If you running a WordPress site, you may want to enable users to submit news or posts. This can be an excellent way to create new and relevant content, interact with your audience, and establish a community around your site.
In this article, we will guide you how you can easily enable users to submit news or posts on your WordPress site using WPForms.
WordPress allows website owners to add new features and functionalities to their sites without any coding knowledge. One such plugin is WPForms, a drag-and-drop form builder that makes it easy to create any type of form for your WordPress site.Â
In this article, we will discuss how you can use WPForms to allow users to submit news or posts on your WordPress site.
Step 1: Install and Activate the WPForms Plugin
The first step is to install the WPForms plugin and activate it on your WordPress site. You can do this by going to your WordPress dashboard and navigating to ‘Plugins’ > ‘Add New’. Search for ‘WPForms’ in the search bar, and once you find it, click on ‘Install Now’ and then ‘Activate’.
Step 2: Create a New Form
Once the WPForms plugin is activated, you will see a new ‘WPForms’ menu in your WordPress dashboard. Click on ‘Add New’ and give your form a name.Â
WPForms offers a variety of templates to choose from, so you can select the ‘Suggest a Post’ template, which is perfect for allowing users to submit news or posts on your site.
Step 3: Customize Your Form
WPForms allows you to easily customize your form by simply dragging and dropping the fields you want to include. You can add fields like ‘Name’, ‘Email’, ‘Title’, ‘Post Content’, and even allow users to upload images or documents. You can also rearrange the order of the fields by simply dragging and dropping them.
Step 4: Set Up Post Submission
To enable users to submit posts directly from your form, you need to integrate WPForms with the ‘Post Fields’ add-on. Simply go to ‘Marketing’ > ‘Post Fields’ and click on ‘Install Addon’. Once the add-on is installed, you can enable it in the ‘Form Editor’ under the ‘Settings’ tab. Here, you can set the default post status, and category, and even allow users to choose the author of the post view demo.
Unfortunately, you will need the WPForms premium version to activate this addon.This feature is not available in the free version.
Step 5: Publish your Form
Once you have completed all the above steps, you can click on the ‘Save’ button to make your form live on your WordPress site. You can add the form to any page or post by using the WPForms shortcode or by adding it to a widget in your sidebar.
Step 6: Moderating User-Submitted Posts
To ensure that only high-quality and relevant posts are published on your site, you can moderate all user-submitted posts. WPForms allows you to review and approve or reject each post before it is published. You can also edit the post if needed before publishing it on your site.
By follow these simple steps, you can utilize WPForms to create a user-friendly submission system that allows visitors to easily submit news articles or posts directly on your WordPress site. This streamlined process not only saves you valuable time and effort, but also fosters greater user engagement and contributes to a steady influx of new, high-quality content on your website.
