Title: Editing posts Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Editing posts * Resolved [deserteagle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deserteagle/) * (@deserteagle) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-11/) * Once the post is submitted, how can I view or edit it? It shows up in the admin dashboard, but only displays the CF7 shortcode. * Thanks for the help, and keep up the awesome work! * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/form-to-post/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/form-to-post/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Plugin Author [Michael Simpson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msimpson/) * (@msimpson) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-11/#post-5497375) * After a post is created via a form, the post would be shown on a site just like a post you create manually. You should also see it under “Posts” in WP admin where you can edit it. * Thread Starter [deserteagle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deserteagle/) * (@deserteagle) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-11/#post-5497444) * It shows up, but again, only displays the shortcode in the WP admin… and going back to that post on the front-end shows nothing. * Plugin Author [Michael Simpson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msimpson/) * (@msimpson) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-11/#post-5497456) * I’m totally confused whether you are talking about a post with the form or some shortcode or the post created by the form. * Thread Starter [deserteagle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deserteagle/) * (@deserteagle) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-11/#post-5497468) * No worries, I understand. Took me a while to figure it out myself, so here goes. * The page shows the form just fine: [http://imgur.com/ueFykh4](http://imgur.com/ueFykh4) * The form submits and becomes a post: [http://imgur.com/GByRsil](http://imgur.com/GByRsil) * The post appears in the admin: [http://imgur.com/hoeK0GP](http://imgur.com/hoeK0GP) * But the post itself does not show what I typed in: [http://imgur.com/JfAwXtS](http://imgur.com/JfAwXtS) * Instead it shows the shortcode I put in the page to get the contact form to show: [http://imgur.com/r1oxL5z](http://imgur.com/r1oxL5z) * Plugin Author [Michael Simpson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msimpson/) * (@msimpson) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-11/#post-5497470) * That helps. Weird that the short code is there. * Would you paste in here your form definition? (Please format as code) * Thread Starter [deserteagle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deserteagle/) * (@deserteagle) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-11/#post-5497472) * ``` [hidden post_title] [hidden post_content "application"] [hidden post_category_name "Duct Seal"] [hidden ID]

Equipment Make* [text* text-227 id:make]

Start-up Date* [text* text-8 id:startupdate]

Model #* [text* text-246 id:condensermodelnumber]

[submit "Send"]

``` * Here are the modifications I did to FormToPost_Plugin.php * ``` $post = array( # 'post_status' => 'publish', 'post_status' => 'pending', # initial rebate application status 'post_type' => 'post', 'post_category' => array(0) ); ``` * And here are the modifications I did to the hidden.php of Contact Form Module * ``` global $post; date_default_timezone_set(get_option('timezone_string')); # sets the timezone used from the wordpress selection $rebate_time = date("m/d/Y @ h:ia"); # rebate application timestamp $rebate_type = get_the_title(); if(is_object($post)) { switch($sanitized_name) { case 'post_title': case 'post-title': #$value = $post->post_title; $value = $rebate_type." submitted on " .$rebate_time; # rebate application title break; ``` * Plugin Author [Michael Simpson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msimpson/) * (@msimpson) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-11/#post-5497477) * Ok, I was a little confused, but I now understand that [http://imgur.com/r1oxL5z](http://imgur.com/r1oxL5z) is the view of the page with the form, not the post listed in [http://imgur.com/hoeK0GP](http://imgur.com/hoeK0GP) * I assume if you open [http://imgur.com/hoeK0GP](http://imgur.com/hoeK0GP) then you see an empty post. This is because there is nothing in the post_content field. Whatever is in post_content in the form becomes the content of the post. * If you want to get the other form values (make, startdate, etc.) then you need to find a way of copying that information into the post_content field. You can try to do this (1) on the front end using some Javascript prior to submit or ( 2) register a hook in CF7 or (3) modify FormToPost_Plugin.php to do it. I would recommend (2). * In fact I think you can avoid changing code in hidden.php and my plugin by using a CF7 hook instead. If you modify a plugin, then you loose your changes if you update the plugin. Using a hook is a better way to go. * I’ll suggest my own [Add Actions and Filters](https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-actions-and-filters/) plugin which gives you an admin page to place PHP code in. Then I would put code like this leveraging CF7’s wpcf7_posted_data hook (I haven’t tested it! Just giving you an idea). * ``` function set_form_to_post_values($posted_data) { $posted_data['post_status'] = 'pending'; $posted_data['post_content'] = 'Make:' . $posted_data['text-227] . '
Start Update:' . $posted_data['text-8'] . '
Model:' . $posted_data['text-246']; date_default_timezone_set(get_option('timezone_string')); $rebate_time = date("m/d/Y @ h:ia"); // Actually get_the_title() won't work here in the hook callback functions... // ... might try adding javascript to page to set the value of a hidden field // which could be accessed here. // see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18023030/how-to-get-post-title-by-javascript-before-submission $rebate_type = 'TBD'; //get_the_title(); $posted_data['post_title'] = $rebate_type." submitted on " .$rebate_time; return $posted_data; } add_action('wpcf7_posted_data', 'set_form_to_post_values'); ``` * Thread Starter [deserteagle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deserteagle/) * (@deserteagle) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-11/#post-5497562) * Thank you so much! Your Add Actions and Filters plugin ROCKS, by the way! Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Editing posts’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/form-to-post.svg) * [Form to Post](https://wordpress.org/plugins/form-to-post/) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/form-to-post/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/form-to-post/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/form-to-post/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/form-to-post/reviews/) * 8 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [deserteagle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deserteagle/) * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-11/#post-5497562) * Status: resolved