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Stop Gravity Forms from Creating Form Entries

There are cases when you want to allow your site visitors to add content to your WordPress blog from a front end form. The best (and easiest) way to accomplish this is to use Gravity Forms and our Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types Addon. For those that don’t know, the addon allows your site visitors to capture custom post types from a front end Gravity Form.

So if your form is creating posts in your WordPress database, do you really need the form to also create an entry? (or a lead as it’s called in the Gravity Forms code). I think in most cases not.

Someone also asked me if I could stop Gravity Forms from creating these entry database records, so I looked into it. I could not find a way, using the existing Gravity Forms hooks, to stop the form from creating an entry/lead in the database.

2 things to note with the code:

  1. line 2 has a syntax error and has an unnecessaryparenthesis ‘)’

So now the question: Should I create a small plugin that does this? And include a settings page where you can configure which forms delete their entries/leads?