I have these cpts that list a Horse For Sale:
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That is an example of one of them. It is created with a Content Template. (BTW, this is SO cool what you have created!)
Do you see at the bottom of the page I have contact information for the seller. That is pulled from User information for whoever created the advertisement in the first place. So there will be lots of users and each will have a number of horse for sale pages like this.
What bothers me is that I've just got regular email links and I'm not comfortable with that. I'd consider any better solution that protects advertisers' emails from scraping.
What I think would be ideal would be to have a little contact form appear at the bottom of each page. When someone is interested in a horse, they would type in their name, email address, message. Click the recaptcha thing. Then I'd like that information to turn into an email to the horse seller. Not to me the website admin.
I can't figure out how to do that with CRED. I use Formidable for the main contact form on the site but I can't get that to pick up the User email, just mine. It does have a nice "don't save this entry" checkbox which would be good for this use case.
Since you have done so much for creating directory/advertising sites I'm sure you have the solution to this. But I'm stumped! Thanks!
Just wanted to add that I'm also willing to use Ninja Forms especially if the free version will do it.
Ninja seems to work "okay" but I am still interested in a CRED option if possible because I'd rather not have two full-featured forms plugins running on my one little site. 🙂
And yes, it's three right now, but if I keep Ninja I'll get rid of Formidable Lite.
Hi, thank you for the love for Toolset 🙂
I understand what you want is sort of a Messaging Form.
CRED is not exactly developed for that. It's a software that lets you create and edit Posts and users from the front-end, but it's not a message/notification software per se.
But you can achieve the goal, although it is questionable if it's the easiest and best solution.
Usually, I recommend 3rd Party Plugins for this sort of messaging.
With CRED, the main idea on how to implement this is to create a Post Type that is a child to the post where should be commented on.
Then the Form, when submitted, creates a child post to this post, and a notification to some users or emails can be setup in the CRED form, according to this DOC:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/automated-email-notifications-with-cred/
But as said, it's a bit cumbersome, as it's not a real messaging but you create new posts and use the notifications of those, to function as the messaging.
I would say for this form of contacting/messaging a 3rd Party is eventually better and easier to use.
If you are interested in the CRED form approach, you might want to read this:
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/send-notification-to-post-author-is-sending-to-wrong-email-adress/
You can also have a look at the Classifieds Reference Site here:
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It has some Custom Code, in an additional Toolset Plugin, that allows as well messaging. But that site is built with several Custom Code approaches and it's built with WooCommerce as well.
Please let me know if you have follow-up questions.
Thank you for your answer!
I love how CRED lets me make user-submitted content - and really the world is full of contact form options.
My only remaining question is, do you have insight - pros or cons - about the major 3rd party contact form plugins and how they work with/conflict with Toolset? I'm open to anything except Gravity Forms.
Thanks again!
I never used a 3rd Party Plugin for such purposes, to be honest.
The websites I maintain and build usually are either just having a simple CRED form that creates "Contacts" posts and send an email to the Admin when that happens, or have no contact methods at all, given the content of the site isn't requiring a contact form.
Toolset basically works with every theme and plugin out there, and if not, we are always open to cooperate with 3rd Parties so to ensure compatibility.
https://toolset.com/home/compatibility-toolset-plugins-themes/
Thanks for the info, that will be a good read.
Really appreciate your help with this!
