1. Front End Publishing for A practical guide to enabling Front End Publishing on WordPress websites

3. Use Cases for FEP

5. FEP Security Considerations

6. Questions

8. Users spend more time on your site

9. Authors will return to see published content

10. Increases social sharing

11. */wp-admin/ can scare users away and decrease sexyness of your application

14. Company Document Repository

18. Is highly configurable with logic and moderation

20. Requires additional plug-in or coding to support Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies

21. TDO Mini Forms Simple

22. TDO Mini Forms Chaotic

23. Gravity Forms Simple

24. Add Video, the */wp-admin/ way

25. Gravity Forms Custom Post Type

27. Use wp_set_post_terms(); to add (and update) taxonomy terms.

28. Use add_post_meta(); to add meta values.

29. Add Image or attachment with wp_insert_attachment();

30. Front End Form Example (1/2) <form id=&quot;new_post&quot; name=&quot;new_post&quot; method=&quot;post&quot; action=&quot;&quot;> <label for=&quot;title&quot;>Title</label><input type=&quot;text&quot; id=&quot;title&quot; value=&quot;&quot; tabindex=&quot;1&quot; size=&quot;20&quot; name=&quot;title&quot; /> <label for=&quot;description&quot;>Description</label><textarea id=&quot;description&quot; tabindex=&quot;3&quot; name=&quot;description&quot; cols=&quot;50&quot; rows=&quot;6&quot;></textarea> <?php wp_dropdown_categories( 'show_option_none= Category&tab_index=4&taxonomy=category' ); ?>

31. Front End Form Example (2/2) <label for=&quot;post_tags&quot;>Tags</label><input type=&quot;text&quot; value=&quot;&quot; tabindex=&quot;5&quot; size=&quot;16&quot; name=&quot;post_tags&quot; id=&quot;post_tags&quot; /> <input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Publish&quot; tabindex=&quot;6&quot; id=&quot;submit&quot; name=&quot;submit&quot; /> <input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;post_type&quot; id=&quot;post_type&quot; value=&quot;post&quot; /> <input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;action&quot; value=&quot;post&quot; /> <?php wp_nonce_field( 'new-post' ); ?></form>

32. Processing $_POST (1/2) <?php if( 'POST' == $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] && !empty( $_POST['action'] )) { if (isset ($_POST['title'])) {$title = $_POST['title'];} if (isset ($_POST['description'])) {$description = $_POST['description'];} $tags = $_POST['post_tags'];

33. Processing $_POST (2/2) $post = array('post_title' => $title,'post_content' => $description,'post_category' => $_POST['cat'], 'tags_input' => $tags,'post_status' => 'publish','post_type' => $_POST['post_type'] ); wp_insert_post($post); wp_redirect( home_url() );} do_action('wp_insert_post', 'wp_insert_post'); ?>

35. Update meta values with update_post_meta();

37. Fuc*ing bad words!

39. Filter post content before saving with wp_kses

40. Be sure to use nonces to verify intent

41. See Codex Data_Validation

43. http://www.gravityforms.com/

44. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-custom-post-types/

45. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post

46. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_kses

47. http://codex.wordpress.org/Data_Validation

48. http://wpshout.com/wordpress-submit-posts-from-frontend/

49. Question?

51. r @ q21.co

52. Slides @ slideshare . com / rfair / front-end-publishing-for-wordpress