Title: Custom Fields and Forms
Last modified: March 2, 2020

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# Custom Fields and Forms

 *  Resolved [pingoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pingoes/)
 * (@pingoes)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-and-forms/)
 * Hi, a complete newbie here. What I am trying to do: I have a custom post with
   custom fields, and I want the user to submit one such custom post via a form 
   created with forminator. In the form I have the different fields (radio, text,
   checkboxes etc.) which reflect the custom fields of the custom post. With “post-
   data” I match the custom field slug (copied from the ACF field) with the field
   entity created in forminator.
 * Question:
    1) Why I do not see all the custom fields in “post-data” but only 
   some of those? (like the custom field for image upload does not show up) 2) Once
   the post is submitted, I find the post in post list with my custom fields empty
   and another section with all the data from forminator. Don’t they talk to each
   other even if I matched field-slug (ACF) to the forminator field label? 3) I 
   want the user to insert also a HTML code, but whatever I try (HTML field, text
   input field etc.) the result seems to be empty (even if is not). How do I do 
   that?
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by [pingoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pingoes/).

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 *  Thread Starter [pingoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pingoes/)
 * (@pingoes)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-and-forms/#post-12501070)
 * I figured out why my custom checkbox fields and my forminator outputs do not 
   sync. Forminator’s format for several boxes selected in the checkbox is comma-
   separated (option1, option2, option7) while the custom checkbox field from ACF
   separate choices with a line-break:
    (option1 option2 option7)
 * is there a way to define how the output of a field should be formatted?
 *  Plugin Support [Laura – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support8/)
 * (@wpmudev-support8)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-and-forms/#post-12513718)
 * Hello [@pingoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pingoes/)
 * I hope you’re well today!
 * I’m sorry for the late response and I’m glad to hear that you managed to figure
   out how to handle some of your initial questions.
 * As for defining how Forminator handles “custom checkboxes” – that’s not currently
   possible. The way custom fields data is stored with WordPress database is that
   it’s just a post meta and it can only be stored as a string or array. Any other
   format – or rather the way any plugin “interprets that data” – is more of a “
   Free ride” rater than a standard.
 * Therefore, currently Forminator uses the simplest possible “format” to store 
   any custom fields values and it directly saves them as meta data without taking
   into account any “special formatting needs”, I’m afraid.
 * ACF, however,is a very popular plugin and we already do have an integration feature
   planned. It’s on a “to do” list for one of future releases so it will let you
   easily “re-use” ACF fields in such form, without any worries about proper “mapping”
   and formats of the fields – just a selection from a drop-down box to add a field
   to the form.
 * Kind regards,
    Adam
 *  Plugin Support [Imran – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support9/)
 * (@wpmudev-support9)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-and-forms/#post-12571584)
 * Hello [@pingoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pingoes/)
 * I hope you are doing well!
 * We haven’t heard back from you for a while now so we’ve marked this ticket as
   resolved. If you do have any followup questions or require further assistance
   feel free to reopen it and let us know here.
 * Kind regards,
    Nastia

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## Tags

 * [ACF](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/acf/)
 * [custom fields](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-fields/)
 * [custom post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-post/)
 * [field](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/field/)
 * [form](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/form/)
 * [slug](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/slug/)
 * [user submit](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/user-submit/)

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 * Last reply from: [Imran – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support9/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-and-forms/#post-12571584)
 * Status: resolved