Creating Posts From Users’ Front-End Form Submissions

  • Resolved stumur

    (@stumur)


    10 months, 1 week ago

    Hi Guys,

    I’m SO sorry to bother you. I run a small WordPress/Avada “live party bands for hire” online booking website – we represent live cover bands, and try to get them paid gigs at weddings, events etc. Anyway, when a new live band wants to sign up with us for representation, they currently fill in a lengthy data capture form on our website, adding all their info, like live gig mp4 videos, audio mp3 demos, their home location, music categories and tags of the styles they play, their contact details, their price range for gigs etc.., and submit that form to us, and then we have to manually build them a band page from all that info to add to our site as a post. But it would be better if their band page just got automatically generated and listed as a post when they submit their info (to match the look and layout exactly of our current band page posts), so we don’t have to manually build a page for them. Can your product do this? If so, what’s the general way I need to set it up to copy the look/layout of my current band posts? And, do I need to pay for extra add-ons/plugins etc for it to work, or is the basic free one good enough?

    Thanks, Stuart

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  • Plugin Author Ali Khallad

    (@alikhallad)

    10 months, 1 week ago

    Hey @stumur,

    Yes, You can do this with the plugin, but it might requires a bit of work. The plugin used to have a Pro version, but we merged everything into the free version, so now you have the full plugin for free with all the features you need to make this happen. You can either do it programmatically using the “Hook Action” create a specific markup for the post that you want to create and use the “Post Creation Action” to automatically create a new post for each new submission. However, I’m assuming you’d need specific design and the page will need to look and follow a specific pattern which is very specific to your use case. So no matter what plugin you use, you’d still have to create a custom setup one way or another.
    I suggest that you first try to make this work using the “Post Creation Action”, you could create a sample post with shortcodes that will be replaced with the form values, and put that inside the “post content” field. Then see if it’s created in the right format. Otherwise, you could use the “Hook Action” to create the post using the same sample but then replace all the content and images programmatically using the submission data.

    If you need help setting this up, we’ll be happy to help you for free. However, if you’re setup is a bit involved we would need to request an extra fee for custom work. So try to do it first, and if you run into any issues, you can reach out.

    Thread Starter stumur

    (@stumur)

    10 months, 1 week ago

    Omg.. thank you SO much Ali, for such a coherent and helpful reply! I think I understand.. enough to attempt a start today anyway. Thank you! If I get stuck, I’ll pop a message over to you, if that’s okay? I’ve taken more than a year on this .. I’m SO thankful.

    Kindest Regards,
    Stu

    Plugin Author Ali Khallad

    (@alikhallad)

    10 months, 1 week ago

    You’re welcome, feel free to open a new ticket if you need help 🙂

    Thread Starter stumur

    (@stumur)

    10 months, 1 week ago

    Sorry mate – where would I create a ticket.. is that on your website?

    Plugin Author Ali Khallad

    (@alikhallad)

    10 months, 1 week ago

    Hey, you can create here same like this one.

    Plugin Author Ali Khallad

    (@alikhallad)

    9 months, 3 weeks ago

    I’ll mark this as resolved since there is no recent engagement

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