Front-end Post Submision
Please follow these steps to create “Submit Video” button on your front page:
- Step 1: Make sure that you have installed Contact Form 7 plugin on your website.
- Step 2: From Dashboard, navigate to Contact > Add New > Create a contact form with fields having these IDs:
- video-title
- video-url (needed if Video Post Format is submitted).
- video-description (needed if Standard Video Post Format is submitted)
- video-url
- video-file
- video-code
- tag
- category (needed if users need to choose which category to submit the post to).
- captcha (optional field)
Below is an example of a Video Submission Form:
Your Email [email* your-email]
Video Title [text video-title]
Video Description [textarea video-description]
Video URL [text video-url]
Video File [file video-file filetypes:mp4|flv limit:100mb]
Video Embed Code [textarea video-code]
Tags [text tag]
Categories [category]
Enter security code [captchac captcha-752] [captchar captcha-752]
[submit "SUBMIT"]
- Step 3: Copy the contact form shortcode, for example [contact-form-7 id=”2182″ title=”User Submit Posts”]. Go to Appearance > Widgets > Drag & drop a Text widget into User Submit Video Sidebar. Paste the contact form shortcode into widget content.
- Step 4: Go to Video Extensions > Front-end Post Submission > Change Enable to Enable. In addition, there are many other options you can configure.
- Step 5: If you want to send an email (to users) to notify about the acceptance of submitted video, please enable option Notification on Video Extensions > Front-end Post Submission > Notification: Enable.