whatsthebigidea

<p>/</p>
<p>Ideas</p>
<p>If someone has an idea they want to bring into the world, now they can start an idea working group on your WordPress! Allows a user to post an idea to an Ideas page at /Ideas/. A BuddyPress group with bbPress forum<br />
    are automatically created when this post is published!</p>
<p>-During installation, there is a prompt to auto-install the required plugins: User Submitted Posts, BuddyPress, bbPress and WordPress Classic Editor.<br />
  -The User Submitted Posts required plugin is used to provide the way for users to post an Idea.<br />
  -The users post appears in wp-admin to be edited and published by the site admin.<br />
  -When published, a BuddyPress group with bbPress forum are created automatically!<br />
  -Ideas posts are all displayed on the /ideas/ page.<br />
  -The Ideas page displays links to the BuddyPress group, a donate url, and has a description of the Idea.<br />
  -The data contained in the ideas.xml file is displayed on the /ideas/ page.<br />
  -The Ideas from any other sites can be displayed on the /ideas/ page.<br />
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<h3>Arbitrary section</h3>


BigIdeas

Allows a user to post an idea to an Ideas page at /Ideas/. A BuddyPress group with bbPress forum are automatically created when this post is published …

Jeff Starr

<p><strong>🏆 The #1 Plugin for user-generated content</strong></p>
<p>User Submitted Posts (USP) provides a front-end form that enables visitors to submit posts and upload images. Just add the following shortcode to any Post, Page, or Widget:</p>
<p>[user-submitted-posts]</p>
<p>That’s all there is to it! Your site now can accept user generated content. Everything is super easy to customize via Plugin Settings page.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>🚀 Enable visitors to submit posts from the front end of your site</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>✨ Form Fields</h3>
<p>The submission form may include any/all of the following fields:</p>
<ul>
<li>Name</li>
<li>Email</li>
<li>URL</li>
<li>Post Title</li>
<li>Post Tags</li>
<li>Post Category</li>
<li>Post Content</li>
<li>Custom Field 1</li>
<li>Custom Field 2</li>
<li>Custom Checkbox</li>
<li>Challenge Question</li>
<li>Google reCAPTCHA (v2 or v3 Invisible)</li>
<li>Cloudflare Turnstile (Invisible)</li>
<li>Post Images</li>
<li>Agree to Terms</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>🚀 The first and best plugin for user-submitted content</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>✨ Core Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Simple to set up and display the form anywhere on your site</li>
<li>Display the form on multiple posts and pages, or even site-wide</li>
<li>Redirect users to any URL or stay on current page after submitting posts</li>
<li>Set post status as draft, pending, publish, or publish after x number of posts</li>
<li>Option to receive email notifications for submitted posts</li>
<li>Customize email notifications with various post data</li>
<li>Include email links to edit and delete posts</li>
<li>Display a basic login/register/password form</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>🚀 Enable your visitors to share their own posts and images</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>✨ Form Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Display form anywhere via shortcode or template tag</li>
<li>Display only the fields that you want on the form</li>
<li>Set each displayed form field to be required or optional</li>
<li>Automatic client-side form validation provided by <a href="https://parsleyjs.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Parsley</a></li>
<li>Stops spam via input validation, your choice of captcha, and hidden field</li>
<li>Choose Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, or Challenge Question</li>
<li>Choose Google reCAPTCHA v2 (“I am not a bot”) or v3 (Invisible)</li>
<li>Optionally require users to be logged in to use the form</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>🚀 Dial in the perfect form for your visitors</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>✨ More Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Lightweight, fast, and secure</li>
<li>Translated into 20+ languages</li>
<li>Option to submit posts as WP Posts or Pages</li>
<li>Provides option to enable a custom form and styles</li>
<li>Customize success, error, and file upload messages</li>
<li>Includes shortcode to display a list of submitted posts</li>
<li>Includes shortcodes to control access and restrict content</li>
<li>Includes template tags to display submitted post content</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>🚀 Simple to use, lightweight, and flexible</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>✨ Image Uploads</h3>
<ul>
<li>Enable visitors to upload any number of images</li>
<li>Specify minimum and maximum number of allowed images</li>
<li>Specify minimum and maximum width and height for images</li>
<li>Automatically set submitted images as Featured Images</li>
<li>Automatically display submitted images on the front end</li>
<li>Includes template tags to display submitted images</li>
<li>Includes shortcodes to display submitted images</li>
<li>Form displays thumbnail previews of images</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>🚀 The easiest way to enable user content</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>✨ Pro Version</h3>
<p>Pro version includes many powerful features, with unlimited custom forms, unlimited form fields, multimedia file uploads, and much more. Pro features include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited forms</li>
<li>Unlimited form fields</li>
<li>Unlimited file uploads</li>
<li>All field types, including textarea, checkboxes, radio, select, file(s), plus input types like text, password, url, search, email, month, time, color, date, range, number, and more</li>
<li>Build post-submission forms, user-registration forms, and contact forms</li>
<li>Build COMBO forms (e.g., forms that submit posts AND register users)</li>
<li>Supports unlimited Custom Post Types</li>
<li>Supports custom Taxonomy fields</li>
<li>Supports Custom Post Status</li>
<li>Supports Post Formats</li>
<li>Custom error messages</li>
<li>Custom redirects</li>
<li>Advanced security features</li>
<li>Advanced shortcode to display submitted posts on the front end</li>
<li>Plus everything the free version can do and more!</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>🚀 Visit Plugin Planet to <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/usp-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">learn more and get USP Pro »</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>✨ Translations</h3>
<p>User Submitted Posts supports translation into any language. Current translations include the following languages:</p>
<pre><code>Arabic                - usp-ar
Bengali               - usp-bn_BD
Chinese (Simplified)  - usp-zh_CN
Chinese (Traditional) - usp-zh_TW
Czech                 - usp-cs_CZ
Dutch                 - usp-nl_NL
French (France)       - usp-fr_FR
German                - usp-de_DE
Greek                 - usp-el
Hebrew                - usp-he_IL
Hindi                 - usp-hi_IN
Irish                 - usp-ga
Italian               - usp-it_IT
Japanese              - usp-ja
Korean                - usp-ko_KR
Norwegian             - usp-no
Panjabi               - usp-pa_IN
Persian               - usp-fa_IR
Polish                - usp-pl_PL
Portuguese (Brazil)   - usp-pt_BR
Portuguese (Portugal) - usp-pt_PT
Romanian              - usp-ro_RO
Russian               - usp-ru_RU
Serbian               - usp-sr_RS
Slovenian             - usp-sl_SI
Spanish (Spain)       - usp-es_ES
Swedish               - usp-sv_SE
Turkish               - usp-tr_TR
Urdu                  - usp-ur
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> Most of the default translations are made via Google Translate. So they are automated and may be a little rough. Feel free to make your own translation as desired. Need a translation into your language? <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/support/#contact" rel="nofollow ugc">Let me know!</a></p>
<h3>✨ Privacy</h3>
<p><strong>User Data:</strong> This plugin enables users to submit post content. It collects data <em>only</em> from users who voluntarily submit content via the USP form. The only involuntary data that is collected is the IP address of the person submitting the form. The plugin provides an option to disable IP collection completely.</p>
<p><strong>Cookies:</strong> This plugin uses simple cookies to enable dynamic form functionality. No cookies are used for any other purpose.</p>
<p><strong>Services:</strong> This plugin provides an option to enable Google reCaptcha, which is provided by Google as a third-party service. For details on privacy and more, please refer to official documentation for <a href="https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google reCaptcha</a>. This plugin also provides an option to enable Cloudflare Turnstile, which is provided by Cloudflare as a third-party service. For details on privacy and more, please refer to official documentation for <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/turnstile/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare Turnstile</a>. No other outside services or locations are accessed/used by this plugin.</p>
<h3>✨ Developer</h3>
<p>User Submitted Posts is developed and maintained by <a href="https://x.com/perishable" rel="nofollow ugc">Jeff Starr</a>, 15-year <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress developer</a> and <a href="https://books.perishablepress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">book author</a>.</p>
<h3>✨ Support Development</h3>
<p>I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can <a href="https://monzillamedia.com/donate.html" rel="nofollow ugc">make a donation</a> or purchase one of my books:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wp-tao.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">The Tao of WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digwp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Digging into WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://htaccessbook.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">.htaccess made easy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wp-tao.com/wordpress-themes-book/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Themes In Depth</a></li>
<li><a href="https://books.perishablepress.com/downloads/wizards-collection-sql-recipes-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress</a></li>
</ul>
<p>And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/bbq-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">BBQ Pro</a> – Blazing fast WordPress firewall</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/blackhole-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Blackhole Pro</a> – Automatically block bad bots</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/banhammer-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Banhammer Pro</a> – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/ga-google-analytics-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">GA Google Analytics Pro</a> – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/head-meta-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Head Meta Pro</a> – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/rest-pro-tools/" rel="nofollow ugc">REST Pro Tools</a> – Awesome tools for managing the WP REST API</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/simple-ajax-chat-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple Ajax Chat Pro</a> – Unlimited chat rooms</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/usp-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">USP Pro</a> – Unlimited front-end forms</li>
</ul>
<p>Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thanks! 🙂</p>


User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End

Well done with great features and the plugin author is still involved. Well worth a donation if you use this on your site.

Incredibly useful for user submitted content

Excellent


For a free plugin this offers excellent functionality!


Super useful


Thank you very much, but why cannot safe any changes in the form settings?


Good, but cannot safe any changes ...

Enable visitors to submit posts and images from the front-end of your site. Many features including anti-spam security, content restriction, and more.

BigIdeas vs User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End