[Plugin: TDO Mini Forms] Admin backend is a hassle

The title added to a post is automatically a date and the time; how do you change this to an actual user submitted title in the submission process? I have set up the widget section for a post title, and it’s added into the page, but it isn’t becoming the actual title.

The date and time are the default settings. If you want submitters to configure the title, then add the Content widget to your form, modify the settings to enable Post Title and submitters should then be able to input a title.

Regardless of the moderation method I use ( standard WordPress or TDO-Mini-Forms internal Method ), I still have to approve it in both modes; if I only do one method, I still get a post to be moderated/published until I do both.

Sounds like you’re changing the form verification options (“standard WordPress or TDO Mini Forms internal Method”) which have nothing to do with the moderation options for the form. On the same menu, you should see a list of forms at the top. Click on the form you want to configure, on this new menu there are form specific options and among them is the moderation for that form.

I cannot preview any user post before publishing it; the preview links are all appearing as ” https://site.com/?p=23 “, and just lead to a 404 page.

If you use the standard WordPress interface and create a new post. Can you preview it? Preview a draft post is a core wordpress feature. TDO Mini Forms doesn’t do anything to it besides provide a convenient link. Try using the default theme. Try disabling all plugins. Also, are you using fancy link permalinks? The “?p=23” is the non-fancy format. If you are using fancy permalinks, you haven’t played with your .htaccess have you? There is already a thread on the tdomf support forums about this.

If I just go ahead and publish a post without previewing it ( which I pretty much have to do to be able to see it at all ), line breaks and tags aren’t displayed correctly. But, the links to view the post are actually working now.

To get around this 404 on preview problem, you can enable moderation emails in spite of disabling moderation (on the same menu). If you do this, you’ll get an email sent to the users with the specified role(s). This email will contain a text version of the post for quick review. From there you can also flag as spam and delete the already-published email.

Sorry if I had an attitude in this post; was very tired and frustrated at the time. I’ll review your comments and see what happens. Thanks.

The title issue is resolved. I had added a custom field for the title, thinking it would automatically become the post title.

A new post made in the standard method is viewable with no problem. Permalinks were set to the second option; if I change to the first option, the preview then works in the TDO submitted posts. I have made no changes within the htaccess file.

Even with the suggestions you made for moderation, when viewing a list of unmoderated posts, clicking the delete option takes forever to process, yet the post doesn’t delete. If checking the box to the left, and clicking the delete button below, it again takes forever, then actually deletes the entry.

I’ll experiment further and see if there are options I’ve overlooked.

I think I have this pretty much running as needed. There are 2 issues I still see.

1) When approving or deleting a submission, the script is taking forever to execute. I have seen it take well over a minute to either approve or delete the post. I wouldn’t think this is normal.

2) After a user submits the form, the next page displays in mid-page; the acknowledgment message is at the top of the page, and not seen, so some people are resubmitting the form. Can the acknowledgment page be centered at the top of the page instead of the center?

Very comprehensive reply, the_dead_one … thanks ??

2) After a user submits the form, the next page displays in mid-page; the acknowledgment message is at the top of the page, and not seen, so some people are resubmitting the form. Can the acknowledgment page be centered at the top of the page instead of the center?

You can modify that using the form hacker.

1) When approving or deleting a submission, the script is taking forever to execute. I have seen it take well over a minute to either approve or delete the post. I wouldn’t think this is normal.

Try setting the size of the log very low. Other then that, there should be no issue in terms of speed. Approving and deleting a post are rather short pieces of code.