@pozzerfield– Welcome to the Piklist Community!

You can easily embed a Piklist form in a modal. You would create the form as you normally would with Piklist, and then use the piklist_form shortcode to render the form in your modal code. Here’s a tutorial to get you started: https://piklist.github.io/docs/tutorials/forms/understanding-front-end-forms/

Remember, when using a shortcode in a PHP file you need to echo do_shortcode. Here’s some more information: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/wordpress/shortcode-in-a-template/

What exactly are you trying to do?

Somehow you’re going to have to grab the post ID from the link in your CPT list and pass it to the Piklist object_id parameter like this:

piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'text'
    ,'scope' => 'post'
    ,'field' => 'post_title'
    ,'label' => 'Post Title'
    ,'required' => true
    ,'object_id' => $post_id
  ));

Absolutely! I’m not sure how you want to pass the data to your modal, but for example if you didn’t have a modal:

1. Create the links your user would click on like this, where the post_id is the id of the post to edit: https://mydomain.com/edit/?id=5
2. In your Piklist form code you can add this before your field code: $post_id = isset($_GET['id']) ? $_GET['id'] : null;. This would grab the query parameter.
3. Then pass it to the Piklist field

piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'text'
    ,'scope' => 'post'
    ,'field' => 'post_title'
    ,'label' => 'Post Title'
    ,'required' => true
    ,'object_id' => $post_id
  ));

Again, you will need to figure out how to do something similar with JS for the modal.

Does that make sense?