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I am trying to add a form where users can submit post from front-end.
I am Following this tutorial: http:// wpshout.com/wordpress-submit-posts-from-frontend/
What I am doing is adding this code to one of my page-template. The form shows up alright but when I click on the submit button it gives me "Page not found error"
Many of the commenter saying it is not working. Can anyone point me to the right direction? Is the code incomplete?has flaws? Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks
Towfiq I.
<?php $postTitle = $_POST['post_title'];
$post = $_POST['post'];
$submit = $_POST['submit'];
if(isset($submit)){
global $user_ID;
$new_post = array(
'post_title' => $postTitle,
'post_content' => $post,
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_date' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
'post_author' => $user_ID,
'post_type' => 'post',
'post_category' => array(0)
);
wp_insert_post($new_post);
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM>
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">
<form action="" method="post">
<table border="1" width="200">
<tr>
<td><label for="post_title">Post Title</label></td>
<td><input name="post_title" type="text" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label for="post">Post</label></td>
<td><input name="post" type="text" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I found this at Themeforest it's working fine,
you can do a lot of things with this, you have to add some extra code to check if a user is logged in or whatever you want to do,
In the other hand you have to search in the WordPress plugins repo to find out some great plugins,
Search for "frontend"
hope it helps
Haha, that's my tutorial that failed badly. Sorry bout that, it was something I wrote because I never had the 404 issue everyone else had with it.
The frontend post forms I use most times open up in a modal window, for example, the post forms I made for http://wphonors.com are loaded in the thickbox popup thing, which I believe is why I never had an issue with this. I was able to do anything I wanted with my forms, ajax submit, on submit redirect to submitted posts, or just show a message and go to a random page.
My bad on failing with that tutorial, I had good intentions :)
Maybe try loading them using thickbox, it's really very simple to do. I'm still working on a follow up tutorial to redeem that failed on, but it's been hard to make it work the way most people would be likely to implement it in their sites.
