1. Front End Publishing for A practical guide to enablingFront End Publishing on WordPress websites

2. What We'll Cover

Reasons for allowing Front End Publishing

3. Use Cases for FEP 4. Turnkey methods for FEP with examples

Tools for writing FEP enabled plug-ins

5. FEP Security Considerations 6. Questions 7.

Reasons to allow FEP

Increase amount of content

8. Users spend more time on your site 9. Authors will return to see published content 10. Increases social sharing 11. */wp-admin/ can scare users away and decrease sexyness of your application 12.

Use Cases for FEP

Blog Sites that want to increase guest blog posting and simplify submission process

13. Niche content platforms or applications that rely on user generated content such as:

Widget Directory

14. Company Document Repository 15. Photo Sharing IE6 users 16.

Methods for FEP w/ examples

Existing WordPress tools that enable Front End Publishing include:

P2 Theme

17. TDO Mini Forms

Only Supports Post and Pages

18. Is highly configurable with logic and moderation 19. No Autosave, revisions or wysiwyg :(Gravity Forms

More advanced fields and conditional logic

20. Requires additional plug-in or coding to support Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies 21. TDO Mini Forms Simple 22. TDO Mini Forms Chaotic 23. Gravity Forms Simple 24. Add Video, the */wp-admin/ way 25. Gravity Forms Custom Post Type 26.

Writing FEP enabled plug-ins

Rely onwp_insert_post();to create posts.

27. Usewp_set_post_terms();to add (and update) taxonomy terms. 28. Useadd_post_meta();to add meta values. 29. Add Image or attachment with wp_insert_attachment(); 30. Front End Form Example (1/2) TitleDescription 31. Front End Form Example (2/2) Tags 32. Processing $_POST (1/2) 34. Updating posts FEP style

Update existing posts withwp_update_post();

35. Update meta values with update_post_meta(); 36.

FEP Security Considerations

SPAM SPAM SPAM!

37. Fuc*ing bad words! 38. Easy to hack if user input is unchecked.

Useesc_attrandesc_url

39. Filter post content before saving withwp_kses 40. Be sure to usenoncesto verify intent 41. See CodexData_Validation 42. Resources

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tdo-mini-forms/

43. http://www.gravityforms.com/ 44. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-custom-post-types/ 45. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post 46. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_kses 47. http://codex.wordpress.org/Data_Validation 48. http://wpshout.com/wordpress-submit-posts-from-frontend/ 49. Question? 50. Wrap!

Russell Fair

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