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 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
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 Akismet 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…
Verision 0.11 provides intregration with Akismet, Submission Throttling, Import and Export of Form settings, Queuing Approved Post, Top Submitter theme widget and numerous bug fixes!
With version 0.10.3, “Bad Data” errors and register_global issues should be a thing of the past!
Version 0.10.2 provides compatibility with Wordpress 2.5!
Version 0.10 is a big upgrade. You will not be able to use previous versions about this install.
Version 0.7 is a major reworking of the code. Make sure to follow the upgrade instructions if you are using a version prior to this!
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: v0.12.3: 4th July 2008
- Bug in tdomf-msgs.php that would occur for unregistered users only
- Auto Respond Email widget
- Small mistake in whoami widget hack, “email” title used for webpage field
- Checkbox settings were not being correctly passed in AJAX
- Full paths are used, not just relative
- Ban User/IP links from moderation email
- Enabling extra debug messages and turning on error messages to user also turns on all error reporting in PHP
- Added extra debug messages and handling around post_id 0 submissions (still dont’ have a clue about them)
- Moderation emails to admins can now be turned on if moderation is turned off
- Custom Field summary was not appearing in admin emails
I will be closing comments on this post soon. As an alternative way to manage feedback, you can use the newly added forums.
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?
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?
Some news for you all: I’ve started work again on this plugin.
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
Just a note I’ve got both your plugin and Cforms II running fine together over at iloveottawa.ca
Great plugin! I’m anxiously awaiting the new version, but seeing as it looks like a year or more since this has been updated, should I just get in there and make my own version?
Very useful site… thanks for the plugins..!
Thank you for the plugin. Can you please look at the bottom of my page and let me know how to get rid of Allowed HTML Tags:
Found the solution for my last question (here).
In Form.php (not editable through Wordpress admin - need to edit via FTP), line 215 - change “draft” to “publish”, and all posts will be published without having to approve each post manually.