What are the methods to create a user-generated-content website?
I know each has his own favorite way to do that, please elaborate on your own method, how to implement it and the pros/cons.
(This is mainly a wiki question, I just figured I know about 7 methods for that)
To be more specific: Which ways do you use to give visitors the ability to add contnet to your website (posts, images, videos, etc…)
3 Answers
Currently known ways:
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Use comments as input form. see the actual way described here. The comments can be altered to have more fields and contain a WYSIWYG editor for better user experience.
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Use TDO Mini Forms plugin to create a user-generated-data form. the users will fill the form, which will create a new draft post to be published by the site admin.
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Use a contact form plugin with wordpress email publishing mechanism. Set the contact form destination as the email set up as wordpress “feed” email.
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Write your own form that publish posts. this is described nicely in this post. You create a page template that shows the publishing post, and uses the data to create a draft (or post) using “insert_post”.
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Using gravity forms plugin. One of the plugin features is to “Allow users to automatically create a post”
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Setting the default user role as contributer. Once set, you need to allow people to register & login to your site. every registered user can publish drafts to the site.
