What makes wordpress a great CMS is its ability to be extended beyond one's wildest dreams via plugins. Janvier designs and WordPress Rooms recently published a small plugin to allow website/blog owners to post a publishing post in the sidebar to allow visitors to publish to the bnlog/website directly. There are many reasons why one would like to do that and the main one being that it gives the users a chance to participate in providing the content to the site.
Features
- It can be called within the sitebar widget of any wordpress widget ready theme.
- It can also be called anywhere else in the template files by calling the sidebar_post_wiget() php function anywhere.
- It comes handy with a form validator javascript, hence preventing the form from being submitted without being completed.
- Future versions will have a backend management menu that will allow users to set up redirect URL and many other features.
Installation
- Download the sidebar post plugin first.
- Upload the /sidebar-post/ directory in the /wp-content/plugins of your wordpress installation
- Activate the plugin in the admin area
- Add the widget where you want
- Enjoy
