Setting up new user accounts with author permissions can be quite a hassle when you’re trying to encourage guest posts on your blog. A new free plugin called WordPress Guest Post aims to make this process much easier.
After you’ve installed and activated the plugin, the guest post submission page will look something like this:
The plugin will automatically create an “Add Posts” page where the form will appear. You can then request your guest bloggers to submit through that page.
Post submitted through that form will appear among your drafts for approval. You can then edit submissions and make them live.
Adding this plugin will make it much easier for you to receive guests posts on a regular basis and keep pumping fresh content through your blog. Simply review and approve posts – no need to create a bunch of new users and train them on WordPress. Find out more at the WordPress Guest Post Plugin homepage.
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Can the user submit photos for the article? I tried a couple different article submitters… I’m using “User Submitted Posts” on this site:
http://vezign.secur3host.com/sites/freelanceworkspace/?page_id=16
I like it because it allows the users to attach a photo if they want.
cool plugin, exactly what i’m Looping for a recipe blog! It’s also possible to add an image Upload Field?
Great plugin Sarah, we’ll definitely be adding this in!
I just tried using this plugin with the Woo Canvas theme – the formatting (full width page) was scrambled. All of the form fields displayed in the upper left corner of the screen, well outside of the main content area.
Sarah your tips are always brilliant
Thanks alot for sharing The wordpress guest post plugin. This is a much simpler way to encourage guest posting :)
Great idea but serious problems.
I want to accept guest posts only in certain categories. I would love this plugin if I could allow only categories I allow. “U Can Post” contains this feature but I like this plugin better. Anybody know how to configure this to do the same?
this plugin souds great, i am gonna try it. hope it will work for my template
anyone having trouble with captcha image? cannot see the images.. is there way to disable captcha section?
YEah Kevin, I am. I’m looking for another plugin because I don’t see a fix for this.
Foe those having trouble with the captcha, you can open up wordpressguestposts.php and replace that code with the code found here http://pastebin.com/u36hUeg5 that should correct the issue straight away.
try this as a solution. it’s easier, quicker, and much more effective: http://ultimateguestblogger.com/accept-guest-posts-wordpress-plugin/
Guest post have helped us tremendously and our visitors at http://www.communitycollegetransferstudents.com/blog/
Thanks for the tip!