Vantage Introduces the New AppThemes Custom Form Builder
Our new custom form builder is going to make your life easier! Do you need more than basic contact info for a business listing? Is your business directory in a niche market that requires unique data? Well, get it done with the new custom form builder.
With push-button simplicity, the new custom form builder makes it a snap to add custom data to your theme. The form builder allows you to create custom fields that will show up on the Vantage “Create a listing” form. After your customer enters data into the custom fields, it shows up on their listing. Simple as that.
We created a short video tutorial to show you how to get the most out of the new custom form builder for your site. Check it out below.
This video – and a text tutorial to be added later – can also be seen on this page in our documentation section.
By the way, the new form builder is part of our framework. We’ll be migrating it to our other themes sometime in the near future.
Comments (31)
Looking good for once š
All that is needed is a picture upload within the listing for say
Pizza:upload image
Pasta: upload image
Salat: upload image
If it can do that, I game to buy!
Well, You can upload pictures to listings. Am I missing your point?
You can do that, although I would leave the business owner with the freedom to name their own photos, unless you want your website to be a cluster f.
Hi Shannon,
Thanks for the overview. You guys are having waaay tooooo much fun!
Love it!
Thanks, and keep up the great work!
Sweet stuff! Thx!
Will there be an advanced search where the form fields can be used as search filters (e.g. number of bedrooms, zip code, etc.)
Not soon, Michael.
Hi! Do you mean not now, but soon? Or not at all? Think this would be a good feature.
I mean, “not soon” but not necessarily “not at all.” We had a discussion about search in our developer meeting today. There are a few challenges that we need to tackle with search. After that, we could consider this type of filtering.
Thanks for your reply, I will await your support for this but for now I installed the advanced search plugin (http://wedevs.com/plugin/advanced-search-widget/) that works great with your theme and gives me the possibilty to filter search based on custom fields.
Fantastic, mortensh. Is your install with the widget live?
I have a testsite out live on: http://intra.rettpƄ.net/ (Advanced search in sidebar, partly in norwegian)
The only thing is that the plugin now shows searchresults in blog format and not businesslisting format, but i plan to have a look at this after my holiday.
Thanks for sharing. We’ll check out the plugin.
We are looking forward to implementing this with the classipress we are running. Thank you for all your hardwork!
I know this is the wrong place for this question. Don’t know where to post it. Is it possible for you guys to add a video upload feature along with the images for listings? That would help my site tremendously!!!
Uploading video is not going to happen. What you can do is upload to a video sharing service, like YouTube, and then embed the video code into the “Business Description” text area on the “Create a Listing” form. You can see the end result here.
Hi, Example I created a custom field email and apply to all categories.
Then in one specific category “Real Estate” I created another field like “No of rooms” Will the 2 special fields will merge in the “Real Estate” category listing?
Two custom forms will not combine. You will need to create a new form.
Hi Shannon ,
I want to create a community members directory , I am using Custom Forms but there is no custom fields for Images . Please tell me if your providing the same in next release ??. I need this Image field badly to complete this directory . Please show me some way if you can …
You are correct, there are no custom fields for images. We plan on adding a custom field for PDFs. This would help with things like menus for restaurants.
We are doing customization and child theme development for appthemes.
Are you going to planing new update in near future?
Thanks
Well, we update the themes regularly. Maintenance updates come every 6-8 weeks. In fact, we just released the latest versions of JobRoller and ClassiPress last week.
Do your plans include producing a child theme for sale?
Actually one of our team is part of child theme and plugin development.
The main reason is one of our client requirement is similar to Vantage theme but the client want like “yelp”. So some features mission that’s why i was asking.
By the way the theme is really good as few months before we were working customization in favor of templatic but as your new coming theme is very good so we attracting toward you.
Thanks
Hi there, thanks for this feature – very useful – will this be implemented on JobRoller in the next few weeks ? It would be useful for be able to add custom fields to the Job seeker’s profiles of which some can be accessible by admin only.
An additional idea would be to show backend users which jobs each user has applied for in the backend to the admin.
Would be very useful to be able to use the form fields as search filters.
Thanks
@ozzy00200, not in the next couple of weeks but eventually.
Is it possible to add a field for video (they can put their link to youtube, vimeo) and the listing would embed the video to display it ?
You can add video embed code to the business description area.
Any eta on when this will be migrated to Classipress?
Maybe 2-3 months.
The custom form builder is great. However, it would be much better if there was an easy way to apply some basic styling to the form fields. Say you have 15-20 fields of information, the output rendered as plain paragraph tags will be compressed and less than readable.
Are there any tweaks I can do in the single-listings.php file to apply some spacing between the form fields?
Thanks!
You would want to modify the style sheet. Add
.listing-fields p {styles here}. This would help you modify the styles for all the custom field data on the single listing page. I’ll write a tutorial this week that will show how to modify individual custom field lines.Remember, even for small modifications like this, please create a child theme.
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