Title: Creating a Journal Form
Last modified: July 30, 2020

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# Creating a Journal Form

 *  Resolved [elieelia9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elieelia9/)
 * (@elieelia9)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-journal-form/)
 * Hi there
 * I was looking to see if it would be possible to create a journal/diary using 
   forminator that users can add to, return back to, remove from, and keep it persisted
   whenever they return back to it. Sort of like a ‘log book’.
 * As an admin would I also be able to see their persisted logbook

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 *  Plugin Support [Dimitris – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support6/)
 * (@wpmudev-support6)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-journal-form/#post-13198772)
 * Hello there [@elieelia9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elieelia9/)
 * Can you elaborate a bit more on what would be the user’s experience?
 * You could use the Post Data field in Forminator though, in order for your users
   to create posts via a frontend form. You can even have some custom meta fields
   into those, so you can better filter/display them in other pages.
    [https://monosnap.com/file/DQuDUTOuKTiHpMr0sWogbQAWS8uiVw](https://monosnap.com/file/DQuDUTOuKTiHpMr0sWogbQAWS8uiVw)
 * Thank you,
    Dimitris
 *  Thread Starter [elieelia9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elieelia9/)
 * (@elieelia9)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-journal-form/#post-13212273)
 * [@wpmudev-support6](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support6/) Hi
   Dimitris, thanks for your reply.
 * The idea would be that it is a personal diary for the user.
 * They can log what they’ve done throughout their day and return to this log to
   modify it, change their logged activities, or delete their logged activities.
 *  Plugin Support [Patrick – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport12/)
 * (@wpmudevsupport12)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-journal-form/#post-13218556)
 * Hi [@elieelia9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elieelia9/)
 * I hope you are doing well.
 * I believe the Post data would be the most indicated in your case.
 * You can find more about this field on [https://premium.wpmudev.org/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#post-data-field](https://premium.wpmudev.org/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#post-data-field)
 * Using the Forminator > Add Form > Create Post will allow your user to manage 
   the posts, edit it, publish remove.
 * If you would like to go further, you can create your own post type “Journal Posts”
   and split this from the default WordPress post types.
 * To find more about post type you can check this plugin:
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/)
 * > [Post Types](https://wordpress.org/support/article/post-types/)
 * Best Regards
    Patrick Freitas
 *  Thread Starter [elieelia9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elieelia9/)
 * (@elieelia9)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-journal-form/#post-13219321)
 * [@wpmudevsupport12](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport12/) Hmm,
   I’m not sure if I’m not understanding correctly but this does not seem to be 
   working. This just creates blog posts which are public to everyone.
 * I was checking to see if the user can make a post in this form, which after submission
   the user can come back to and see in the form, edit them, delete them etc, exactly
   like your own personal diary which you can write whatever you want in
 *  Thread Starter [elieelia9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elieelia9/)
 * (@elieelia9)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-journal-form/#post-13219325)
 * I want to be able to create a journal for my users on my membership site. I want
   to make it so that each of them has their own unique journal that no other members
   can see (except for the admin).
    I want my users to be able to click on an MY
   JOURNAL link and be taken to a page with all their previous posts, plus a link
   that would enable them to create a new post, from your form, that will add to
   their journal.
 *  Plugin Support [Patrick – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport12/)
 * (@wpmudevsupport12)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-journal-form/#post-13227016)
 * Hi [@elieelia9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elieelia9/)
 * > This just creates blog posts which are public to everyone.
 * You can make the post type not visible for everyone, also limit the editors to
   see only own posts:
 * Some references on [https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-limit-authors-to-their-own-posts-in-wordpress-admin/](https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-limit-authors-to-their-own-posts-in-wordpress-admin/)
 * However, those extra settings must be done using custom code or different plugins
   to manage the post type, I’m afraid it is not possible from Forminator settings,
   the Forminator only will submit the post.
 * Best Regards
    Patrick Freitas

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