Title: Mingle and contribution
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Mingle and contribution

 *  [MsCrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mscrow/)
 * (@mscrow)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mingle-and-contribution/)
 * I’m using Mingle to add some social networking to a mostly static site. It has
   the ability to stop users getting at the dashboard which I like as they already
   have the ability to edit a profile.
 * I’m wondering if there’s a plugin/widget that allows contributors to submit posts
   or pages for approval without them having to go into the wp-admin area?
 * Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [MsCrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mscrow/)
 * (@mscrow)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mingle-and-contribution/#post-1380637)
 * Aha, sorted. Finally found the right plugin – TDO Mini Forms – which means I 
   can block off the wp-admin area completely and still enable user submitted content.
 *  [SidianMSJones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sidianmsjones/)
 * (@sidianmsjones)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mingle-and-contribution/#post-1381095)
 * Hey MsCrow, thank you for actually coming back to mention TDO Mini Forms because
   I’m trying to do exactly what you are.
 * In fact I’m really surprised there aren’t more solutions for keeping members 
   OUT of the admin area, yet making it easy for them to submit material.
 * The instant you shove users into that admin area, many of them are totally confused.
   I hope that plugin you mention works out well, I’m going to check it out now.
 *  [cartpauj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cartpauj/)
 * (@cartpauj)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mingle-and-contribution/#post-1381122)
 * TDO miniforms had a lot of potential but the author has really bloated the plugin
   and it won’t run on most shared hosting account without killing the php memory.
 *  Thread Starter [MsCrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mscrow/)
 * (@mscrow)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mingle-and-contribution/#post-1381125)
 * > The instant you shove users into that admin area, many of them are totally 
   > confused.
 * I agree hence why I used mini forms and like that Mingle locks people out of 
   admin. Why spend ages theming a website only to have users see a totally different
   back end?
 * I hope the developers of Mingle look at this. TDO is good but as has been noted,
   for some people it’s causing a lot of errors. For my use it’s fine but I can’t
   understand why there aren’t more plugins like it either.

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