Echo Forms features
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Front-end post submission for WordPress, straight from a form.

Front-end post submission in WordPress lets visitors send in guest posts, event listings, testimonials and directory entries from a form. Every entry can also become a post, page or listing, ready for you to check and publish. You choose what each answer fills.

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Map the answers

Each answer fills the part of the post you choose.

Open a field and set Links to post field: the title, the content, the excerpt, a category or a custom field. Pair it with Pending review and an email to yourself, and you have a submission inbox.

The title, content or excerpt

A category or a custom field

Pending review before it goes live

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Everything in post creation.

What it does, a line each, so you can check it does what you need.

Posts, pages and listings

An ordinary post, a page, or any other public post type.

Draft, pending or published

Draft is the safest; you choose.

An author

Who the new post is credited to.

Each answer mapped

Title, content, excerpt, a category or a custom field.

A submission inbox

Pending review plus an email to you.

No test posts

Entries sent in test mode make no post.

Set it up

How to turn entries into posts, step by step.

Ideal for teams collecting user submitted posts: stories, events, testimonials and listings. A guest post form takes about 10 minutes, because each answer simply points at a part of the post.

01

Switch it on

On Settings > Post creation, tick Create a post from each entry.

02

Pick the type and status

Choose Post, Page or any public type, then Draft, Pending review or Published. WordPress explains each post status.

03

Pick an author

Visitors are not logged in, so choose who each new post is credited to.

04

Map the answers

Open each field and set Links to post field: the title, content, excerpt, featured image or a custom field.

Questions, answered.

An ordinary post, a page, or any other public post type on your site, such as events or listings.

Only if you choose. Draft is the safest default; Pending review and Published are the other choices.

No. Entries sent from Test mode or Auto-fill and submit make no post.

Post creation comes with Echo Forms Signature.

Let visitors write for you.

Echo Forms is free, with every field, logic and payments, and we add no fee to your payments. Signature adds 60 more features, from $49.99 a year, and you have 14 days to ask us for a refund.

Get Echo Forms, free

Every field, logic and payments, with no limit on forms or entries. We email you the download and three setup steps.

The download link and three setup steps come to your inbox.