If you are talking about the answer i posted here its simply uploading file in an iframe to achieve "Ajax like" submit.
Now if you already have a form that handles the post submit you can simply add the upload file field input somewhere in your form:
<form ...
...
<input type="file" name="thumbnail" id="thumbnail">
...
...
</form>
make sure that your form has enctype="multipart/form-data"
attribute.
then in your form processing script after you create the post (assuming that you are using wp_insert_post();) keep hold of the post ID in a new var:
$new_post = wp_insert_post($post_array);
and after that add:
if (!function_exists('wp_generate_attachment_metadata')){
require_once(ABSPATH . "wp-admin" . '/includes/image.php');
require_once(ABSPATH . "wp-admin" . '/includes/file.php');
require_once(ABSPATH . "wp-admin" . '/includes/media.php');
}
if ($_FILES) {
foreach ($_FILES as $file => $array) {
if ($_FILES[$file]['error'] !== UPLOAD_ERR_OK) {
return "upload error : " . $_FILES[$file]['error'];
}
$attach_id = media_handle_upload( $file, $new_post );
}
}
if ($attach_id > 0){
//and if you want to set that image as Post then use:
update_post_meta($new_post,'_thumbnail_id',$attach_id);
}
and you image will be uploaded and saved as post thumbnail.