Title: Forms with content?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Forms with content?

 *  [scottlim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottlim/)
 * (@scottlim)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forms-with-content/)
 * Hello,
 * I am a new WordPress developer (about a month) working on a project as an in-
   house programmer. Our system has custom tables feeding data to templates that
   create pages. We need to create a way for users to enter data into the custom
   tables. My boss doesn’t want me to re-invent the wheel and create my own plugin,
   so I am researching existing plugins.
 * I really like CSDES, but since I don’t think we need searchable forms (the search
   will be elsewhere), I decided to experiment with the Data Storage plugin. It 
   looks like a very good plugin, but there are 2 things I wish it did.
 * Since our custom tables already exist, the first thing I want Data Storage to
   do is write to existing tables, not ones created and maintained by DS. (Thinking
   about it, though, this is probably my preference and not a requirement; whatever
   the tables are named will be invisible to the users. I guess I just don’t want
   to re-enter a lot of data.)
 * There is at least one use-case where seeing existing data would be helpful while
   entering new data, but the forms DS creates only have data fields. They do not
   have any content (even to explain what a field is). I would like forms that allow
   me to put data and text in them.
 * So my question is this: Do you think the Data Storage plugin could be easily 
   modified (by you or me) to do these two things, or should I start from scratch?
 * Thank you.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/data-storage/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/data-storage/)

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