Form data management

The process of capturing, processing, and displaying user data is the primary feature of many websites. We already discussed the use of custom post types for simplifying the data modeling process. However, inbuilt custom post type features are only available in the backend. Form management is essential for capturing the user data to the custom post types from the frontend. There are certain limitations that force us to use form management from scratch without using custom post types on some occasions. Such limitations include the use of existing database tables, hooks, and built-in templates in custom post types.

We can add forms using theme templates, shortcodes, or existing hooks. Modern JavaScript libraries will be ...

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