December 2010 Archives - Damian Gostomski | Freelance Web Development

New site launch

UPDATE: I’ve now replaced the “Lorem Ipsum” with actual content, but everything else below is still valid. Today I launched my new site, but unlike most site launches, it’s half missing. Currently, the only real content is on the homepage and the blog. There are some screenshots of a few websites in the portfolio section, but the text is all “Lorem ipsum”, as is the about page. So why have I done it? Why would I take down my existing site and replace it with this one? Firstly, this version has no less content as the old site has almost…

Removing fields for logged in users in Gravity Forms

Gravity Forms is one of my favourite WordPress plug-ins due to it’s ease of use, flexability and extensibilty. In a recent project I needed to be able to show or hide a set of fields dependant on if the user was logged in. Although Gravity Forms allows for conditional fields, these are dependant on other form fields. As part of the registtration process, we collected numerous pieces of information, and many of the same fields would appear in other forms within the site. Why should users who have already registered and given all that infoamtion once have to do it…