This release is a major rewrite of the plugin code. A number of features have been added, some of these include widget support, hooks for theming, the ability to have unregistered users post (using recaptcha [recommended, but not required]). More documentation at the end of this post.

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Why should you use this plugin?

• User reviews on a niche market site.
• A suggestion box - in combination with a voting plugin, you can find out what your community thinks is important
• Any user-submitted content - you can create a very basic ‘forum’ with this.

Known issues:

• Specifying category to post to is not working
• Conflict with Verve Meta Boxes (only when debug is on)
• No focus notification/cursor on inputs (webkit only)

User Documentation

There are 3 ways to include this plugin into your site.

Shortcode

To include the form in a page (like the example screenshot in the plugin directory), use this method. Learn more about shortcodes?
[post-from-site]
This will insert the post form right in the page where you put the code. The settings you can change are:

• popup whether this is a popup, defaults to false.
• link if it is a popup, this is what the link should say.
• cat restrict posts to a single category, currently not working.

Widget

To include the form in a sidebar, footer, or anywhere else you can put widgets, use the Post From Site widget. How do I use widgets?

PHP code

Post From Site is now a class, which means the function we were using before is outdated. This code should go in your theme files. Start here to learn about customizing/creating a theme.

<?php 
    $pfs = new PostFromSite(0, 'write a post', true, '');
    $pfs->form(); 
?>

Here, the form defaults to being a popup (as opposed to the shortcode and widget, where they default to not being a popup). The parameters are the same as in the shortcode- but the first is the ID of the form you’re using, which will always be zero if you’re using 3.x (it’s a future feature). Next is the link text, then whether it’s a popup, and finally if you’re restricting the category.

Developer Documentation

One major improvement to this version is the addition of hooks. Unless otherwise specified, these are all filters.

pfs_default_link_text

run over default link text for ‘click to post’ link, only appears if PFS is a popup and there is no default text defined.

pfs_before_form

pfs_form_start

pfs_before_submit

pfs_form_end

pfs_after_form

pfs_alert_login

All these are passed empty strings, and should be used if you have extra information you want to include. Currently they also pass the $idtext which is used to differentiate between multiple forms on a page.

pfs_alert_login

This filter is run over the warning shown when user login is required.

pfs_taxonomy_label

Run over the label for each taxonomy

pfs_{$taxonomy}_list

run on the full taxonomy select list before it’s returned to be displayed.

pfs_theme_css

Run over the URL to the CSS styling the form, hook into this to change the stylesheet used.

function my_theme_pfs_style( $url ){
	return "your stylesheet URL";
} add_filter( 'pfs_theme_css', 'my_theme_pfs_style' );

If you have any issues or questions, please post to the forum.