TDO Mini Forms and Custom post types and taxonomies

At my company we usually don’t have too much time to custom code products so we use plugins when possible.

This is a very similar reason to why I haven’t been able to put much effort into supporting TDO Mini Forms these last few months. See here for a longer explanation. It’s quite disheartening to hear that actual companies, as opposed to someone like myself who does it for the love, can’t afford the time (or money) to do it themselves.

My recommendation is to that if you need the advanced features of TDO Mini Forms for a commercial/serious project then you should probably think of creating or buying a dedicated solution. (Gravity Forms looks good tbh). You’ll have a contract, you’ll have someone you can go to for upgrades or help if you get hacked, not just someone who may get round to it eventually. I think that holds true for any plugin that your site might depend on. Hell, I haven’t kept up with WordPress since 2.7, I don’t even know why you would want Custom Post Types or Taxonomies for TDO Mini Forms when you can achieve most of the stuff by clever use of categories and tags. IMHO, etc.

I totally agree with you, I just didn’t realize that there were any alternative solutions to TDO Mini Forms. I’m surprised too by how often people expect free plugins to be updated.

O and using Custom Post Types makes life a lot simpler then cleverly using categories. At least its made my life a lot easier and I can do a lot more with each post now. Definitely worth looking into.

Here is one solution, not TD though.
https://wpshout.com/wordpress-submit-posts-from-frontend/

Thanks @taxbax, but this is the same link I posted in this thread 1 week ago..

haha sorry, my bad. i might have even gotten there from here. I got my client to shell out the $39 for Gravity Forms. https://gravityforms.com . It does a lot but is missing a little bit of inter-functionality. I especially like the ability to add custom fields to a form and the easy to use interface.

Here is another one:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/ucan-post/

Here is solution, how to modify TDO Mini Forms for custom taxonomies and custom post types.

I still in love with tdo mini. Hope it come back to life again.