Advanced Views for Custom Fields and Posts vs Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types

Display content with full control over selection and layout. Lightweight and compatible with any theme or page builder. ⭐ Why Choose Advanced Views? Advanced Views is a framework that empowers you to create the layouts and selections you need, without bloatware or heavy dependencies. ✅ Solid by design: craft modular and reusable layouts. Avoid repetition, style conflicts, and messy code snippets. ✅ Content-driven: pull content dynamically, with granular filtering and sorting options, built on top of the native WordPress Query. Master advanced database queries with post fields, taxonomies, and meta values. ✅ Time-saver: automate the groundwork and data fetching. Focus on creating while leaving typical routines behind. ✅ Fully customizable: directly access the template code to create advanced elements, like Grids and Sliders, and harness your theme styles and scripts. ✅ Easy to embed: copy and paste a native WordPress shortcode to add layouts anywhere. 🧩 Plenty of Use Cases Custom fields and Post Types are essential to WordPress. Advanced Views natively supports them – giving you the freedom to pull, mix, and combine them in a common layout. Popular scenarios include: Displaying custom fields: 🔹On a single page: to enrich landing page sections 🔹CPT-wide: estimated delivery time for all Products 🔹Site-wide: contact details from the Options page 🔹User-specific: fields of the current user in a custom banner or profile page Displaying Posts, Products and CPT: 🔹Posts: blog posts from a specific category 🔹WooCommerce: related Products in a grid or carousel 🔹Event lists: Show upcoming events, hide past events 🔹Real Estate listings: properties by location, size, or type 🔹Locations map: display all pick-up location markers on a single map 🔹Reviews and Comments: product reviews or user comments 🔗 Multiple Content Sources Advanced Views is vendor-independent and plugin-agnostic – so it will work with WordPress Posts, WooCommerce Products, and any CPT on your website. Learn it once and use it everywhere with built-in support for: 🔹All Custom Post Types registered in WordPress 🔹WordPress post fields (title, featured image, author, taxonomy terms…) 🔹Woo Product fields (price, sku, stock status, weight…) 🔹Advanced Custom Fields (whether it’s text, select, image, gallery, repeater or relationship) 🔹MetaBox fields (like map, oEmbed, taxonomy, group… ) 🔹Pods fields (from WYSIWYG, price, date and time… ) You can integrate data from any external source, including API-based, directly into Layouts using snippets. 🚀 Powerful features Whether you’re a developer working on a child theme, a web creator using a page builder, or a tech-savvy website owner, Advanced Views makes the process easier with: 🔹Storage options: craft Layouts using the on-site editor, or edit them inside your favourite IDE, with git-friendly templates. 🔹Multilingual-friendly: translate any text or label in the Layouts using your favourite tool (like WPML or Polylang) 🔹Automatic template validation: keep all the Layouts up-to-date with bulk validation, and get prompted to update the relevant layouts when used meta fields have been changed. 🔹Template engine options: opt for the Twig or Blade template engine site-wide, or mix it up and make a per Layout decision. 🔹Just-in-time assets loader: get layout styles and scripts injected just-in-time, on a per-page basis. Make fast page loading and great speed metrics your defaults. 🔹Live reload and Dev mode: see live changes to Layouts on the page, and find used layouts without searching. 📚 Extensive Documentation & Friendly Support 🔹Helpful guides, FAQs, tips, and common use cases with code snippets 🔹Lite users are supported via the public wordpress.org forum 🔹Pro users get priority support via our website 🔹Actively maintained and tested against the latest WordPress releases 🔓 Unlock More with Advanced Views Pro Advanced Views Pro takes your content displays to the next level with extended features: Layouts get: 🔹Repeater, Group, and Flexible fields support – display complex nested fields — including repeaters within repeaters. 🔹Gutenberg block option – turn any layout into a Gutenberg block with a single checkbox. Same template with full markup control and zero React coding. 🔹Masonry, LightBox, Slider integrations – turn your Repeater or User fields into a slider, Gallery Images into Masonry, or enable LightBox for single images. 🔹Reusable components library – reuse existing Layouts on other websites with a single-click Git sync. Post Selections get: 🔹Meta filters – precise post selections with filtering by meta fields: define bindings to URL arguments, current meta values, and more. 🔹Ajax pagination of results: choose between options for load more button, infinity scroll, or page numbers. 🔹Post carousels: turn queried posts into sliders.

This plugin is an add-on for Gravity Forms. Make sure you visit GravityWiz.com for more free Gravity Forms resources. And if you’re looking to the largest collection of Gravity Forms plugins, check out Gravity Perks. Gravity Forms allows you to create posts from a form submission using special Post Fields. By default, the submitted form will be created as a standard WordPress post. This plugin allows you to change the post type of the generated post. No code required! This plugin also provides the ability to assign the generated post to a custom taxonomy. Need to update posts? Learn how to update posts with Gravity Forms. Features Map posts to a custom post type Map posts to a custom taxonomy (via Drop Down, Multi-select, Radio Button or Checkbox field) Map posts to multiple taxonomies Visual hierarchy support for hierarchical taxonomies (Drop Down field only) Populate a Drop Down with posts Assign parent post for generated post (Drop Down field only) Single Line Text field support for taxonomies (enter as a comma-delimited list: term a, term b, term c) Enhanced UI support for Single Line Text fields (see screenshots) How to map a form to a custom post type Add a Post Title field to your form and click on it to open the field settings. Below the “Description” field setting, you will find the “Post Type” setting. Select the desired post type from the drop down (default is “Posts”). How to link a field to a custom taxonomy Add the desired field to which the custom taxonomy should be mapped. Drop Down, Multi Select, Radio Buttons and Checkboxes fields are current supported. Open the field settings by clicking on the field and click on the “Advanced” tab. Check the “Populate with a Taxonomy” checkbox. Select the desired taxonomy from the drop down that appears. How to link the saved post to taxonomies using a single line text field Single Line Text fields are a great way to allow users to select existing taxonomy terms and to also add new terms. Add a Single Line Text field to your form. Open the field settings by clicking on the field and click on the “Advanced” tab. Check the “Save to Taxonomy” checkbox. Select the desired taxonomy from the drop down that appears. (optional) Check the “Enable Enhanced UI” checkbox to enable an awesome tag-input style UI (see screenshots). Note: If the user inputs exising term names, the generated post will be assigned these terms. If the user inputs term names that do not exist, these terms will be added to the selected taxonomy and the generated post will also be assigned these terms. How to set a parent post with the drop down field When populating a Drop Down field with a post type, you may wish to set the selected post as the parent post for the generated post. Add A Drop Down field to your form. Click on the field to open the field settings. Then click on the “Advanced” tab. Check the “Populate with Post Type” checkbox. Select the desired post type from the drop down that appears. Be sure to select the same post type for which the post is being generated.