User submitted posts can transform a website.
Visitors can easily create posts on a website without accessing WordPress's back-end. This keeps your website secure and automates user-generated content.
That turns the site into a content-generation machine. Guest blog posts, member directories, community content, resources, databases...we think you get the point! With user-submitted posts and pages, there is a lot you can do on a website.
Best of all? You only need one plugin to do it. And that's the best WordPress form builder, Formidable Forms.
Why use Formidable Forms for user submitted posts?
Managing a website is enough work as it is.
And if there's a way you can save time and effort, you'll take it. So, if a plugin speeds up user-generated content gathering, that's a huge amount of time saved.
You may think Formidable Form is just a plugin for creating contact forms, but it's much more than that.
Here's how Formidable can save you time.
Easy front-end post creation
All you need is a simple form.
You can turn Formidable Forms into a WordPress form to post plugin with one form. Visitors submit content through the form, which creates a post on the website—all without accessing the admin panel.
This feature is perfect for using WordPress to create a post from forms, which means guest blogs, community stories, and more.
But you keep control of what gets posted on the front-end.
You can choose what content a user can submit. This includes titles, post authors, post excerpts, content, post categories, and custom form fields. You can even allow file uploads. This is perfect for uploading featured images or images of in-content pictures.
Ultimately, you get the simplicity of user-generated content but the control of what gets shown and how.
Powerful control and security
Formidable doesn't stop at accepting guest post submissions and stopping there.
It can also act as a post approval WordPress plugin, allowing you to moderate submissions. You can set them to draft for admin review, automatically publish if you don't want to review them, or set it up depending on the custom post type. The power is yours.
You can also manage user permissions.
For example, if you trust a group of editors, you can give them more access to the back end of WordPress. But for random users, set their permissions to keep them as far away from the back end as possible to keep it secure.
Better user engagement
Post creation, security...what else could Formidable take off your hands?
How about allowing users to edit and update their submissions? This would take another task off your plate and allow you to focus on more important things. This feature is perfect for business directories or classified adverts, where information needs to stay current.
But there are also Formidable Views.
This takes all that data and displays it beautifully. Using this, you can customize how posts appear, whether as part of a directory, portfolio, or blog.
The choice is yours.
User-Generated Posts WordPress Sites Rely on
Formidable Forms is the WordPress user submitted post plugin you can depend on. Over 400,000 customers use our plugin to create custom forms, run eCommerce stores, and accept user-submitted content.
So, if you're ready to make accepting user submitted posts in WordPress super easy, no matter your skill level.
User-submitted posting is included in the Pro version of the Formidable Forms plugin.
