Need help getting started

  • Resolved Pedro Magnifico

    (@pedro-magnifico)


    7 years ago

    I’m trying to understand how this plugin works.

    My goal: give my client a way to update an existing page’s content via form. Not creating a new page.

    So I created
    ? a page to be updated
    ? a page for a form
    ? a form with a text field for author name and a text area for page content

    Then I go to set up the form to post, link author and content fields, map form to existing page. But I am not allowed to specify the page. So the form does not update any page.

    What am I missing?

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  • Plugin Author Aurovrata Venet

    (@aurovrata)

    You really need to understand a little more about how pages (posts) and their meta-fields are saved in the backend. This plugin is exposes some advance functionality which is really targeted at developers, so if you have not much experience in writing custom page/post requests in php using the WordPress framework, you are going to struggle.

    But I am not allowed to specify the page.

    to answer your question briefly… this plugin maps a form to a post (pages are special posts). Everytime someone submits the form, a new post is created for that submission. However, the plugin also allows you to save forms rather than submit them. The difference between the 2 is that for a saved submission for a given user, the plugin will automatically reload that saved post, allowing the user to modify/udpate that post. Submitted posts are flagged by the plugin and are not reloaded.

    The plugin has built-in hooks to change the above default behaviour, but that’s for advanced developers.

    So you either need to familiarise yourself with WordPress framework to achieve what you want to do, or you need to engage someone who can help you. You can read this post to find out how to get more support. You can also engage my help by contact me on vrata at syllogic dot in

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