Form to Post

Create a WP Post from a Form Submission. Create a form using Contact Form 7, Fast Secure Contact Form, or just a plain
form, be sure to name your fields correctly, then the form submission will be sent to a post.

Very limited.

• Only accepts text, no images, videos, etc.
• No error handling.

Essentially you can think of this as a form wrapper around the wp_insert_post function.
The field name-value pairs of the form become inputs to a wp_insert_post call.

WARNING: using this plugin provides spammers the opportunity to send you automated spam form submissions.

How To

1. Create a form using Contact Form 7 (CF7), Fast Secure Contact Form (FSCF), or create your own form HTML.
2. Name your fields according to the parameters of the wp_insert_post function.

Minimally, your form must have the following two fields. A post will not be created if one or both is missing.

• post_title
• post_content

Special Fields

• post_category_name can be used to set the category of the post

As hidden field: If you want to make all the posts be of the same category, create a “post_category_name” hidden field
whose value is the category name. If using CF7, it does not provide
hidden fields. But you can add them by adding the plugin Contact Form 7 Modules.

As checkboxes: to make the category choosable by the user via a checkbox,
create a checkbox form field named “post_category_name” with each having a value that is a category name.
(If writing your own HTML directly, use “post_category_name[]”, see “Plain Form Example” below).

CF7 Form Definition Example:

Post Title [text* post_title] <br/>

Post Content (required) <br/>
   [textarea* post_content] <br/>

Categories (required) <br/>
  [checkbox* post_category_name "Uncategorized" "Cat1" "Cat2" "Cat3"] <br/>

[submit "Post"] <br/>

Aside: if you are familiar with wp_insert_post, then you will know that there is a “post_category” parameter but no
“post_category_name”. The problem with “post_category” is it requires category ids (the numbers). But what you really
want in a form are the category names. So this plug allows for “post_category_name” which can be one or more
category names. It looks up the associated category numbers and sets “post_category” for wp_insert_post.
But you can use “post_category” instead if you like. But do not use both in the same form.

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