Bring WordPress Admin Area Post Management Features To Frontend Of Your Website

Earlier we discussed about a few WordPress plugins that makes frontend post editing possible but are limited to content editing purposes only. This tutorial is on a powerful WordPress plugin that allows you to create, edit and manage all your blog posts with media, taxonomy terms etc direct from the frontend of your website.

Installation & Usage: Install and activate Frontier Post. After activation the plugin automatically creates a page with permalink yourdomain.com/my-posts from where you can manage all your blog posts and create new ones. In-case if the page is not automatically created then manually create a page and paste this short-code [frontier-post] in there.

How to create new posts from the frontend ?

Visit yourdomain.com/my-posts page (or the page where you have used the plugin’s shortcode) and click ‘CREATE NEW POST’ button.

How to edit posts from the frontend ?

Simply click the edit button present at the bottom of your blog posts or visit yourdomain.com/my-posts page (or the page where you have used the plugin’s shortcode) and manage your posts from there.

Options & Features: There are many different options and feature which you can enable from Dashboard -> Settings -> Frontier Post admin page.

  • Create posts with media directly from frontend
  • Users can delete their own posts (Optional)
  • Users can edit their own posts (Optional)
  • Post can be edited in frontend directly – Using standard edit link (Optional)
  • My Posts Widget
  • My Approvals Widget
  • Capabilities are aligned with WordPress standard.
  • Excerpts editable (Optional)
  • Edit Categories (dropdown or multiselect)
  • Default category per role
  • Tags (Optional)
  • Supports WordPress Post Status Transitions
  • 4 editor options for frontend editing (Full, Simple-Visual, Simple-Html or Text-Only)
  • Editor enhancements: Smiley (emoticons), Table control and Search & Replace
  • Disable Admin bar per role (Optional)
  • Users must be logged in to post

My Posts Widget

  • Show logged-in users posts (Author)
    • My Posts
    • Comments to users posts
    • Experpts of comments
  • Link: Create New Post

My Approvals Widget

  • Shows pending approval actions including link to approval (will only show for administrators)
    • Number of post approvals pending
    • Number of drafts (optional)
    • Number of comment approvals pending
    • Number of comments marked as spam

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