A guy called Court has put together a video tutorial and article on using TDO Mini Forms, my free WordPress plugin.
The video is pretty good too as it shows you how to create a submission form and an edit form. I think I may be adding a link to this on the FAQ! 
As a footnote to the video, the latest version 0.13.7 does include Custom Field editing and the compare view for edit posts is now working.
Also check out his site for indie musicians called indilean that uses TDO Mini Forms too.
hi, i unchecked “Enable Preview”, but the “Preview” button is still displaying.
fixed itself…!
Hi,
Sorry for submitting this request over here but I wasn’t able to register on the Forum nor I was able to submit a guest submission..
First of all, thanks for the plug-in. This is exactly what I was looking for and it will fill my needs.. as soon as I get it working!
I’ve already created a page which is displaying the form ok (http://saplab.org/submit-your-link/). I want to allow visitors to submit their blog links using this form. It’s a simple 7 field form.
I have a custom field which has a key of “LINKTITLE”, which should correspond to the Post Title in the backend. I also have a last “Append Custom Field to Post Content 1″ enabled with the following code:
$post_id,
“post_title” => $link_title);
sanitize_post($postdata,”db”);
wp_update_post($postdata);
?>
Problem: my post gets created in draft mode but instead of the correct post title, it appears showing the date and time, in format dd-mm-yyyy(hh:mm:ss).
What am I doing wrong? Can you help me?
Additionally, I’d like the post title’s Permalink to point straight to the post url submitted by the user (redirection). Can you also help me on this?
Many thanks in advance.
Antonio
Hi, How can I add images to modify in the form? I try add form in admin section but not work.
Thank you so much.
Amazing video!!!….
Question if I may:
How do you customize the way the form appears; as the background color and I also get nasty looking boarders around the Title(s) of the widgets in the form.
Thanks again for the great vid!
Cheers
@Antonio Everything you ask for is already there.
First to modify the post title, you need to use the Content widget. This has a “Post Title” field. You don’t use Custom Fields to modify the post title.
Second, there is a permalink widget. This widget allows the user to enter a URL. This URL will become the permalink of the post.
@Evaeve Images to modify? I’m afraid TDOMF doesn’t support image modification currently. Is that what you’re looking for?
@Jay I didn’t create the video myself btw. You can modify the look of the form several different ways, via stylesheets, via the options in the individual widgets and via the form hacker. You need to know a little CSS really to modify the form.
TDO - thank you for an awesome plugin!
Unfortunately I’m having some issues with the auto trust submitter feature as I cannot set it to ‘0’. It’s always re-set to ‘-1′.
I already asked over on the wordpress.org boards, but it doesn’t seem like anyone can help there.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
As TDO Mini Forms appears on my dashboard, I’m trying to figure why I need it, if I need it - you know all the w’s and the h. I’m just a rookie trying to get more readers. Suspect if I double my computer knowledge I’d be a novice. Don’t know if you can, but looking for some help.
What I’ve noticed when inspecting Courts site, is that submissions using TDOMF are placed in their own special area. I’m playing around with TDOMF and I would like to achieve the same, have submissions and put them in their own area and not on the front page where they seem to like to sit.
Does anyone know how Court made it so submissions went where he wanted to put them?
Was having the same issue, type zero and save and it would return the -1. Got mad after a million tries and typed “00” and it returned the 0 for some reason.
Awesome plugin for WordPress and has a very detailed tutorial for installation. TDO mini forms is flexible and very easy to use!
Great tutorial on a fantastic plugin, TDO Mini Forms is superb
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“That post you are attempting to edit is invalid”
Why does the edit form produced by TDOMF give this message?
Hi! I also want to tell you that your plugin awesome and the only one that does the job. I have a small problem though. I want in specific forms to put only one category, so the post will be “forced to be on the correct category. The problem is that there are all the categories included although i includen-excluded etc all that i wanted
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2009/12/build-an-awesome-community-news-feature-for-your-wordpress-blog.html