simple posting plugin For wp 2.7?

Have them use a posting tool like LiveWriter or ScribeFire or some such thing. WordPress supports both XML-RPC and Atom Publishing Protocol for external tools.

Then they have to sign up somewhere else just to post wouldnt they?

there is a wp plugin called simple post. But it says it is for very old version of wp.. Simple Post

Then they have to sign up somewhere else just to post wouldnt they?

No. They would just use a program on their own machine, or a plugin for their web browser, or their copy of Word (yes, Microsoft Word can publish directly to blogs now). XML-RPC and APP are standards that allow other programs (NOT just web-based programs) to publish directly to blogs and other systems.

– The latest Microsoft Word can publish directly to a WordPress blog. Look for the “Send to Blog” functionality in it.
– Microsoft Live Writer is a free program anybody can download and use: https://writer.live.com
– ScribeFire is a free extension for Firefox users: https://www.scribefire.com/

And so on. Any program (and there are dozens of them) that supports XML-RPC or Atom Publishing Protocol can talk directly to your WordPress blog. No signing up anywhere else.

Some more can be found at Weblog_Client

really ia am looking for a simple form for posting on wordpress. That can load up in a page or something

thx

an yone else have any ideas how i could accomplish this ?

If you are using WP 2.7 or better (looks like you are) there is a Dashboard Widget called Quickpress that kinda looks like what you describe. Its on the first page you see when you login to WP so it seems pretty un-confusing.

You could also just redirect your authors to the post-new page when they login– thereby saving them one or two mouse clicks.

Or… tell your authors to look under Tools, find the ‘Press This’ Link and bookmark it.

Hello, i made the dashboard unaccessable to authors. As not to confuse them.

Is there a way to add that quickpress widget to be the new post page. So it is a basic simple area to post new articles?

There probably is a way to modify the dashboard widget but doesn’t the ‘Press This’ Link already do what you want? It generates a 1) popup page with 2) a simplified editor, and 3) no other admin stuff. To me, that sounds just like this:

.. or opens a page that has a simple form on it to use..

Sounds good with the press this link. But how can i call it up from the theme files..? say adding it to single.php or category.php or index.php etc…

thanx

I’m not sure how you’d go about including that form in a page. I’ve never done it and honestly I can’t figure out why you want to do it. Or why you can’t use the ‘Press This’ feature as is.

But… If I were going to attempt to put a posting form on a page I’d start by copying the form from press-this.php (starts about line 450 give or take) and paste that into a page. You’ll also have to enqueue some javascript. You will probably have to give ‘form action=’ a full path to press-this.php. Then, it might work. But probably not. And I’m not sure what the security implications of this are.

Basically, you’ve got a lot of work and I don’t see what what you are going to gain. But its your time, knock yourself out.

All i am intetrested in is keeping the posting of an article as simple as possible.. If a form is the way… Then that is what i should do i figure..

Anyone able to help me add a posting form to a page?

You may want to give tdo-mf a try, you can limit the level of people that have access to it. I use it on several of my sites and I love it:

https://thedeadone.net/download/tdo-mini-forms-wordpress-plugin/

There is a “post from site” plugin HERE, but it’s pretty basic, and still needs a lot before it’s as useful as it could be. I don’t know enough about the coding, but if a plugin like this could be combined with the quickpress functionality from the dashboard, that’d be PERFECT. I’m looking to do the same thing as Blogfreak, which is to let users of my site post a post without ever seeing the admin/wordpress side of things.

I’ve also used TDO Mini forms but it’s too involved for my tastes. I’m not looking for a different type of post for people to make, just an easier way for people to make them.