WordPress Front-End Post Submission Tutorial




By “submit WordPress posts from the front-end”, I mean some type of front-end editor or form where users can fill in the details and hit submit. Then, that information shows up in WordPress as either a blog post or some other custom post type.

Why Let People Submit Posts from the Front-End in WordPress?

As I mentioned, there are a ton of different ways in which this functionality comes in handy.

If you’re working with regular WordPress posts (AKA blog posts), you could:
Let people submit guest posts from the front-end and then save them as a draft for review.
Create a more beginner-friendly way for registered authors at your site to create blog posts.
Let registered members create blog posts to create a sort of community blog.

But I think where this functionality starts really getting flexible is when you combine it with WordPress custom post types. Some examples of what you can do here:
A job listing site where companies can submit their open jobs through a form and then those jobs automatically display on the front-end.
An event listing site where people can submit events from the front-end.
A classifieds site where people can submit items they want to sell.

You get the idea – it’s super flexible and lets you create some really dynamic WordPress sites.
What You Need to Allow Front-end Post Submission

While it’s possible to create your own front-end posting solution with code, a more user-friendly option here is to use a plugin.

While there are a few different options for this (including some WordPress form plugins), we like Toolset because it can not only handle front-end forms, but it can also help with lots of other stuff like:
Custom post types
Custom fields
Displaying information from custom post types and custom fields
Restricting access to front-end post submission forms
Etc.

How to Set Up WordPress Front-End Post Submission


For this tutorial, I’m going to use the example of creating a front-end post submission form for guest blog posts.

But again, the plugin that you’ll use in this tutorial – Toolset – can very easily work with custom post types as well. And, it can also help you create those custom post types in the first place.

To get started, make sure to install and activate at least the Toolset Forms plugin/module. You can install other modules as well, but Toolset Forms is all you need for this tutorial.
1. Create a New Post Form and Give it a Title

Once you’ve installed and activated the Toolset Forms plugin, go to Toolset → Post Forms → Add Newto create your front-end post submission form:
Create new form
This will open a wizard that guides you through creating your form:
Front-end post form wizard



On the first step, enter a title:

Form name

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