Tell us what you are trying to do? On every Muay Thai Gym (hidden link) I have a Gravity Form, where customers can leave a review.
As each review is for the specific custom post type, where they are actually, I like to perge / match it together. Once I have the review, I will show the reviews on each one.
What is the best approach to do it? I know there might be a way to create a relationship, but maybe another way to do it. I was thinking to get the actual post id from the custom post type and add this number in a hidden field in the review form, respectively as a field in the custom post type.
If this is a way, how do I get easy and with a short code the custom post id?
Thank you for getting in touch. Since you are using gravity forms to do the reviews the suggestion of having the hidden field with the ID of the current post.
To get the ID you can use this shortcode [wpv-post-id]. Assuming here that you will be creating a matching custom field on the backend so that the ID information can be stored on the comment itself.
Once this has been done you are then able to use our Blocks plugin and on your page template add a view with the query filter for the custom field. You will then need to set this custom field filter to "Shortcode Attribute" instead of "Constant". Let say you've set the shortcode attribute value to "ids", you will need to use this attribute to pass the ID of the current post into the view.
Using the view's shortcode insert it into your template like my example below
[wpv-view name='my-view' ids='[wpv-post-id]']
Where my-view is the slug of your view that is listing out the comments. Also as you can see i'm passing the ID of the current post into the view.
But it shows me a bit too much - plus some chars in the end ']
If You can help me to get this... once I have all information I need, I will do some design stuff. It seems as it is not working with the id. Maybe I used the wrong format for the id in my custom post type.
I expect to see:
"Great experience in the Gym from a Swiss owner
Great experience in the Gym from a Swiss owner, Great experience in the Gym from a Swiss owner
Simon Vetterli
Excellent"
Instead - it shows me all reviews, plus the body part of the actual post.
What I like to achieve is, to create my own short code, where I am giving the fields I need.
something like this as an example: [showmyreview field="lastname"] - I have then my own grid builder (from the theme).
To do this way, I need to have the followed logic:
1. Find the post ID (from the review), where the specific ID field is the parent post ID
2. Once I have this post ID, I should be able to get the field values
Or what You think? Do You have an example code (for php) I might be able to use?
However in your case you are using gravity forms to store the comments so the post relationships won't apply here.
I need some clarification on a few things. 1. Find the post ID (from the review), where the specific ID field is the parent post ID
Is the review being created on the same page as the parent ? Meaning is the gravity form for the review on the same page that is being reviewed?
2. Once I have this post ID, I should be able to get the field values
In your previous post you mentioned about storing the current post's id in a hidden field however as long as the form is on the same page you can get the id of the current post using the shortcode [wpv-post-id]
Given the current scenario i'm not sure why the gravity forms hook isn't firing.
However I see where you are already storing the post ID on the post, so we can use this to get the correct posts. Given that i'm not able to debug why the gravity forms hook isn't firing on their form.
I attempted to locate the template where you've inserted the view, however all you need to do now is insert your view like this below.
It does show something, but seems not to working as I expect. If You check the hole source code from the review part.
I am also not sure if I use the correct format for the id I used in reviews. I try to follow some "documents" but there aren't any - and those I find are only for WordPress block 's.
In the source below (you find this at the moment on every gym, as it isn't working, hidden link) - does not show the id from the filter.
Even though you have the advance post creation module installed and active. You can go ahead and test it on your end and check if it works.
I've already performed a test on your end and setup the view filters to use the post relationship instead of the id in the fields so this should work now with listing the correct information. As it stands you don't need to make any changes to the site.
