Downloads: TDO Mini Forms Wordpress Plugin (v0.12.5)
This plugin allows you to add a form to your website that allows your readers (including non-registered) to submit posts.
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Version 0.12.5 includes integration with the reCapatcha captcha service, integration with the Subscribe-to-Plugins 2.1 plugin (allow submitters to subscribe to followup comments automatically), Comments management widget (allows you to set comments and ping status for forms and/or allow users chose if they want to allow comments), Excerpt Widget and even more bug fixes
TDO Mini Forms has been used to turn Wordpress into a Forum and a Contact Manager!
This plugin allows you to add a form to your website that allows non-registered users and/or subscribers (configurable) to submit posts. The posts are kept in “draft” until an admin can publish them (also configurable).
The plugin provides an extensive moderation view so administrators and editors can see posts awaiting approval and publish or delete them. Administrators can also ban specific users and IPs from using the form. Administrators can also “Trust” specific users. This means that when they use the form, their posts are automatically published. This does not give them any other rights or permissions using the Wordpress software, it only affects usage of the form. This applies to user and IP bans as well. There is even an option to automatically trust users after so many approved submissions. (It should be noted that submissions from users that can already publish using the normal Wordpress UI, will be automatically published.)
Administrators can configure the form using drag and drop “widgets”. They are based on the same model as Wordpress’ built-in Theme widgets and it is possible to write your own. With 0.7, more options are available and it is now much easier to integrate with your theme. You don’t even need to modify your theme any more to display submitter information!
Registered users have access to a “Your Submissions” page which lists their current submissions awaiting approval and links to their approved submissions.
Features
- Integration with Subcribe-to-Comments 2.1 plugin
- Integration with Akismet and reCaptcha to prevent Spam
- Highly customisable: Create your form using a Widget interface.
- Create as many forms as you like.
- Put a form in your sidebar using a widget for your Theme.
- Submit pages instead of posts.
- Simple Question and/or Image Captcha.
- Posting Policy.
- Add Custom Fields to your Form.
- QuickTags support for Forms.
- Upload Files and can be attached to posts. Uses Wordpress’ core to create thumbnails if applicable.
- Submitters can be notified if post approved or rejected.
- Allow users to select category and tags.
- Ban users and IPs.
- Control what roles can access the form.
- Can automatically create a page with form for you.
- Can automatically modified author template tag with info about submitter.
- Can, optionally, automatically allow submissions to be published.
- Throttle number of submissions by user and/or IP
- Optionally Queue published posts
- Numerous widgets for your theme, including a list of the top submitters
- And many more…
Version 0.12 introduces the Form Hacker which allows admins the power to modify the form code from within the plugin as opposed to hacking the plugin source code. Nearly all messages to the user are configurable now.
Version 0.11 provides integration with Akismet, Submission Throttling, Import and Export of Form settings, Queuing Approved Post, Top Submitter theme widget and numerous bug fixes!
For Installation, Screenshots, FAQ, Full Version History and Known Bugs, please check the included readme.txt or the Wordpress.org page for the plugin.
For Support (and live demo), please see the Forums.
Version Info: v0.12.5: 20th October 2008
- A “link” to the thumbnail is stored on the post using TDOMF_KEY_DOWNLOAD_THUMBURI key.
- Excerpt Widget
- Comments Management Widget
- Categories Include Field enabled (was accidently left disabled in previous release)
- Category Widget now has a Order by and Order options
- Recaptcha Widget
- Warning displayed if “I Agree” text is not modified
- Integration with Subscibe to Comments plugin via “Subscribe to Comments” widget
- Publish Now button
- Instead of notifying specific roles that a submission is requiring moderation, you can now specify an email list
- Tags Widget now has options for default tags, required and to disable user adding tags
Guest
March 27th, 2007 at 6:48 am
hello,
I have been using your plugin since version 0.1 and with each version I had to manuall correct some invalid html
I just thought I’d mention this, so maybe you can fix it once and for ever…
I’ll go ahead now and try to validate your demopage and send you the needed fixes.
1.
the attribute id is set twice!
2.
checked must be replaced by checked=”checked” and the end tag is missing, insert
/after the checked stuffI hope these are all for now…
Guest
March 25th, 2007 at 4:36 am
I’m sure it’s been mentioned but it would be cool if the user could embed YouTube videos or something like Viper’s Video Quicktags. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Administrator
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Hi Pawal, those polish characters seemed to work fine on the demo site. See here!
Guest
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Thanks for an answer :). I’m using 0.6 ver, and WP 2.12. I’ll post polish chars right away.
Administrator
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Hi pawel, what version of the plugin are you using? With version 0.5 I fixed a problem where Chinese characters were getting mangled when you post. This was due to the way AJAX incorrectly encoded the text for passing to Wordpress.
Could you try posting some polish characters using the demo site?
Guest
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Hi there! This plugin is really good idea, its feature is very useful for the site im working on. Unfortunately, theres a problem i was completly unable to solve. I use ISO-8859-2 encoding for polish lang in WP, but every post submitted via TDOMiniForms has polish letters messed.
cheers
Administrator
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:54 am
Ah. As of version 0.3, I ported to wordpress 2.1.2. I’m not planning on supporting older versions of wordpress. It’s bad enough having to support windows *and* unix hosts!
Guest
March 21st, 2007 at 11:49 pm
hurray,I figured it out! Testing the script on another WP install (both using wp 2.0.5 btw) an error showed saying it can’t find /wp-includes/pluggable.php
So at the top of form.php I changed pluggable.php to pluggable-functions.php and now it works like a charm (unless that interferes with something?
Either way, people have been unexpectedly sending me stuff to post lately, well now they can have their own category and submission form, hehehe)
Cheers, Ahni.
Administrator
March 21st, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Hi Ahni, I don’t know. I’ve tried it on the demo site with the latest version and not a bother. Have you tried the demo site with your current configuration?
Does it work okay while logged in with a user account?
Guest
March 21st, 2007 at 8:23 pm
poop. For some reason, everytime I click send (while logged out) a message shows up saying “undefined.” am I doing something wrong?