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
September 11th, 2007 at 8:56 am
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Administrator
September 3rd, 2007 at 3:59 pm
I will be closing comments on this post soon. As an alternative way to manage feedback, you can use the newly added forums.
September 3rd, 2007 at 3:51 pm
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Administrator
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Hi Richard B again! I don’t know why the page is not being updated. The TDOMF plugin does not use any sort of fancy caching for quicker loads. Are you using something like “wp-cache”?
If you could post your changes somewhere that I could have a look at, I can check to see if there is something wrong?
Guest
September 1st, 2007 at 3:23 am
I’ve been working with Form.PHP and have made some minor changes (like removing text formatting options available to the user.) Also, made increased the size of the Title & Text boxes.
The changes to the text boxes went fine as did remarking out the information for the user to format text.
A problem has appeared that nothing I change in Form.php appears on the submit page. I was wondering if TDO works something like Smarty in that it generates a display page for quicker loads and for some reason TDO is not refreshing the display page.
To check it I changed the page where the form appears–removing the line that calls TDO. The changes replaced the form, but when the line of code to call TDO was reinserted the new changes still do not appear.
Why are the changes not appearing?
Administrator
August 30th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Some news for you all: I’ve started work again on this plugin.
August 30th, 2007 at 10:39 am
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Guest
August 17th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
HI, sounds like a good idea for a plugin, but I wondered is it possible to have a drop down menu so the user can assign the post to a category?
Thanks
Guest
August 12th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Just a note I’ve got both your plugin and Cforms II running fine together over at iloveottawa.ca