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The frontend submission form could use some additional flexibility… It’d be nice to be able to filter the available fields so that developers can add/remove their own fields (I had to tweak the core to add two fields, hide two fields, and tweak field requirements). Additionally, it’d be nice if you could specify required fields on the fly.
This is what I’ve been pestering Ahmed about for the last week 😀
He’s going to do it as soon as possible.
3 things we primarily need.
1. Decide what fields are required/not required
2. Re-order fields.
3. Make the_content field plain text (ie. no buttons for bold/italic etc, less javascript to load if it’s not required).
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and a way to upload multi featured images for the wp gallery
4. Add roles that can post without authorisation/approval from admins/editors.
I would love to see extended functionality available as well. Specifically:
1). The ability to create multiple front-end submission forms and manage them from the back-end.
2). The ability to specify custom fields for each individual form. For the site I’m working on now, I need to add another 5-8 fields to the submission form. While I could request members simply specify this in the post, it’d be much easier if custom fields existed and I could make them required, thus forcing the member to fill them out.
3). The ability to easily customize how the fields appear on the post once a submission is made (i.e. custom ordering of the fields, placement of the fields etc).
4). Same as #4 above – the ability to specify which roles can post and instantly be moved from pending to live post.
5). Ability to upload not just a featured image, but also X additional images, which will be formatted using the WordPress gallery core functionality.
6). The ability to “Report a Post” should a member feel that something is wrong with the post. The report would be logged and a notification would be sent to an administrator. We could them remove the post, hide the post etc. It’d simply make things easier, but this option would have to be global and apply to all posts, not just those made from the front-end plugin, so I can understand if this one doesn’t make the cut :-).
I’ll add one more to the list 🙂
7). E-Mail the author of the post once their post is live. So if they submit a post and it goes into pending, when it’s approved and goes live, send them an e-mail letting them know with a link included. If their post goes live instantly, send them the same e-mail. This ensures they know the post has indeed been published.
Hi Ahmed ,
Can you tell us if this features of custom front end submission forms will be included, and if yes when?
Where hoping to use usepro for a real estate template.Thanks Mike
8). Currently when a post is submitted using the front-end form, a small pop up pops up telling them that their post will soon be approved but it leaves the form in place instead of redirecting them to another page. This leaves things open for the member to repeatedly submit them same post over and over, thus filling up the review queue for admins. It’d be super-helpful to see the option of being able to redirect to another [customizable] page that gives them this information so we can avoid duplicate entries.
^ Yeah, the fact people can submit a post over and over again is a huge oversight.
Come on Ahmed, you promised! 😀
9). The ability to allow users to edit their post submissions. Right now if a member makes a mistake or otherwise forgets to include something, we have to go in and edit it. If members could edit their own posts, that would be a MAJOR plus.
The ability to create multiple front-end submission forms and manage them from the back-end with the really needed custom fields.
The ability to easily customize how the fields appear on the post once a submission is made (i.e. custom ordering of the fields, placement of the fields etc)
I need these really bad!
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