Using Form to submit blog data

Dirk, you can use the post field functionality to get you pretty close to the page you referenced as an example.

You'll need a post body field and category field in your form as those are required to create a post. I quickly set up a form similar to yours and worked from there.

form screenshot

to add multiple images to a post, we'll use the built in WP gallery functionality. You can go back and add this in the editor after the post has been created by adding the [gallery] shortcode, or you can embed the shortcode into your single.php file something like the example below.. I chose to put the gallery below the post content.

<div class="post-content">
    <?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
    <?php echo do_shortcode("[gallery]"); ?>
</div>

Once that's placed in the file where you want it, it will embed the gallery of images that are associated with that post. The default styling has the images on top and captions below, but to emulate your example a little better, I used a little CSS to override the default styles.

/*restyle default gallery ---------*/

dl.gallery-item {float:left; margin-right:15px; clear:both; overflow:hidden; width:100%!important}
dt.gallery-icon {float:left; padding:6px!important}
dd.gallery-caption {margin-left:180px!important; padding:6px 0 0 0; text-align:left!important; line-height:150%}

So, after all that's done, this is the end result.

post screenshot

Hopefully, that will get you going in the right direction. Once you're up and running, you might be interested in a related post on adding a WYSIWYG editor to the post form.

http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/post-preview#post-823

One last note, there are a variety of options you can use with the gallery shortcode, you can find out more about that on the WordPress codex site.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode

You're welcome. I'm happy to help out. Yes, you can add it to the end of your theme style sheet - usually style.css. You shouldn't have to add it anywhere else.

The example uses the default WordPress gallery functionality which itself is pretty limited. To remedy that, grab Justin Tadlocks Cleaner Gallery Plugin. It adds a lot of additional options, one of which is setting the default link target (or no link) for the thumbnails.

screenshot

Hope that helps.

@surfershort This method of using the gallery shortcode is dated. There are easier ways to implement the built in WordPress [gallery] shortcode using the Post Body and the Content Template functionality. I'm not familiar with next gen enough to know if it would work with it as well.

Gravity Forms doesn't upload post images to next gen galleries, only the post gallery for the post that is created with the form.

@cor the Content Template functionality is a feature of the Post Body, Post Title and Post Custom Field fieldtypes in Gravity Forms v1.5. It's an option when editing those field types in the form editor. Documentation for these will be made available with the final release of Gravity Forms v1.5 at the end of the month.

For now, they are options on these 3 field types. When you turn the option on you are presented with a textarea where you can create the content the same way you create Notification emails in Gravity Forms. You can use HTML markup and insert form field values using form field variables. Whatever you add in your content template is what is used to create the value of that field.