Turn Gravity Forms Entries Into WordPress Posts or Pages




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Summary: So you’re looking for a way to create user-submitted posts in Gravity Forms? In this article, we’re going to show you two different ways to turn user-submitted form entries into posts on your website.First, we’ll look at the Gravity Forms Advanced Posts Creation Add-On and how you can use it to automatically generate posts from form entries. Next, we’ll show you how to use Gravity Forms Posts fields to achieve a similar result.Finally, we’ll look at how you can use GravityView to display form entries on the front end of your website and build powerful applications.Gravity Forms Advanced Post Creation Add-OnThe new Gravity Forms Advanced Post Creation Add-On allows you to turn user-submitted form entries into posts on your website. The add-on makes this simple by adding a new “Post Creation” feed option to Gravity Forms.When configuring a new Post Creation feed, you can map fields from your form to specific areas of a post. Note, don’t use Gravity Forms Post Fields for this, use standard text and file upload fields instead. We cover Post Fields further down in this article.For example, take a look at the above form. It’s got three fields:Post Title (Single Line Text)Post Content (Paragraph)Featured Image (File Upload)By configuring a Post Creation feed we can turn user-submitted content into a post for our website.Creating a Post Creation FeedTo create a new Post Creation Feed, log in to your WordPress website, hover over Forms in the admin panel and click on Forms. Next, bring up the Form Settings by hovering over your form and clicking on Settings. To add a new Post Creation Feed click Add New.Now you can start configuring the different post creation options.Configuring the Post SettingsUnder Post Settings there is a range of options allowing you to customize different aspects of new posts when they are created.Let’s go through each one in more detail.TypeHere you can choose whether to create a WordPress page or post when a user submits your form. Type also supports custom post types added by your theme or third-party plugins.StatusThis option allows you to set the default status of new posts created from user submissions. Here are the different status options:PublishedWhen the user submits the form, Gravity Forms will automatically create a new post and publish it on your website.ScheduledGravity Forms will create the post as “scheduled” for publishing on a future date. Note that setting the Date/Time of a post ahead of the current time in WordPress will force the post to be “scheduled”.DraftWhen the user submits your form, Gravity Forms will create the post and save it as a “Draft”. To publish it, you will need to edit... You are listening to the topic about "Turn Gravity Forms Entries Into WordPress Posts or Pages", if you want to read the full article, please visit https://geniuswp.com or the link in the description.