If you want to know the identity of a logged-in user who creates a record using a signup form, you can do that by using a hidden field that records their user info. More on that here:
Using Participants Database with WordPress Users
Thanks xnau,
My purpose is for an internal intranet that is housing our corporate marketing mailing contact database. So I’m using this all in the admin section with employees who are logged in. No need to mess with front end lists and forms.
For example, I would add a vendor to the list of corporate contacts. I am the “Owner” of the contact, i.e. the “Author of the post” So it works the exact same way as the Author select drop down works on a post.
I can simply add a hard coded dropdown list with pre-populated names, but if it is possible to hook into the Post Author drop down, that would be ideal when I could have 50 different folks who own contacts.
I see, the “dynamic hidden field” feature doesn’t work in the backend, the dropdown may be your best choice.
no worries xnau. Thanks for the response! Keep up the great work.
