Need some basic info

  • Resolved pgwebgirl

    (@pgwebgirl)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    Your documentation is very good but as I am new to the creation of custom post types in wordpress I am still confused. I had thought that creating a custom post type was necessary to use the form builder to create posts, however looking at the jobs application demo, it seems to create a post but there is no custom post type for this form. So maybe a custom post type is not needed. I do want to create an rss feed for my form and posts though, so to do an rss feed, is a custom post type needed? I hope you can clarify it a bit for me. I want people who are looking for a job to be able to fill in a form as a guest, detailing their skills and what type of job they want. I want the members of my site to be able to see those listings and respond to the email or contact info if there is a match. But they will view the listings under a login so that the contact info for the person applying stays private. The user/members will not need to edit or delete any form entries. That will be admin only. So is a custom post type needed?

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  • jamie.wahlin

    (@jamiewahlin)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hello!

    It’s not necessary to create a custom post type to use Formidable’s Create Post action. Also, I don’t think you’ll need a custom post type to generate an RSS feed, but I would bet that you could do it either way (standard post type or custom post type). If you have an RSS feed up and running already, then adding Formidable into the process should be quite smooth.

    Could you post in our Help Desk if you have any additional questions?
    https://formidablepro.com/help-desk/

    Thread Starter pgwebgirl

    (@pgwebgirl)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hello And thanks for the answer -I am not allowed to post on your help-desk as I have only the basic starter level of formidable forms. when I login and click on helpdesk it says I am not allowed. I don’t want to buy the higher level yet because I am still testing out this plugin to see if it will do what I need. I will work through the examples now and see what I can figure out.

    Thread Starter pgwebgirl

    (@pgwebgirl)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    I have finally figured out how the post thing works. I need to collect information from a guest like a job posting that creates a post in my wordpress blog. I figured out that in order to show the different fields in the post content, I need to put that in the content field setting for the form. However I only need to show ALL the content to the logged in users. I want to show partial content, but no contact information to the visitor / guests to the site. So I will use the regular post content field for the outside post and then make a special view for logged in users that links to the post detail view with the entry id link instead of the detaillink. I have figured that out through trial and error. I am wondering though if I set the fields I don’t want to show to be users or logged in only. Can I do it without creating the extra view. Will the Post content not show the protected fields? Need the post to be a post so that I can rss feed it and notify users that there was a post or new listing.

    jamie.wahlin

    (@jamiewahlin)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    I would be happy to share some ideas for this, but you’ll need to post in our help desk with an active license that includes support.

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