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.

Demo Site

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

March 14th, 2008 at 9:22 pm

Posted with keywords: tdo-mini-forms, TDOMF, Wordpress, Wordpress-Plugins, and in sections: Downloads.

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jamestl2
Subscriber
May 28th, 2007 at 3:55 pm

Hello,
Thanks for the quick response

Right now I had it set so only contributors (registered users) can write.

I did create a “dummy user” but I do not have it set as subscriber, I set him as contributor (didn’t think there was a difference) so I switched it over and no more post problems.

However, I am still getting the same error as before for my “pages”. I try to write a new page for my site in my administrator profile and *my user name* is not available for the “authorship” and “ownership” of the page. Just available contributors can be selected.

Thanks again,
James

Mark
Administrator
May 28th, 2007 at 7:44 am

Hi James,

I’m not sure I understand what your trying to do?

To allow *anyone* to use the TDOMF from to submit, i.e. anonymously, there needs to be a default user to assign as author of posts submitted anonymously. This default user cannot be an administrator, nor can it have edit and publish permissions, otherwise when someone posts anonymously, the posts will be posted automatically. Just create a dummy user account with the Subscriber role and then assign that as the default user. That is all you have to do.

How do I make it so I (as the administrator) have complete control over my own posts and pages (it won’t let the admin be selected as a default author)? Then, I tried to create a few new posts (in my administrator dashboard profile) and it wouldn’t even allow me to be the author of my own posts, “somebody else” has to be selected.

I certainly do not have this problem on my test site. I just tried it. I could write a post from the dashboard using the administrator account. It was published. Then I could edit it and set the author to my administrator account or enabled TDOMF and set an author, including the administrator, that way.

If you are logged in and you use the TDOMF form, TDOMF will pick up that you are logged in and use that user as the author, not the default user you’ve assigned for anonymous posts. This is regardless if you are logged in as just a Subscriber or as an all-powerful Administrator.

Do you have more than one Administrator account?

What version of Wordpress are you using?

Have you removed publish and edit permissions from your account?

I don’t want to create a new user just to make my posts and pages under “his” name. So how can I get it so I have ownership over my pages and posts?

This shouldn’t be an issue! You can create, modify and delete posts as normal using your own Administrator account.

jamestl2
Subscriber
May 28th, 2007 at 1:49 am

Hey Mark,

I like the idea of anyone being able to submit content, but what about myself?
I’ve recently downloaded your TDOMF plugin, and I encountered a few difficulties.
It says that there “MUST be a default author who must not have publish or edit abilities”.

How do I make it so I (as the administrator) have complete control over my own posts and pages (it won’t let the admin be selected as a default author)? Then, I tried to create a few new posts (in my administrator dashboard profile) and it wouldn’t even allow me to be the author of my own posts, “somebody else” has to be selected.

I don’t want to create a new user just to make my posts and pages under “his” name. So how can I get it so I have ownership over my pages and posts?

If you need more details, I’d be happy to tell you more.

Thanks,
James

manish
Guest
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:58 am

regarding post no. 203 I tried a different thing. Going through your version revision history, I found that your ver. 0.1 had the same bug that i want now as feature so what i did was downloaded ver. 0.1 and removed v 0.6 by v0.1 and now its working fine. I would be more than obliged if you’d go to my site and write about anything that you hate PLEASE, it is a site that is trying to discuss hatred in people. here is the link sharehatred
Thanx Man your a genious and it would be great if you could suggest a way to use this feature in v0.6

manish
Guest
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:26 am

Hi one more thing
is there a way that unregistered users could directly post without moderation.
That is can I turn moderation off, as my site is new and I really want users to be motivated by directly publishing using your plugin TDO Forms.
What happens now is that the post is held for moderation unless I accept orpublish it. Thanx for taking interest in trying to solving my earlier problem(yesterday)

manish
Guest
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:39 am

I have admin account, and a subscriber account(as required by the plugin).
now if the plugin is activated and i login as admin also, then also it does not allow me to edit categories and or delete categories or posts.

Mark
Administrator
May 21st, 2007 at 4:26 pm

Hi ftab

I haven’t had a chance to look at this problem since, but I’m pretty sure I know what the problem is.

Hi Phil McThomas

Here’s what I’m thinking though: I kinda feel like the code should be refactored to include some hooks into some custom functions so everyone who wants to hack this can do so and still stand a good chance to taking pain-free updates to the core plugin.

For instance, there could be a custom functions for building the form, validating the values, and posting the entry to the db. There could be two flavors of each function: Override (i.e. don’t show your form, show my form) or Add (i.e. show your form then show my extra field).

That is a strange and quirky idea. I like it. Opens the field for a lot of customisation, if you know what your doing.

Hi stickitstaff

if someone publishes a post with a web address in the text, litteraly not html code, for example “www.google.com”, is it possible to make it act like an actual link once the post is published.

Do you want code that figures out if a title is a link or just have the title treated as a link? i.e. If some posts “a title” and another posts “http://google.com”, then the title with google in it would be a hyperlink?

It’s doable, but it’s not something that needs to be done as part of this plugin.

Hi Francois,

I want to add some code to limit the number of charcters of the text area, but I am not very familiar with php.

I think you can do that just by modifying the html of the form. I’d need to look into it.

Hi anne,

Your request might be better served using a plugin like cforms (not mine).

Hi manish,

when i install and activate TDO Miniform, then it does not allo me to delet post even when i’am logged in as admin and shows message “You don’t have permission to do that.”
And when i disable the plugin it allows me to delete posts.

What “role” is the account your using set to, when you delete posts?

manish
Guest
May 20th, 2007 at 10:34 am

hi,
when i install and activate TDO Miniform, then it does not allo me to delet post even when i’am logged in as admin and shows message “You don’t have permission to do that.”
And when i disable the plugin it allows me to delete posts. please guide me what i might be doing wrong

anne
Guest
May 20th, 2007 at 10:21 am

hi, this is looking like the first step to sth i am just looking for: a way to give a list of items with checkboxes plus a form like yours to send a wish (or an order without payingfunction) from within a static wordpress site. i mean i wondered if one could change the functionality from being a post to sending a message to the owner of the blog, understand? could you think about doing this (tell me what it would cost!)..??

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