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User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End
v20260916
Enable visitors to submit posts and images from the front-end of your site. Many features including anti-spam security, content restriction, and more.
by Jeff Starr · Website
frontend postguest postpublic postsubmit postvisitor post
- Rank
- #1,552 24h 1 · 7d 5
- Est. installs
- 18,848 High confidence
- Total downloads
- 1.2M all time
- Rating
- 4.8 ★ 912 reviews
- Official installs
- 10,000+ public bucket
- Support threads
- 1 last 2 months
- Support resolved
- 100% of threads
- Tested up to
- WP 7.1.3 compatibility
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Maintenance & compatibility
1 month ago
Last release
- Version
- 20260916
- Requires WP
- 4.7
- Requires PHP
- 5.6.20
- On WP.org since
- 2011
About User Submitted Posts
User Submitted Posts is a WordPress plugin by Jeff Starr, first published on WordPress.org in 2011. It has 10,000+ active installations and 1,221,943 downloads in total, and ranks #1,552 in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Over the past week it climbed 5 places. Users rate it 4.8 out of 5 across 912 reviews. Version 20260916 was released 1 month ago. It is tested up to WordPress 7.1.3 and requires WordPress 4.7 and PHP 5.6.20 or later. In the last two months, 1 of 1 support thread was marked resolved (100%). It is listed under frontend post, guest post, public post, submit post and visitor post. Plugins with a similar focus include Easy Post Submission, Guest Author and User Frontend.
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