Wordpress is brilliant in most respects but weak in one major regard.  Its not conducive to user-generated-content.  About the best user-generated-content you can get out of your blog is all of the comments.  In an effort to make it easier for people to jump in and write an actual post for you, thedeadone.net has put together the excellent Mini Forms Wordpress plugin, which can be found here:

Some Features of the Mini Forms Wordpress Plugin:

  • Highly customisable: Create your form using a Widget interface.
  • Create as many forms as you like.
  • Put a form in your sidebar using a widget for your Theme.
  • Submit pages instead of posts.
  • Simple Question and/or Image Captcha.
  • Posting Policy.
  • Add Custom Fields to your Form.
  • QuickTags support for Forms.
  • Upload Files and can be attached to posts. Uses Wordpress’ core to create thumbnails if applicable.
  • Submitters can be notified if post approved or rejected.
  • Allow users to select category and tags.
  • Ban users and IPs.
  • Control what roles can access the form.
  • Can automatically create a page with form for you.
  • Can automatically modified author template tag with info about submitter.
  • Can, optionally, automatically allow submissions to be published.
  • Will walk your dog. (just kidding)

It’s free so there’s no excuse to not give it a shot, especially if you have a potentially interactive or “flammable” blog niche, such as politics.

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