Sidebar Posting

This plugin acts as a quick front-end posting tool, allowing your visitors to easily submit posts and images from the front-end of your site, via a sidebar widget form, or a custom shortcode in a page or post of your choice. This is a very easy way to get your visitors to engage on your website. The idea came from a client who wanted a way to let members of their congregation post articles in the main church’s website Some of the niches this plugin can be useful include:

• Blogging website with many contributors
• Community webstes with user participation/interativity
• Forum like websites that don’t want to use a fully featured forum module/plugin
• Classified ads website where users post and review others’ posts

and more

This plugin is fully localizable with .po file included. The .mo for French is included

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1. 01Upload the entire sidebar-post directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. 02Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. 03Go to “Appearance >> Widgets ” and add the “NEW POST” widget where you want to have the form show up

If you want to use the plugin in a page or Post, simple add the [sidebarpost] shortcode in the page you like!

PS: You can also add the form anywhere in the wordpress by calling the sidebar_post_widget() function anywhere in the template files of the wordpress theme.