Front-end Submission – Gravity Form

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TrueMag theme offers a powerful Front-end Post Submission function allowing front-end users contribute their videos/posts to your site. This feature is built to work with both Contact Form 7 (Free) and Gravity Form (Paid) plugins.

If you choose Gravity Form, please follow these steps to set up the Front-end Submission function:

  • Step 1: Make sure that you have installed Gravity Form plugin on your website.
  • Step 2.1: From Dashboard, navigate to Forms > New Form then enter the Form title and description

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  • Step 2.2: In the Form Editor, drag & drop the Fields to build the Submit Form with form fields having the formats and settings as below:gravityform-buildform-field-settings-2

NOTE 1: It requires information of at least 1 of 3 fields (*): Video URL, Video File (Upload) or Video Embed Code so the Submit Video form can operate.

  • Video URL: is Standard Fields > Single Line Text field having Admin Field Label is video-url (*)
  • Video File: is Advanced Fields > File Upload field having Admin Field Label is video-file (*)
  • Video Embed Code: is Standard Fields > Paragraph Text field having Admin Field Label is video-code (*)

NOTE 2: The fields below are optional to provide more information for the video post:

  • Your Email: is Advanced Fields > Email field having Admin Field Label is your-email
  • Post Title: is Standard Fields > Single Line Text field having Admin Field Label is video-title
  • Post Description: is Standard Fields > Paragraph Text field having Admin Field Label is video-description
  • Post Excerpt: is Standard Fields > Paragraph Text field having Admin Field Label is video-excerpt
  • Video Thumbnail: is Advanced Fields > File Upload field having Admin Field Label is video-thumbnail
  • Tags: is TrueMag Post Submission > Tags field having Admin Field Label is tag
  • Categories: is TrueMag Post Submission > Categories field having Admin Field Label is cat
  • Captcha: is Advanced Fields > Captcha field

In Front-end, the form will look like:

  • Step 3: Go to Appearance > Widgets > Drag & drop a Form widget into User Submit Video Sidebar, then in Select a Form option choose the Submit Form you created above.widget-submitform
  • Step 4: Go to Appearance > Theme Options > User Submit Video, change Enable User Submit Video Feature to Enable. You can also configure other settings here.2016-11-04_140512
  • Step 5: If you want to send an email (to users) to notify about the acceptance of the submitted video, please Enable the feature Notification in Theme Options > User Submit Video

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When the submitted video is approved, user will receive an email notification with a link to the video:

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  • Step 6: DONE! All submitted Posts will go directly to Post > All Posts with status is Publish/Pending due to the settings in Step 3 (Appearance > Theme Options > User Submit Video).

NOTE 3: You can select Enable Multi-File Upload to allow users can drag & drop file in the File Upload field gravityform-enable-multi-file-upload-dragdrop-file-1