Custom Field Capture

Hey Alex, glad to help.

The free version of the plugin provides two custom fields that appear on the form. Once the form is submitted the two fields are attached to the submitted post as custom fields, and are visible via the “Custom Fields” meta panel on the “Edit” screen in the WP Admin Area.

So with that in mind, you have two ways to display the custom fields on the front-end post. First way is to enable the following related plugin settings:

• Custom Field 1 Display
• Custom Field 2 Display

Those two settings can be customized to display the custom fields either before or after post content. For any sort of display beyond that would need to be done via your theme template via custom code; ask your theme provider for help if needed, they will know best which changes to make, etc.

I hope this helps, let me know if I can provide any further information.

Hey Jeff,

I really appreciate the quick reply.

When I “enable?” the custom field – I still do not see it in the user submitted date (along side name and email) on the back end (I set it to “after post” just to test).

I feel like I’m missing something lol

Ok not sure what you are doing, please let me know the actual steps to repeat the issue starting from default WordPress installation. Something like

1. Install WordPress
2. Install/activate USP plugin
3. Enable both custom fields in the plugin settings
4. Visit the form and submit a post
5. Then… etc., until the issue happens

That way I can follow along and try to understand and help, thank you.

Hey Jeff,

I’m more of a visual guy – perhaps this will help.

Here are the fields turned on (enabled) and here is their custom name.

https://snipboard.io/ExDtWT.jpg

Here is the front end display – enabled – set to “before post”

https://snipboard.io/lIE2aV.jpg

Based on these two factors – should it not appear at the “user submitted info?” or top of the page? Below is a post:

https://snipboard.io/8EDZOg.jpg

I just want to confirm that based on this – the plugin is not acting how it should.

In your second screenshot it shows no markup for either of the settings:

• Custom Field 1 Display
• Custom Field 2 Display

Without any markup, nothing will be displayed.

Hey Jeff,

I’m not sure what is suppose to go there, I tried this:

https://snipboard.io/fYliSn.jpg

And that did not work lol

The value of the markup settings is subject to change, currently it is this for CF 1:

<p>%%custom_label%% : %%custom_name%% : %%custom_value%%</p>

..and this for CF 2:

<p>%%custom_label_2%% : %%custom_name_2%% : %%custom_value_2%%</p>

Note: at any time you can restore the default plugin settings, and all options including these will be populated with their current default values.

Hey Jeff, thank you! This solve my problem. I just didn’t even remotely comprehend the basics. As a side note – would the pro-version have a calendar date select feature as a field option?

Great, glad to hear you got it sorted @alextucci.

For any questions about pro version, please reach us via our contact form, thank you. (The forums here at www.ads-software.com are for free versions and prohibit any discussion of pro/premium plugins.)

• This reply was modified 3 months, 1 week ago by Jeff Starr.