You're reading from WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook Explore the complete set of tools to craft powerful plugins that extend the world's most popular CMS

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801810777

Length 420 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

WordPress

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Yannick Lefebvre

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Preparing a Local Development Environment

2. Chapter 2: Plugin Framework Basics FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: User Settings and Administration Pages

4. Chapter 4: The Power of Custom Post Types

5. Chapter 5: Customizing Post and Page Editors

6. Chapter 6: Extending the Block Editor

7. Chapter 7: Accepting User Content Submissions

8. Chapter 8: Customizing User Data

9. Chapter 9: Leveraging JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX Scripts

10. Chapter 10: Adding New Widgets to the WordPress Library

11. Chapter 11: Fetching, Caching, and Regularly Updating External Site Data

12. Chapter 12: Enabling Plugin Internationalization

13. Chapter 13: Distributing Your Plugin on WordPress.org

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Chapter 7: Accepting User Content Submissions

Giving users the ability to contribute content to a website is always a good way to engage the community and keep content fresh on a website. That being said, WordPress does not provide any built-in mechanism for site visitors to submit content to site administrators. This is even more obvious when you consider that adding a simple contact form to a site requires the installation of a plugin.

Going back to the book review system that was put in place in Chapter 4, The Power of Custom Post Types, this chapter will show you how to create a user-facing form to allow visitors to submit their own book reviews to a website. We'll also see how to save this information in the site database, send out email notifications, and implement spam protection through the following recipes: