This document discusses enabling front end publishing (FEP) on WordPress websites. It covers reasons to allow FEP such as increasing content and engagement. Use cases for FEP include blogs wanting more guest posts and content platforms relying on user generated content. Methods for FEP include existing WordPress tools like Gravity Forms and writing custom plugins. The document provides code examples for building FEP forms and processing submissions. It also discusses security considerations and resources for implementing FEP.

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

2. What We'll Cover Reasons for allowing Front End Publishing

3. Use Cases for FEP

4. Turnkey methods for FEP with examples Tools for writing FEP enabled plug-ins

5. FEP Security Considerations

6. Questions

7. Reasons to allow FEP Increase amount of content

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

12. Use Cases for FEP Blog Sites that want to increase guest blog posting and simplify submission process

13. Niche content platforms or applications that rely on user generated content such as: Widget Directory

14. Company Document Repository

15. Photo Sharing IE6 users

16. Methods for FEP w/ examples Existing WordPress tools that enable Front End Publishing include: P2 Theme

17. TDO Mini Forms Only Supports Post and Pages

18. Is highly configurable with logic and moderation

19. No Autosave, revisions or wysiwyg :( Gravity Forms More advanced fields and conditional logic

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