Do you want to Allow Users to Submit Posts to Your WordPress Site?

Blog posts are very important for a website to get more visitors. You can use your own content but if you want to grow your site by publishing more content daily, you can accept blog posts from your users. Users can easily submit their posts to your site and you can publish them after reviewing them.
In this article, I will show you how you can allow users to submit posts to your WordPress website. If you have zero coding knowledge, don’t worry.
So without further ado, let’s start.
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Why Allow Users to Submit Posts to WordPress Sites?
Allowing users to submit posts can have several benefits for website growth. It helps to grow the audience and also helps to engage users.
User-generated content brings diverse perspectives to the platform. Different users may have unique insights, experiences, or knowledge to share, enriching the overall content and making it more valuable to a broader audience.
User-submitted content also helps to increase the volume of content on a platform. Besides, users bring a variety of interests, expertise, and content styles. Allowing them to submit posts ensures a diverse range of topics and content types, catering to a broader audience.
If you allow users to submit their content, the number of visits to your website will increase. As a result, your website will rank fast helping to get more organic visitors.
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How to Allow Users to Submit Posts to Your WordPress Site?
Allowing users to submit posts is easy and there are various ways to accept posts from users. You can make a form with essential fields and display it on a page or use a plugin. Also, use the WordPress default system by registering as a contributor to submit posts.
Method 1: Allow Users to Submit Posts using a contact form.
Using a contact form, you can make a post submission form to collect posts from your users. Users do not need to log in to your site, just they will submit their posts from the front end. There are lots of form plugins available but I will use the Forminator form to create a post submission form.
To install the Forminator form or any other form plugin, go to WordPress Dashboard >> Plugins >> Add New Plugin. Now search for the Forminator plugin. Now install and activate the plugin.

Now we need to create a form for post-submission. Go to Forminator >> Forms from the left tab and click on the Create button. You will see a popup to choose a template. Select the post template and click on the Continue button. Now provide your form name and click on Create.

You will see the form is created with a post-data field. If you want to edit the fields, just click on the field. You can also add new fields if you want. Once done editing, click on Publish. You will see a popup with the form shortcode to display the form anywhere on your website.

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Here I display the form on a page. So, go to pages and add a new one. Provide a title, paste the shortcode, and publish the page. If you visit the page, you will see a post-submission form with essential fields.

After submitting the post, it will be pending for final approval. So you need to review the post and publish it if everything is good.
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Method 2: Allow Users to Submit Posts using the User Submitted Posts plugin.
Another way to accept posts from your user is by integrating the User Submitted Posts plugin. Let’s install and configure the plugin.
Go to Plugins >> Add new plugin and search for “User Submitted Posts”. Now install and activate the plugin.

Now go to Settings >> Submitted posts. You will see 3 tabs and click on the “Display the form” tab >> Display the submit-post form. Now copy the shortcode to display the form anywhere on the website.

You can also customize your form from the “Plugin settings” tab.

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Method 3: Register and submit posts as an Author or contributor.
Another way to allow users to submit posts to your website by creating an “Author” or “Contributor” account. You do not need any plugin to enable this.
Users can easily register them as an author or contributor and submit posts easily.
To enable this go to Settings >> General from the left sidebar menu. Now check the Membership as “Anyone can register“. After that, set the new user’s default role as “Author” or “Contributor” and save the changes.

Now users can easily register your site from the login area and post to your site.
This method has some problems and that is users need to log in to your admin panel so they will see all the posts.
Another problem is if you use two-factor authentication to log in to your site, it is difficult to log in for new users.
There are some more problems with this method so we will not recommend using this method.
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Final Thought
Getting posts from users is very essential if you want to grow your audience easily. Besides, posting regularly is important to keep your visitors engaged. So if you accept posts from users, you do not need to spend more time writing articles.
The methods I discussed above are good for collecting posts from users. In my opinion, the first method(Using Forminator form) is the best way. Users can easily submit their posts without logging or registering to your site.
The second method using a plugin is not bad. The User Submitted Posts plugin offers many essential features. So If you want you can use this method.
However, the third method is not recommended. Users can access the backend to submit posts so they can install malware. Moreover, this method is not safe.
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