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There isn’t a way to do this right now. There are some issues with handling the markup on the back end. I’m adding this my list of features for the next major version.

Right now, the post author is always the admin.

I realize the ‘publish post’ feature needs more options. This is definitely on the list for v2.

For now let me point you to the section of the code that handles this. If you go to helpers.php line 436, you can change the ID of the post author. You can find the ID numbers in the wp_users table.

It looks like this feature is broken. I’ll have an update ASAP.

In the form editor, under the ‘advanced’ tab, there is an option to publish submissions as posts.

If that is the case then I would look at the theme, but anything that processes widgets might affect it too. FM grabs the current page by using get_permalink().

If you post a link to the broken form, or email it to me (campbell AT campbellhoffman dot com) I’ll take a look.

FYI shortcodes do not normally work in text widgets. Try this in a vanilla install of WP, you will see what I mean. There is either a plugin you are using, or a feature of your theme, that allows you to put shortcodes in text widgets and have them processed. If you could track that down I might be able to help further.

You must have a plugin, or maybe a feature of your theme, that processes shortcodes in text widgets.

You might try this plugin, its a dedicated forms widget for form manager. I didn’t write it, but it seems to work fine.

Just for reference, my guess is what is happening is not a redirect. The form ‘action’ is probably set to the wrong (not the current) page. This is determined by a wordpress function, get_permalink(), which is supposed to work outside the loop. The problem has to do with how the text widget shortcoding is happening. If you figure out what plugin / theme is doing this, I’ll see if I can figure out a workaround.