35. Post Submission

Create WordPress posts or custom post types from form submissions. PRO feature.

Form Settings

{
  "settings": {
    "post_submission_enabled": true,
    "post_submission_type": "post",
    "post_submission_status": "draft",
    "post_title_field": "field_1",
    "post_content_field": "field_4"
  }
}

Post Meta

Each created post gets linking metadata:

update_post_meta( $new_post_id, '_formforge_submission_id', $submission_id );
update_post_meta( $new_post_id, '_formforge_form_id', $form->id );

User Registration

{
  "settings": {
    "create_user": true,
    "user_email_field": "email",
    "user_name_field": "full_name",
    "user_role": "subscriber"
  }
}

The handler reads user_email_field first, falls back to the first email field, creates a user with a random password when the email does not already exist, assigns the allowed role, and sends the WordPress new user notification. Duplicate emails are ignored rather than creating a second user or failing the visitor’s submission.

Mapped post title and content values are normalized through FORMFORGE_Value_Formatter, so scalar fields, lists, file arrays, and nested associative values are converted to readable text before insertion. If no content field is mapped, the fallback body renders every submitted field as escaped HTML with line breaks preserved.

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