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Quick Post Widget

This plugin provides a widget to post directly from the frontpanel of your site without going into the backend.

1.9.1

  • Fixed positioning bug with widget on page.
  • Completed German translation (big thanks to Sadik).
  • Small CSS change to solve a category checklist display problem.
  • Solved date bug in post feeds.

1.9

  • The widget can be placed on a page without the use of an extra plugin, with direct or popup visual editing. Please read the FAQ to configure.
  • The maximum number of custom fields is raised form 5 to 10.
  • Optionally text and/or shortcodes can be defined to be placed automatically at the top or bottom the post content.

1.8.1

  • Optionally a custom post type can be set in the admin panel.
  • Added right-to-left support.
  • Optionally mail to admin when a guest post or any post is submitted.
  • Added Finnish translation (big thanks to Jaakko Kangosjärvi).
  • Show unattached tags in the tag droplist.
  • Added buttons to message popups.

1.8

  • At last, custom fields. You can define up to 5 of them. Please read the FAQ to configure.
  • Also, custom taxonomies (at least WP3.0 required). Please read the FAQ to configure.
  • At least one theme uses the same function name as the plugin does. Fixed it.
  • Optionally the post date/time and excerpt can be set.
  • The titles of the Visual Editor and message windows can be set.
  • Optionally a message can be shown when posting is unsuccessful.
  • Tuned some styling.

1.7.3

  • Fixed a nasty bug which occasionally caused 301 redirect errors when no redirect URL was configured.
  • Added the media plugin since WordPress 3.1 dropped it.
  • Disabled the unnecessary loading of language files.
  • Prevented unnecessary loading of styles and script in admin area.
  • The category droplists now don't lose their values after an unsuccessful post.
  • Added Private as publish status.
  • Fixed jQuery UI CSS to center dialog in Chrome.
  • Rearranged the admin panel.
  • It is now possible to include or exclude certain categories, to choose the categories order and to set a default category. If only one category remains, the default category is the same as the only category and creating a new category is disabled, the complete category section hides itself.
  • Fixed some browser issues: re-post on refresh (Firefox), radio buttons after refresh (Firefox, Chrome).

1.7.2

  • Captcha security can be enabled to protect your blog from spam.
  • Added the style plugin to enable advanced styling in the visual editor (works best with the P-tag).
  • Optionally the widgets visibility can now be toggled (please read the FAQ section).
  • Optionally a URL can be defined to redirect to after a successful post.

1.7.1

  • Two bug fixes (guest users could not post using the category checklist in WP3, empty iframes using the visual editor).
  • Optionally a confirmation message can be displayed after a successful post.

1.7

  • Provided an option to let guests create posts without being logged-in. Use with care! Please read the FAQ section to configure.

1.6.1

  • Added Italian and Polish translations for popup visual editor and the file manager.
  • The languages for the rest of the widget and the backend are, apart from Dutch, still incomplete. Please help me translate using the po- and pot-files in the langs subdirectory of the widget.

1.6

  • Internationalized the popup visual editor and the file manager for English, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. The language follows the WordPress language setting.
  • The languages for the rest of the widget and the backend are, apart from Dutch, still incomplete. Please help me translate using the po- and pot-files in the langs subdirectory of the widget.

1.5

  • Enabled media uploading in the popup visual editor (please read the FAQ section).
  • Fixed one or two small bugs.

1.4

  • Enabled resizing, auto focus, paste plugin and default WordPress options of the popup WYSIWYG editor.
  • Provided an option to choose between using the P-tag or the BR-tag for newlines.

1.3

  • The widget now offers visual editing directly from the frontpanel of your site, without going into the backend, with a bunch of features (spellchecking, preview,....). If you do not want visual editing you can disable this feature. If you encounter difficulties you can disable the editor plugins.

1.2

  • Categories can also be displayed in a checklist to enable selecting more than just one category.
  • A new category can be given a parent category.
  • Tags can be typed or selected from a list. Tags can be disabled in the options panel.
  • It is possible to set the default publish status in the options panel.
  • The creation of new categories can be disabled in the options panel.
  • Slightly changed stylesheet.
  • Cleaned up some code.

1.1.1

  • Fixed a bug which occurs when wordpress is installed in a subdirectory.

1.1

  • When allowed to create a new category, radio buttons are displayed to choose between an existing category and a new category as well as an input box to type in the name of the new category.
  • Built in visual form validation. When a required item remains empty the item-border displays default red, but you can choose other colors (in case you have a red site).
  • Corrected and slightly changed stylesheet.

1.0

  • First release

Requires: 2.8 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.2
Last Updated: 2011-6-28
Downloads: 33,120

Average Rating

4 stars
(79 ratings)

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