pnrhost/wp-frontend-post

Add front end posts by Wordpress users

wp-frontend-post

=== Frontend Custom Post === Plugin Name: Frontend Custom Post Plugin URI: http://wp.pnrhost.com/ Description: Custom frontend plugin for post any custom post Version: 1.0 Author: pnrhost Author URI: http://pnrhost.com License: GPLv2 or later

This plugin allows your visitors to upload User Generated Content (media and posts/custom-post-types with media).

== Description ==

What is Frontend Custom Post?

This plugin is a simple way for users to submit content to your site. The plugin uses a set of shortcodes to let you create highly customizable submission forms to your posts and pages. Once the content is submitted, it is held for moderation until you approve it. It’s that easy!

Exploring Customizations

• You can modify the submission form as needed, and have users submit posts. Please visit the FAQ page for more information.
• This plugin can be applied to Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types. You can enable this via Settings > Frontend Custom Post Settings.
• In addition to the WordPress whitelisted file types, this also supports uploading of Microsoft Office and Adobe files, as well as various video and audio files. You can enable these file types via Settings > Frontend Custom Post Settings.
• The plugin allows you to upload all filetypes that are whitelisted in WordPress. If you’d like to add more file types and are comfortable with theme development, there's a filter that'll allow you to add some exotic MIME-type.

You can also manage UGC for selected custom post types (Please refer to the plugin's settings page). By default, UGC is enabled for posts and attachments. If you want to be able to get any other post types UGC submissions just select desired post types at the plugin's settings page, and pass post_type='my_post_type' to the [fu-upload-form] shortcode.

Customizing Your Form with Shortcode Parameters

Frontend Custom Post uses shortcodes to insert a form into a page or post. The default form shortcode is [fu-upload-form] but you can modify the plugin's behavior with additional parameters.

If you would like to build a custom form, it must begin with [fu-upload-form] and end with [/fu-upload-form].

The [fu-upload-form] shortcode has several parameters important parameters:

form_layout This determines whether the form is saved as a post/custom post type (‘post’), as a media file (media), or as a post with images (post_media). Default value is media. Example: [fu-upload-form class="your-class" title="Upload your media" form_layout=”post”]

title Add this [fu-upload-form] shortcode, and this will be the Headline that will be displayed before the form. Example: [fu-upload-form class="your-class" title="Upload your media"]

class HTML class of the form, defaults to 'validate'. If you want your form being validated - do not remove validate class. If you would like to item to be required before a user can submit, you can set it to ‘required.’ Example: [input type="text" name="post_title" id="title" class="required"]

post_type Any post whitelisted in settings post type. Defaults to 'post'. Example: [fu-upload-form post_type="my-custom-post-type-slug"]

append_to_post Automatically insert images into uploaded post (true or false)

success_page URL to redirect on successful submission, defaults to the URL where the form is being displayed. For security reasons this should be an URL on your site (no external links). You can use [fu-upload-response] shortcode to display success/error messages on the redirect page.

category ID of category the post should be attached (only in post or post+media mode).

post_id ID of the post the image should be attached to. Defaults to the post ID of the post the shortcode is on.

suppress_default_fields In it's basic form shortcode adds some default fields for you - Title, Description, and file upload. However, you can create a customized shortcode. Override global setting for supressing default form fields (true or false). Example: [fu-upload-form suppress_default_fields="true"] ... inner shortcodes omitted... [/fu-upload-form]

Within [fu-upload-form], you can add form fields.

• [input type="text" ] A text box for one line of text
• [textarea] => A text box for multiple lines of text
• [input type="file"] => A file uploader
• [checkboxes values="value:Description,124:Banana,cherry:Cherry"] => A set of checkboxes
• [radio name="foo" class="checkboxes" description="Pick a fruit" values="value:Description,124:Banana,cherry:Cherry"] => A set of radio buttons
• [select name="foo" class="select" description="Pick a fruit" values="apple:Apple,banana:Banana,cherry:Cherry"] => A select
• [input type="submit" class="btn" value="Submit"] => A submit button

** Each field has a set of attributes **

id - id of element

name - name of element1

class - extra classes you want to add

type - text or file or submit

required - whether the field is required

minlength - minimum amount of characters for field value

maxlength - maximum amount of characters for field value

multiple - allow multiple file uploads (only for file inputs)

description - input label

help - input help text displayed underneath

value - input value

values - multiple option inputs (checkboxes,select,radio) values in format value:description, another_value:anotherdescription

wysiwyg_enabled - enable TinyMCE for textareas

** Support **

Please make sure to read this readme including FAQ section before posting in support forum.

** Development **

Fork the plugin or report an issue on Github

== Translations ==

• Мы говорим по-русски (Russian)
• Se habla español (Spanish) (props Rafael Calzada, gastonbesada)
• Nous parlons français (French) (props dapickboy)
• Nous parlons français (Canadian French) (props rfzappala)
• Vi snakker norsk (Norwegian) (props André Langseth)
• Wir sprechen Deutsch (German) (props Joshua Trees)
• We spreken Nederlands (Dutch) (props Jaap van der Veen)
• ما فارسی صحبت می کنند (Persian) (props mojtabashahi)
• Falamos Português (Brazilian Portuguese) (props Murilo Pinto Pereira)

== Installation ==

1. Upload frontend-uploader to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Tweak the plugin's settings in: Settings -> Frontend Custom Post Settings
4. Use the following shortcode in post or page: [fu-upload-form]
5. Moderate uploaded files in Media -> Manage UGC menu
6. Moderate user posts in Posts -> Manage UGC

== Screenshots ==

1. Screenshot of plugin's UI (It's looks like standard media list table, with slightly better Parent column and additional row action: "Approve")
2. Default media upload form
3. Example of customized form
4. WYSIWYG editor in upload form

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

Caveats

You can modify the form as you'd like but you have to make sure that 'post_title' field is present, otherwise upload might fail

= Example of default media upload form =

Here's example of default form (you don't need to enter all that if you want to use default form, just use [fu-upload-form]):

[fu-upload-form class="your-class" title="Upload your media"] [input type="text" name="post_title" id="title" class="required" description="Title"] [textarea name="post_content" class="textarea" id="ug_caption" description="Description (optional)"] [input type="file" name="photo" id="ug_photo" class="required" description="Your Photo" multiple="multiple"] [input type="submit" class="btn" value="Submit"] [/fu-upload-form]

= I get a white screen or "0" when trying to upload a file = The major cause of this is either request timeout or request exceeding maximum request size. This means that either the file was uploading for too long or it was too big. Two PHP settings to look at are: max_execution_time and upload_max_filesize. If you don't have any ability to modify these settings, please contact your hosting company's support.

= Where are the plugin's settings? = You can find Frontend Custom Post's settings under Settings > Frontend Custom Post Settings.

= Can I get email notifications? = Yes you can enable this in Settings > Frontend Custom Post settings. By default the site admin will receive email notifications. If you’d like to change that to another email, you can also change that in settings.

= How are authors determined? = If someone is logged in, their user profile is automatically linked to the post. Otherwise, you can enable an “Author Field” under Settings > Frontend Custom Post that allows the users to write in their name.

= Are other filetypes supported? = In addition to the WordPress whitelisted file types, Frontend Custom Post also supports uploading of Microsoft Office and Adobe files, as well as various video and audio files. You can enable these file types via Settings > Frontend Custom Post Settings.

= Where does the user submitted content go? = If you used the default form, the uploaded file will go into Media > Manage UGC. You can have the submitted content go into Post > Manage UGC by setting the parameter: form_layout="post".

= Help, I pasted in the above shortcode and now my fields are duplicated = As stated in previous answer, you don't need to put inner contents if you only need default form fields. E.g. [fu-upload-form class="your-class" title="Upload your media"] will be enough to render the default form. You can suppress rendering of default form fields with "Suppress default fields" checkbox in settings

= I want to customize my form = You can include additional elements with a set of shortcodes [input type="text" name="post_title" id="title" class="required" description="Title" multiple=""] [select name="foo" class="select" id="ug_select" description="Pick a fruit" values="Apple,Banana,Cherry"] [textarea name="post_content" class="textarea" id="ug_caption" description="Description (optional)"] [checkboxes name="foo" class="checkboxes" description="Pick a fruit" values="value:Description,124:Banana,cherry:Cherry"]

= I want to be allow users to upload mp3, psd, or any other file restricted by default. = You are able to do that within Frontend Custom Post Settings admin page. The settings there cover the most popular extensions/MIME-types. The trick is that the same file might have several different mime-types based on setup of server/client. If you're experiencing any issues, you can set WP_DEBUG to true in your wp-config.php or put add_filter( 'fu_is_debug', '__return_true' ); in your theme's functions.php to see what MIME-types you are having troubles with.

FileExt is a good place to find MIME-types for specific file extension.

Let's say we want to be able to upload 3gp media files.

First we look up all MIME-types for 3gp: http://filext.com/file-extension/3gp

Now that we have all possible MIME-types for .3gp, we can allow the files to be uploaded.

Following code whitelists 3gp files, if it makes sense to you, you can modify it for other extensions/mime-types. If it confuses you, please don't hesitate to post on support forum. Put this in your theme's functions.php add_filter( 'fu_allowed_mime_types', 'my_fu_allowed_mime_types' ); function my_fu_allowed_mime_types( $mime_types ) { // Array of 3gp mime types // From http://filext.com (there might be more) $mimes = array( 'audio/3gpp', 'video/3gpp' ); // Iterate through all mime types and add this specific mime to allow it foreach( $mimes as $mime ) { // Preserve the mime_type $orig_mime = $mime; // Leave only alphanumeric characters (needed for unique array key) preg_replace("/[^0-9a-zA-Z ]/", "", $mime ); // Workaround for unique array keys // If you-re going to modify it for your files // Don't forget to change extension in array key // E.g. $mime_types['pdf|pdf_' . $mime ] = $orig_mime $mime_types['3gp|3gp_' . $mime ] = $orig_mime; } return $mime_types; }

= There's no captcha! = The plugin uses Akismet as spam protection (you have to have Akismet installed and configured). Just enable Akismet support in the plugin's settings and voila.

= Configuration Filters =

= fu_manage_permissions =

By default Frontend Custom Post could be managed with 'edit_posts' capability, if you want to change permissions, this is the right filter add_filter( 'fu_manage_permissions', create_function( '$cap', 'return "edit_others_posts"; ) );

= fu_allowed_mime_types =

Allows you to add your custom MIME-types. Please note that there might be multiple MIME types per file extension.

add_filter( 'fu_allowed_mime_types', 'my_fu_allowed_mime_types' ); function my_fu_allowed_mime_types( $mime_types ) { $mp3_mimes = array( 'audio/mpeg', 'audio/x-mpeg', 'audio/mp3', 'audio/x-mp3', 'audio/mpeg3', 'audio/x-mpeg3', 'audio/mpg', 'audio/x-mpg', 'audio/x-mpegaudio' ); foreach( $mp3_mimes as $mp3_mime ) { $mime = $mp3_mime; preg_replace("/[^0-9a-zA-Z ]/", "", $mp3_mime ); $mime_types['mp3|mp3_' . $mp3_mime ] = $mime; } return $mime_types; }

= fu_after_upload =

`add_action( 'fu_after_upload', 'my_fu_after_upload', 10, 3 );

function my_fu_after_upload( $attachment_ids, $success, $post_id ) { // do something with freshly uploaded files // This happens on POST request, so $_POST will also be available for you }`

= fu_additional_html =

Allows you to add additional HTML to form

`add_action('fu_additional_html', 'my_fu_additional_html' );

function my_fu_additional_html() { ?>