Section break, html and default form in the back end

1. No. In the backend it’s not a customized form like in the frontend. It shows just the custom fields thats being used.
2. That would be a good idea, but currently you can’t set a default form.

Thanks Tareq,
regarding 2. – isn’t there any hook to set it? It would be a huge improvement for the work flow…

No, there isn’t any hook. It’s just a custom field _wpuf_form that is saved for each post for Form assignment. You can run a loop and update all existing posts to a form id. Check here

This sounds like exactly what I need! 🙂

function wpufe_auto_set_formid( $post_id, $post ) {
    $form_id = 143;
     
    if ( $post->post_type == 'post' ) {
        update_post_meta( $post_id, '_wpuf_form_id', $form_id );
    }
}
 
add_action( 'wp_insert_post', 'wpufe_auto_set_formid', 10, 2 );

But won’t it clash, when the user will create a new post at the front end with another form?

To explain: for different reasons I use another form in the back end than in the front end… So when I create a new post in the back end, it should use the “default form”, when a user creates a new post, he should be able to use the “frond end from”.

@Tareq
I was playing with the function as you suggested.
Unfortunately it won’t allow me to change the form once a new post is created! Every time I save or update a post, the function sets the form ID back to the “default form”.
I changed the $priority number of the action to 1 and to 15 but it doesn’t seem to change this behavior.
Actually the function should run just once when I create a new post.
Do you have any hint on this?

Use this two hooks wpuf_add_post_after_insert and wpuf_edit_post_after_update. Check the other hooks as well.

I found a very simple solution 🙂
If the _wpuf_form_id is empty, the form ID will get set to the default ID, otherwise nothing gets changed…

function wpufe_auto_set_formid( $post_id, $post ) {
 	$form_id = get_post_meta( $post_id, '_wpuf_form_id', true );
       if ( $post->post_type == 'my_post_type' ) {
   	if ($form_id == "") 
   {
   	$form_id = 201;
        update_post_meta( $post_id, '_wpuf_form_id', $form_id );
   	} else{   }
}
}
add_action( 'wp_insert_post', 'wpufe_auto_set_formid', 10, 2 );