Front-end Submission – Gravity Form

VideoPro theme offers a powerful Front-end Post Submission function allowing front-end users contribute their videos/posts to your site. This feature is built to work with both Contact Form 7 (Free), Gravity Form (Paid) and QuForm (Paid + Addon) plugins.

If you choose Gravity Form, please follow these steps to set up the Front-end Submission function:

• Step 1: Make sure that you have installed Gravity Form plugin on your website.
• Step 2.1: From Dashboard, navigate to Forms > New Form then enter the Form title and description

• Step 2.2: In the Form Editor, drag & drop the Fields to build the Submit Form with form fields having the formats and settings as below:

NOTE 1: It requires information of at least 1 of 3 fields (*): Video URL, Video File (Upload) or Video Embed Code so the Submit Video form can operate.

• Video URL: is Standard Fields > Single Line Text field having Admin Field Label is video-url (*)
• Video File: is Advanced Fields > File Upload field having Admin Field Label is video-file (*)
• Video Embed Code: is Standard Fields > Paragraph Text field having Admin Field Label is video-code (*)

NOTE 2: The fields below are optional to provide more information for the video post:

• Your Email: is Advanced Fields > Email field having Admin Field Label is your-email

• Post Title: is Standard Fields > Single Line Text field having Admin Field Label is post-title
• Post Description: is Standard Fields > Paragraph Text field having Admin Field Label is post-description
• Video Thumbnail: is Advanced Fields > File Upload field having Admin Field Label is video-thumbnail
• Tags: is VideoPro Post Submission > Tags field having Admin Field Label is tag
• Categories: is VideoPro Post Submission > Categories field having Admin Field Label is cat
• Channels: is VideoPro Post Submission > Channels field having Admin Field Label is channel
• Playlists: is VideoPro Post Submission > Playlists field having Admin Field Label is playlist
• Captcha: is Advanced Fields > Captcha field

In Back-end, the form will look like:

In Front-end, the form will look like:

• Step 3: Go to Appearance > Widgets > Drag & drop a Form widget into User Submit Video Sidebar, then in Select a Form option choose the Submit Form you created above.
• Step 4: Go to Video Extensions > Front-end Post Submission > Change Enable to Enable.

• In addition, there are many other options you can configure for the Front-end Post Submission function. For example:
  • Default Post Format for submitted post is Video or Standard post
  • Default Status for submitted post is Pending or Publish

• Step 5: If you want to send an email (to users) to notify about the acceptance of submitted video, please enable option Notification on Video Extensions > Front-end Post Submission > Notification: Enable.

• When the submitted video is approved, user will receive an email notification with a link to the video:

• Step 6: DONE! All submitted Posts will go directly to Post > All Posts with status is Publish/Pending due to the settings in Step 4 (Video Extensions > Front-end Post Submission)

NOTE 3: You can select Enable Multi-File Upload to allow users can drag & drop file in the File Upload field NOTE 4: To change the content of this email, please check Change the notification message of Post Submission