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Biology Field Journal – Gravity Forms + Google Maps for WordPress
Turns out this won’t work for what I originally planned but the pattern is sound. You can see the form here and examples of the form submissions here. You’ll need Gravity Forms (pay but well worth it)...
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VCU Photo Safari
10:00 -10:50 am | Tom Woodward will be your guide on this photo safari as we look at the world through different lenses. This shift in both perspective and attention has the potential to change how you...
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Troubleshooting Patterns
I got an email from a professor who was using Gravity Forms to allow students to create blog posts. The problem was that when they submitted posts via the form the category ended up being the default...
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Pre-Filling Forms via URL
I have to figure out a rather unpleasant and boring thing. I am, however, learning some fairly odd and interesting tricks as a result. This is one that might be useful to someone. Google Forms You can...
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Gravity Forms Black Magic
Gravity Forms makes my list of Non-Programistan tools. I haven’t seen quite enough posts celebrating the fact that Gravity Forms can do magic. The key feature at the moment that is kind of blowing my...
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Gravity Forms: Exploring a Design Pattern
creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-ND ) flickr photo shared by clement127 One of the things we use a lot is what I’ll call templated submissions using Gravity Forms. It’s a solid performer across a...
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Semi-Programistan and Other Conundrums
I can create basic child themes. I can make some low level plugins. I can take themes and plugins as they’re given and live with the shortfalls. Lately I’ve become (more?) interested with the space...
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Faster Faster NMC Notes
I’m doing Faster Nyan Cat!1 Build! Build! tomorrow at NMC so . . . I’d better get moving on linking all this madness into some sort of coherent story with examples. So take a deep breath and . . . go...
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Gravity Forms + FacetWP = Gravatar People
Having just finished presenting1 at NMC. I said we all need to document more, to show examples and explain what we did. Making the notes for the presentation last night and being able to use the blog...
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WordPress for Syllabus Submission
This post is specifically about addressing a syllabus submission problem but it’s worth thinking about more broadly. It should be pretty applicable to any structured data entry problem you have. These...
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Post Documents for Student Comments
Students writing short papers and posting them for comments from other students is a fairly common pattern among VCU faculty. It’s a nice entry point because it doesn’t require any radical rethinking...
View ArticlePassword Protect Posts Created via Gravity Forms
A quick little plugin that sets the password for posts created via Gravity Forms. This came about as the result of a faculty request today. In this case it’ll grab the first form field and use that for...
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Set Default Gravity Forms From Email
On rampages we only have the ability to send out emails from rampages.us addresses. This caused a bit of confusion for me when our Gravity Forms email notifications stopped working.1 It seems like...
View ArticleGravity Forms – Regular URL for File Upload
add_filter( 'gform_secure_file_download_location', '__return_false' ); I do a fair amount of Gravity Forms to posts. Many times those posts have files, mainly images, associated with them that I’d like...
View ArticleConditional Content Display in Gravity Forms Templates
I don’t know when the conditional shortcode was added or if it has always existed and I was just unaware . . . but the ability to use a shortcode wrapper to show/not show portions of content in blog...
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Gravity Forms + Mermaid JS = Decision Flowcharts
I was building something in JSPlumb the other day1 and it prompted Tim to ask if we could build flowcharts based on survey responses so that respondents could see their choices in context. I thought...
View ArticleBackdating a Gravity Forms Created Post
This is something that’ll come in handy with forms creating timeline events. You can add a date field to the form and this will change the post date to match it. It might work the other way too, I...
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Auto Featured Image for Gravity Forms Posts by Response
This scenario is fairly specific, Gravity Forms to post and adding a specific featured image based on a form field but the ease of assigning a featured image via the media post ID is hand elsewhere and...
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Gravity Forms to ACF Pattern
When you use Gravity Forms to make a post, you can provision ACF fields but what I found was that the data wasn’t showing up correctly until I manually went and updated the created post. I tried using...
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Tag Cloud from Gravity Form Entries WP Plugin
Based on a conversation I had on Tuesday there appeared to be a need to generate a tag cloud1 from Gravity Forms responses. I didn’t see any immediate solutions after browsing for plugins. Granted, I...
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