Let users view their past form submissions in WordPress
Core WordPress provides user accounts and roles, but it does not let members see the forms they previously filled out. Without this feature, site owners cannot give members a way to track their past entries directly inside their account dashboard.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1using a third-party forms plugin like Gravity Forms to manage and display user submission historiesDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I would like people to be able to create an account on my site and allow the memeber to respond to forms inside of their account.”source ↗
“Core WordPress gives you accounts and roles, but nothing that lets a member fill out a form and later see their own entries.”source ↗
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