing Fields then only the Post Fields are going to create the WordPress Posts. All of the form data will be viewable when you view the form entries, but only Post Fields create Post data.
Posts only consist of a Title, a Body and Custom Fields as far as Post data goes. If you want to display the value of other fields in your Post Body you can use the Content Template option on the Post Body field which lets you configure what gets saved in the Post Body and allows you to insert the value of other fields into the content of the post using the Content Template.
You can also use Custom Fields to store additional Post data. However your theme template would have to be configured to then display these custom field values.
