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The quick and easy way to let users and guests post from the frontend of your site.

Overview

New: now you can not only post from the sidebar, but also from a page, with immediate or popup visual editing!

Looking for a quick and easy way to post directly from the frontend of your site? The Quick Post Widget has it all!

This plugin provides a widget to post directly from the frontend of your site without going into the backend.
The widget optionally offers visual editing while posting from the frontend, with a bunch of features (media uploading, spellchecking, preview,....)!
Guest posting can be enabled with optional captcha security.
Apart from post title, content and categories, tags, custom fields, custom taxonomies, post date and excerpt can optionally be entered.
You can easily add images or video-clips to your posts without using the backend of your site.
Originally developed to enable my 10-year old son to post youtube clips simply by copying and pasting the title and code from youtube and choose a category without having to use the backend of his blog.
Of course the widget can be used for just about anything you want to post quickly. You could use the Quick Post Widget to write short messages, like twitter, but of course you can also write longer posts.
The widget is highly configurable with the options panel.

A demo says more than a thousand words

Try it at qpw.famvanakkeren.nl.
The tags, excerpt, post date, custom fields and custom taxonomies are configured hidden in the demo.
But they can all be enabled and set required if you wish!

Features

• Post directly from the frontend of your site (sidebar or page).
• The widget optionally offers visual editing directly from the frontend of your site, without going into the backend, with a bunch of features (media uploading, spellchecking, preview,....)!
• Media uploading can be disabled. You can choose to use a shared directory or private directories per user. Directories are automatically created.
• Input: post-title, post-content, category and optionally tags, custom fields, custom taxonomies, post date and excerpt. All optional items can be set required.
• By default the post is immediately published but you can set the default publish status in the options panel.
• By default the widget only displays when logged-in and allowed to post but guest posting can be enabled with optional captcha security to protect your blog from spam.
• When allowed to create new categories and enabled in the admin panel, normal categories can be added as well as categories for custom taxonomies.
  For categories and hierarchical taxonomies it is possible to select the parent category.
• Categories and custom taxonomies can be displayed in either a droplist or a checklist to enable selecting more than just one category.
• Specific categories can be included or excluded.
• To support custom post types optionally the post type can be set in the admin panel.
• Optionally tags can be typed in manually but you can also select from a list of existing tags.
• The widget offers visual error checking by changing the border to a selectable color when a required item remains empty.
• Optionally a mail can be sent on quest posts or all posts.
• Every widget and options panel element can be styled with the stylesheet.
• Almost every widget element can also be styled with the options panel so you won't lose any customizations by upgrading.
• You can configure the widget as full as possible but to keep the widget small you can disable all the extra features so only the title and content can be entered.